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This morning, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, has held a working meeting at the City Hall with the General Director of Water of the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition, Manuel Aldeguer. The meeting was also attended by technical teams from the two administrations and from the AGAMED water joint venture.

The II National Amateur Theater Contest "Raúl Ferrández", which will take place between March 21 and 25, both inclusive, at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center, at 8:30 p.m. (free admission until full capacity) has announced the groups selected for this edition, having presented 26 companies from all over Spain, being among all the following selected:

The works have allowed to discover the original existing pavements in the Eras, composed of rock slabs of a magnificent workmanship

The Municipal Institute of Culture "Joaquín Chapaprieta" informs that "Dibunómadas" has already begun, a meeting of urban drawing artists to enjoy outdoors. Some meetings organized by Olga Parra, teacher at the Torrevieja Municipal School of Painting, free and open to all ages and without obligation. This is the only urban drawing group in Vega Baja, in which anyone interested in drawing can participate. The meeting places are published on facebook/DibuNómadas.

The Councilor for Culture of the City Council of Torrevieja, Antonio Quesada, announces that today the deadline has been opened to request subsidies for cultural associations attached to the field of competence of the "Joaquín Chapaprieta" Municipal Institute of Culture for the year 2022. The deadline for submission of applications is 10 business days, so it will remain open until next February 23. The place for submitting applications will be the electronic headquarters of the Municipal Institute of Culture. The maximum subsidy to be awarded per entity is 20,000 euros, and this amount cannot exceed 80% of the total cost of the project.

The Councilor for Culture and Vice President of the "Joaquín Chapaprieta" Municipal Institute of Culture, Antonio Quesada, reports that during his stay in the port of Torrevieja, from October 2021 to January 2022, the Pascual Flores paileboat has been visited by a total of 1,298 people, including individual visits and school visits. Likewise, several outings called Baptism of the Sea were carried out, which some 200 people have been able to enjoy sailing on the historic sailboat.

The Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, reports that the City Council of Torrevieja has approved this morning in the Informative Commission, the delegation of powers to the Generalitat Valenciana of 4 of the 15 actions planned in the EDIFICANT PROGRAM. These important actions, which represent an investment amounting to a total of 12,110,652 euros, will be developed at IES Libertas, IES Las Lagunas, IES Torrevigía and Colegio Público Virgen del Carmen.

The jury's decision and award ceremony will be held in the public act that will take place on Sunday, March 27, at the Municipal Theater of Torrevieja In the first edition of the contest, held in 2021, the award for Best Work went to " Los locos de Valencia” by Ugteatro (Murcia), and the special Audience Award “Maribel Vallejos”, was awarded to “MADRE”, by the company La Cueva de Melpómene

The mayor of Torrevieja and president of the Board of Directors of AGAMED, Eduardo Dolón, has informed of the investments approved in the first Council of the year, held in January 2022, to be carried out by Aguas del Arco Mediterráneo with the determination to continue in the improvement of the infrastructures of the Potable Water Distribution Network and the Sanitation and Sewage Network and the Municipal Rainwater Network.

On Saturday morning, the selection and audition tests to be part of the Municipal Choral School took place at the Palacio de la Música, with more than a hundred children and young people presenting themselves to these tests, which were held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Palacio de la Música facilities.

The project has a global execution budget of more than 19 million euros, of which 10.5 million are from private investment, while the rest, more than 8 million, come from the Torrevieja City Council.

The Councilor for Culture of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Quesada, informs that the Ricardo Lafuente Memorial, which is held biannually, will take place on February 19, in which the figure of this pro Torrevieja composer and poet is remembered. .

Last Friday, January 21, a meeting of the Salt Eras Advisory Commission was held, chaired by the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, in which the architecture firm PAREDES PEDROSA was presented to said group. ARQUITECTOS, SLP, office that has been proposed as the successful bidder for the Project, construction management and health and safety coordination of the Museo del Mar, a Multipurpose Enclosure with the main purpose of holding the International Habaneras Contest, as well as its complementary infrastructures and urbanization area, for an award amount of 660,660 euros.

The Councilor for Parks and Gardens, Carmen Gómez Candel, informs that the pruning of the palm trees in the municipality of Torrevieja has already begun. Following the guidelines set by the Order of December 22, 2009, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, which establishes mandatory phytosanitary measures for the control and eradication of the plague Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (red palm weevil), in its article 6.4 indicates: The local corporations will ensure that in their municipality, the pruning of palm trees on their property is carried out in winter, from January to February.

Sandra Sánchez has reported that the winning company has been PAVASAL EMPRESA CONSTRUCTORA SA, and the total amount of the contract amounts to 47,908 euros. The works will last three weeks.

The contract, which is valid for four years (2+2), amounts to a total of 4,000,000 euros, which represents an investment of 1,000,000 euros per year