Chapala toy drive breaks records
Organizers of Jugueton 2013 extend a special thank-you to all of the foreign residents who generously contributed to this year’s campaign, helping them reach an all-time record of 2,631 toys collected to brighten Christmas for impoverished children.
Cruz Roja Chapala is making great strides in beefing up its medical staff, reports Board Vice President Norm Pifer.
A recent series of sensational highway accidents serve as an alert for lakeside area motorists to take extreme precautions and exercise defensive driving as they get out on the roadway during the busy holiday season.
“Canadians are settling in the Lake Chapala area in sufficient numbers for the migration to be almost called a ‘boom,’” wrote The Reporter’s Jack McDonald in July 1974.
Subsequent to last week’s article on Jalisco’s criminal justice system, the Reporter has pieced together information revealed at the November 29 conference held at the Lake Chapala Society and additional details provided by staff at Chapala’s Ministerio Publico (MP or district attorney’s office). This segment provides basic guidelines on filing a formal denuncia (denouncement).
Last summer Mayor Joaquin Huerta was actively pitching an ambitious renewal plan for the eastern leg of Chapala’s waterfront Malecon.
Presiding at the 12th formal session of the Lerma-Chapala Basin Council held December 6 in Guadalajara, National Water Commission General Director David Korenfeld, Jalisco Governor Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz and his counterpart from Guanajuato, outgoing council president Miguel Márquez Márquez, handed over the reins of the entity to Jorge Jiménez Campos (far right).