The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Barbara’s Bazaar proprietor Tom Thompson is seeking community support to install a statue of Buddah in the public park adjacent to Ajijic’s waterfront Malecon.
A plea for more volunteers to help with the iconic Lakeside School for the Deaf apparently reached the right people. Vice President Cece Girling, who was doing double duty and keeping the project going with a skeleton crew, was delighted with the results of the story. “We had an overflowing crowd of people at our Annual General Meeting on February 16,” she said. “More, I’m told, than we have had in many years.
“Thank goodness that I was in the right place at the right time to learn about the existence of a doctor who can bring a whole new life to a child in San Juan Tecomatlan,” said Lakeside resident Sheila Paull.
The March 8 First Rotary International Women’s Golf Classic, co-chaired by Sandra Loridans and Rod Hensley at the Chapala Country Club, was an unmitigated success.
“The Return of the Amigo Cup” golf tourney, to benefit the Los Niños de Chapala y Ajijic scholarship fund as well as scholarship kids supported by the Chapala Country Club (CCC), is set for Thursday, April 11 at (CCC).
Chapala Red Cross board chairman Oscar España (L) joins Mayor Joaquin Huerta and his wife Marisela Navarro for the official kick-off of the annual Cruz Roja Colecta fundraising drive.
The March 10 charreada benefit for the Chapala Fire Department roped in a large audience, including dozens of expats who enjoyed the rare opportunity to take in a full blown Mexican style rodeo contest on local turf.
