La Mata´s new Town Hall opened it’s doors for business on July 21 when Torrevieja’s Mayor Pedro Hernández Mateo plus his entire councillor team inaugurated the city’s first satellite Town Hall. Situated just off the main plaza in Plaza Gaspar Perelló, the building was constructed for only 3.335.310 euros as part of the Plan E program of regeneration for the construction industry.

One Hundred Thousand Euros. Yes, 100,000 euros is the amount that local performance group The Rascals have unselfishly raised over the last 16 years for many different charities and causes both locally on the Costa Blanca and for disaster relief abroad.

Yet another park and garden was opened to the public this week in Torrevieja when the mayor of Torrevieja, Pedro Hernández Mateo, accompanied by Eduardo Gil Rebollo Torrevieja’s Councillor for Parks and Gardens plus much of the municipal corporation, inaugurated the Plaza dedicated to the writer and poet José Manuel Caballero Jerez Bonald, who has been closely linked to the city of Torrevieja for many years due to his position as chairman of the Jury for the International Poetry Competition "Ciudad de Torrevieja".

On June 5 and 6, the Submarine Delfin S-61 partook in a unique assignment by contacting all of the world’s other floating museums, totalling upwards of 3,000 in more than 100 countries around the globe through the world of HAM Radio. The Union of Amateur Radio of Spain came up with this idea having calculated that during this two-day weekend they could contact all other floating museums through telegraphy, telephony and Digital Systems, including the internet.

As part of its very active social scene the Gilbert & Sullivan Society in Torrevieja (GASS) organized a day trip to Calpe in support of Calpe Gilbert and Sullivan Society (CGSS) who were putting on their first full stage production of one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s entertaining comic, musical operettas.