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The Lions raised €195 on the lucky dip, Calpe Animal Shelter raised much awareness, the Arte Bienestar association spread their word and the Guardian Angels raised €230 from the art entries and painting sales.

tional community.

Praise and thank you to this year’s Show team including Fred, Gary, Sarah and Mike Hawes, Justine Rowlinson, Loraine Putney, Sue and Chris Nutbrown.

ALFAZ DEL PI celebrated Europe Day last week in what once again became a celebration of diversity and integration in the town.

More than 50 per cent of Alfaz’s population is of foreign origin and there are currently residents of 96 different nationalities, earning Alfaz de nickname ‘small Europe’.

Mayor Vicente Arques highlighted the fact that the municipality “has become, for several decades now, the perfect example of the fundamental basis on which the European Union was created and grew, namely the full integra-

Visitors chose their most popular artworks in the Art Competition with first place going to Lizzy Forrester for Floating on the Blue and second place for Wenche Kunst Wergeland for Ladies on the Beach.

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Europe Day in Alfaz

tion and coexistence of citizens from different countries.”

Europe Day celebrates peace and unity in Europe and marks the anniversary of the historic Schuman Declaration, a speech delivered in Paris in 1950 by the then French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, in which he set out his idea of a new form of political cooperation on the continent that would make a new war between European nations unthinkable.

ALFAZ DEL PI Council is repairing both tennis courts at the municipal sports centre.

Work is expected to take one month to complete at a cost of €48,300 partly subsidised by Alicante provincial government. Work is focusing on restoring the surface of both courts to improve grip and technical performance as well as their appearance, according to Alfaz Town Planning councillor Toni Such.

Work will also include restoring the two paddle tennis courts at the sports centre as part of a larger project to restore a third one and build a fourth one, as well as building a new multipurpose court.