ISSUE 659 • 2nd - 8th November 2018
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SOLIDARITY: More than 200 people took part in the walk.
UNDER the slogan ‘A lot to Live for,’ around 200 people took part in a walk of solidarity in Mojacar last Sunday to do their bit in the fight against breast cancer. Walkers of all ages and of a number of different nationalities, many of them wearing pink, and some with their dogs in tow, started off from Mojacar village’s Plaza Nueva, ending the march at the Hotel Puntazo in Mojacar Playa. Among them were Mojacar councillors Maria Luisa Perez and Raquel Belmon, who both stressed the need to detect breast cancer as AUTHORITIES in Almeria have signed off works worth more than €39 million for a new stretch of motorway spanning across the Almanzora Valley. A part of the new road, set to extend the existing Albox to El Cucador stretch of motorway, is due
early as possible. “It is important that we all collaborate, and especially against breast cancer which affects 27,000 women every year in Spain, and is the most common tumour in women,” commented Raquel Belmon, whose area of responsibility in the local authority is Social Services. Organised by the Spanish Cancer Association (AECC), the local Mojacar AECC branch, and the Garrucha Volunteer Service, with the collaboration of Mojacar Council, last Sunday’s walk was one of a
variety of initiatives around the province in recent weeks to mark World Breast Cancer Day. A lot to Live for 2018 was the eighth year for the event organised by the Mojacar AECC branch with the local council to raise money for the Spanish Cancer Association’s continued research and fight against cancer The Mojacar branch, one of 65 in Almeria Province, is now preparing for its next fundraising event: ‘One child, a thousand dreams,’ which will be held in the Mojacar Multiple Uses Centre on December 8.
Millions for roads to run from the latter town to Huercal-Overa. It will join the A-7106 at HuercalOvera. The latest section of road will be 3.3 kilometres long, have four lanes each
with a width of 3.5 metres. It is also set to include a 300-metre-long bridge across the Almanzora River, as well as two others across the Lloron and Agua ravines.
The works come as part of the Almanzora motorway, which will be 29 kilometres long and stretch from Fines to the Mediterranean when complete, provincial authorities said. Authorities said contracts for the roads have now been tendered.
RGANISATIONS Almería Acoge, Fepaim, SEDIM and Cáristas Diocesana de Almería have called for ‘safe migration routes’ following recent deaths in the Alboran Sea, including a bab y, w h o s e b o d y w a s r e t r i e v e d f r o m a small boat carrying 55 migrants. The organisations expressed their ‘absolute indignation’ at the repeated sinkings ‘which cause so many deaths in order to reach Europe,’ and argue that border controls ‘fundamentally cause the deaths of people.’ “We demand concrete and urgent actions are taken to avoid a repetition of this disgrace and to guarantee the safety of people who see they are forced to migrate.” In addition to demanding safe routes, the four organisations also want everything possible done to ‘respect the memory of the victims, to identify them and to communicate the tragedy to their families.’ On Tuesday evening the organisation staged a small gathering in Almeria City centre with a rope with 260 knots to symbolise the number of people who have perished trying to cross the Mediterranean this year.