Turned off by trash
The Chili Cookoff does lots of good for the underprivileged in our community. Not so much for the good earth now overwhelmed by too much trash.
The Chili Cookoff does lots of good for the underprivileged in our community. Not so much for the good earth now overwhelmed by too much trash.
While Carnaval festivities at lakeside lack the caché of big time celebrations in places like Rio de Janiero, New Orleans and Venice, you can be sure that we are in for plenty of high-spirited revelry that will crank up Friday, February 22 and run unabated until Shrove Tuesday, March 5.
Starry-eyed newcomers at lakeside often think they’ve discovered paradise on earth. Sooner or later they confront some kind of reality check.
Oh, rats. It just dawned on me that my Candelaria debts are coming due.
I read with great interest the article published on the pages of last week’s edition titled Four-legged friends fly for free.” It was a heart-warming report on local animal advocacy activists who arrange flights of freedom for canines that are placed in forever homes in Canada and the USA.
What a week! I never imagined that a seemingly insignificant error in judgment would make me change my wicked ways of contributing to global warming.
As the gasoline shortages hitting Jalisco and other parts of Mexico grind into a second week, the lakeside area has gotten off fairly unscathed.