The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Coffee at Christmas
Each holiday season, three enterprising women – Alexa Boyt, Alison Ochoa and Estela Rodriguez – make sure to provide something a little special for their patrons, along with their own unique café atmosphere and five-star cups of coffee.
Travel Money Needed
Coach Alberto Palacios Coronado would be grateful to collect 12,000 pesos to bus 24 Barra de Navidad area student athletes to a state competition in Guadalajara on December 11. The girls and boys he instructs in Olympic wrestling are aged between 5 and 19.
Remembering
For the past 13 years, Joyce and Gary Pittman have hosted a November 11 Remembrance/Veterans Day memorial service) at their Roosters restaurant in Melaque.
Let’s Make History
Every year in and around November, expats and locals return to the Pacific coast to resume lives of quiet inspiration.
The International Language
Barra’s families come from fishing and agriculture ancestry, so locals are drawn to certain musical styles. Of course, the town’s population includes tourists and expats, who along with locals, like to kick back and groove to banda, norteña and grupera sounds.
Movers and Shakers
At a “standing room only” February 11 town hall meeting, engineer Francisco Alvarez of Uretek gave a PowerPoint presentation about the ongoing Barra de Navidad beach renovation project.