The Guadalajara Reporter
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In an effort to improve the efficiency of garbage collection in Ajijic, town administrator Chuni Medeles has announced the revamping of the local green waste pickup schedule as an emergency stopgap measure.
Friendly rivals Pedro Ruiz from Villa Corona and Ajijic’s Juan Pablo Hernández will face off in the stellar match for a champion’s belt in the Mixed Martial Arts Xstream Tournament set for Saturday, July 15, 7 p.m., at the Huerta de Serna events hall.
A field of 22 warriors will compete in three weight categories during the event. Advance tickets for open seating are on sale for 100 pesos at the the Family Fitness Center in Plaza Bugambilias. VIP spots with tables and chairs cost 200 pesos.
Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado has finally owned up to presiding over a trash crisis of nearly Biblical proportions. This week he announced vague plans to remedy a sanitation issue that has steadily deteriorated under his watch, triggering bitter complaints from a growing sector of his constituency.
As the 2017 rainy season cranks up, ideal breeding conditions for disease-carrying mosquitoes will be coming to a peak, increasing the risks of an epidemic of dengue fever in the lakeshore region.
Lake Chapala has lost all of the water gained by last year’s rainy season — 1.22 meters. Mexico’s largest fresh-water lake is now at 48 percent of its capacity. Although some rain has fallen in the last few weeks, it was negligible, and the lake continues to lose about one centimeter per day.
After completion of the first major public works project for Ajijic under the current administration, Chapala government officials gathered Sunday, June 18, to inaugurate the new Unidad Deportiva (sports complex) located on the east end of town just off the Camino Real running through La Floresta.
In the context of World Environment Day, scientists, legal experts and government representatives from Mexico and the United States put their heads together for the two-day symposium, Unidos por Chapala, held June 5 and 6 at the campus of the Instituto Tecnológico de Chapala (ITS).
Jalisco Governor Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz made a special guest appearance in Ajijic on Friday, June 16, stepping in as padrino (godfather) for the 2017 graduating class at the Preparatoria Regional de Chapala. Addressing the 180 young scholars during the ceremony at the Auditorio de la Ribera he encouraged them to use modern technology without ever forgetting the human side of their endeavors. “Not everything in life is the number of likes. It’s what you can do for others in one-on-one contact that will make you great,” he declared.
Chapala Tourism office staffers Montserrat García and Lucy Rico join department boss Habath Angel Orozco in offering a friendly welcome to their new headquarters located next to the main entrance to City Hall, open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The municipal agency has switched places with the regional branch of Jalisco’s Secretaria de Turismo, now based at La Vela Plaza on the far west end of the Malecón.
