Dear Sir,

This is in regard to the letter Frank Slater submitted to the March 10 issue of the Guadalajara Reporter. In a heartbreaking letter, Mr. Slater states that he did not receive proper medical care from Doctors Francisco Arroyo Paz, Jorge Nicolas Valladares, Gustavo Jose Valladares and Jorge Arturo Barba Martin.

Dear Sir,

What became of Surgery Host, the medical services provider that came to Lakeside with such a flourish a couple of years ago? I searched for them but gave up when I discovered that they had closed shop locally and withdrawn to Guadalajara, only to subsequently disappear from there too.

This is an open letter to the Lakeside community from  jeweler Daniel Jackson Garcia, who together with his teenage nephew Miguel Angel Rivera Echeverria sustained extensive burn injuries from a gas explosion and fire that gutted the Ajijic workshop where they were working on January 21.

Dear Sir,

The recent article covering the concerns and plight of the Huichol people is thought provoking. The main concern cited is mining exploration by a Canadian company in their traditional lands. The problems of the Huichols are listed as poverty, hunger, marginalization and drought, to which could be added poor health care and lack of educational opportunities.

Dear Sir,

I know that the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra has not yet made a decision on their next music director. I am still very interested in the position and I am confident that a majority of the orchestra would be happy with this decision. We have worked together on every type of program imaginable, from ballet and opera to Stravinsky and Berlioz, from Marquez to music for the Juegos Panamericanos. That is a wide range of styles and genres to have at one’s command, especially with facility and conviction.