The Guadalajara Reporter
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A Hawaiian Luau, complete with 30 Hawaiian dancers and additional music for dancing by Noe and Paco, will kick off with cocktails at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 20 at Rancho del Cerrito in San Nicolas de Ibarra. The event has been organized to raise the needed funds so that young lakeside soccer players can attend a major November youth soccer tournament in Puerto Vallarta.
Plans are complete for a comprehensive two-day Health Fair at the Lake Chapala Society on Wednesday, October 8 and Thursday, October 9. A series of health events will take place from 9 a.m. to noon each day on the organization’s campus at 16 de Septiembre in Ajijic.
San Juan Cosala’s 20-year-old Operation Feed program was designed to deliver essential food to the most challenged of the town’s residents. This year it has expanded to help residents learn to grow food and, in time, to make money to ease the family situation.
Ajijic CARES is a local volunteer committee that started work in March to coordinate events for a commemoration of World AIDS Day. This will be the first local recognition of the annual December 1 event founded in 1988.
Tom Thompson, head honcho for development of the International Garden located at the west end of the Ajijic Malecón, is seeking an expert in landscape architecture to draw up a definitive layout plan for monuments, trees and plantings to embellish and shade the area.
Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) has had the good fortune of adding a new vehicle to its fleet, with the donation of a fully equipped second-hand ambulance offered by Alfredo Rodriguez Quintana, medical director of Hospital Ajijic.
American Legion Post 7 put a new twist on this year’s Labor Day celebration, turning the September 1 event into a fund-raising bash for the Lake Chapala Shrine Club (LCSC).
