Close to excellence Book fair success

THE Elche Book Fair which took place over the week‐end of Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23 has been crowned a resound‐ing success.

The event registered a massive influx of the pub‐lic and enjoyed the partic‐ipation of 120 authors

The mayor of Elche, Car‐los Gonzalez, and the councillor for Commerce, Felip Sanchez, attended the event with the coun ‐cillor commenting: “We have had a great response from the citizens of Elche and other towns.

“A total of 120 authors from the municipality and the rest of the country passed through the Fira de Sant Jordi to sign their works and interact with readers,” he added.

Workshops, story ‐telling, round tables, liter‐ary presentations and concerts were pro ‐grammed as part of the event promoted by the council with the collabo ‐ration of the 17 Muses collective, and in which the Institut d’Estudis Cata‐lans (IEC) and the Associa‐cio d’Escriptors en Llen ‐gua Catalana (AELC) also took part.

TORREVIEJA City Council now leads the ranking for the execution of the pro ‐vision of care service to dependency.

Among the municipali ‐ties with more than 50,000 inhabitants in the Valencian Community, the towns of Torrevieja and Orihuela in the province of Alicante, and Castellon de la Plana lead the list, all of them with more than 94 per cent execu ‐tion.

The councillor for Social Welfare, Inmaculada Montesinos, confirmed that the Torrevieja City