The Guadalajara Reporter
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Chapala´s municipal health clinic was formally relaunched at a ceremony held on Wednesday, August 30 to mark the upgrade of services, buffed up installations and a brand new title.
The facility now bears the official name Servicios Médicos Municipales Dr. Juan Rafael Durán Barajas, the late Chapala physician renowned for his lifetime philanthropy and professional care for the community’s most destitute inhabitants.
The team at Ajijic’s Centro de Acopio (CdA) recycling center has resolved temporary inconveniences in handling plastic materials and, as of last Saturday, resumed the reception of articles that are currently marketable.
Mexico’s Mes Patrio (patriotic month) is now upon us and special events leading up to Independence Day festivities on September 15 and 16 will crank up in Ajijic and other lakeside communities over the next two weeks.
Local motorists are advised that Chapala’s municipal Traffic Department has modified the legal mode of Paseo del Lago bordering Ajijiic’s waterfront park, and the two-block stretch of Calle Pedro Moreno feeding out from the Malecón.
Friends of Ajijic resident Robert Wayne Cantrell II are offering a 20,000-peso reward to anyone who finds him and gets him safely to the Cruz Roja facility in Cancún, Quintana Roo.
Sky watchers in Ajijic took in an extraordinary heavenly sight Wednesday, August 30 as the second full moon of the month seemed to rise just beside the bell tower of the San Andrés church.
It was not only the occasion of the luna llena occurring twice in the same month, but also a rare coincidence with a super moon that looks larger and brighter than usual due to a closer than normal distance to the Earth’s orbit. The next Super Blue Moon won’t be visible until January, 2037.
On September 15, long-time Ajijic resident Tom Thompson will celebrate 30 years as the proprietor of Barbara’s of Ajijic, one of lakeside’s earliest and most highly successful consignment stores.
Athletes looking for racing challenges this fall have opportunities to enter two events coming up in the Lake Chapala region.
Hard times have fallen on the Reciclaje de Ribera (recycling) project of late, leaving the program’s future in limbo.
