To Chapala by bike
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The civic group Guadalajara 2020 says at least 5,000 people used to cycle from Guadalajara to Chapala each Sunday but that number has diminished to less than half over recent years due to the lack of road safety along the busy highway.
August 28 is a date set aside all across Mexico for paying tribute to senior citizens, alternatively known as Dia del Abuelo or Dia del Adulto Mayor. To mark the occasion this year, Chapala’s DIF family development center hosted a big celebration for the community’s elders on Friday, August 30.
Friends and fans of Agustin Vazquez will be pleased to learn that the widely admired San Juan Cosala restaurateur and community leader is now on the mend following a recent health scare.
The Texas BBQ feast held August 10 at the Ajijic plaza was rated as a big hit among the predominantly expat crowd of more than 200 who turned out to support village improvement projects. 
On Saturday, August 2, maestros Jose Luis Cortez, an award-winning ceramicist from Tonala, and Jose Manuel Robles, a painter from Tlaquepaque, spoke to the children at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) Children’s Art Program about the importance of Mexican Folk Art and helped them with ideas for their artwork. 
Libby Townsend’s second annual Tarahumara Rain Dance drew a crowd of 40 lakesiders intent upon conjuring up the good graces of Mother Nature and lending support to the Complejo Asistencial Clinica Santa Teresita located in Creel, Chihuahua.