LOCAL NEWS – TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2011
FACEBOOK HELPS DOG ADOPTIONS
The municipal dog pound in Torrevieja has successfully housed 20 lost or stray dogs as a direct response to their newly created Facebook page.
Facebook users can add the page “Perrera Municipal de Torrevieja�, which shows pictures of some of the dogs in need of a home as well as some of those who have successfully found a new family.
TORREVIEJA POETRY PRIZE AWARDED
Spanish writer and journalist Juan Cobos Wilkins has received the 18,000 euro prize in the sixteenth annual poetry writing competition.
At the awards ceremony, the winner said that "poetry is used to heal and to live" and stressed that his poems speaks of "the inability to communicate that man has today."
The competition has now been cancelled until the economic situation improves.
REWARDS FOR TORREVIEJA SHOPPERS
The small and medium business association in Torrevieja, APYMECO, has launched an awards campaign that will run through the entire Christmas season, with a prize announcement on January 5th.
First prize is a 500 euro gift card; second prize is a 100 euro gift card with many smaller prizes also on offer from the 2,000 euro total prize fund.
The campaign is to try to encourage shoppers to use the smaller businesses in the city centre, rather than relying on the supermarkets and shopping centres on the outskirts.
DON´T BE ALONE FOR CHRISTMAS
A total of 72 of the 107 Torrevieja pensioners, who applied for the latest campaign to prevent them being alone at Christmas, will be treated to a full board holiday at the Ã�gora Spa-Resort hotel in PeñÃscola this year.
There were 600 complementary places offered across the whole region, aimed at older people living alone and unable to spend Christmas day with their family or friends. Organisers were unable to explain what the other 35 people who applied will be doing.
CHOCOLATE COURSE COMES TO A CLOSE
The tourism training centre in Torrevieja has been running a two day course on chocolate and decorations for workers in the food industry this week.
The course was billed as a unique opportunity to obtain the necessary skills to produce exquisite desserts from chocolate, just like experts in this field like well known Chef Mario Padial.
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