The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Voluntary donations and fund-raising activities are the life blood for Cruz Roja Chapala, the essential elements that keep vital services available 24-7 to lakeside residents and visitors.
The celebration of the 40-year birthday of lakeside’s Chili Cookoff charity benefit lived up to all expectations with three straight days of spicy activity that drew record crowds to the Tobolandia fairgrounds.
Despite several major public works projects yet to be finished, the Chapala government is undertaking additional street upgrades at three points in the Tepehua neighborhood.
When government officials take the time to reach out to the public, foreign residents at lakeside enthusiastically answer their call.
Pastor Ken Armstrong has announced that the Little Chapel by the Lake is beginning a special relationship with the Instituto de Formación para el Trabajo de Estado de Jalisco (IDEFT), to provide career training for local, Spanish-speaking students (ages 15 through adult).
Fleets of small vessels will leave port at Chapala’s Club de Yates this weekend as the Copa Porche regatta kicks off the first segment of Sailing Week Mexico 2018.
The Northern Lights Festival de Febrero, a normally joyous occasion featuring an international array of musicians assembled lakeside for two weeks of aural art, was darkened by sudden tragedy Friday, February 16, when accordion virtuoso Alexander Sevastian died of a heart attack in his room, just a few hours before he was slated to perform with Toronto-based jazz group Quartetto Gelato. He was just 41 years old.
Mexican actor-screenwriter Julio Aldama Jr. heeded the call of “roll cameras” this week as production began on “En La Linea,” a feature length film to be shot over two weeks at various Chapala locations.
Lakeside’s 40th annual Chili Cookoff fires up Friday, February 23, running through Sunday, February 25 at the Tobolandia Water Park located on the Chapala-Ajijic highway just west of the Libramiento junction.
