The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
At an award ceremony November 3, the Vocational Skills Training Committee of Butterflies en Mexico (BeM)/Mariposa Project, A.C., headed by Mac Whyte, President of BeM, presented Laura Ochoa Hernandez of Tepeque with a diploma for the completion of her Front-of-Restaurant/English apprenticeship at La Mision Restaurant.
“Protection for Lake Chapala has priority on the government agenda, “declared Jalisco Governor Aristóteles Sandoval during a November 8 visit to kick off the Chapala Limpio program aimed at keeping the proliferation of aquatic weeds in check.
The LGBT communities from Guadalajara and lakeside are coming together for the first Chapala Pride festival set for Saturday November 12, under the slogan “For our Constitutional Rights.”
November 8 dawned like a typical fall day on the shores of Lake Chapala. Under sunny skies, folks placidly went about their everyday business, showing no signs that a world scale political shakeup was brewing on the horizon.
Chapala commemorates Mexican Revolution Day on Friday, November 18, with a big parade looping along both lanes of Avenida Madero.
Despite below average rainfall registered in Jalisco over the wet months of 2016, Lake Chapala has recovered enough water to supply Guadalajara for the next six years.
Ajijic’s Pueblo Mágico initiative seems to be gathering steam with the swearing-in of citizens’ oversight committee held Friday, October 28.
Over 900 people have signed up to walk, jog or run for health in the Chapala branch of the second annual Carrera Nacional Moviendo a México por tu Salud, scheduled for Sunday, November 13 at different locales across the nation.
The Needlepushers group has moved to its new location in the house recently purchased for expansion of the Lake Chapala Society (LCS).