Archive for September, 2008
News - Villajoyosa Costa Blanca Spain
It is not only Villajoyosa that has a crisis of having insufficient space within the school to house the number of students on roll.
In La Nucia the very recently opened secondary school is already using makeshift classrooms in which to teach almost 80 youngsters .
Alfaz del Pi secondary school has had to convert part of the library and the staffroom into classrooms .
In Villajoyosa the temporary classrooms are overcrowded and they leak it seems .It has been mooted for some years that the school needs to be enlarged and the council has not yet ceded the land for the job .
The Marina Baja has a totel of 12 schools for almost 10,000 students .
News - Benissa, Teulada & Javea Costa Blanca Spain
The environment water and urban development regional councillor has become involved in the debate over providing water from the desalination plant in Javea to the towns of Benissa and Teulada .
He wants the mayors of both towns to come to an agreement over the laying down of pipes to both towns .
It appears that the cost of 12 million euros would mainly be borne by the regional government .
News - Torrevieja, Alicante Province Costa Blanca Spain
A woman , an expat , was involved in an accident with her car in San Miguel de Salinas near Torrevieja last week and fell foul of the medical help available here in Spain .
An ambulance took her to Cabo Roig health centre for emergency treatment and despite contributing to the social security system the attendant insisted that without a SIP card she would have to pay for her treatment .
They removed the glass from the wound on her arm and charged her 105 euros .
She then tried to acquire a SIP card and was refused as she was not on the padron and had no certificate of residency and could not do this until October .
She returned to Cabo Roig where they now said that with the social security the treatment would be free but at San Miguel they would not accept her social security .
Eventually she ended up in Torrevieja hospital where she was told that she had to pay on the spot .
Since then a San Miguel spokesperson has said that EU citizens should be entitled to emergency treatment with only a passport .
News - Calpe Alicante Province Costa Blanca Spain
The Salinas lakes in Calpe are obviously doing very well as a provider of a habitat for wildlife .
The flamingo population is at its highest for a while , with 184 on the lake at the moment .
Ornithologists are all delighted and it shows that there is enough food to support such a population .
There is also a large population of herons , seagulls and black winged stilts all good signs of the environment being provided and sustaining them all .
News - Teulada-Moraira, Alicante Province, Costa Blanca Spain
Ten thousand copies of a new guide book to promote the Font Santa recreation centre , have been produced by the town hall in Teulada .
The booklet shows maps and pictures of the BBQ area , picnic area , childrens park and car park . It has been published in five languages and also includes a history of the chapel .
The castle in Moraira has also seen an upturn in the number of visitors that it had this summer , almost a 50% increase with almost 3000 visitors .
Half of the visitors have been Spanish , with the British being a close second , then French , Italians , Germans and Dutch .
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