The Fourth
Celebrate United States Independence Day at a Fourth of July picnic party, Sunday, July 4, at La Bodega Restaurant, Calle 16 de Septiembre 124 in Ajijic. The festivities begin at 1 p.m. with an all-you-can-eat menu of barbecued pork ribs, barbecued chicken, old fashioned potato salad and chocolate cake for 120 pesos.
Ron Baker and Amaranta Santos will be there for a great afternoon of entertainment. Seating is limited. Stop at La Bodega to purchase your tickets now or make arrangements at (376) 766-1002.
British Society
The Lakeside British Society will meet Saturday, July 3, 1 p.m. at Manix Restaurant, Calle Ocampo 57 in Ajijic. The speaker will be Richard Barlow, the Political and Economic Counselor at the British Embassy in Mexico City. He entered the diplomatic service in 2000 and served a year in the European Union Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He took a posting in Brasilia as Second Secretary Political in 2002 and returned to London in 2006 as the head of the European Council and European Union Budget Reform Team. He arrived in Mexico in July of 2009. He has indicated that he will be ready to answer questions on any subject concerning British citizens.
The menu for the luncheon meeting will be a choice of veal roll with twice-baked potato, corn soufflé and veggies or bass in grape cream sauce and veggies for 110 pesos including tip. A light two-course lunch with salad is available for 75 pesos. There will be carrot cake for dessert.
Contact Alicia McNiff at (376) 766-4786 or Society President Ceri Dando at cpdando2000@yahoo.com if you plan to attend and express your choice of meal. Visitors are always welcome at the British Society.
Hope house
Only a few tickets are left for the Hope House fundraiser to be held on Wednesday, July 14, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Lake Chapala Baptist Church. Tickets are 150 pesos each and include a lasagna dinner, door prizes, a silent auction and special entertainment. The doors open for the silent auction at 5 p.m. and the lasagna will be served by some of the Hope House boys) at 5:30 p.m.
Many donations for the silent auction have been received from prominent local artists, restaurants, boutiques and individuals. Hope House (a shelter for boys in Ixtlahuacan) would like to thank the many donors for their generous support. Among then are Yoly’s Beauty Salon, Pam London, LeAnna Spear, Judy Hendrick, Art and Faith Sanchez, Enrique Velazquez, Ed Burke, Efren Gonzalez, Cathy Chalvignac, Jose Duran, Diane Roux, Gwynne Lott, Patrick DuMouchel, The Old Posada, Francisco’s Automotriz, Opus Boutique, Fiaga Boutique, Los Telares Restaurant, Tony’s Restaurant, Heather Flores, Frank Howell, Bubba’s BBQ, Trattoria Ajijic, The Zebra, Adobe Walls, Alfonso’s Diane Pearl’s Colecciones and Penny Howe.
Lake Chapala Baptist Church is located in Riberas del Pilar at Santa Margarita 147. If you would like to purchase one of the few remaining tickets, please contact LeAnna Spear at 765-7353, Alice Hutson at 766-1757, Pam Landon at 765-2330 or Judy Griffin at 765-7077.
Canada Day
Canadians celebrating their special day on July 1 will have to do without the presence of Canadian Consul and Trade Commissioner Kathryn Aleong. Regrettably, she’ll be on government business in a different location.
There are two celebrations at Lakeside: on Thursday, July 1 at the American Legion Post 7 in Chapala, starting at 2 p.m. and the Hotel La Nueva Posada in Ajijic, starting at 5 p.m. The latter event is organized by the Canadian Club. All are welcome to attend, regardless of nationality.
Ancestors
The next meeting of the Lakeside Genealogy Forum will be Monday, June 28, 2 p.m. in the Sala at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS). Participants will try to determine if they have ancestors who might have known each other. Please take the names of towns and places where your ancestors lived; both in the new world and the old. There will also be a review of the genealogy books and publications now kept in the new locked library in the Sala. Newcomers are very welcome to attend. There are no dues or requirements other than an interest in your own or others’ family histories. For further information contact Fran Murphy at (376) 766-0067.
Presbyterians
The service at Lakeside Presbyterian Church on Sunday, June 27, will include the dedication of a painting, “Jerry’s Journey,” in honor of Jerry McCracken, one of the church’s founding members. Pastor Ross Arnold’s sermon will be “God’s Third Greatest Gift” from John 15:9-25. Worship begins at 10 a.m. at Carretera Chapala-Jocotepec 231A in Riberas del Pilar.
Unitarians
The sermon at the Lake Chapala Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for Sunday, June 27, will be “Pets as Our Spiritual Guides – Honoring Our Pets,” presented by Susan Barr. The fellowship meets Sundays, 10:30 a.m. at the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation Center at Santa Margarita 113 in Riberas del Pilar.
Kitties
June 18, veterinarian Hector Ladron de Guevara found two 14-week old white, blue-eyed cats abandoned in front of the clinic by the Animal Shelter. They are in beautiful condition, sleek and very oriental looking. Animal Shelter “Cat Lady” Barbara Hess through that they were frost or lilac-point Siamese; but when Dr. Ladron checked on them again, he came to the conclusion that they are totally, or very close to being deaf. They need homes as soon as possible. Deaf cats have a hard time living in the main cat cage at the Shelter and often, after just a few days, freak out if they are removed from the cage.
These kittens are absolutely beautiful, very sociable, playful and have obviously been handled a lot. It would be great to adopt them out together. They must be kept as indoor cats 24/7 as they cannot hear danger approaching and their pale color could make them subject to skin cancer.
Anyone wanting to know about living with deaf cats can talk to Hess or to Sandy Kingham, who has a deaf cat from the shelter that has fit right in with her other four cats and her dog.
The number for the Animal Shelter is 765-5514.
The Bizaar
The Lake Chapala Society Bizaar (yes, this is the correct spelling), Bargains and BBQ opens for its two-day stint on the LCS grounds Friday and Saturday, July 2 and 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lakesiders have been generously dropping off their donations of merchandise and organizers expect to have plenty of great bargains on sale: books, DVDs, children’s art work, wooden household items crafted in the Have Hammers workshop, baked goods by the Red Cross volunteers, plants from the Garden Club, furniture, computers, cosmetics, a grill and so on. Be there.
Correction
The cost of new corneas for Francisco Gonzalez’s 21-year-old son will be 15,000 pesos (not U.S. dollars as reported in this publication last week). Gonzalez is holding a sale of his work on Saturday and Sunday, June 26 and 27 on Ajijic’s main plaza to help defray those costs and the estimated 40,000-peso hospital bill.
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