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LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com   December 2016     “AIN’T THAT GOOD NEWS,” INDEED If you’re in the mood to get really Christmassy this December, attend any one of the concerts offered by Lakeside’s brand-new 18-singer vocal ensemble, the Lake Chapala Chorale. Director Cindy Paul tells us that the one-hour program, […]

“World View 2016” By Lois Schroff   In 2013, 350 ppm (parts per million) was considered a safe level of CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions in our atmosphere in order that we continue our comfortable life-style. Further, we were told by our leading scientific thinkers, that if the number grew to 450ppm, we would find ourselves

Water Shortage By Kathy Koches   I just returned from a trip north of the border. Not to California, where I was born, but to Washington State in the Pacific Northwest. It is lush and green because it does rain there – a lot.  But this is the story of a different kind of water

Welcome to Mexico! By Victoria Schmidt High Season   High season at Lakeside is definitely in high gear. Welcome back to those who don’t live here year-round. You may not realize it, but those of us who are full-time residents miss your impact on the area. Impact? You bet. Small, but important things happen. Take

I Wanted To Keep The Wild Ones By Daria HiltonDaria.hilton@hotmail.com   Wild honey bees literally swarmed around my sunny Santa Clara, California yard. Many of them even set up shop there. There was a colony in the old oak tree, a hive in the eaves of the patio and even a big tortoise hump of

Going Up There! By Bonnie L. Phillips   Mexico was the “paradise” we dreamed of. It was to be the place we would live, until we died. Where we immersed ourselves into this wonderful culture, where we were lucky enough to have Mexican extended family, where we all laughed during the Mexican lottery game at

What Is War? By Bernie Suttle   “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” Our family heard these words from President Roosevelt as we sat in front of the Philco at

The True Story of Jumper and “Jack, The Signalman” Courtesy of John Ward   When the Cape Government Railways opened the first railway line to Port Elizabeth from Cape Town during the later part of the 1800’s, the town Uitenhage was established. The railway station became world-renowned when the local railway guard James Edwin Wide

Treats For An Ex-Pat In Chapala By Carol L. Bowman   (Ed. Note: Our apologies for not including this highly topical article in an earlier issue.) The harvest moon rose over Lake Chapala as a swarm of squealing munchkins pushed the buzzer with relentless eagerness. The bell ringers must have been told that houses with