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Boot sale treasure
A BRITISH woman who purchased two vases for €8 at a car boot sale in Alicante Province five years ago auctioned them in England for a starting price of £800 this week. Christine Rehm told a news source she discovered the vases at a stall when she was living in an undisclosed town in Alicante Province. She reported that the pieces were marked at €10 but the seller let her have them for €8 “as he wanted to get rid of them.” Ms Rehm admits that she did not know what the pieces were, but simply liked their colour and style.
After keeping the vases in a cabinet for five years, Ms Rehm was reportedly remodelling her lounge and decided to take the vases to Richard Winterton Auctioneers in Burton Market Hall “to see if they were worth anything.”
Her surprise came when the antiques experts informed her the pieces were Loetz originals a renowned Art Nouveau glass designer from prewar Bohemia in the 1900s and they could fetch up to £1,200 at auction.
Proverb Of The Week
A team for Wunderschön by Germany’s WDR broadcasting corporation sent a team to investigate and film sequences of the Bou Ferrer with show host Tamina Kallert in May last year.
Film settings included the maritime environment of the wreck and the Marina the underwater operational base of the Bou Ferrer project.
The television crew were accompanied by the discoverers of the shipwreck, José Bou and Antoine Ferrer, with Alicante University providing high quality underwater images.
Means that a foolish person spends money too quickly on unimportant things. The phrase was used by poet Thomas Tusser in a poem he wrote called Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry in 1557.
Special attention was also paid to the Vila Museu museum, where the cameras took in the work being carried out to restore the objects rescued from the Bou Ferrer including 700 Roman amphoras and a collection of lead ingots bearing the seals of Nero which can be visited as part of the guided tours at Vila Museu.
The chapter is entitled From Alicante to Valencia and will be available to watch online in the WDR media library at wunderschoen.wdr.de for up to a year.
Wunderschön is said to be one of the most popular travel and tourism programmes on German television.
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THE latest edition of the Llàgrimes de Santa Marta blood donation marathon in Villajoyosa was a resounding success. A total of 36 litres of blood were collected thanks to 72 donors, 12 of whom had never given blood before. They accounted for 90 per cent of volunteers who were allowed to donate, as the remaining 10 per cent sadly had to be refused. The event, which kicked off the local Santa Marta festivities, was held on the ground floor of the Cristóbal Zaragoza library and was organised jointly by the Health and Fiestas departments of Villajoyosa Town Hall, the Santa Marta Association and Alicante Transfusion Centre.
Villajoyosa Council thanked everyone who made the donation possible and reminded the public that around 650 units of blood are needed every day in the Valencia Region 250 in Alicante Province to deal with the demand from hospitals.
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EXPERTS are closely analysing sea temperatures out of concern that this summer could see a return of last year’s heat spike.
The Mediterranean reached more than 30ºC in August 2022, a situation that can lead to severe short and longterm environmental consequences such as violent storms and breathing prob -
New health centre plans
THE plans have been drawn up for Pedreguer’s new health centre. The building has been designed to be energy-neutral and is a long-standing request by users of the old centre, which has become obsolete.
According to the plans, the centre will be ‘architecturally healthy and sustainable’, obeying current guidelines for new public buildings such as offering ‘climate comfort’ and with the entire energy supply coming from renewable sources, ie solar panels.
Every aspect including isolation, orientation, windows and ventilation have been designed to achieve thermal comfort and maximise energy consumption.
In addition, the building will surround an inside patio with vegetation that will be watered through a rainwater collection and storage system, with trees also planted on the outside of the centre.
The plans will shortly be put on public display for residents to examine. Work is expected to begin in June and take 18 months to complete.
