General News

According to Dr. Todd D. Stong, a U.S. engineer and volunteer advisor to several Lake Chapala government agencies, it is cleaner than many think.

Instituto Internacional Octavio Paz (IIOP) has become the first lakeside learning institution to qualify for the International Baccalaureate (IB) World School network, with authorization to offer the IB Diploma Programme for the next term within its bilingual or Spanish-only high school level curricula.

The recently published “Huérfanos de Humano” (Orphans of Man) by animal activist Cinthia Orozco de Gortari is a compilation of true short stories about area street dogs.

Managing garbage is an expensive business for the municipality of Chapala. City hall ecology chief Moctezuma Medina Corona says it costs the government about 17,000 pesos to collect and dispose of 60 tons of refuse – an average of 1.3 kilograms per person –each and every day.

Imagine building a two-man canoe out of concrete, launching it in the waters Lake Chapala and successfully keeping it afloat while racing against 15 similar vessels weighing in at 300 to 350 kilograms each.

The Jalisco Water Commission (CEA) has emitted a gloomy forecast for Lake Chapala, predicting that it will shrivel over the next two years until the water level plunges to close to the record low marks of 1955 and 2002.

Recicladora de la Ribera de Chapala (RRC), the privately operated plastic recycling outfit located in Riberas del Pilar, has been forced to close its doors due to financial concerns and practical hurdles in a community that has not fully adopted the concepts of waste separation and reuse.

Experience Ajijic village life of yesteryear at the Jamaica del Pasado, a traditional fair set for Sunday, April 13, 4 to 11 p.m., at the central plaza.