When Margarita Llona arrived at Lakeside ten years ago, instead of retiring – which was her plan – she saw a big need for quality education for underprivileged kids.

For much of his life, Gil Velasco has been a spiritual seeker.

The recent passing of Hugh Hefner, the Playboy magazine founder perpetually draped with blonde, big-busted women, puts the Guadalajara Reporter in a mind to acknowledge his passing vis-a-vis a story told to us by lakeside’s own Rosemary Grayson about how she became Miss October 1964 – and the magazine’s first British playmate.

“It must be depressing to be American. You feel so helpless,” a British friend said when asked what he made of the atrocity in Las Vegas.

Twenty years ago, when Carlos Martinez – the director of Insight Academy in Ajijic – was teaching philosophy and physics at various universities in Mexico, he saw how a number of students were ill prepared for university level classes.

After Tuesday’s earthquake in Mexico’s capital, everyone is naturally wondering if such damage and loss of life are avoidable.