Town hall facelift

SANTA POLA has been awarded €2.8 million from the Eu‐ropean Union for the rehabilitation of the town hall build‐ing.

The councillor for Infrastructure, Trini Ortiz, confirmed: “With these funds from the European Union we are going to make Santa Pola a more efficient and sustainable city.

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6,000 trees, of which 2,800 are palm trees.

“This new service is essential to ensure the proper conserva‐tion of the green areas of Elche Parque Empresarial and thus contribute to the flagship of the municipality’s industrial ar‐eas, and the paradigm of a modern and dynamic industri‐al park,” concluded Gonzalez.

“This is the future of our city and proof of this are the local energy communities that we are promoting and the bidding for the Santa Pola energy efficiency contract that will achieve economic savings and, above all, energy, and now the town hall building.”

Sustainable buildings are those that try to generate a positive environmental impact on their surroundings. That is, they seek to improve the quality of life in the loca‐tion in which they are built.

Buildings must be focused on sustainable use and, at the same time, promote the well‐being of its users.

The new rehabilitation projects of the Santa Pola Town Council must be adapted to these characteristics.

Farewell Pamela

THE expat world is in mourning over the loss of a true pillar of the community.

Pamela Dawson Tasker is a name that will undoubtedly be very familiar to many on the Costa Blanca. More than 40 years of tireless work with nu‐merous charities and activism in local affairs, politics and jour‐nalism made her an ubiquitous presence at events and in the media since she moved to the area from London in 1980.

A proud Alfaz del Pi resident, her list of honours includes re‐ceiving a British Empire Medal in 2014 for her charity work and services to expats and an award by Alfaz Town Hall last year in recognition for her so‐cial work.

Pamela set up the Benidorm branch of the Royal British Le‐gion and became the local president of the Spanish Asso‐ciation Against Cancer, for whom she organised countless fundraising events.

She also worked closely with the British Consulate on a wide range of issues directly affect‐ing the expat community, wrote articles for the press and regularly appeared on local ra‐dio.

CREVILLENTE and Ori‐huela on the Costa Blanca South are among 26 East‐er celebrations now de‐clared festivals of interna‐tional interest.

Holy Week has recent‐ly been celebrated and is a very culturally impor‐tant festive period in Ali‐cante as well as all over Spain.

Throughout the coun‐try, incredible processions take place that are fol‐lowed by grand celebra‐tions where visitors can marvel at the artwork and enjoy the local gas‐tronomy.

The General Secretari‐at of Tourism of the Min‐istry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Fernando Valdes Verelst, has awarded 26 celebrations with the distinction of Festivals of International Interest.

As well as Crevillente and Orihuela in Alicante, Sevilla has been declared of interest as well as Malaga and Granada in Andalucia.

Also included are Zaragoza and Teruel, in Aragon; Caceres, Badajoz and Merida in Ex‐tremadura; and, Ferrol and Viveiro in Galicia. Cartagena, Jumilla, Lor‐ca and Murcia in Murcia are named; as well as Leon, Cuenca, Hellin, Toledo, Valladolid, Zamo‐ra, Salamanca, and Castil‐la y Leon among others.

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KACEY’S BAR in Playa Fla‐menca CC will be hosting a fashion show on Saturday May 13. Doors will open at 7.30pm and all money raised on the night will be donated to the Samaritans in Spain.

It promises to be a fabu‐lous evening with some real bargains to be had as all clothes and accessories will be sold for just €3 each!

There will be a wide selec‐tion to choose from, includ‐ing the items being show ‐cased by the models on the night.

The evening will be host‐

C.LAR.O is pleased to an ‐nounce that it will support the Popular Party of Ori ‐huela in the forthcoming municipal elections on May 28.

The decision was taken unanimously by C.LAR.O members in an Extraordi ‐nary General Meeting held on Thursday April 20.

In the event that they will head the municipal govern‐ment, the Popular Party has guaranteed the appoint ‐ment of a councillor for the Coast with competences, a ed by TKO presenter Chris Dyson and will include the chance to win a drink‐laden hamper as well as other goodies.

Tickets are selling fast and there are only a small num‐ber still available. Tickets cost just €3.50 and cover en‐try, a glass of cava and nib‐bles.

All tickets are non‐refund‐able and available to pur ‐chase from Kacey’s Bar.