Touching tribute

Anna Ellis MOJACAR has paid tribute to Diego Martinez Melgares, the former director of the Mojacar Municipal Music Band.

In the year 2000, Diego was responsible for laying the foundations for what is today the music band.

The first musicians to make up the band came from its classrooms. None at that time were over 15 years old. After a long time of rehearsals, enthusiasm, patience and a great desire to work, the time for its debut was finally a reality and the band gave its first concert in 2002.

What’s certain is that the performances of the

Municipal Music Band

are highly anticipated in the municipality and are always welcomed with a great deal of interest and affection by its residents. It is one of the best music bands in the province and receives numerous recognitions wherever they participate.

ALMERIA is set to open the San Cristobal Park and Ride whilst the construction of the parking for residents in Calle Arraez progresses.

The works on the car park for residents on Calle Arraez have reached a new milestone, surpassing the halfway point. According to the councillor for Urban Planning and Infrastruc‐ture, Ana Martinez Labella, the works are ex‐pected to be completed after the summer.

With an investment of €1.2 million the works will provide the old town with a new car park.

The car park, built on the municipal site locat‐ed between Calles Arraez and Milagro, will have 60 parking spaces for cars, 12 for motorcy‐cles and 24 storage rooms, spread over six lev‐els. Currently, only four of the total of these spaces are for sale.

Martinez Labella recalled the importance that this project has in the municipal objective of continuing to “promote” the transformation

BOOKWORMS will be de ‐lighted to hear that the Almeria Book Fair will be held until Monday May 1.

The Fair’s coordinator, Manuel Garcia Iborra, confirmed: “In the 43 years of the Fair, the event has already gone through three generations and it is nice that we all remember this evolu ‐tion.”

“A medium ‐ sized fair like ours has a luxury of authors and the book ‐sellers’ enclosure has an increasingly prominent role.”

The councillor for Tourism, Culture and

Currently, Diego continues as a teacher in the locality’s Municipal Music School and continues to train the future members of the band or those who want to learn to play a wind instrument. He is very loved and respected by his students and by all those who know him.