Expat Living

Chanukah celebration

The local community is encouraged to join in the Sunday, December 6, 3 p.m. celebration of the lighting of the first candle on the menorah during the eight-day observance of Chanukah.

Ajijic-based photographer Xill Fessenden has announced the cancellation of the 2015 Fiesta P’urépecha-Unión de Pueblos, due to circumstances beyond her control.

Jalisco’s Ministry of the Environment and Territorial Development (Semadet) has formally opened the Sendero Trojes-Chupinaya-Barranca Travesaño, a 6.5-kilometer hiking trail crossing part of the protected hydrological and forest area situated in the mountain range running above Lake Chapala’s north shore.

St. Andrew’s Anglican

“The Word of God came to John … in the wilderness.” A fragment of one sentence is the framework for a three-part message in “Word and Wilderness,” Fr. Winston Welty’s sermon at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church on Sunday, December 6. John the Baptizer’s role was to prepare the way for his cousin Jesus, and the way he did it is a model for how every person of faith can do the same as Christmas approaches once more.

Lakeside’s favorite annual super sale, the Regalorama at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Riberas del Pilar, is gearing up for the waves of eager shoppers.

Los Cantantes del Lago, the 55-member choral group directed by Timothy G. Ruff Welch for 14 years, is gearing up to perform two concerts consisting of well-known carols and the Christmas piece, “A Ceremony of Carols,” by Benjamin Britten.