The Guadalajara Reporter
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Chapala’s former town hall building reawakened from a 17-year slumber Thursday, August 27 as hundreds of guests crowded in for the glitzy grand opening of the edifice baptized as the Centro Cultural Antigua Presidencia.
Gearing up to take charge at Chapala city hall on October 1, Mayor-elect Javier Degollado presided at a meeting with around 75 local service providers to exchange ideas on boosting the tourist industry.
In a case that was the talk of Tennessee – and lakeside too – nine-year Ajijic resident Perry March was deported in handcuffs in August 2005 and subsequently convicted in Nashville of the 1996 murder of his wife Janet.
Zaida Cristina Reynoso has spent just shy of three years trying to bring order out of chaos as head honcho at Chapala’s municipal archives. When she took up the director’s job in October 2012, she was appalled to find a priceless collection of historical documents mixed up with mountains of government records, heaped together in total disarray.
The Antigua Presidencia, Chapala’s former town hall, is finally ready for its reincarnation as central hub for cultural activities. The stately building located at the city’s main intersection will be formally reopened Thursday, August 27, 6 p.m.
The 2015-2016 academic year kicked off August 24, with Chapala authorities distributing free backpacks stuffed with classroom supplies to 11,033 students attending the community’s pre-school, primary and secondary level public schools. Mayor Joaquin Huerta popped in to the Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz kindergarten early Monday to deliver kits to an eager throng of nippers. The cost of the local Mochilas con Utiles program runs to 876,000 pesos this year, with funds drawn from state and municipal coffers in a 50-50 split.
Chapala Fire Department chief Lorenzo Salazar Guerrero has issued a warning to foreign residents who are being approached for cash donations to support the August 22 celebration of Dia del Bombero.
Chapala Mayor-elect Javier Degollado is back in town after a ten-day trip to California where he met with native sons and daughters and their descendants who have put down roots north the border. The main purpose of the series of encounters held in the Los Angeles-San Francisco corridor was to trump up financial and moral support for the cornucopia of projects the incoming presidente municipal has up his sleeve for the next three years.
A group of around 100 sight-impaired tourists from 14 countries spent a full day in the Chapala area on Tuesday, August 18, experiencing local attractions for their ears, fingertips, noses and taste buds.