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The Councilor for Beaches and the Environment of the City Council of Torrevieja, Antonio Vidal, informs that the operators of these departments have carried out in the coastal area of the district of La Mata the removal of several tons of Cat's Claw or Knife Grass, Carpobrotus edulis (yellow flower), cataloged as an invasive plant in scientific manuals and in the lists of public administrations.

Among the next projects that the City Council of Torrevieja will maintain with the FAPA Gabriel Miró, possible collaboration agreements are included to favor the development of the activities of the educational community. Likewise, Ricardo Recuero has informed them of the School Absenteeism Plan that the Department of Education will present shortly, and has explained the actions foreseen in the Edificant Plan with an investment of more than 12 million euros, and that they will be developed at IES Libertas, IES Las Lagunas, IES Torrevigía and Colegio Público Virgen del Carmen.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the councilor for Elderly People, Inmaculada Montesinos, will attend next Monday, February 14, Valentine's Day, at the party organized from 6:00 p.m., at the Municipal Center of Leisure, in which awards will be given to couples living together over 60 and 65 years old.

The Councilor for Commerce and Hospitality of the City Council of Torrevieja, Rosario Martínez, and president of the Association of Hospitality Companies of Torrevieja and Region (AEHTC), José Ignacio Pastor, have presented at a press conference the first action to be held in the Gastronomic Calendar 2022.

For the fourth consecutive year, the subject of Architectural Projects of the University of Alicante (UA) returns to focus its gaze on the city of Torrevieja. Thanks to the departments of Education and Tourism of the City Council of Torrevieja and the Headquarters of the University of Alicante in the town, this year a new intergenerational team of architects, teachers and students will project on the opportunities offered by the city of Torrevieja and its tourist ecosystem , in what they have titled as “Torrevieja Grand Tour”.

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.

On the morning of today, Friday, February 4, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, together with the councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, and the president of the local assembly of the Alicante Association for the Fight Against Cancer, Manoli Flores, have placed the banner to commemorate World Cancer Day on the balcony of City Hall. An international day that aims to raise awareness and mobilize society to advance in the prevention and control of this disease. Likewise, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, together with the councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, accompanied by part of the government team and councilors of the municipal corporation, and the president of the Association of Relatives and Cancer Patients (AFECÁNCER ), Victoria Meneses, has read in the Plaza de la Constitución the commemorative manifesto of World Cancer Day.

Yesterday morning, Tuesday, a meeting was organized with the residents of Torresur, an area of the Rocajuna urbanization, with a majority of British residents, with the presence of the deputy mayor of the Torrevieja City Council, Rosario Martínez, the Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Federico Alarcón, and the mayor of International Residents, Gitte Lund Thomsen, and in which members of the Civil Guard and the Torrevieja Local Police were also present.

2,327 foreign residents received information and advice from the PANGEA office, mainly from Morocco (383), Colombia (364), the United Kingdom (318), Russia (176), Ukraine (135), Belgium (123), Sweden (73), Romania (50), India (49), Argentina (49) and Venezuela (46)

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 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.