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The main hall of the Cervantes Institute of Madrid was dressed up yesterday, Friday, May 17, to host an interesting proposal arising from the collaboration agreement between the Municipal Board of Habaneras of Torrevieja and the Cervantes Institute itself, around the genre of Havana.

On Friday, May 24, at 7:00 p.m., in the conference room of the Multipurpose Building on Avenida de las Habaneras, a talk-workshop will be held for families "HOW TO ACCOMPANY AND TALK TO OUR MENSTRUATION DAUGHTERS." The goal is to provide a space for participatory dialogue to address menstruation with families.

The Councilor for Culture and vice president of the Torrevieja International Habaneras and Polyphony Contest, Antonio Quesada, presented this morning the 29th International Habaneras Youth Contest, which will be held next Saturday, April 20, at the Municipal Theater, at 6:00 p.m.

During the submission period, the City Council enabled a special service for people who were going to request them and obtain all the information and documentation at the San Pascual Senior Citizens' Home, No. 117, from Monday to Friday, until the last day of the deadline. .

The Councilor for Culture of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Quesada, presented this morning together with Jesús García and Francisco Moreno, members of the Asociación Voces Líricas del Mediterráneo, the project called “Habaneras en tu puerta” that will be developed by the Municipal Habaneras Board of Trustees through this association.

Last Friday, February 23, a total of 18 Comincrea Master students, from Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, France and Spain, toured iconic and representative spaces of Havana in Torrevieja, with the aim to feed the conceptualization and design of the exhibition on which they have been working since last year.

The Local Government Board (JGL) of the Torrevieja City Council has approved this morning the modification of the contract signed with the company PAREDES PEDROSA ARQUITECTOS SLP, winner of the contract for the provision of the drafting service for the Eras de la Salt, which includes the construction of the Museum of the Sea and Salt, the multipurpose venue with the main destination for the celebration of the International Habaneras and Polyphony Contest, as well as its complementary infrastructures and the surrounding urbanization.

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.

This coming Sunday, April 2, marks World Autism Awareness Day. For this reason, different activities will take place in Torrevieja organized by the Association of Parents of Students with Special Educational Needs (APANEE), with support, for the third consecutive year, from the Torrevieja City Council.

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 AGAMED Board of Directors, held yesterday morning, reported on the application of the Social Fund executed as of December 31, 2021.

Representatives of 22 local NGOs have participated in a meeting convened by the Torrevieja City Council to coordinate the reception of humanitarian aid that is going to be sent to the Ukrainian people, who are suffering from the current armed conflict. The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, together with the councilors of International Residents, Gitte Lund; of Citizen Participation, Inmaculada Montesinos and Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, has announced that the City Council is going to provide a place in which the arrival of all the material that is delivered for this purpose will be centralized and that it will be attended by volunteers from the different NGOs ´s of Torrevieja.

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.

The Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE), with the support of NaturGreen and under the direction of the Department of the Environment of the City Council of Torrevieja, directed by Antonio Vidal, has been advancing in the recovery of the plant formations of the Municipal Natural Park Molino del Water in La Mata. During the 2022 campaign, the implantation of 500 seedlings of dune species is planned in order to improve the vegetation cover and recover threatened species or species that became extinct in the province of Alicante.

The access tests or auditions will be held for children and young people from 4 to 25 years old.