The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
How much do young adults know about the foreign influences shaping life in the Lake Chapala region? A workshop held Tuesday, September 9 for students enrolled at the Centro Universitario de Chapala (CU-Chapala) was designed to gauge and boost their level of understanding on the topic.
Anyone looking for places to go and take part in this year’s patriotic excitement in Chapala communities will have many options to choose from starting this weekend. Note that, unless stated, all upcoming festivities in the municipal seat of Chapala are concentrated in front of City Hall.
The Salvemos el Lago Más Grande de México festival, held Sunday, August 31, at the Ajijic waterfront drew a large crowd united by a common cause: demanding the protection and full restoration of Lake Chapala.
As of September 1, Lake Chapala stood at 61.97 percent of its capacity, continuing the steady rise from this year’s low point of 47.5 percent recorded on June 1.
Scientists from two of Mexico’s leading universities are calling for the urgent creation of a “Green Agenda” to improve water and environmental management for Lake Chapala and the Lerma-Chapala-Santiago watershed.
Chapala’s Roman Catholic community extended a warm welcome to Father Juan José Chávez Ramírez, their newly appointed parish priest, during an August 16 procession along Avenida Madero that preceded his first Mass at San Francisco de Asís.
In 1985, Ajijic resident and expat Barbara Weston recognized that the community had a market for second-hand merchandise that other foreigners wanted to dispose of before returning to their home countries—or passing away. With that in mind, she opened a small consignment shop on Calle Independencia, naming it Barbara’s Bazaar.
In the lead-up to Mexico’s Independence Day on September 16, communities around Lake Chapala are buzzing with Fiestas Patrias festivities and other traditional September events.
“Let’s Save Mexico’s Largest Lake” is the theme of a peaceful protest taking the form of a cultural festival on Sunday, August 31, at Ajijic’s waterfront park next to the Malecón.
