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The Councilor for Culture of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Quesada, and the director of the event and head of Turmalina Films, Lidiana Rodríguez, presented this morning the sixth edition of TORREVIEJA AUDIOVISUAL, the national festival of fiction and animation short films that It will be held at the Municipal Theater on September 3 and 4, at 9:00 p.m., and it returns after five years without being held.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, together with the Councilor for Sports, Diana Box, have received this morning, August 19, the athletes from Torrevieja who participated in the Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Luis Manuel Corchete (athletic march ) and Daniel Cánovas (sailing coach).

The standard application form for obtaining the aid is available on the municipal website of the Torrevieja City Council, at adl-torrevieja.es and at ahoratorrevieja.es

The Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, has presented the aid of the "Child Bonus". It is about financial aid for students enrolled in the first cycle of nursery school.

The Councilor for Sports, Diana Box, reports that more than 300 boys and girls, aged between 2 to 16 years, have attended the municipal swimming courses offered by the Department of Sports of the Torrevieja City Council for the months of July and August.

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 Councilor for Innovation, Ricardo Recuero, and the Councilor for Finance, Domingo Paredes, have presented the 2022 participatory budgets “You propose, your City Council does it”, where all people over 16 years of age who are registered in Torrevieja can participate, as well as well as entities, associations, foundations, professional associations, among others. The deadline for submission begins tomorrow, August 13, until next Friday, August 27, where interested parties may submit relevant proposals of general interest, city or district level, whose content is not illegal, defamatory or discriminatory.

The spokesperson of the Torrevieja Municipal Popular Group, Rosario Martínez Chazarra, has presented a motion to the Board of Spokespersons on August 13, so that, in agreement with the municipal groups that want to join, name the park's recreational area " Lo Albentosa ”as a recreational area“ José Eduardo Gil Rebollo ”.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, have visited, together with the ASAFAN delegate in Torrevieja, Óscar Urtasun, this information point which offers all the information on the aid and benefits with the that have, in addition to managing and processing scholarships, FN degrees, etc. The hours of attention to the public are in August: Tuesday and Thursday in the morning, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from the month of September. Among the advantages for large families are discounts on the urban contribution, electricity and water bills, sports activities, all kinds of transport, museums, ..., as well as discounts on school fees and university fees, on the Social Security fee by home caregivers, etc. To contact ASAFAN Torrevieja you can call: 686 083 054 or 661 348 048. Also by email: torrevieja@asafan.org.

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 Councilor for Culture, José Antonio Quesada, together with the director of the Festival, Tatiana Denisova Kaunova, the artistic director, Lev Gelbard, and the cellist, Lana Gruen, have presented this morning the second edition of the festival of classical music and opera "Sol Music Festival Torrevieja" to be held from August 12 to 15 in the chamber hall of the International Auditorium of Torrevieja.

The Department of Quality of urban services, led by the mayor Sandra Sánchez, has to provide the Los Locos beach promenade with a new redevelopment that significantly improves accessibility to the coastline, providing it with pedestrian routes and areas spacious rooms for the enjoyment of citizens and complying with applicable regulations on accessibility in urban areas.

The councilor secretary of the Local Government Board of the Torrevieja City Council, Federico Alarcón, has informed this morning of the approval of the file, specifications of technical prescriptions and administrative clauses for the contracting of the integral maintenance service, replacement, general repair and conservation of the irrigation systems of the green areas and public roads, including all the elements that are necessary for their correct operation, construction, management and viability of the municipality of Torrevieja. It should be noted that the works, extensions, modifications and any other circumstance that affects the contract will be the property of the City Council, once executed and certified. The duration of the contract will be three years, with an annual extension of two years. The maximum duration, if the corresponding extensions are agreed upon, will be 5 years. The estimated value of the contract amounts to 1,507,172.60 euros, with the base bid budget being 301,434 euros.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the deputy mayor of the City Council, Rosario Martínez, have received and welcomed the 13 new workers who have taken office today and who have been hired through the EMCORP 2021 insertion program, subsidized by LABORA , to provide them with a work experience that improves their employability.

The city hosts the first edition of the Crazy Urban Festival to mobilize the population and facilitate regulated youth leisure on public roads with a sophisticated human and technological device and a program that transcends the purely musical The festival includes exhibitions of skating, skateboarding, motorcycles of water, live graffiti contest and organized water activities beginning Thursday, August 12

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, has issued a municipal statement in which he informs that on Saturday, August 21, the 8th stage of the Cycling Tour of Spain will take place, whose itinerary runs through the main streets and avenues of the Torrevieja municipal term. For all these reasons, the roads and streets indicated in this Side will be cut off between 12:15 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. and between 1:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m., traffic and circulation being totally prohibited. parking on these streets and avenues in this period of time. The withdrawal of vehicles from the route will be carried out from 04:00 hours on August 21 and, given the importance that this sporting event has for Torrevieja, the maximum collaboration of all citizens is requested.

The Councilor for Employment and Training, Domingo Paredes, has announced that the ADL continues to bet on training the unemployed with programs where culture is positioned as a dynamic axis, continuing the objective of improving employability and facilitating the labor insertion of people participants, with special consideration to vulnerable people and groups who suffer greater difficulty or discrimination in access to employment.

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 ”.