The Lakeside Friends of the Animals (LFA) has been providing spay and neuter surgeries and emergency treatment for the pets of Mexicans of limited means since 2006.

They now need your help.

Currently, 40 sterilizations and five emergency treatments are provided each month through the Ladron de Guevara veterinary clinic in Riberas del Pilar.

LFA is also committed to educating Mexican children on the humane treatment of animals. To achieve that end, LFA has allied itself with the Humane Education Alliance to create a program to be offered in 51 schools.

Please contact Cameron Peters at (376) 766-4341 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information or to make a donation.

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The next Dine with the Shrine event will be held on Wednesday, May 15 at Manix Restaurant (Ocampo 57, Ajijic). Special lunches and dinners will be served from noon to 8 p.m. The host, Hector España Ramos, has planned two great entrees for only 130 pesos.   

One entrée is chicken breast sautéed in mushroom cream sauce.  The second choice is white fish in white sauce with capers. Tips, drinks, salad and dessert are not included.

The restaurant will donate 100 percent of special lunch and dinner sales to the Lake Chapala Shrine Club to benefit the its activities, most importantly helping Lakeside children with their medical needs. 

Mark your calendars now!  Reservations may be made by calling (376) 766-0061 or by stopping at the restaurant. Indicate that you will be coming for the Special Shriner Dinner!

Get a group together, have some fun and enjoy a great meal in a great restaurant, and help the kids all at the same time!  

Did you know that because of your support, the Lake Chapala Shrine Club in the past seven years (2006-2012) has helped more than 850 children with more than 1,535,800 pesos?  The community’s continuing support of the Dine with the Shrine program, and other fund-raising events, is greatly appreciated, and the Shriners look forward to welcoming you on May 15.

LCS bus trip

On Wednesday, June 5, the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) bus trip is to Guadalajara’s plush Galerias Mall, which boasts Liverpool, Sears, Best Buy, Zara, Home Store, Suburbia, Wal-Mart, Sam’s, Costco, Mega and many restaurants, including Outback, Applebee’s and Chilis. There’s also a huge food court, plus Krispy Kreme.

The bus leaves promptly at 9 a.m. from the sculpture in La Floresta. It returns from the Costco area at 3:30 p.m. Sign up at the LCS table (at the Lake Chapala Society) Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.  The cost is 200 pesos per person.

There are still a few seats left on the Tlaquepaque trip that is set for Thursday, May 23.

Obamacare

The Lakeside Conservative Group will have its monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 15, 4 p.m. at Club Exotica, above El Jardin Restaurant in the Ajijic plaza.

According to organizers, this month’s topic will address Obamacare, the astronomical taxes to pay for the program and sentiments of Americans who are upset with the program, now that certain parts of the bill are law.  Former Arizona ER physician Dr. Bernhard Metcalf will be present and take questions at the end.

U.S. citizens who travel to the United States to use Medicare should attend this meeting, as the program is drastically changing. 

For more information contact Lester Segel at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Democrats

The speaker scheduled to speak at the Democrats Abroad meeting on Monday, May 13 will not be able to make it.

Sandra Loridans, who has just returned from the Democrats Abroad International Meeting in London, will brief everyone about the directions decided upon by Democrats from around the world, including observations made by Senator Nancy Pelosi, who also attended the meeting. They will also discuss the Fourth of July event to replace the meeting for that month.

Questions? Call Patrick Winn at 766-4842. The meeting will be held at at Trattoria Axixic.

Spay and Neuter

Lakeside Spay & Neuter Ranch and Adoption Center will be holding their bi-weekly Adoption Day on Saturday May 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check out some of the dogs and meet the volunteers and maybe take home a new family member. The event will be held in front of PetCare pet store just east of Cafe Magaña in Riberas del Pilar. PetCare will donate ten percent of your total purchase to the dogs if you mention the ranch. In addition, PetCare offers a wide selection of supplies for all types of pets and is now accepting kittens.

Pet food drive

The monthly pet food drive will be on Thursday, May 17, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Animal Shelter Pet food store in Riberas del Pilar.

This monthly event occurs on the third Thursday of each month,  thanks to the support from Geoffrey Kaye of Animal Shelter, and the assistance of Animal Buddies representatives who are there to help on the food drive day.

Your purchases help the Shelter, as well as Anita’s Animals, or your choice of any animal rescue group.

You can make a purchase of dog or cat food at anytime, if you are unable to come to the food drive on Thursday. When making your purchase, inform the store clerk if the pet food is for Anita’s Animals, or your choice of animal rescue group. The shelter will hold your donation purchase for pickup. After you have made this purchase, contact the designated rescue group you have selected.   Please let that rescue group know that there is a paid food purchase waiting to be picked up by them at the shelter.

Thank you for your donations, it makes a difference and it’s appreciated. 

Free thinkers

Members of the Lakeside Freethinkers, who reject religious beliefs and rely on science and reason to guide their lives, will mark the one-year anniversary of the group’s founding at their regular third-Wednesday-of-the-month meeting on May 15.

They will view and then discuss “Collision,” the filmed debate between the late prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens and evangelical theologian Pastor Douglas Wilson on “Is Christianity Good for the World?” 

For time and place, e-mail Ken Crosby at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 13.

Unitarians

The Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meets each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Sta. Margarita 113 (southwest corner of Santa Clara and Sta. Margarita) in Riberas del Pilar. May 12, Teresa Sande will lead the service, with speakers Francisco Urzue, Norman Woods, and Joan Jaquish. The service will include a flower communion and attendees are asked to bring a flower to share. The service will be followed by a coffee hour.  For more information please call 766-1119 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  This is a welcoming congregation.

Little Chapel

The Little Chapel by the Lake will hold its regular service on Sunday at 11:15 a.m. Rev. Gene Raymer will deliver a sermon honoring mothers. Following the service, the members will join for a fellowship meal at Roberto’s Restaurant. 

The Elders of the church will meet on Tuesday to begin planning a homecoming celebration later in the spring.

HU Song

Everyone is invited to participate in a HU Song held on the third Saturday of every month from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., followed by a fellowship time. The HU Song is a contemplative spiritual exercise that brings about inner peace. It is held at the Spiritual Center (Nicolas Bravo 17B, Ajijic). People of all faiths are welcome.

The May HU Song is scheduled for Saturday, May 18.  The door is monitored and closed at 10:30 a.m., so be sure to arrive no later than 10:20 a.m.   Contact Penny White at 766-1230 for further information.  The event is hosted by Eckankar Mexico.

Christ Church Anglican

Christ Church Anglican Fellowship will observe the Seventh Sunday of Easter 2013, the Sunday after the Ascension and Mother’s Day, by celebrating the Holy Eucharist Rite II at 9:30 a.m. in the Little Chapel by the Lake (Carretera 10, Chula Vista, Ajijic). The sermon will be by Rev. Sandy Olson with the topic “Mother Mary.”

Christ Church and the Little Chapel by the Lake have a common fellowship time between their two services in the fellowship hall of the Little Chapel from about 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

St. Andrew’s Anglican

The Seventh Sunday of Easter has always been a difficult one.  It follows the spooky, mysterious Ascension of the resurrected Jesus, an event which the earliest believers had trouble dealing with.  Jesus had been alive, then dead, then alive again and with them.  Now, 40 days later, He was gone again!  What were they to do now?  What do we modern believers do when we feel that same sense of absence or even abandonment by God?  This week’s sermon at St. Andrew’s, “On Our Own,” tries to come to terms with that very real, and still contemporary, spiritual crisis.  The Sunday worship begins at 10 a.m. and concludes with a time of welcome, refreshment, and fellowship in the garden.

The Church is located at Calle San Lucas 19, just a block south of the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar.

Center for Spiritual Living

Friday, May 17, at the regular weekly service from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Nicolas Bravo 17 in Ajijic, Reverend Tim Schubert will present “Why Suffer?” Classes continue from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays for “The Basics of Spiritual Living,” and on Thursdays, “The Experience of God.”

Sunday, May 19, 4 p.m., the Center’s “Third Sunday Movie” will be “Peaceful Warrior.”  All are welcome to join in any or all activities.  For more information, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 766-0920.{/access}