General News

While the town of Chapala and its immediate surroundings have seen little storm damage so far this rainy season, dozens of trees were knocked down during a fierce tempest that struck the town of Atotonilquillo and neighboring parts of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos in the early hours of Friday, July 14.

Although a picture may be worth a thousand words, photographic images only hint at the commotion that occurred when an estimated 10,000 pilgrims congregated in Chapala last Sunday to manifest their spiritual allegiance with La Virgen de Zapopan.

Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) kicked off its annual Colecta fund-raising drive with a ceremony Friday, July 7 in the City Hall lobby.

While local weather watchers puzzle over the delay of this year’s rainy season, meteorologists attribute the atypical situation to El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern associated with warming of the ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

The University Vocational Assistance (UVA) organization is among various cooperative educational activities going on within the Lake Chapala region’s communities.

The sudden removal of a row of trees boarding the highway across the road from Ajijic’s Plaza Bugambilias on Tuesday, July 11 generated a hail of criticism against the Chapala government, labeled as unwarranted ecocide.

Mary Sue Torres, president of the University Vocational Assistance (UVA) scholarship program, was honored as godmother to the graduates at Chapala’s Instituto Tecnológico Superior (ITS).

If the prolongation of this year’s dry season has caused angst and discomfort amongst inhabitants of the Lake Chapala region, it has also given heightened impetus to Sembradores de Vida and other local environmental activists who lead and support community reforestation projects.