The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In sync with thousands of migratory birds that have started winging in from Canada and the United States for the winter season, the fifth annual Festival de las Aves del Lago de Chapala will take flight on Friday, November 21, with ten days of diverse cultural, educational, academic activities aimed at raising public awareness and appreciation for the preservation of Lake Chapala’s rich natural bounty.
While the official holiday calendar marks the third Monday of November as the date to commemorate the 1910 outbreak of La Revolución Mexicana, festivities in the Lake Chapala area will take place on two different dates next week.
After more than a week of heated wrangling over the most desirable method to refurbish Ajijic’s central streets, the verdict is in. Municipal authorities have prevailed in their plan to resurface four blocks of roadway with cobblestones fixed in concrete, providing temporary jobs to 40 unemployed local construction workers.
In the course of next week, Chapala’s IMSS health clinic number 40 will relocate its services from the facility on Calle José Navarro-Estación to a new home at Avenida González Gallo 23.
A group of highly qualified registered nurses and educators have designed and developed a physician-sponsored health care assistant program so that bilingual area Mexican men and women can learn professional and health care skills that will prepare them for jobs in private homes, nursing homes and medical offices.
Customers of the Jocotepec subsidiary of Banamex are scrambling after discovering that the bank closed its doors several weeks ago and transferred all accounts to the Chapala branch office.
An appreciative audience enjoyed a close gander at a fascinating array of 19th- and early 20th- century treasures that were brought for evaluation at the Faux Antiques Roadshow, held Saturday, October 25 as a fundraiser for the Tepehua Community Center education program.
The Chapala municipal government will apply for a loan from the Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos (Banobras) as spelled out in an debt restructuring initiative approved by a majority vote at the October 28 session of the city council.
The unexpected launch of an infrastructure and street improvement project in the center of Ajijic has provoked heated criticism of the municipal government, a rumpus among the village populace and a brewing debate over the pros and cons of modernization.
