Jocotepec is winding up for two straight weeks of fervent festivity starting Tuesday, January 7 as the townspeople renew their reverence for spiritual patron El Señor del Monte (The Lord of the Mount).

*This article has been corrected to reflect that the Rotary Club of Ajijic paid for solar systems at Love in Action in Chapala and Hope House in Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos, while the firm eSun contributed by selling and installing the systems at cost price to Rotary.

Christmas came early for the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) when solar energy company eSun made the 59-year-old community organization the recipient of its annual charity giveaway.

Organizers of Jugueton 2013 extend a special thank-you to all of the foreign residents who generously contributed to this year’s campaign, helping  them reach an all-time record of 2,631 toys collected to brighten Christmas for impoverished children.

During the final month of 2013, the Chapala municipal government received visiting delegations from two Asian nations with the aim of building ties of friendship in matters of mutual concern.

A seven-year-old boy from Tlajomulco who was seriously burned in a fire at his home on December 17 has been airlifted to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas, thanks to the intervention of a well-known Mexican charity.

“Canadians are settling in the Lake Chapala area in sufficient numbers for the migration to be almost called a ‘boom,’” wrote The Reporter’s Jack McDonald in July 1974.