Chapala firefighters run ragged
So far April has been a frantic month for the men at Chapala’s fire department. Over the past three weeks they have been called out to battle seven forest fires, stamp out two brush fires and attend to three other incendiary incidents in closed structures.

Micki Wendt said she got a huge surprise when she reviewed photographs she took the day before on the San Antonio malecon.
The discovery of three corpses dumped on the side of the highway on the eastern outskirts of San Juan Cosala early Saturday, April 14 has put lakesiders in a state of shock over a rising tide in criminal violence.
Dramatic representations of the Passion of Christ – commonly referred to as the Via Crucis or Judea Viviente – will be the highpoint of Semana Santa (Holy Week) observances held over the coming week in the predominantly Roman Catholic communities in Lake Chapala as in the rest of Mexico.