The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
After nearly two decades in limbo, Chapala’s former town hall in the heart of the city is finally on the verge of starting a new life as a cultural center.
Expo Ganadera, Chapala’s second annual livestock show, opens Friday, April 24 for an 11-day run featuring exhibitions of horses, cattle and other farm animals, varied entertainment spectacles and plenty of family-oriented activity.
Cyclists pedaling along the treacherous stretch of the Ciclopista running through La Floresta have enjoyed safer travel during the Easter holiday period thanks to eight large metal drums strategically placed to keep speeding motorists from invading the unprotected trail. Half of the green trash barrels were covered with large warning signs labeled with the legend “por el respeto al ciclista.” The biker safety initiative was implemented by La Floresta homeowner association President Fernando Plata Salaman, under approval by the local traffic office. While the temporary barriers will be removed next Monday, the possibility of putting them up on future weekends is now under consideration.
As predicted in the article on the hotly-debated Lake City project published in the Guadalajara Reporter’s April 11 edition, a technical finding issued last year by Chapala’s Department of Urban Development (DDU) is loaded with caveats and conditions the developers must adhere to in order to obtain final approval and a building license from the city government.
Chapala was one of 16 Jalisco municipalities cited for debts on the listing of delinquent taxpayers released this month by the El Servicio de Adminstracion (SAT).
Friday, March 27 was a red-letter day at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) where scores of local expats congregated for a special forum with officials from the Instituto Nacional de las Personas Adultas Mayores (INAPAM) and the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM).
Lakeside’s large expat retiree population should be pleased to hear that construction of a first-rate hospital in the area finally appears to be on the horizon.
Picture this. The untouched hillside set at the western outskirts of Chapala transformed into a self-contained burgh comprising 3,045 condo apartments – incorporated into five high-rise towers built above a multi-level, full service commercial plaza – plus 426 townhouse villas, all geared to accommodate a rising wave of baby boomer retirees.
Longtime expat resident John Plummer was pronounced dead at the scene on Tuesday, March 17 after taking a fatal tumble on the sidewalk near the entrance of the Super Lake grocery store in San Antonio Tlayacapan.
Emergency first response medics from the Chapala Red Cross were unable to revive Plummer, who suffered a fatal head wound in the fall. His body was retrieved by staff from a local funeral parlor after police reviewed video surveillance images showing that death was a result of an accident.
