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‘Two’ good to miss Bringing blessings
The Musicals, a lively show fea‐turing excerpts from famous musicals including Moulin Rouge, Matilda, Cats, and The Greatest Showman, as well as many more.
This performance will be produced and directed by Tina Staffieri and Gemma Lloyd and will include special guests Oliv‐er Green and Leanne Cooper.
The show is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 13 and
Sunday, May 14.
The Salón Varietés theatre, which was originally built in 1925, served as a cinema be‐fore being converted into an English‐speaking theatre in 1985. It is the only theatre of its kind on the Costa del Sol. Tickets for both shows can be purchased online: http://sa lonvarietes.com/live/shows.ph p as well as at the theatre’s box office.
Hope and healing
their plans to expand their vital services which include providing specialised care to people with cancer and oth‐er advanced illnesses, as well as free support to their fami‐lies.
The Day Unit is a crucial component of the Founda‐tion’s palliative care efforts, providing dynamic physio‐therapy, a range of thera ‐pies, and social and cultural activities to improve the quality of life for patients and their families.
With the new tax exemp‐tion, Cudeca can focus on what they do best: delivering compassionate and compre‐hensive care to those who need it most.
Betty Henderson
EXCITEMENT is building as the Angli‐can Church on the Costa del Sol West prepares to welcome their new chap ‐lain, Tony, and his wife Gisela.
After almost 18 months of waiting for visa and residency documents, the church is finally ready to hold a licens‐ing service for Tony on Friday, May 12 at 7pm at Sotogrande Church.
The church is expecting a number of religious groups from along the coast and Gibraltar to attend the event and will welcome Tony and his wife to the community
Tony, who hails from Liverpool, has a wealth of experience in theology and pastoral care. He has studied in the UK, France and Germany, and lived and worked in Columbia and Mexico. He also speaks English, Spanish, French and German, making him an asset to the multicultural community along the Costa del Sol.
During a short visit to the area in De‐cember, Tony met with one of the Catholic priests and expressed his ea ‐gerness to connect with religious com‐munities along the coast.
All are welcome to come and meet
Tony at the service or at the group’s Spring Fair in Estepona on Sunday, May 20 at the American Club of Es ‐tepona.
BETTY ROSS, a nearly 20year member and former Chair of The Andalucian Performing Arts Society (TAPAS), was awarded a certificate of appreciation and lifetime membership on Saturday, April 29.
The society awarded Betty the honour in recognition of her instrumental role in the success of numerous TAPAS shows and events over the years. During her fiveyear tenure as Chair, Betty helped raise a whopping €14,000 for charity through the Coinbased TAPAS choir.
Her husband, Ken Ross, also received a lifetime membership for his unwavering support to TAPAS. Ken is known to the group as the TAPAS ‘magician’, due to his exceptional abilities to produce remarkable stage and event sets, transport items for shows, and complete tasks ‘magically’.
This year, the TAPAS choir will be supporting Asociación Huellas Terapéuticas, an organisation that retrains
FUENGIROLA Council has given the green light to a €29 million budget to finance various new projects, including the construction of the new Mercacentro, street renovations, and a reinforced cleaning service.
The council officially approved the budget in their April monthly meeting on Friday, April 28 with the Partido Popular voting in favour of it while the PSOE, Ciduadanos, Vox, and the IU voted against it.
The budget includes money left over from the 2022 fiscal year, which will be added to the present year’s budget. With this positive balance, the local government plans to launch new projects, such as the abandoned dogs as therapy animals for individuals with disabilities. The choir’s next big performance is set to be on Sunday, June 4 at ‘The Picnic in the Park’ in Benahavis.
