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ISSUE NO. 1524
EWN FRONT EXTRA
Ecological farming VELEZ MALAGA Council is offering a free course on ecological farming scheduled to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday next week (September 23 and 24) at the Delegacion de Juventud.
Blues Festival THE Blues Festival held at Castillo de la Herradura had a great turnout with people coming from all corners of Malaga Province. The event had some wellknown acts on stage, including Lito Blues Band, Guitar Not So Slim.
Oldest exhibit THE Metropolitan Art Museum in New York is temporarily exhibiting an archaeological artefact from Almuñecar, namely a vase carved from grey marble which may well be the oldest documented object in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Families’ desperate search for missing sailors goes on THE search continues for two men who went missing two-and-a-half months ago after setting sail from Torrox. The families of Joaquín Espinosa Ruiz, a 24-yearold from Cadiz, and Antonio Jesus Moyano Pérez, aged 30 from Velez Malaga, have made a public appeal to find the two men. The pair set off from El Peñoncillo in Torrox Costa on June 27. According to the mother of the younger man, he had contacted Moyano in order to buy a boat from him, which was berthed in the dry-dock at Torrox.
Joaquín’s mother, Maribel Ruiz, said: “He had just got his sailing permit, and told me that he wanted to buy a boat. “He had looked at a lot
on the internet and this was the first time he had gone out to view one with the owner.” In the immediate aftermath of the men’s
Velez Virgin crowned VELEZ MALAGA celebrated the ceremonial coronation of Virgen de las Angustias on Sunday. Bishop of the diocese Jesus Catala presided over the religious ceremony which began at 11am at Iglesia de San Juan Bautista. A little after midday, Bishop Catala placed a crown made by Orfebreria Maestrante in Sevilla, on the statue’s head. Hundreds of parishioners participated in
the procession that followed through the town’s streets. The ceremony was also attended by Mayor Francisco Delgado Bonilla and representatives of the Association of Shopkeepers and Entrepreneurs of Velez Malaga (ACEV), among other dignitaries from the region. The next coronation is to take place in Malaga on September 12 next year.
disappearance, the coastguard used helicopters to carry out a thorough search of the coastline from Tarifa to Almeria. However, their efforts proved fruitless. Maribel continued: “It is as if the boat has been abducted by aliens, because it had a radio
beacon which is meant to be infallible. “I am desperate. I have searched all over Morocco but there is no trace of him or his companion.” The 24-year-old is in the military, and based in Ceuta, a Spanish city on the North African coast. The wife of the other missing man, Antonio Jesus Moyano Pérez, added that her husband had left his mobile phone in Joaquín’s car at the dock, and that they had not heard from him since. She said: “He has never been away for more than a day. We have three small children between the ages of four and eight. “He was selling the boat because we need the money.”