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Javea Winter Triples
ANOTHER hugely successful Winter Triples Competition came to a conclusion on Saturday with a dramatic ending! This competition has been run annually for years and is supported not only by Javea bowlers but by teams from Benitachell, Bonalba, Calpe and El Cid and our Captain thanked them for their ongoing participation.
Each team plays 18 matches over the nine
Betty Henderson weeks, yet the winners were not known until the final wood. With the very last shot of their final match the Calpe Skip, Bob McAllister, was trailing and needed to fire the jack into the ditch to secure the win and he did so!
The Calpe team of Alison and Alan Edwards, Lesley and Bob McAllister, Dave Osborne, Doreen Cornthwaite and Steve Upton were bottom of the table
GANDIA proved its dedication to gender equality on Wednesday, February 8 as the city joined the European project, ‘Women’s Legacy’. The project focuses on equality in education and highlighting the valuable cultural legacies of women’s lives as well as men’s.
The project has nine partners in four countries; Spain, Lithuania, Italy and Scotland, who will take decisive action to highlight the important value of women in society. The project aims to highlight the legacy of women in three fundamental areas of culture; music, literature and art. The nine participating regions will create educational resources to help teachers to
IF you love to sing and you haven’t joined Sonrisas Harmony, you are missing out. This multinational A Cappella Chorus was formed in September 2022, with 21 members. They have now increased by an astounding 11 new members.
In April, Sonrisas Harmony have been asked to take
Quake heroes
after four matches having picked up just one win. Their luck then changed and they won 11 of the remaining 14 matches to secure a well deserved victory.
Many of the competitors stayed to see the presentation of the Trophy and prize money to Calpe (see photo) and enjoy a ‘free’ drink from the host Club.
For further details please visit the Javea Green website.
Women’s Legacy
design lessons where equality is a focus. Teachers in each of the reasons who choose to participate in the programme will also be offered a 30hour course.
Educational minister Rubén Trenzano explained Gandia’s reasons for joining the scheme, highlighting that just 7.6 per cent of figures studied in the local educational curriculum are women. Furthermore, 94 per cent of names in textbooks are men’s.
Trenzano added that 129 educational centres in the region will participate in the programme.
In harmony
part in the opening show to one of the biggest events on the European A Cappella singing calendar in Calpe.
May brings the celebration of King Charles lll Coronation, Sonrisas Harmony have a very special event planned and places will be limited. If you would like to join Sonrisas Harmony, go along to the rehearsal any Tuesday 10.30 13.30 at Estribor Restaurant function room next to the arches, just off the AP7 junction: Los Alcazares Norte.
Tel Coordinator Lynda on 672 192 222 or visit www.sonrisasharmony.es.
TWO firefighters from Alicante Fire Service joined the GEA Volunteer Group to respond to the earthquake which devastated Turkey and Syria on Monday, February 6. Rafael Arnau and Ángel Moratalla headed to Turkey on Wednesday, February 8.
The hero firefighters specialise in search and rescue and headed to Turkey with 10 other officers and a K9 support unit to provide support in the aftermath of the deadly quake which has claimed the lives of at least 21,000 people. Together, the group will help to free people from the rubble and to search for survivors.
Alicante City mayor, Luis Barcala said he had authorised rescue services to head to Turkey. Barcala also wrote to the regional government urging them to provide “all the human and material resources possible” given the need to “act with maximum speed and efficiency” in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy.
Arnau and Moratalla joined the national GEA Volunteer Group in Madrid before flying to Istanbul where they are cooperating with the Turkish government and humanitarian organisations including the United Nations.
