Expat Living

The eight-day celebration of Chanukah begins the evening of Sunday, December 6.  As the days grow shorter, this is a feast of light, food and friends.  Each day of the celebration, many parents give gifts to their children and entertain friends and family.  Fried foods, especially potato pancakes and doughnuts, are served. 

St. Andrew’s Anglican

After seven months of weekly stories of Jesus’ ministry, and before preparing again to celebrate His birth, the annual church calendar comes to an end on the day of “Christ the King” on Sunday, November 22. In a democratic, non-royal culture is “kingship” really a suitable metaphor for Jesus? At the 10 a.m. worship service at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, Fr. Winston Welty’s sermon, “Power vs. Authority,” contrasts the Kingship of Jesus with that of every other king.

Newlyweds Cleola Mary Hengstebeck, 94, and John Wester, 92, are all smiles at the end of their Saturday, November 7 New Braunfels, Texas, wedding ceremony.

The bride and groom are long-time lakeside residents.

The wedding date was carefully set around schedules of family members and, according to Wester, a Naval Academy graduate and World War II Navy pilot, so it wouldn’t coincide with the annual Army-Navy game.

Poetry readings by two British-born, lakeside area thespians will be broadcast on a local television channel throughout next week’s nine-day International Book Fair (FIL).

The Lakeside Garden Guild presented its 2015 Floral Design Show, “Destination in Paradise,” at an invitation-only afternoon event. 

The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) celebrated its 60th anniversary Saturday, November 7 with a full-day celebration, opening its doors to hundreds of foreign and native residents and dozens of local charity organizations, non-profit groups, business enterprises and entertainers. Representatives of municipal, state and federal government entities were also on hand for the festive occasion.