Red Cross drive Alicante Award

ALICANTE’S Postiguet beach has been awarded the Ecoplayas 2023 flag in recog‐nition of its services and the way it takes care of the sandy areas with the conservation of the algae upwelling during the winter.

The Postiguet beach in Ali‐cante is one of the four new beaches on the peninsular Mediterranean coast that will fly the Ecoplayas flag in 2023.

Alicante will join La Cari‐huela in Torremolinos, El De‐do in Malaga and El Cable in Marbella.

These beaches join the hundred or so that have re‐ newed the award after win‐ning it in previous years.

Postiguet Beach is the most emblematic beach in the city of Alicante.

It is a very busy urban beach due to its proximity to the city centre and to the main tourist axis between the seafront and the old town.

The beach is 808 metres long and more than 50 me‐tres wide, it has an estimated surface area of 40,540 square metres and an estimated ca‐pacity of 5,930 people.

Postiguet Beach has also been awarded the Blue Flag quality label.

THE Red Cross in Alfaz del Pi is running a campaign to col‐lect food and hygiene prod‐ucts to help crisis ‐ hit resi ‐dents.

Milk, flour, sugar, tomato sauce, pate, tinned tuna, pas‐ta, chicken stock, fruit juice, eggs, yoghurts and fruit are the most needed foodstuffs, and regarding hygiene prod‐ucts the Red Cross is asking for shampoo, shower gel, de‐odorant, disposable razors, toothpaste, toothbrushes, sanitary towels and nappies.

Donations can be handed in at the Pabellón Pau Gasol until Sunday April 30.

As well as the permanent

Public garden for Denia

DENIA Town Council has announced an investment of nearly €900,000 to cre ‐ate a new public garden at the site of the old health centre on Calle Marqués de Campo.

The project to turn the 1,286 square‐metre plot into a ‘Mediterranean oasis in the centre of town’ has been put out to tender with work expected to take four months to complete.

Traffic and parking in the area will be reduced while promoting pedestrian and cycling mobility, with a stage erect‐ed in the centre surrounded by trellis

STORIES IN THIS WEEK’S EDITION

New shelter

TEULADA Council has cre‐ated a new climate shelter in the Pinar del Pla pine tree forest.

with climbing plants and trees provid‐ing shade and creating “a kind of Ro ‐man theatre,” according to the project plans.

The aim is to provide a meeting point for neighbours and an open‐air setting for cultural and social events, as well as a children’s play area.

It will also be used to store the chairs ready for major events such as the Car‐nival, Moors and Christians and Three Kings parades in the high street, and last year it housed the municipal Christ‐mas market.

collection point in the pavil‐ion, the Red Cross will set up a stand at the Parking La Bolleta on Saturday April 22 from 12pm to 3pm as part of the Mig Any de Penyes festivities.

The Red Cross thanks resi‐dents for their solidarity and reminds them that the organ‐isation has an office on Calle Francia where they provide help to the most vulnerable sectors of the population in‐cluding those affected by poverty, victims of gender vi‐olence, children, the elderly and dependant citizens, as well as working in the fields of health, emergencies, edu‐cation and the environment.

The town hall has in‐vested €52,340 in creating the facilities near the mu‐nicipal swimming pool and next to the recently inaugurated dog park in the area commonly re‐ferred to as the Pinaret de la Costa. Work has fo‐cused on adapting the plot to create a leisure area with games for chil‐dren, picnic benches and other services using equipment that maintains an adequate temperature and which will be open to the public during periods of excessive heat.

Teulada Services coun‐cillor José Antonio Bis‐quert explained that the climate shelter will offer “residents and visitors a new leisure area to be en‐joyed all year round and especially during the sum‐mer, when we all look for somewhere in the shade to spend a nice time with family and friends.”