The Guadalajara Reporter
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Masonic Lodge Axixic #31 is again backing community projects – this time helping Ajijic Town Administrator Hector España with his clean-up project involving children.
Each Saturday morning, España accompanies a large group of young people on a tour of the Ajijic Malecon, beach front, streets and other places in a bid to keep the town clean and litter free.
The Casi Nuevo store will manage an estate sale featuring the entire contents of the two-story house of Mary Alice Sargent, who has returned to the United States after 22 years at Lakeside.
The sale takes place at the store (the property with the red door located on the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar across from 7-11) on Saturday, May 25, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Las Alfareras from Tonala captured the 5,000-peso first place prize for a stunning performance at the Feria de Escaramuzas riding competition held on May 11 at the Ajijic charro arena.
The event was organized under the auspices of Chapala’s DIF family services agency as a benefit for the fledgling Pepe Martinez Equine Therapy Center. DIF is actively seeking sponsors to foot the bill for patients of limited means enrolled the therapeutic and rehabilitation program.
For details visit DIF headquarters at Degollado 351.
A legacy begun by pioneer expatriate Neill James in 1954 has been picked up, remodeled, streamlined, and adjusted to current needs through the years by several folks who have come after.
Mother’s Day festivities in Ajijic will be extended beyond Mexico’s customary May 10 holiday date, with two special events spanning this weekend.
Festejo Cultural del Día de las Madres, on Saturday, May 11, 8 p.m. at the Malecon amphitheater, will feature a program of music and dance staged by Collage. The group’s forte is in the genres of jazz, flamenco and French song. The event is jointly sponsored by the cultural collectives LagoGris, El Tachihual, El Faro and restaurant El Jardin de Ninette.
After more than a year of planning and input from parishioners, the makeover of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church got underway this week.
The history of Mother’s Day is centuries old and the earliest celebrations can be traced back to ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600s, Christians in England celebrated a day to honor Mary, the mother of Christ. By a religious order the holiday was later expanded in its scope to include all mothers, and named as the “Mothering Sunday.” Celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent (the 40-day period leading up to Easter), “Mothering Sunday” honored the mothers of England.
