The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
By Dale Hoyt Palfrey
Moisés Anaya Aguilar will take the oath of office as Chapala’s new mayor in a public ceremony scheduled for Sunday, September 30, 8 p.m., at the Auditorio de La Ribera, La Floresta.
Heavy rains provoked a landslide that struck Sunday, September 23 near the first waterfall located on Ajijic’s Tepalo hiking trail.
Chapala’s faithful will honor patron saint San Francisco de Asís with nine days of devotions and festivities running from Wednesday, September 26, through Thursday, October 4.
The Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) sent out workmen Tuesday, September 25, to shut off service to Chapala City Hall to elicit payment of the local government’s overdue bills.
The private firm contracted by the Chapala government to collect the municipality’s solid wastes was forced to suspend service for the second time in less than a month when the landfill facility in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos once again denied access to its garbage trucks.
Police recovered a stolen car and arrested the presumed thief at the end of a high-speed chase along the Chapala-Jocotepec highway Friday, September 21.
“I did everything I could,” declared Mayor Javier Degollado in his closing remarks for his third and final report on government activities under his watch, delivered Friday, September 14, in the absence of more than half of Chapala’s city councilors.
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“We worship the Son of God, the wisdom that came down from above and became the servant of all.”
U.S. citizens who have requested their ballots using votefromabroad.org or fvap.gov, should receive their ballots (preferably by e-mail) within the next few days.
