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Issue 583
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FREE Health Centre officially opens
17 - 23 dECEMBER 2010
A conference took place this week on the ‘Efficient Management of Energy’, with the aim of encouraging all provincial municipalities to work towards a sustainable future. • p6
No post on the coast, again!
by Louise Clarke
More complaints are being received from residents in Orihuela that the Post Office (Correos) still cannot ‘get its act together’ and supply a reliable postal service. • p10
We keep you out of the rain! Ventasol has the ideal solution, whatever your needs, to renovate your property. • p30
Discover the Costa Blanca This week Derek Workman writes about the pleasant little town of Chiva and its famous fountain with 20 lion heads. • p43
It costs nothing to be polite Noel Eastwell’s weekly column addresses the issue of abuse on the golfing greens. • p55
Some of the students and volunteers
Expats teach English to unemployed Spanish speaking residents who are currently unemployed are being taught English by British residents in San Miguel de Salinas. The volunteers are giving up their time to help teach reading, writing, listening and speaking English to their fellow residents. Read the full story on page 16.
THE LONG awaited Health Centre in the Camposol Urbanisation officially opened on Wednesday. The Mayor of Mazarrón, Francisco Blaya, was accompanied by Mazarrón Councillor for Health, María Ángeles Palacios, at the official inauguration of the centre, located in Sector A of the sprawling urbanisation. The centre will be responsible of 5,000 residents, the majority of which are British and other foreign nationalities from northern Europe. The building itself is 1,800 metre squared and has two floors. The centre is equipped with three patient consultation rooms and another three for nurses as well as toilets, a reception area and small warehouse area for storing equipment. There is also a parking area and a garden. The building also contains a basement floor which is being prepared for future extension should there be an increase in
population. Residents of the urbanisation welcomed this new facility with joy, although many questioned why it had taken so long. One resident told RTN: “This is a step in the right direction for the residents of Camposol, who for many years have had to travel into town to visit the doctor and who, to be honest, have felt neglected for a long time by the Mazarrón Town Hall. We welcome this health centre and appreciate the money that has been invested into the urbanisation.” He added: “We also welcome the forthcoming cultural and social centre that is currently being built on Sector B.” With this new infrastructure, the municipality of Mazarrón has increased the number of new health centres to three after the recent inaugurations of two other new facilities; one in the Port of Mazarrón and one in the centre of the town. Continued on page 3