The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A crowd of local masons attended early morning Mass at Chapala’s San Francisco parish on Wednesday, May 3 for the blessing of colorful hand-crafted crosses they made to decorate the high point of construction sites where they gathered to celebrate Día de la Santa Cruz, their patron religious holiday.
Newly settled expat residents are often perplexed by undecipherable chalk markings that suddenly appear at this time of year on the exterior walls of their abodes.
If many Ajijic townspeople don’t already hold a grudge against the Quilmes Steakhouse for standing as a structural invasion ofthe local pier, their ire has only increased with the recent detection of a leak in the restaurant’s sewage line that spilled a stinky stream of black water onto the beach.
Several free public Mother’s Day festivities are set to begin this weekend at lakeside.
As the month of May dawns, temperatures will soar through the hottest weeks of the year at lakeside, provoking feelings of lethargy among the populace that are amplified by the constant droning of cicadas, the “rain bird” insects that herald the start of the rainy season in mid-June.
Chapala’s Department of Ecology has started the inspection of trees lining the streets of La Floresta to determine their health status and the appropriate actions required to maintain a safe balance in the subdivision’s wooded zone.
The southbound lane of Avenida Madero from the intersection of Hidalgo to the waterfront was temporarily closed to through traffic this week as work crews were occupied with installing underground utility tubing and adding finishing touches to the adjacent sidewalk outside City Hall.
A large work crew laid down the new street surface at the end of the Ajijic’s Calle Morelos this week. It consists of two sections of stone and concrete tire tracks set between parallel lines of uncemented adoquín pavers, with space left on either extreme to expand the width of adjacent sidewalks.
The crumbling ruins of the ancient San Gaspar temple located on the outskirts of Atotonilquillo suffered a new structural blow Friday, April 21 when a 25-meter tall eucalyptus tree growing behind the building fell down causing a section of the side wall next to the altar to collapse.
