Wondrous Wildlife By Vern and Lori Gieger Team Work As we start off the New Year we would like to thank everyone who has supported us in our wildlife protection events this past year. We are fortunate to have many wonderful volunteers. We would like to welcome a long time friend with a huge
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC The Gift of Friendship Remember Valentine’s Day back in grade school? Everybody made everybody else a Valentine card; everyone received lots of Valentines. As years passed and we grew older, Valentines became a special card or gift between romantic partners. Oh, how sweet it was to
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayer Words and Violence I am writing this column shortly after the mass murder in Tucson, Arizona which targeted the US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. By now everyone surely knows that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin used crosshairs to identify a number of Democratic Members of the US Congress, including
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson The Lake Chapala Duplicate Bridge Club in Riberas began a mentoring program in 2010 that has proven to be a very worthwhile initiative. On two Mondays each month the regular duplicate game is replaced by one where each partnership consists of one experienced player and one who
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OF FAITH AND FABLES By Bob Haynes AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE AFFECTS OUR ALTITUDE…LET THE BATTLE BEGIN! I read the following the other day and would like to share with you. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote…. “You gain the strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez An Astounding Man in an Astounding Century Most people know about T.E. Lawrence because of David Lean’s masterful movie, Lawrence of Arabia. What many may not know is that Lean could have made three movies about Lawrence and had plenty of material left over.Briefly put: Lawrence was the illegitimate
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Lakeside LivingBy Kay Davis Phone: (376) 766-4774or 765-3676 to leave messages Email: kdavis987@gmail.com March 2011 PAST EVENTS: At the Club Nautico de Chapala a new Board of Directors was installed for the Medical College of the Ribera de Chapala. The Board for 2011-2012 is made up of Dr. José Manuel Cordova Cervantes – President,
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac1. Hot Dogs – Maybe . . . but Chicken? Most people know that processed meats are carcinogenic because they usually contain sodium nitrite, a preservative which turns into toxic nitrosamines in the body. But few people know that a report by the World Cancer
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CHILD of the month By Rich Petersen Ulises Saúl Guerrero Velázquez What a great name, eh? This is “almost” 9-year old Ulises Saúl Guerrero Velázquez. Ulises lives in Ixtlahuacán with his parents and three siblings. Mom, María Guadalupe, is a housewife and also does sewing and alterations. Dad, Saúl, works on the assembly line
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The Fotheringham Speech By Allan Fotheringham (Ed. Note: What follows are excerpts of a speech that this widely-renown Canadian writer and foreign correspondent recently made to the Ajijic Writers’ Group.) I was born in Hearne, Saskatchewan. People from Hearne are called Hernias. One church, one blacksmith shop, two grain elevators, 26 people. In fact,
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