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Adeje rising star
13th - 27th January - 2011
internacional de la canción de las Islas Canarias, and the first prize in the international Festival Berliner Perle 2010. A former Wingate pupil, Charlie, who is 17 years old, was born in the UK and is a resident of Adeje. He has already wowed the OT jury with his rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, and we wish him every success in the next phase.
Charlie Karlsen auditions for OT oung singer CharY lie Karlsen who has won several local and
international talent contest prizes, has now won his way to the final phase of the auditions for the next Operación Triunfo TV series (similar to Pop Idol) to be televised by Telecinco from Sunday January 16th. His wins so far include Tenerife’s Got Talent in 2008, the Granadilla young talent contest in El Médano and the Arona young talent contest held at the Los Cristianos Cultural Centre, both in 2009, as well as the Voz del Atlántico prize at last year’s Universong-Festival
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Playa San Juan
Health dis-service T
he patience of Guía de Isora council, and especially of the residents in and around the Playa San Juan area, finally ran out in the matter of their health cente.
Eight years ago land was given to the Canarian government to build a health centre, which, when it was proposed, was considered to be of the utmost urgency. Work began in 2004 and should have been finished in 2006. Four years later the centre has still not opened, despite statements in 2008 by the then Canarian Minister for Health, Mercedes Roldós that the centre would be opened, “shortly”. The council and local population organised a petition to demand the opening of this much needed service and denouncing the continued broken promises. They rapidly collected over a thousand signatures and local mayor, Pedro Martín took the petition personally into the offices of the Health Department, accompanied by the local councillors for Health and Social Services, Antonio Álvarez and Josefa Mesa. They were prevented from taking
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Child care
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Niño, celebrating twenty years of caring for Adeje’s children
photographs of the action by members of the security staff. Martín underlined that this is by no means the first time the council have taken the initiative to try and break through the problems causing the delays and have even asked that the works come directly under the council’s direction to speed things along. He indicated that they have tried more traditional paths to get action, so far without a result. Martín affirmed that the centre, “was a wholly justified necessity,” and added,
“four years is too much time, and I believe we have been very patient. It is now time that this health resource was opened and that they stopped constantly putting us off and giving us excuses about something for which we can wait no longer”. The mayor stated that he had an upcoming meeting with the Canarian Minister for Health,
Josefa Mesa, Pedro Martín and Antonio Álvarez outside the Health Department
although no date had been set, and hoped it would be before the end of January. He also announced that if by the end of the month there had been no answer, they hadn’t ruled out using other methods of pressure.
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