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Global warming expert to speak

Sponsored by Open Circle, Dr. Donald Aiken will present a Power Point lecture on global warming, Sunday, November 18, 10:30 a.m. to noon, at Club Exotica located at the back of El Jardin Restaurant on the Ajijic plaza.

Veteran couple stands pat in love and war

Bernice was an U.S. Army nurse stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Mark was a Combat Platoon Leader, also stationed at Fr. Benning. From the beginning of their romance, Mark Scott knew he would be deployed to Vietnam. It was 1969 and Bernice, who had received orders for Japan, knew that when they separated the chances were that they would never see each other again. Instead of taking advantage of the easier stretch in an Army hospital in Japan, she asked for a change in her orders. She was told in no uncertain terms, “This is the Army. You go where you are told.”

Trick-or-treating in La Floresta

The La Floresta neighborhood in Ajijic is a child’s delight on Halloween. A few hundred short scary looking ghosts, monsters, witches and ghouls knocked on doors in the leafy colonia while parents kept a sharp eye on the littlest ones.

Rotary dinner to aid polio fight

The Colegio de Medicos de la Ribera de Chapala (Chapala Doctors College) and the Rotary Club of Ajijic will hold their second annual “End Polio Now” dinner-dance on Wednesday, November 14, 6:30 p.m. at Roberto’s Restaurant in Ajijic.