LAKESIDE COMMUNITY LIAISONS Presidente de Chapala, Sr. Jesús Cabrera Jiménez, has set up an efficient task force of six people to be a liaison unit between the foreign community and our Mexican Municipality. A list of liaison members is: Ing. Carlos Octavio Mendoza Ruiz, Director of Tourism with the Mayor’s office in our City Hall. […]
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THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX (Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.) AN UNCHANGED VILLAGE Kathryn Cox Dear Editor: Thank you for publishing such wonderful articles about such a wonderful part of the world. Katina Pontikes, the author of An Unchanged Village, is my sister. I fell in love with Lake Chapala through
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Understanding the Land By Kay Davis Imagine the Lake Chapala landscape 40,000 years ago. Fossil evidence shows that ancestral mammoths, mastodons, camels and horses roamed the area before the basins were filled by water. At night the landscape was illuminated by the glow of scores of volcanoes in a zone 150 miles wide. This
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Jaltepec Centro Educativo Open House By Linda Buckthorp On Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, there will be an Open House. At 11 a.m., there will be a recap of the history of the institute, the Academic Schedule and the Scholarship Program. This will be followed with a tour of the facilities, and the public can
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Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: One would think that individuals who have the courage to leave their homeland and settle in a foreign country would possess a tolerance of ideology and customs different from their own. Generally, that is true that Lakeside; but the slamming of the door is never louder here than
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Stay Healthy! By J. Manuel Cordova, M. D. Internal Medicine & Geriatric Specialist Mdjmcordova1204@yahoo.com Physical Changes in Aging – PART II A New Year, a new opportunity to stay healthy. In the last issue, we wrote about the interrelationship between Aging and Memory. We need to be sure about memory problems to detect in
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Politics And Whiskey In 1952, Armon M. Sweat, Jr., a member of the Texas House of Representatives, was asked about his position on whiskey. What follows is his exact answer (taken from the Political Archives of Texas): “If you mean whiskey, the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason,
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Greetings! By Tom Dudzick Directed by Peggy Lord Chilton Watching Greetings! is like receiving a Hallmark card. While the intention is good, the expression is trite. And this play could have been so much more – Tom Dudzick has taken some really promising material and ended up
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Several Reasons To Keep Reading 1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married.The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent. 2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, “I’ll serve you, but don’t start anything.” 3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was
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Carole Roberson —1941-2011— IN MEMORIAM Carole “Fritzi” (Miller) Roberson departed this world Friday, December 2, 2011 from her beloved second home in Ajijic, Mexico. Born in 1941 in Chicago, IL and raised in Gobles, MI, she was a Graduate of Western Michigan and Shippensburg Universities. She’ll be remembered as an astute business woman, a rabid
