Former Tech Institute director ascends Jalisco government ladder
After five and half years at the helm of the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Chapala (ITS), Dr. Morris Schwarzblat y Katz left his post as general director on May 31 of last year to take on a new assignment with the state government’s new Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (SISyT).
Jalisco Attorney General Luis Carlos Nájera and Víctor Manuel Mijangos Castellanos, the state’s director of Tourist Destination Planning and Development offered some refreshing personal insights on their government jobs in back-to-back slots as guest speakers for the March 12 meeting of the Canadian Club of Lake Chapala.
The mayors of Jocotepec, Jalisco and Plymouth, California formally sealed ties of friendship and cooperation between their respective communities at a ceremony held Friday, February 21 at the doorstep of Jocotepec’s Municipal Palace.
San Antonio Tlayacapan community activists Victoria Corona and Rosa Maria Ibarra are spearheading an ad hoc defense committee to fight the National Water Commission demolition order issued for the waterfront Malecon.
A huge turn-out for the recent three-day Operación Compasión spay and neuter clinic indicates that villagers in San Juan Cosala are latching on to the concept of family planning for their household pets.
Jalisco’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Jaime Reyes Robles spent a full morning on campus at Chapala’s Instituto Tecnológico Superior (ITS) Wednesday, February 26 to attend the graduation of 143 Lakeside area students who have completed their professional studies in the fields of administration, computer systems engineering, electronic engineering, industrial engineering and business management engineering.
The death of Roca Azul trailer park resident John Paul Abeel last week hasn’t flustered long-term inhabitants of the park. Abeel was a loner who lived on the edge of the transient RV community and wasn’t well known, even to his nearest neighbor, who lives just ten meters from the now sealed motorhome.