January 2014

Hooray For Cedejo! By Sheila Poettgen   The Centro de Desarrollo Jocotepec, A.C.  (CEDEJO), located in Ajijic, has provided care to area indigenous and low-income women and families in the area for over 30 years. The non-profit clinic offers a variety of services and outreach programs including low-cost health consultations, family planning to aid in […]

Northern Lights Music Festival By Jim Cooper   All lovers of music should mark February 17 through March 1 on their calendar. The Scotiabank Northern Lights Music Festival, one of North America’s top classical music events, is gearing up for this coming year to give you a program of events that promises to dazzle you.  On Gala night,

Masonic Influence On Mexico By Morgan Bedford   Would you believe that Free Mason Benito Juárez was the one who decapitated the Catholic Church’s control with his Reform Laws of 1859? Would you believe that Masonic Lodge Member and Free Mason Benito Juarez would become President of Mexico in 1861? Or that Mexico did not

  LAKESIDE LIVING Sandy Olson Phone: 331-283-8529 Email: sandyzihua@hotmail.com January 2014 PAST EVENTS NEW WORKS The Lake Chapala Painting Guild presented New Works at a reception on January 4. The show is at the Ajijic Cultural Centre and continues to January 16. The featured artists are Betty Petersen, Carol Ann Owers, Geraldine Classen, Joan Lowndes,

In Memorium —Jeannette Joy Saylor— (9/28/1918 – 12/5/2013)   Early in the morning of December 5, Jeannette Saylor left this planet, a grand spirit the 95-year-old body could no longer contain. Independent as they come, she fulfilled her wish to die peacefully and quickly in her own bed, without pain or fear. An early pioneer

Escape From The American Scheme By Ron Knight   My last six months back in the States, I’d taken the time to close up all of my credit cards, one way or another. I no longer live my life as “being due” on the 7th, due on the 9th, due on the 12th, due on

Paddle Your Own Canoe By Peter E. Gibbons   As far as I know, there is nothing to suggest that Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome got together to discuss their rivers. The mighty Mississippi and the gentle river Thames couldn’t have been more differenter as Huckleberry Finn might have said! Indifferent to either writer,

Bridge By The Lake By Ken Masson   Good defenders are always looking for ways to make unexpected tricks for their side, especially when it results in a defeat for a seemingly impregnable contract. Such was the case in this month’s hand where East and West combined to take advantage of a minor error on

Front Row Center By Michael Warren Over The River and Through the WoodsBy Joe DiPietroDirected by Ann Swiston   Over The River and Through the Woodsis the story of a young man “Nick Cristano” who visits his Italian-American grandparents for lunch every Sunday in Hoboken, New Jersey. The grandparents are sweet and lovable and very

Letters To The Editor   Dear Sir: Molly Ivins used to say the Texas legislature was the best free entertainment available. She could have broadened her scope to include the governor, the lieutenant governor, the State Board of Education, and the congressional delegation from Texas – just about any elected official in Texas, in other