A crafty ploy by the Chapala city council is saving motorists from being fined for non-payment of parking meter fees in the downtown area.

Governor Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz paid a quick visit to Ajijic Wednesday, March 12 to preside at the official delivery of new patrol vehicles to enhance operations of the Chapala and Jocotepec police forces.

After five and half years at the helm of the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Chapala (ITS), Dr. Morris Schwarzblat y Katz left his post as general director on May 31 of last year to take on a new assignment with the state government’s new Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (SISyT).

Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Nájera and Víctor Manuel Mijangos Castellanos, the state’s director of Tourist Destination Planning and Development offered some refreshing personal insights on their government jobs in back-to-back slots as guest speakers for the March 12 meeting of the Canadian Club of Lake Chapala. 

Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) has stepped up the level of professional emergency medical care available at Lakeside through specialized training in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) for members of its health care team.

Clandestine cell phone transmission tower builders skulked back on the local scene last week, setting off a flurry of frantic phones calls from nervous neighbors that put Guadalajara Reporter staff, Chapala police and the city’s Regulations Department on high alert.