The City Council of Redován launches the fifth edition of the Solidarity Contest of Micro-stories

The City Council of Redován has launched the fifth edition of the Solidarity Contest of Micro-stories ‘City of Redován’, an activity focused on “promoting literary culture while allowing to help the work of an organization that on this occasion will be the Spanish Red Cross “, Explained the Councilor for Culture, Clara Ezcurra. This contest has had since the beginning a great acceptance among fans of this type of literary works and from the Consistory hope that this year is no less. The term of presentation of the micro-stories is open from March 5 and those who wish to participate can submit their work until May 4.

The rules establish that any individual, over 16 years of age and resident in Spain, can participate. As for the prizes, two have been established with an economic endowment, a first of 300 euros and a second of 150 euros. In addition, the 25 works that the jury chooses as finalists will be published by the City Council of Redován, a copy will be delivered to each of the authors, “and precisely the collection of that publication will be what is donated to the Spanish Red Cross”, has precise Ezcurra. The jury will be made up of the mayor of Culture, the director of IES Redován, Antonio Moreno Menchón and Vicente Pina López, owner of the Códex Bookshop in Orihuela.

Regarding the requirements that are demanded, the texts will be free, but their extension can not exceed 150 words (excluding the title, which will not be computed). The micro-story must be sent in Spanish, it must be original and unpublished and it must not have been previously awarded in any other contest. Each author may send up to three micro-stories and must identify themselves with their first and last name. The works can be sent to the electronic headquarters of the City Council redovanense (redovan.sedelectronica.es) by mail or in person at the municipal offices, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., from Monday to Friday, including an instance with author data and title of the play. On a separate page only the work and the title. The complete bases can be consulted already in the bulletin board of the municipal electronic headquarters.

Clara Ezcurra has encouraged “all people who are lovers of literature and who like to write, to participate in this contest that every year grows in number and quality of the works.” In addition, he recalled that the 25 finalist works “will be published, in addition, for a good cause, as it is to help the much needed projects that the Spanish Red Cross has in place”.

Redován bets for recognizing local authors and reissues two poems by the deceased poet Miguel Ruiz

Redován 2/3/2017. The Municipality of Redován has proposed to publicize and promote the work of local authors among their neighbors, and to begin, will reedit two poems by the late poet Miguel Ruiz Martínez (Redován, 1956-2009). This is ‘Boria de la inheritance’ and ‘The rock that protects me’, works that today have been delivered by the mayor, Emilio Fernandez, and the Councilor for Culture, Clara Ezcurra, to the family of the writer as a tribute to an act celebrated in the Redovanense Consistory.

Emilio Fernández, recalled that Miguel Ruiz “was always very attached to the culture of Redován.” The poet studied teaching but never exercised it, “but decided to devote himself to agriculture, to the land, to the dew, to the mountains, to the elements that accompanied him every day, and that are the protagonists of everything he wrote.” The mayor explained that the City Council has been behind this project for seven years, looking for the necessary funding for the edition in different institutions, “but being such a local author, it was very difficult to find who would suffice it”. That is why, finally, an economic contribution of the City Council itself has been made available to cover the costs of the edition.

In this way, a thousand copies of the poems will be published in the street, which will be distributed free of charge to the public in different parts of Redován, “because what is involved is to vindicate our writers and to know their work and vital and literary career. among its neighbors, “said Fernández. Miguel Ruiz Martínez came to have provincial repercussion and relationship with other contemporary authors, and his work is clearly influenced by the universal poet Orionno Miguel Hernánez, who dedicated, especially the first part of his literary life, to writing landscapes of orchard that surrounded him.

After his death the City Council decided to make it known and now a project that the mayor expects to continue with other artists from Redova is coming true, “because we have to reclaim what is ours, and at the local level these poems have a great value”, concluded the mayor of Redován.

Trini Fuentes Marcos will be recognized as a Working Woman 2018 by the City Council of Redován

Redován 20/2/2018. #Tantasquesomos is again the ‘hastag’ elected in Redován for the commemoration on March 8 of International Women’s Day, a date that counts in the municipality with a broad program presented by the Councilor for Social Services, Nely Ruiz, accompanied by the mayor, Emilio Fernández, who at the same time is president of the Commonwealth of Social Services La Vega with which the City Council organizes the activities. One of the main acts will be the Recognition that the City Council makes to Working Women, which this year falls to Trini Fuentes Marcos and that will be delivered on March 11 in an institutional act.

#Tantasquesomos and so much for achieving, doing, changing, improving, saying, teaching, traveling, demonstrating, giving … This is the presentation of this campaign in which Nely Ruiz recalled that both the Provincial Council of Alicante and the Office of Attention to Migrated Persons (Pangea), the Aracelia Association and the Women Association of Redován. The mayor explained that the program “goes beyond the month of March, since in January a workshop for the prevention of gender violence among adolescents began in the IES Jaime de Sant Ángel”, and yesterday at the Sacred Hearts School The equality and coeducation workshops for primary school students began. ”

Ruiz has degranado the programming of March, that will start the day 1 with the start of the Workshop of Mindfulness that will give the psychologist of the University of Murcia Roberto Crobu, an action directed to women “that helps the development of the emotional intelligence, helps to take decisions, alleviates stress and anxiety, among other benefits, “explained the councilor, who has encouraged the redovanenses to sign up through the website of the Mancomunidad La Vega (https://www.mancomunidadlavega.es/). The education will be protagonist in the programming and the students of Primary will have a session of theater for the equality the 5 of March with the work ‘I want to be scientific’.

On March 7, the emotional wellbeing support group will begin with the psychologist Sofía Cerezo as rapporteur, on the 8th the exhibition ‘Mujeres de Redován’ will open at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, at 11.00 am, and on March 9 it will be held the traditional women’s dinner at the Huellas Cafeteria. For March 10, the Association of Women of Redován will inaugurate a painting exhibition in the Exhibition Hall of the La Gramaera Barraca and on the 11th the Recognition for Working Women will take place at 11.30 am in the Plenary Hall .

The kitchen could not miss, with a workshop dedicated to Mediterranean recipes by Pangea and that will take place at the Casa de los Maestros del Rincón, and on March 21, the Social Center for the Elderly will host a coffee at 3:30 p.m. and open day in the sewing workshop. To finish this wide calendar of events, on March 24 Pub La Kasika will host the concert of the group ‘La Cochera’ from eleven o’clock at night. Nely Ruiz also reminded that within the Dona Salud program, Redován has Zumba and Pilates classes underway.

For his part, the mayor of Redova, Emilio Fernández, has emphasized the different services and programs that are underway throughout the year and available to the people of the Republic through the La Vega Mancomunidad. In this sense, he highlighted the project ‘Areola Solidaria’, “aimed at the reconstruction of the mammary areola in those women who have suffered the removal of their breasts due to cancer” or the “free and specialized legal assistance service with which we have ” Fernandez stressed the importance of continuing with all these activities and especially with the campaign #NoTienesMiPermiso aimed at legislation against street harassment “that we are seeing how women suffer in public places without consent”. Thus, he explained that the petition is still underway in ‘change.org’ to request that the laws include this type of harassment as a crime, while at the same time he recalled the repercussion that the campaign promoted by the La Vega Commonwealth has had at a national level, of which televisions have echoed as Antena3 and Tele5.

The La Vega Mancomunidad, based in Redován, adheres to the health and prevention strategy of the SNS

The president of the Mancomunidad la Vega and mayor of Redován, Emilio Fernández, has presented this morning in the Assembly Hall of the City Council of Redován, the adhesion of the commonwealth to the Strategy for the Promotion of Health and Prevention of the National Health System. The La Vega Mancomunidad is the first national association that adheres to this strategy.

This adhesion supposes the institutional commitment to implement this strategy in the four municipalities of the commonwealth. The strategy is based on national recommendations and those of international organizations to advance a health and care approach in all local policies.

The objective is to promote the health and wellbeing of the population of the commonwealth by promoting healthy lifestyles and enhancing the safety of all people.

It implies a work strategy where health is incorporated into local policies from a transversal, intersectoral, equity, coordinated and participatory approach in our municipalities. The local environment is, therefore, an essential environment to improve the health and well-being of the population.

The implementation of this strategy is an opportunity to integrate and coordinate health promotion and prevention efforts among all levels, sectors and stakeholders of the four municipalities., Working together to improve the well-being of our citizens.

Priority, the strategy will be implemented at the community level, preferably aimed at children under 15 years of age and pregnant women and that adult population, over 50 years old, being the main factors of work: the promotion of physical activity, the acquisition of healthy eating habits, the prevention of alcohol and tobacco consumption, the promotion of emotional well-being and actions aimed at safety in the environment.

The strategy will be carried out in different phases, initially, after the public presentation of the strategy, which we are doing today, the intersectoral tables will be established at the local level, in which the community agents involved in health actions will participate. : health, education, social welfare, urban planning, sports, and whose purpose is to adapt the actions of the strategy to the reality of each municipality, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the strategy in each municipality.

At the same time, the mapping of the health resources that are available in the community will begin, which will help us to have a detailed and exhaustive knowledge of the different resources and actions for health available in each territory.

Therefore, this commitment is made immediately in the constitution of an intersectoral coordination table at the local level and the elaboration of the map of resources of each municipality.

For Emilio Fernández, President of the Commonwealth, “this strategy for us is an opportunity, without a doubt, to advance local policies that impact the health and well-being of our citizens, to work together to make health accessible. to all people regardless of their social position or any other social circumstances that may arise.

The implementation of this strategy will mean the consolidation of an intense work that is carried out annually from the Commonwealth in which a wide range of health promotion activities is offered, aimed at active aging: senior school and workshops from physical activity to elderly, to improve the emotional and physical well-being of women such as emotional support workshops, Pilates workshops, yoga …, support for the family from positive parenting, family schools, prevention of addictions, with workshops for teenagers and schoolchildren.

These actions will be complemented with new proposals, both their own and those of other community entities, in accordance with the proposals of the different local health boards and the development of the strategy for the coming years.

Redován launches a video-record system on the municipal website that gives more transparency and visibility to the recordings of the plenary sessions of the City Council

Redován 8/2/2018. The City Council of Redován has put in place a system through which the citizens will have, on the municipal website, the videos of the plenary sessions of the Corporation divided by the interventions of each councilor or councilor, in order to allow greater access and transparency to everything that happens in the Plenary sessions. The first of these video-proceedings is already available at the web address https://plenos.redovan.es/ which can also be accessed through the City Council’s website (www.redovan.es). The councilor of Transparency, Adrián Ballester, recalled that since 2013, the City Council of Redován includes all sessions of the Plenary on its YouTube channel, “but now we take another step, with the intention of making the most transparent possible municipal management, in addition to that with this system will be able to consult the interventions of simpler form “.

Redován is the second municipality of the Vega Baja that starts up the system of digital records through its website. “We believe that in terms of transparency we are carrying out a pioneering and exemplary task, not only with the video-proceedings, but also with the implementation of participatory budgets or bringing all available information on municipal management to our neighbors and neighbors. through the Transparency Portal and our Social Networks, with presence on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube, “said Ballester.

To consult the digital records of the plenary sessions, the user has only to access the website of the City Council of Redován, where he is redirected by means of a banner to the address ‘plenos.redovan.es’, once there the session is chosen. you want to consult and already within it you have a first look at what happened in the Plenary, with all the points on the agenda and the result of the votes in each of them and the interventions made by each councilor, in which it specifies to which political group the speaker belongs.
Ballester has highlighted the platform that statistics are also collected from each Plenary. “In this way all the neighbors can see how much time each councilor has intervened and then the global political parties,” said the mayor, who added that “you can also download both the full and separate interventions, in addition to that a link is generated so that it can be shared both in social networks and on the web “.