SPAIN - Valencia - SPIA Publications, S. L. 1987

 

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Editor: Patricia Murray

B. Sc. (Communication) Navarre University - Pamplona

M. A. (Communication) Valencia University - Valencia

M. Sc. (Journalism) Columbia University - New York

Francisco Camps, President of the Valencian Government, announced the budget for 2011 after a meeting with the three vice presidents of his government, viz., Gerardo Camps, Vicente Rambla, and Juan Cotino.

The general terms of the budget revealed are that 500 million euro will be invested in training and employment, 400 million euro in infrastructures relating to water, while investments in education will continue as in 2010.

Finally, there will be NO INCREASE IN TAXES IN 2011.

Gerardo Camps, Vice-president of the Valencian Region and Valencian Government Councillor of the Treasury and Employment, visited the construction work being carried out on the 9th October complex in Valencia - formerly the Model Prison, that will house four or five Government Councils when completed at the end of 2011, at a cost of 100 million Euro.

The renovated building will have 10,000 square metres given over to offices and 45,000 square metres dedicated to parking spaces, and as well as housing the aforementioned government offices will have a library, an exhibition hall, a kindergarten, restaurant, cafeteria, and gymnasium.

Once the new complex is functioning, the Valencian Government will be saved around 7.5 million Euro a year in rentals, security, and maintenance.

Victoria Palau, Valencian Government Autonomic Secretary of Tourism, with Natalio Navarro, Mayor of the Puebla del Duc, in Valencia, and Ana Beneyto, Queen of the 2010 Fiestas in Puebla del Duc, presented the sixth edition of the Battle of Grapes to take place in Puebla del Duc on the 27th August with a programme that includes a gigantic Paella at 5 Euro the ration (with drink), a disco mobile, fireworks display, and five trucks with 90,000 kilos of grapes to be used as "Ammunition" at the Battle of Grapes.

The actual "Battle" will be transmitted live at noon over the Internet at http://laraima.quadux.net

Gerardo Camps, vice-president of the Valencian Region and Valencian Government Councillor of the Treasury, and Employment, visited the City of Light Film Studio in Alicante,

Since its creation by the Valencian Government in 2005, the City of Light Film Studio in Alicante has staged 50 productions, with an economic impact of 122 million Euro, has signed 1,800 contracts with companies in the Valencian Region, accounted for 2,700 jobs, and been responsible for over 137,000 overnight stays in hotels.

The City of Light Film Studio has 11,000 square metres of shooting plateaux, 11,200 square metres of warehouses and workshops, and 12 hectares of outdoor filming areas including an aquatic plateau.

There is also a Study Centre where dramatic art and audio-visual arts are taught.

The Valencian Partido Popular celebrated a general meeting in which Francisco Camps, President of the Valencian Region announced the committee that will run the campaign for the next Autonomic and Municipal Elections in May 2011.

In the above photo, the President has just named Paula Sanchez de Leon as manageress of the Elections Campaign Committee and the members of the Valencian Government stand to applaud her.

They are from left to right; Belen Juste, Tourism, Paula herself, Maritina Hernandez, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Trini Miro, Culture and Sports, Mario Flores, Infrastructures and Transport, Gerardo Camps, the Treasury and Employment, Vicente Rambla, Industry and Innovation, Juan Cotino, Environment, Water, Urban Planning and Housing, Alejandro Font de Mora, Education, Manuel Cervera, Public Health. (Angelica Such, Social Welfare, Serafin Castellano, Councillor of Government, and Rafael Blasco, Immigration and Solidarity are not in the photo).

A general view of the attendees at the meeting.

Above - Francisco Camps greets Rita Barbera, Mayoress of Valencia, Sonia Castedo, Mayoress of Alicante, and Vicente Fabra, Mayor of Castellon.

Above: Francisco Camps, presidential candidate for the May 2011 Elections.	Above: Paula Sanchez de Leon who is to manage the campaign, is congratulated by President Camps.

Francisco Camps, President of the Valencian Government, accompanied by Gerardo Camps, Valencian Government Councillor of the Treasury and Employment (extreme left), met with Eduardo Ferrer, chairman of the Ruralcaja Savings Bank (standing next to the President), and with Jose Garrido, chairman of the Ruralcaja Savings Bank Foundation, in Government Palace in Valencia.

Consuelo Ciscar, manageress of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art - IVAM, opened an exhibition of 14 drawings and 12 sculptures, by Chinese artist Wang Xieda, with a catalogue containing articles by Consuelo Ciscar, Gong Yunbiao, director of the Z-Art Centre of Shanghai, and Li Xu, commissioner of the exhibition, as well as information on the life and work of the artist.

This is the first time that artist Wang Xieda has held an exhibition in Europe.

The IVAM is open from 10:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, and is closed on Mondays.

For more information and group visits contact - http://www.ivam.es

Rita Barbera, Mayoress of Valencia, accompanied by Lourdes Bernal, Town Hall Alderman for Beaches, and other members of her staff, visited a section of the Las Arenas beach in Valencia specially equipped for handicapped persons.

During her visit, the Mayoress spoke with members of the Red Cross team that man the post and manage the amphibian chairs with floating wheels and mesh seats, to enable handicapped persons enter the sea. Ms. Barbera also inspected the special crutches with web endings that do not sink into the sand, as well as the acoustic buoys that respond to signals from a wrist watch indicating to blind people the dept of water at any given point and the distance from the water's edge.

The above photo shows from left to right; Doctor Inmaculada Ribes from the Town Hall, Mayoress Rita Barbera, Lourdes Bernal from the Town Hall, and Duli Gomez, manageress of the Red Cross Group working at the post for disabled people.

The visit of the Mayoress coincided with a trip by a group of handicapped ladies from the Cottolongo Centre who sang Happy Birthday to her. (photo below).

Arturo Virosque, former chairman of the Valencia Chamber of Commerce, received the Gold Medal for his 15 years at the head of the Chamber and he is seen here on the left with J. Vicente Morata, present chairman, and Juan Cotino, Valencian Government Councillor of the Environment, Water, Housing, and Urban Planning.

In the top photo, the entrepreneurs who received the Silver Medal of the Chamber of Commerce are; Aldino Fernandez, Salvador Mico, Antonio Muñoz, Vicente Oltra, Rodrigo Perez, J. Ramon Revert, Francisco J. Ribal, Francisco Sanmiguel, Felix Subies, Jorge Castillejo, Salvador Ferrandis, and Francisco Gonzalez.

Trini Miro, Valencian Government Councillor of Culture and Sports, accompanied by Vicente Aparici, vice chairman of the Castellon County Council, Juan A. Grau, chairman of the Valencian Federation of Golf, Javier Gervas, director general of MatchGolf, and Sergio Garcia, golf champion, presented the Golf Masters Costa de Azahar 2010, in the Queen Sofia Arts Palace in the City of the Arts and Science in Valencia.

The Golf Masters Costa de Azahar 2010 will take place in the Mediterranean Country Club in Borriol (Castellon) from the 21st to the 24th October, and will be valid for the European Circuit.