General News

Freshly painted highway markings and new speed limit signs that appeared this week at the bottom end of Libramiento bypass stand as an excellent example of how pro-active citizens and government officials  can work together to resolve local problems.

Access to Chapala’s central plaza was cordoned off with chicken wire covered in black plastic as work on a major renovation project got underway early Wednesday, December 12.  

Chapala Mayor Joaquín Huerta recently presented three certificates of appreciation to leaders of Ajijic’s Indigenous Community in recognition for the organization’s contributions to the community.

Bestselling Canadian author and personal finance expert Andrew Hallam has been passing the winter in the Lake Chapala area and will share his unique take on the financial services sector at two meetings at the Lake Chapala Society scheduled Sunday, December 7 and Monday, December 15, both starting at noon.

A series of jubilant traditional holiday events dash through the December calendar in villages, towns and cities all across the Republic. Leading the pack is surely the year’s most heart-felt celebrations – the Friday, December 12 Feast of Guadalupe commemorating the 1531 anniversary of the appearance of Guadalupe, the Mother of Mexico on a mountaintop near Mexico City.

Chefs at lakeside area restaurants may soon need to check out some cuisses de grenouille recipes.  With Lake Chapala’s waters offering slim pickings these days, a local fishermen’s cooperative is taking the plunge into frog farming as an alternative livelihood.

Ajijic’s Fiestas de San Andrés ended with customary festive fanfare bankrolled by the town’s Hijos Ausentes, the native sons, daughters and descendents who reside abroad or in far off places.

Regalorama, the annual fundraising “mother of all bazaars” sponsored by St. Andrew’s Anglican Church will open at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 6 on the church grounds at Calle San Lucas 19 in Riberas del Pilar.