With growth of the Chapala region’s expatriate community surging at an all-time high, the expansion of high quality health care services only adds to the area’s magnetism for retirees.

Shopkeepers and householders from the vicinity of Calle Morelos are appealing to municipal authorities to ban informal commerce that is overrunning the Andador Axixic, a two-block stretch south of Ocampo-Consitución designated as a weekend pedestrian-only gastronomic and cultural zone.

Long a taboo in Mexican culture, cremation is finally gaining wider acceptance as a suitable method for putting to rest the remains of the dearly departed.

Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado took a big step forward in creating a municipal traffic department with the October 16 swearing in of Reinaldo Martínez Villanueva as commanding officer. 

The final chapter of Anita’s Animals has been written in a progress report submitted last week by Edelweiss Padilla Strehlow, the daughter of the shelter’s founder.

Put on your athletic shoes and join the local alliance with Breast Cancer Awareness Month by signing up for the Carrera Catrina 5K / De-Feet Breast Cancer race, to be held Sunday, October 29, in Ajijic.