The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
On Sunday, December 1 Reverend Gene Raymer will reach a milestone, celebrating his first anniversary as pastor of the Little Chapel by the Lake, an assignment that came from a calling to rescue the area’s oldest Protestant church from the darkest hour in its 55-year history.
Two events at the Instituto Terranova inspired students with “confidence, self respect and pride of accomplishment,” says José Blum, the school’s director general.
For those who are puzzled about the facts concerning Chapala’s parking meter system, the Reporter reveals the low down on a heated public controversy that seems to take new twists week by week.
El Piano Rojo presents Les Femmes de Serge on Friday, December 6, 8 p.m. and Saturday, December 7, 7 p.m.
Lake Chapala has benefited in what has turned out to be an atypical rainy season. During August, normally the height of the summer wet period, the elevation level dropped by seven centimeters.
Lakeside non-profits will have an opportunity to recruit new volunteers by participating in a fair at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) on Friday, January 10, 2014.
Operacion Amor has racked up yet another success in its two-year campaign to encourage the Chapala area’s native populace to spay and neuter their dogs and cats in order to prevent unwanted reproduction.
Following the November 6 summit meeting of lakeside area non-profit organizations, Betty Prentki has been busy updating a comprehensive directory of more than 60 different support groups, fraternal associations and clubs.
Mexico’s Environment Ministry (Semarnat) has earmarked a modest funding package to promote the conservation of Lake Chapala’s natural wealth. This is first time funding has been made available since the lake’s 2009 recognition as an internationally important wetland under the Ramsar Convention, as well as the Cierro Viejo protected forest area designation formalized earlier this year.
