General News

After completing barely one quarter of the reconstruction of the 16-kilometer roadway linking the Guadalajara-Octolán highway to Chapala’s city limits, Jalisco’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) and the federal Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) suspended the rehabilitation project at the start of this month.

Some 20 expats took a Charter Club Tours bus from Ajijic to Tlaqueparte last Friday.

Chapala’s Patronato de Tenis, headquartered at the Parque de la Cristiana, will host its second annual National Youth Tennis Tournament, programmed for Thursday, June 21 through Sunday, June 24 under the auspices of the Federación Mexicana de Tenis and the Asociación de Tenis de Jalisco.

With high hopes of taking the reins of the next Chapala government, Movimiento Ciudadano mayoral candidate Moy Anaya mounted up Saturday, June 9 to lead several hundred equestrians for a ride along the campaign trail from San Nicolás de Ibarra to the municipal seat. Meanwhile, Tomás Figueroa, PRI candidate for the District 17 seat in the state legislature, saddled up with a group of supporters for a horsemen’s parade from Chapala to Ajijic held Sunday, June 10.

The Sunrise Rotary Club has enjoyed a productive year under the tenure of President Bill Wilson, who handed the gavel over to Hector España this week.

If elected to Chapala’s mayor seat, candidate Alejandro Aguirre (standing, second from left) pledges to set up a special office dedicated to assisting expat residents, complete with bilingual personnel and a 24/7 telephone line. 

The Lake Chapala Shrine Club this month donated 57,115 pesos to the Mexico City Shriners Children’s Hospital, now the largest Shrine Hospital in the world. 

A mountain of discarded tires piled up on the outskirts of Santa Cruz de la Soledad went up in flames in the early hours of Thursday, June 14.