Expat Living

The volunteers of Upscale Resale Bazar celebrated with their new and old management teams at a Hand Off Party in the Clubhouse in El Parque on January 14.

The speaker at the meeting of the Lakeside British Society on Saturday, February 1, 2 p.m. will be Patricia González from DIM (Diaonostico, Imagenologia, Mopecular), who will talk about PET scans, which use radiation, or nuclear medicine imaging, to produce 3-dimensional, color images of the functional processes within the human body.

The Lake Chapala Chapter of Democrats Abroad Mexico will conduct its first meeting of 2014 on Monday, January 13 at La Bodega Restaurant in Ajijic.

Monthly visits to the Lake Chapala area by staff of the U.S.  Consulate General will take place on the second Wednesday of the month until further notice.  The first 2014 date for the local consular outreach program is Wednesday January 8.

Recognizing that our marvelously benign year-round climate makes the Chapala area an ideal place to cultivate edible garden goodies, Ajijic resident John McWilliams came up with the idea of getting interested folks together to share ideas and experiences in cultivating home-grown vegetables.

The UVA  (University Vocational Assistance) family — scholarship students, sponsors and friends of the program  — recently gathered at the home of Sue Torres in Ajijic to celebrate the season and the efforts of this lakeside charity.