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The University of Alicante (UA), as part of the events commemorating Torrevieja Pride 2025, held the talk "Between nits and Merlins: a tour of LGBTQ+ characters on television" yesterday afternoon, Sunday, July 6, at the Torrevieja Casino. It was given by Toni Maestre-Brotons, a professor at the UA.

The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, March 8, at 12:00 noon, at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center, at the Gala held on the occasion of International Women's Day.

The duration of the contract will be four years plus a possible one-year extension, with the base tender budget being 1,198,143 euros (VAT included).

The Councilor for the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Vidal, together with the Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, the director-conservator of the Lagunas de La Mata-Torrevieja Natural Park, Francisco Martínez, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz , have presented this morning the planting and regeneration activities that will be carried out on the occasion of the celebration of Tree Day 2024. Some actions that will take place on January 31 and February 1, for schoolchildren from all centers Torrevieja schools.

Thanks to this initiative, the citizens of Torrevieja will be able to learn about the importance of recycling glass and how much each individual contributes with this simple gesture.

With this new work team, the aim is to reinforce control over the service itself and detect breaches by some companies and citizens on a daily basis, and which are included in the Municipal Urban Cleaning Ordinance, with infractions ranging from 50-750 euros.

The Department of Fiestas, the Department of Gender Policies and LGTBIQ+ and the "Torrevieja Diversa" association present the events on the occasion of the celebration of Pride 2023, which will take place from June 28 to July 9 in Torrevieja.

The Councilor for Urban Cleaning of the Torrevieja City Council, Diana Box Alonso, reports that Acciona, the company awarded the waste collection, landfill transport, street cleaning and coastal cleaning and maintenance service, has already begun the implementation of the new equipment of underground containers to house the remaining fraction.

It will include an economic feasibility study that serves as motivation for the decision to protect, rehabilitate and exploit the old facilities of the salt industry as tourist use with therapeutic-cultural-educational and recreational activities.

The Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja, Tomás Ballester, accompanied by the director of the social consulting firm EQUÀLITAT, participació i Igualtat, José Luis Sahuquillo, have presented the campaign to raise awareness and prevent chemical submission among the youth population that is It will take place on August 26 and 27, and on September 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 and 23, at night from 00:00 to 03:00.

In a meeting held this Thursday morning at the Torrevieja Town Hall, chaired by the mayor of the city, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality, Tomás Ballester, the last two winners, Encarnación Rebollo and María Teresa Sáez, the journalist Melania Sala on behalf of the local media, as well as Josefina Nieto as a representative of the cultural field and Antonia Albentosa, a housewife, acting as secretary María Isabel García, proceeded to the election of the MUJER awards 2022 on the occasion of the celebration next Sunday, March 8, of "International Women's Day". After reading all the proposals received by the Department of Social Welfare and Equality, it has been decided unanimously:

The Department of Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja has made available to the educational centers of the town a co-educational project using the traditional game of the goose, but updated and versioned in a gender perspective. It is an interactive teaching material to work on equality between women and men in relation to professions, activities, co-responsibility..., aimed at primary school students.

The team of researchers from the University of Alicante, led by Professor Rosa María Martínez Espinosa, is studying the use of halophilic microorganisms to clean contaminated water and brines before they are returned to the sea. Microorganisms consume these contaminants as food and make them disappear. At the same time, they create a biomass that can be used to make bioplastics. A raw material that can replace polluting plastics.