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The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, have offered a press conference this morning to announce that, after five years of absence, the City Council recovers the municipal aid for school transport, which which will be an economic benefit for all families with children and young people of school age.

Torrevieja will host this next Saturday, August 28, at midnight, a great pyrotechnic show within the “Torna la llum” program of the Alicante Provincial Council, in support of this traditional and deep-rooted productive sector of festivals throughout the city. Valencian Community. The Torrevieja City Council Party Department has managed the firing of this important fireworks display, which will contain some very eye-catching water sections. As a whole, the show will also be a festive attraction for all citizens and, especially, for all those who spend their vacations these days in Torrevieja.

All this has been possible thanks to the joint action of the Department of Animal Protection and the Department of Beaches, which have made an investment to be able to have the new attractions of this beach of around 6,000 euros. The special bathing area for pets, also open to all users who wish, has been equipped with a series of roasting platforms, umbrellas and specific signage, in addition to the aforementioned shower and the agility area. The councilors responsible for the two municipal areas that have intervened in this action, Concha Sala and Antonio Vidal, have visited the beach today, where they have received the samples of satisfaction from the many users who were enjoying the canine beach this morning. Friday. Both councilors have indicated that the services of this beach will continue to be increased and have highlighted "the atmosphere of cordiality that is breathed in this beach where people with their pets have priority." The different actions have been carried out with their own resources and by the operators of the Department of Beaches.

The Department of Festivities of the Torrevieja City Council has presented the bases with which the process for the election of the new Queen of Salt and her Ladies of Honor begins. It does so after having extended, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for one year the current Queen and Samas 2019/2020, Raquel Tévar, María Cases and Cristy Guamán, respectively.

The mayor of Fiestas has highlighted that "after the Torrevieja carnival has celebrated the recent declaration of a festival of Autonomous Tourist Interest of the Valencian Community, it is intended to offer a sample of our parties in summer for Torrevieja residents and for all visitors who are days they share their vacations in our city ”.

The Mixed Company Aguas del Arco Mediterráneo (AGAMED), has reported on the evolution of water consumption in the city of Torrevieja in the period between June and July 2021, compared to the consumption of 2020 and 2019.

It will be next Sunday, August 1, and due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the organization has been forced to suppress the programming of all events that favored the largest concentration of the public, such as dances, gift raffles and the procession through the streets of the Plaza del Calvario area.

The ordination of the public use of the Municipal Natural Area "Molino del Agua" carried out in recent years, and a series of additional measures adopted during this season by the Department of the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council (and which had the collaboration of the Service of Wildlife of the Conselleria de Transición Ecológica and the Provincial Coastal Service), have contributed to at least 4 couples installing their nests as of May, on a linear extension of 370 meters of the total beach / dune complex. During the first spawns a total of 9 chickens were born, while in the second spawns there have been 4 more chickens that have managed to get ahead. In short, 13 new plovers were born in the "Molino del Agua" Municipal Natural Area during 2021.

The Torrevieja University Venue opens tomorrow, Wednesday, July 14, at 9:00 am, the summer course "The Pink Lagoon of Torrevieja: potential applications of its microorganisms", which will end on Thursday, July 15.

The Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, presented this morning the device prepared for the celebration of the Baccalaureate Assessment for University Access (EBAU), which will be held for the first time at the International Auditorium of the city of Torrevieja, on June 8, 9 and 10.

In recent years loggerhead turtles have chosen the beaches of the Valencian Community up to 8 times to lay their eggs, one of them, in the summer of 2015, in Torrevieja. But the attempts have been many more. For example, only in the Maritime District of Torrevieja that ranges from the mouth of the Segura river to El Mojón (municipal terms of Guardamar del Segura, Torrevieja, Orihuela and Pilar de la Horadada), the attempts have been a total of 6, having reached to locate, in the summer of 2018, a newborn turtle. Two of these attempts occurred last year 2020 on the Orihuela coast, although neither of them were successful.

This first edition aims to mobilize the entire city and tourists with two weeks of activities in different spaces and outdoor events to recover the experience of live music and controlled leisure activities