The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1841
15 - 21 October 2020
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Credit: Almuñecar Council
LUCKY NUMBER 18690
Official announcement of the Almuñecar number.
AS most people know, the Span ish love to buy lottery tickets and are also proud of the towns where they live and apart from the State lotteries and ONCE which are probably the best known, other charities including the Red Cross also sell their own tickets. For the next Red Cross Golden Draw, someone in the charity has been very alert and has taken the
post code for the town of Almuñe car and placed it on the lottery ticket sold throughout the munici pality. This has caused quite a stir and the town council even made a for mal announcement presented by mayor, Trinidad Herrera alongside the vicepresident of the Red Cross in Granada, Francisco Pérez Cardona. The mayor explained how im
portant the relationship with the Red Cross was, particularly in these difficult post lockdown times where there were many res idents affected by financial diffi culties and who continued to need help. Referring to the ticket which bears the number 18690 she said “Let us all bear in mind that when we buy a 10th, in this case the Golden Draw, we are not just play
New Axarquia marina A VISIT to the town of Torrox by the Minister of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucia, Elías Bendodo proved to be impor tant not just because it strength ened ties with the municipality but because he gave a number of undertakings on behalf of the Junta. Perhaps most importantly was his promise that by Easter 2021 he would present the pro ject for the new Marina to be sit uated between Torrox and Ner ja which is considered a very
important project for the entire area. For years the project had been turned down by the previ ous Junta government, but the Minister said that he considered that there was an absolute need for a significant increase in the number of berths available across Andalucia and whilst he could not go into figures, he had already held discussions with in terested investors for a public private collaboration. Funds will also be made avail
able to improve the existing judi cial building with the longterm intent to build a new one as well as upgrading the facilities in the Torrox Health Centre.
ing the lottery and trying to make our luck, but we are helping peo ple who really need it” before wishing everyone good luck if they purchased a ticket. In response Francisco Pérez Car dona said, “The Red Cross has not stopped working, it has had to re double its efforts and put all its re sources into trying to reach every one, not only the people it had already been attending to, but to
go further and attend to other types of groups. “This is a complicated year, it is a very special year and this pan demic is taking away many things from us, it has taken away from all of us, some more, from others less, but let’s not let it take away the solidarity from any of us.” You don’t have to live in the municipality to purchase this par ticular number.