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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1874
3 - 9 June 2021
Grandparents’Day IN a bid to celebrate Grandparents’ day in Rincon de la Victoria locals are set to sing to their heroes and heroines. The ongoing global pandemic has seen many grandparents battling against loneliness as they have been unable to see their loved ones as often as they would have liked and months without family visits. The initiative has been organised by the Social Welfare Area of the Malaga municipality of Rincon de la Victoria, in collaboration with Nadir Audiovisuales and the day will be celebrated on July 26.
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Malaga Parking Discounts reduced THE municipal car parks in Malaga which are managed by Smassa are offering users a discounted rate of 10 per cent, which came into effect on Tuesday, June 1. This initiative aims to promote economic reactivation in the area and draw in visitors. Previously the car parks had seen a 25 per cent reduction in fees which had been in place since May 17. The discounted rate has been reduced as the economic activity in the area is gradually recovering. Businesses in Malaga have been boosted since restrictions on opening hours were reduced and the State of Alarm ended in early May. The city council has said that these discounts are only a temporar y measure, and will run until June 30.
NEW SCHOOL: Will now become a reality for Rincon de la Victoria. AFTER more than five years of complaints and protests from residents, the Junta de Andaluca has taken the decisive step to make the fifth secondary school a reality in Rincon de la Victoria, in Torre de Benagalbón. The municipality has experienced massive demographic growth in the last two decades, doubling its population. It will be located in the Parque Victoria urbanisation, north of the motorway, in La Cala del Moral, next to the Mara del Mar Romera public school, on a plot of more than 9,000 square metres that the town hall has given up. The Regional Ministry of Education and Sport will fund the building of this new Secondary School with €4.2 million (ESO).
The transfer of ownership of the land where the new institute would be situated by the town hall was approved by the Council of Government on Tuesday May 25. The project entails the construction of a new secondary school with three lines of compulsory secondary education (D3) and a capacity of 360 students in the Parque Victoria urbanisation in La Cala del Moral, on a plot of 9,057 square metres adjacent to the CEIP Mara del Mar Romera, which opened in 2010. The future educational centre will be 3,240 square metres in size and will include 12 multi-purpose high school classrooms, a music classroom, a special education classroom with modified toilets, an art
and audiovisual classroom, a workshop classroom, a laboratory, a double-use classroom, and a support and reinforcement classroom, among other things. It will also include a library, cafeteria, and gymnasium with locker rooms, as well as the required administration and common and service areas. There will be a covered patio, sports court, parking, garden field, orchard, playground, and a reserve area for expansion, according to a statement from the regional administration. The Andalucian Public Agency for Education is currently contracting the project, which is part of the Regional Ministry’s Educational Infrastructure Plan (APAE).
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Get Set for Summer LOCALS and tourists alike should get set for summer in Velez‐ Malaga as lifeguards are now ready to spring into action to keep people safe until September 30. Not only will the Velez‐Malaga beaches see lifeguards in ac‐ tion, but there are also ambulance drivers and nurses ready to help out those in need and staff numbers will be increased for July and August. The service will have plenty of technical backup and will in‐ clude defibrillators, oxygen equipment, two rapid action vehi‐ cles and even two drones, all to keep everyone safe this sum‐ mer. Lifeguard posts can be seen at Benajarafe, Almayate, Torre del Mar and Caleta de Vélez. The mayor of Velez‐Malaga (Malaga), Antonio Moreno Ferrer has commented that: “Despite a long year marked by the pan‐ demic, we have not stopped working to implement measures and initiatives to keep tourism alive, always in a safe and re‐ sponsible way, claiming our role as a great city in the Costa del Sol.” Deputy mayor of Torre del Mar and councillor for Beaches, Jesús Pérez Atencia, has highlighted the fact that this summer there will be six beach informers: “who will be in charge of handing out the plots of land and information leaflets with safe‐ ty measures. These informers belong to the Emvipsa reserve pool, and are people who may have some kind of disability.” The timetable of the surveillance and lifeguard service during the months of June and September is from 12.00 to 8pm; while during the months of July and August, it is extended from 10.30 to 8pm.
BEACHES: Lifeguards are ready to spring into action.