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After pulling off a colossal three-day shindig and then knuckling down on the requisite number-crunching, board members of the Mexican National Chili Cook-off completed their mission for 2014 with the March 21 distribution of proceeds among six deserving community organizations.
Chapala Mayor Joaquin Huerta (left) and Chapala Red Cross Board President Oscar España stood shoulder to shoulder at the March 25 kick-off of the 2014 Cruz Roja Colecta, a month-long campaign to collect donations to sustain the local life-saving institution.
A crafty ploy by the Chapala city council is saving motorists from being fined for non-payment of parking meter fees in the downtown area.
Fighting crime in the Lake Chapala area is a matter of prime concern to Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Nájera, who made that point clear during his speaking appearance at the March 12 meeting of the Canadian Club of Lake Chapala.
Governor Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz paid a quick visit to Ajijic Wednesday, March 12 to preside at the official delivery of new patrol vehicles to enhance operations of the Chapala and Jocotepec police forces.
The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) elected six new board officers and directors and addressed the full scope of the organization’s operations at the annual general meeting held on Thursday, March 13, with 110 members present.
After five and half years at the helm of the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Chapala (ITS), Dr. Morris Schwarzblat y Katz left his post as general director on May 31 of last year to take on a new assignment with the state government’s new Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (SISyT).
The lakeside graffiti wipe-out group spearheaded by Antonio and Nanette Enciso ran a neighborhood fix-up campaign March 14 through 17 in the Chapala Barrio of Tepehua.
Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Nájera and Víctor Manuel Mijangos Castellanos, the state’s director of Tourist Destination Planning and Development offered some refreshing personal insights on their government jobs in back-to-back slots as guest speakers for the March 12 meeting of the Canadian Club of Lake Chapala.
