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West Coast Car Boot cancelled for winter months A long-running monthly car boot sale on the Algarve’s west coast has been forced to go into “winter hibernation”. The sales held by community association AMOVATE on Vale da Telha, outside Aljezur, on the first Sunday of each month have been called off until April, citing the “knock-on” effect of changes in the Portugal Government’s licensing laws governing flea markets and car boots first introduced early in 2013. An AMOVATE spokesperson said: “Those changes made the traditional car boots too expensive to be viable as it meant we could not afford to host commercial traders who had always been an integral part of our car boot operations. “We have tried to adapt by ruling that stallholders could sell unwanted household items only—no goods grown, made or bought for profit.
“This, of course, significantly reduced the number of stalls on site each month and made it less appealing to the customers visiting our sales.
Amovate is a charitable organisation that has donated 35 wheelchairs to Portimao Hospital, organised the donation of €50,000 worth of fire fighting equipment to Aljezur Bombeiros and also provided them with two new defibrillators. It also bought a €700 ripple bed for the charity Madrugada. The spokesperson added that they hoped the decision wouldn’t impact on their fund raising too heavily. The next Car Boot will be held on Sunday April 3rd, 2016.
After a moving service conducted by the Reverend Ron Curtis and following refreshments in the Palhagueira Village Hall, lunch was taken in the adjacent Le Marquis Restaurant with Mrs Kirsty Hayes and Gordon Sanders as distinguished guests. The Legion’s Portugal branch Chairman Jacquie Collins said afterwards: “The Royal British Legion would like to thank all those who contributed, both in attendance and organisation, to this Remembrance Commemoration.
A Chelsea Pensioner, resplendent in his familiar scarlet uniform, was among the guests at a Remembrance Day Service at St. Luke’s Church, Palhagueira Village, Gorjões earlier this month.
“Throughout the Portugal branch we also had services in Lisbon, Madeira and Porto. They were all well attended and supported by HM Embassy and the British consul, and we are so pleased and moved that we have that support.”
Military veteran Gordon Sanders was joined in the wreath-laying ceremony by Mrs Kirsty Hayes, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic and Philip Ladbrook, on behalf of the Portugal Royal British Legion’s Algarve Branch.
The Royal British Legion also laid a wreath in commemoration of Armistice Day at the Grand Guerra Memorial in the Praça da Republica, Tavira on Wednesday 11th November.
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“We then found that numbers dwindled even further in the winter months, to the point of being uneconomical, and the November sale was washed out completely by heavy rains.”
Chelsea Pensioner at Remembrance Day Service
Once again there was an impressive turnout for the service commencing with the Last Post, the 2-minute silence and Reveille followed by the wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial.
Light up Lagos & Luz Campaign
This was in conjunction with the ‘Liga dos Combatentes’ who hosted the ceremonial and religious service which was attended by the Mayor of Tavira and representatives of the Portuguese military.
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Thanks to everyone who supported the campaign to light up Lagos and Luz. As we all know, things don’t always go as smoothly as we hope and it took a little bit longer than expected to get the lights up but we got there in the end with a big team effort. I can only apologise for the delay. Thanks to the President of Lagos Câmara for supporting the idea and to Carlos and his team at the Câmara who helped fix them. A big thank you also to Milvia Felix from Tropical Café – without her calm diplomacy the lights may never have reached their correct destinations. Also a big thanks to Graham Jones and Steven Dunwell for ensuring the plaques got to the right trees and they even provided us with a website so you all can check your plaques position. www.lagosandluzlitup.com Mark Lauterslager from Sulosolar was entirely instrumental in the project. He provided the lights at a very special rate after a meeting with me and Phil Harding, our graphic designer, a few months ago. Thanks to Barbara at Narua for the plaques. Mark moved to Portugal because he realised the full potential of being here to promote the natural energy of the sun so he got fully involved in solar resources and LED lighting solutions. Sulosolar, Mark’s trademark, offers energy saving lighting solutions, for home, business, hotels and a myriad of other operations. We thank him and his team for ‘making the difference’ for us in the Western Algarve. Thanks to everyone else who also helped with this campaign too and to all those that bought lights. Call Mark on 00 351 915 005 511 www.sulsolar.com