Feb 7, 2018 | News, Traffic, Security and Emergencies
Redován 6/2/2018. The Department of Public Safety of the Municipality of Redován has launched a campaign to teach and practice road safety with the students of the Sacred Hearts School. The children of first of Primary have been the first to go today, accompanied by three agents of the Local Police, to the track of children traffic installed for a few months in the Valencian Community Park of the municipality. The Councilor for Public Safety, Ramón López Escarabajal, explained that it is the first activity of this type that is carried out in collaboration with the school, and that in future editions will be dedicated to other courses "because the talks that the agents and the Concepts must adapt to the age of children. "
For this occasion, the City Council of Redován has had remote-controlled cars so that the small drivers could get behind the wheel and follow the directions of the local police, who have explained the most basic signs, such as the Stop, the Ceda el Paso or the Crosswalk. The four classes of the first of the school have participated in this activity. Ramón López said that "it is very important that our children know the signs from a young age, know how to respect them and how they should act when they are on the street, either as pedestrians or on board their bicycles or scooters." That is why it has affected that later this type of talks and practical classes will be held with the students of other levels "with activities that will be adapted for each age".
Jan 29, 2018 | Culture, News
Redován 29/1/2017. The Department of Culture of the City Council of Redován has already announced the basis of what will be the seventh Coral Music Contest ‘Villa de Redován’ that will take place on Saturday, April 22 at the renovated San Miguel Arcángel church. The Councilor for Culture, Clara Ezcurra, has encouraged interested corals to present themselves and has shelled the requirements that must be met by the formations, “which must be non-professional groupings of mixed voices with a minimum number of 16 members”.
As in previous years, the contest will bring three choral groups of all those presented “and that will be selected by the jury, which will be based on the documentation provided in the registration,” Ezcurra said. That jury will consist of three specialists with voice and vote, the coordinator of the contest, Alberto Martínez, with voice but without vote and a representative of the City Council who will act as secretary (without voice or vote). In the inscription the choirs must provide a copy of the works to be interpreted, a history of the grouping and curriculum of the director, a photograph of the choir and a recent recording of at least one complete piece.
With respect to the program, it must be of a sacred nature with three works of free choice, one of them of spiritual song (Gospel). The performances must be prepared to have a minimum duration of 15 minutes and a maximum of 25. Clara Ezcurra explained that, with respect to the prizes, a first one is established with 800 euros and a trophy, a second prize of 400 euros and a trophy and a third of 250 euros and trophy. The choirs will also have an aid of 300 euros each for the expenses caused by the trip to the contest.
Registration forms are already available on the web page of the City Council of Redován and its electronic headquarters, and must be submitted until February 28.
Jan 25, 2018 | News
Redován 25/01/2018. The City Council of Redován has collaborated with two NGOs, Kelele Africa and Kisoro, who work in Uganda near the border with the Congo, to help in the construction of a house and the distribution of school supplies among the children of the area. The person in charge of making this donation has been the neighbor of Redován and physiotherapist Víctor Manuel Pérez, director also of the One Clinic company located in Orihuela. Pérez has taken to the children and families of the rural areas all the collected material such as toys, sanitary material or clothes, within a project of solidarity support through the polyclinic center. Pérez has been able to live with the two NGOs for 16 days.
The first contribution was made in rural areas of Fort Portal, for the NGO Kelele Africa, where it has been possible to create a school, a health center and a center for the empowerment of women. “The City Council has allocated school supplies and some bags with the name of Redován”, Pérez explained, adding that “individuals and companies have also donated toys and clothes and an MTB bike donated by One Clinic”. The NGO has managed to enroll 150 children and “currently has the entire sponsorship quota from Spain,” said the physiotherapist, who stressed that “funds are being raised with activities such as the ‘Solidarity Challenge Rwenzori’, sale of the production of the own workshops and a Solidarity Lodge for the expansion of the school. The physiotherapist also wanted to remember that a waiting list is being collected for those interested in sponsoring children in the next course “since they do not accept money that does not go directly to a child with a name, dreams and a path in life in particular”.
Another contribution of the Municipality of Redován has been destined to the construction of a house for a family of Batwa Pygmies, with the contribution to buy the construction material. “A house of woods on a stone base so that the humidity does not arrive and, in addition, it will take the name of Redován”, has assured the mayor, Emilio Fernandez. This house has been made through the NGO Kisoro, and within the works that are in process “are also a civic center or school workshop where you can teach the population notions of hygiene and health care, sewing, education Basic for children, among other workshops, “said Perez and added that” sponsorship is 50% and much remains to be done, the houses are being built with the management and direction of the NGO by the members of the village that have been instructed and is expected to reach a total of 28 houses in the coming months. ”
Both the mayor, Emilio Fernández, and the councilor for Sports, Ramón López, wanted to thank Pérez for his “generosity” and his commitment to those who need it most. For its part, both the One Clinic and Víctor Pérez have congratulated the City for this contribution and have positively assessed the help of institutions, individuals and companies.
Jan 23, 2018 | Education, News
The City Council of Redován takes out the regulatory bases for the second convocation of aid of school material, for students of 3, 4 and 5 years of the public school Sagrados Corazones.
Jan 10, 2018 | News
Redován 10/1/2017. The restoration works of the Redován parish church have been completed and this weekend will see the intense work of consolidation of the building, built in the early eighteenth century, as well as the recovery of much of the original decoration of the temple. The works have been borne by the Provincial Council of Alicante, (90,000 euros) the City Council of Redován (20,000 euros) and the parish itself (40,000 euros).
The neighbors of Redován will know all the details this Friday at eight o’clock in the afternoon, when the doors of the temple are opened for the presentation of the works. In addition, on Saturday the visit of the Bishop of the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, Monsignor Jesus Mugui, will be received, which will preside, from 7:00 p.m., the seasonal Mass with the rite of the Dedication of the Temple, during which it will proceed to the consecration of the same to the patron of the municipality, San Miguel Arcángel, to which the church is dedicated from its construction, but without that its consecration had never been realized, reason why a historical moment for the locality will be lived.
The restoration work has lasted for six months, since last summer, and has basically consisted of ensuring the safety of the building, to which has been added the recovery of its original appearance with the decorative parameters of the Valencian Baroque style. “It has achieved an image of the temple more similar to that had those who raised it three centuries ago,” said the mayor of Redova, Emilio Fernandez. In the course of the restoration have also made important findings, recalled the mayor, “as was the appearance of the remains of Sr. Anastasia Maria Romero y Soler”, a devout seventeenth century to which is related to the veneration in Redován of the Virgen de la Salud, patron saint of the municipality. The bones were found in a hole in the ground where they were apparently transferred in 1972 in secret by the parish priest at the time and some parishioners.
With regard to the project, with the investment made by the Provincial Council and the City Council, demolition of the interior and exterior plinths, as well as the cornices on the façade that were in danger of being dislodged. It has also acted in decorative painting and walls and has made an important action to end the humidity, installing air chambers that will evacuate and not stay inside the walls damaging the building again. For its part, the parish has invested, among other things, in recovering the stained glass windows, painting the façade and reconstructing the original stucco and improving the halls adjacent to the main nave.
Dec 27, 2017 | News, Sports
Redován 26/12/2017. The Municipal Soccer Field Antonio Pascual Gil ‘Duana’ will congregate on Saturday to the promises of the juvenile and infantile soccer of the zone in the first Tournament ‘San Miguel Arcángel’ of Soccer Base in which funds will be raised for the work of rehabilitation of the parochial church of Redován. The Councilor for Sports, Ramón López Escarabajal, has presented this initiative today along with the parish priest, Eloy Martín, and the coordinator of the base football of the municipality, Antonio Fenoll, and has specified that the football from Redova, “like other entities and collectives, he also wants to lend a hand and join the call made by our parish priest to help in the important work that is being done in our temple, which is also one of the most important pieces of our heritage since it is one of the oldest buildings with which we have “.
The benefit will be obtained from the sale of ballots at the entrance of the football field, with which those who attend may also participate in the draw for several Christmas products to be held during the championship. The tournament will start at ten o’clock in the morning “and it has been thought of as a day of coexistence, because we will play the last games in the afternoon and we will also have the canteen service available for everyone who wants to stay for lunch, especially taking into account account to people who come from other locations in the Vega Baja “, said the councilor. On the other hand, the coordinator of the base soccer, Antonio Fenoll, has explained that “they will be eight teams of five clubs those that give appointment on the lawn”, the hosts of the FB Redován, the CD Beniel, the Callosa Sport, the Orihuela CF and Santo Domingo, “so we hope to have a great day of coexistence between football players and family.” The finals will be played in the afternoon, and the tournament will close with the presentation of trophies.
On the other hand, the parish priest of Redován, Eloy Martín, has encouraged not only the families of the soccer players, but all the neighbors, to go to the soccer field at some time of the day “to make this coexistence effective of which especially in these Christmas we like to enjoy with our families and our friends. He also thanked in advance the participation in the charity part of the event “because soon we will have our church back in use and we will know that we have achieved it thanks to all and to all”.
