Saturday, April 13, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
New cycle routes
Work has already started to build three bike lanes in the municipality. In this case, as we previously reported, it is the execution of a bike lane that connects the CV-95 walkway next to the Municipal Auditorium to the Sports Center, another lane on Avenida Europa to the San José de Calasanz School and another lane to connect the urban area of La Pedrera with the leisure area up to the pool.
With these actions, which have an investment of more than 181,000 euros thanks to the Generalitat Valenciana, it will be possible to improve traffic management on several roads in the municipality with the cycle-pedestrian connection between the urban area and three unique points of the municipality, two of them far away, such as the Sports Center and the La Pedrera leisure area, improving road safety and creating new services that will serve to promote sports and healthier activities.
The objective set in our sustainable mobility plan is to reduce the impact of the use of tourism in urban areas and above all the reduction of speed within them, prioritizing actions of this uniqueness.
During the next few weeks we will encounter temporary road closures in some of the streets of the municipality, especially those closest to the school, although certain signaling works will be carried out at night to avoid minimizing the impact in the early hours of the morning. the high influence of vehicles with long traffic queues. Sorry for the inconvenience
Monday, April 08, 2024
Cats in gardens
There have been a number of complaints from neighbours on the community WhatsApp about cats in gardens.
One neighbour in particular is incensed about the way they use her garden and her porch as a toilet. She has a young child and is rightly concerned about the possibility of infection.
Another neighbour has a similar problem and has installed ultrasonic cat scarers along with chemicals that are supposed to repel cats.
When our original neighbours had cats, I invested in ultrasonic devices to try and keep them out of our garden. I can tell you that they didn't work. On one occasion, one of their cats was sat quite happily next to the scarer. I could see it was functioning because the light was on.
Luckily, we don't have a problem anymore but I do sympathise with those who do. It is unpleasant and unhygienic.
Friday, March 22, 2024
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Photoshopping
Monday, March 11, 2024
The result
We went for a coffee whilst the band from Cox were playing so we missed them.
What we can say is that the Bigastro band were magnificent and fully deserved to beat the band from Torrevieja.
DOMINGO 10 MARZO TARDE
1ª Sección
SOCIEDAD MUSICAL LA ARMÓNICA DE COX
Puntuación: 409.75
Primer Premio y Mención Honor
UNIÓN MUSICAL DE BIGASTRO
Puntuación: 401.38
Primer Premio
UNIÓN MUSICAL TORREVEJENSE
Puntuación: 394.63
Primer Premio
Saturday, March 09, 2024
Wish them luck
Bigastro band will be playing a last rehearsal concert tonight in Almoradi ready for the Certamen at ADDA (Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante) tomorrow.
Certamens are competitions that are very important for local bands. The first one we went to was again at ADDA where Bigastro won first prize and went on to play in a regional final at Valencia.
Needless to say, there have been many, many hours of rehearsal for this and the music chosen is about as difficult as it gets. One piece is set i.e. all three bands will play it. The others are chosen by the individual bands.
The judges know their stuff and will be following the musical scores to see how well the bands interpret the works.
As you can see from below, Bigastro will be the first band to play followed by the band from Cox and then the band from Torrevieja.
DOMINGO 10 DE MARZO POR LA TARDE
1ª Sección
UNIÓN MUSICAL DE BIGASTRO
16h30
SOCIEDAD MUSICAL LA ARMÓNICA DE COX
18h
UNIÓN MUSICAL TORREVEJENSE
19h30
I should point out that Pam and I will be there. I will have my camera and my sound recorder with me.