A big bash for local kids scheduled for Sunday, April 28 at Ajijic’s Lienzo Charro bullring ties into the April 30 national celebration of Dia del Niño (Children’s Day). Youngsters will be treated to a lucha libre wrestling show, gifts and refreshments.  The general public is welcome to attend at no charge.

Operation Feed, an organization that has quietly been taking weekly packages of food to aid the neediest in San Juan Cosala for many years, sees the need to grow. Instead of the precious packages of food to the 75 families already on their list, volunteers would like to add another 25.

Sherman Wayne Smith, the first graduate of the Centro de Arte de Estofado, has completed his course in the art of gilding (applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces) and demonstrated his ability with the techniques. Here he stands near a small table that he created and decorated.

Barbara’s Bazaar proprietor Tom Thompson is seeking community support to install a statue of Buddah in the public park adjacent to Ajijic’s waterfront Malecon.

A plea for more volunteers to help with the iconic Lakeside School for the Deaf apparently reached the right people. Vice President Cece Girling, who was doing double duty and keeping the project going with a skeleton crew, was delighted with the results of the story. “We had an overflowing crowd of people at our Annual General Meeting on February 16,” she said. “More, I’m told, than we have had in many years.

“Thank goodness that I was in the right place at the right time to learn about the existence of a doctor who can bring a whole new life to a child in San Juan Tecomatlan,” said Lakeside resident Sheila Paull.