The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
President Enrique Peña Nieto this week opened the newly completed expansion of the Santa Rosa-Ocotlan highway, replacing a road Chapala area locals often referred to as the “Highway of Death” due to the frequency of horrendous head-on collisions.
U.S. citizens who need to renew or add pages to their passports, do notarials or report a lost/stolen passport can meet with U.S. Consulate staff to submit applications or to notarize documents during the staff’s monthly visit to the Lake Chapala Society and the American Legion Post 7.
Working on the premise that planting more trees will help improve the health of Lake Chapala’s ecosystem, the newly formed activist group Promotora del Entorno Sustentable, A.C. (ProEntorno) kicked into action Saturday, June 7 to lead a massive and extended reforestation campaign in the lakeshore region.
Ignacio Meza, director of the Alberta Education Centre in Guadalajara, visited the campus of Chapala’s Instituto Tecnológico Superior last week to introduce a wide range of study abroad opportunities that are open to Mexican students.
The Chapala municipal government and the local branch of Jalisco’s Health Ministry are collaborating on a week-long public health campaign geared for sexually active women ages 25 to 60.
Chapala area traffic police are keeping a close watch over the busy shopping district in San Antonio Tlayacapan where errant motorists are frequently spotted driving in the wrong direction.
The future of Chapala’s Hotel Villa Montecarlo, owned and operated by the public Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG), is unclear after it was revealed this week that the facility has been running at a loss for the past three years.
Alerted to growing citizen complaints about the excessive volume of music emanating from various local bars, restaurants and party venues, Chapala’s Dirección de Padrón y Licencias (license office) has begun issuing written warnings to establishments identified as the principal offenders.
Libby Townsend has just announced plans for a fun-filled Fajita Party at La Bodega restaurant on Saturday, June 22, from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. She hopes the event will generate enough money to buy school supplies for the Tarahumara children attending the indigenous boarding school in the Copper Canyon.
