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FLAMENCO FESTIVAL’S OFFICIAL PRESENTATION
This year’s Flamenco Festival, it’s 27th edition, was presented officially this morning at the headquarters of the Mancomunidad de Municipios together with other activities (click on ‘Read More’ below for details) that are held along with the Novena in honour of Jimena’s patron saint, Nuestra Señora Reina de los Ángeles. The flamenco festival is at 10.30 on Friday, September 5th, at the square by the railway crossing. Tickets are €10 or €5. On the programme is one of flamenco’s most contemporary voices, Arcángel, who will be accompanied by guitarist Miguel Ángel Cortés. Another singer, in a more traditional style, is Antonio Reyes, while bailaora (flamenco dancer) Noelia Sabarea offers selections from her show Aborigen, which has recently opened the door to enormous success. Read the rest of this entry »
JIMENA’S FIRST CARS
Further to our post about Jimena’s fist radio, we find our friends over at TioJimeno publishing an article on the village’s first car. The orginal article appeared in the local magazine called El P@seo, which in turn was the successor to Tio Jimeno, a labour of love by Ricardo Gómez and yet a feisty paper predecessor of what is today Jimena’s ‘blog of reference’. The story goes back to 1934 and was told to Práxedes Gómez by Maestro Zarza, both departed. But back to the first car: the Ford arrived in the village in 1918 at the hands of a man from Ronda who went by the name of Guancho Read the rest of this entry »
LOCAL POLICE ARE UNHAPPY
The word is out on the street: the people who are charged with our security are unhappy with their lot. Apparently, they have been instructed by the Councillor for Local Police (among other hats he wears), Andrés Beffa, to go back to ‘old-fashioned policing’. This involves patrolling on foot and leaving the patrol car at the police station on Calle Sevilla. With reference to Jimena village, Beffa supposedly wants one police person patrolling the upper area, and another, at the bottom of the hill. Read the rest of this entry »
HOME RENOVATION GRANTS AVAILABLE
The Junta de Andalucía’s Council for Public Works and Transport yesterday opened registration for grants to renovate homes and buildings. The municipalities of San Roque, Jimena and Algeciras are to benefit this time. The grants, with maximums of €9,100 for homes and €13,300 for buildings, can be requested until MAY 30th at the Oficina de Rehabilitación (see photo from TioJimeno) on Calle Sevilla, just above the Jimena Town Hall, or at the appropriate office in the other municipalities. Read the rest of this entry »
NEW RUBBISH COLLECTION HOURS
Following on our previous notice on this subject, and having encountered the ‘sanitation engineers’ a few minutes ago, please take note that the new rubbish collection hours come into effect as from TODAY, Monday, April 7th. DO NOT PUT OUT YOUR RUBBISH FOR COLLECTION TONIGHT. From now on, collection will be in the MORNING according to the following new schedule (and pass it on to everyone, please!): Read the rest of this entry »
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