General News

Gautier Mignot, chief of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Mexico, was the guest of Mayor Alejandro Aguirre for a September 25 day tour of the Chapala area.

The Metropolitan Opera HD Live premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s masterpiece, “Medea,” starring Sondra Radvanovsky, will open the company’s 137th season, transmitted Saturday, October 22, 11:55 a.m. at Movie Space Cinema in Ajijic.

In the market for unique artisan goods? The second edition of the Corazón Artesano festival is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, September 24-25 at Ajijic’s Jardín Casa Vieja, with gates open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

FoodBank Lakeside, the charity that delivers hundreds of monthly basic food packages to economically challenged local families, is facing a chronic cash shortage and is seeking the community’s help.

Sporadic rainfall did nothing to deter attendance or dampen two years of pent up patriotic spirits for lakeside inhabitants eager to take part in the Independence eve festivities held on Thursday, September 15.

Guanajuato boasts a host of sites and services appealing to all kinds of visitors, as revealed by the state’s tourism minister, Juan José Álvarez Brunel, during a talk to a full house attending the Open Circle meeting at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) the morning of September 18.

The Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club had games last week on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. There was a lesson at 9 a.m. on Friday.

Chapala’s Civil Protection and Firefighters unit spearheaded the rescue of a cow that broke loose this week and became trapped in a 1.8-meter-deep ditch on the outskirts of Ajijic.