The Alicante Cancer Association, together with the Calpe-Benissa Animal Protection Society (SPA), has published a calendar with pictures of "superheroes" and "superheroines" from Calp, people who are an example to others. These are people who have overcome an illness or who, after an accident, have accepted a new situation with courage and determination or who have managed to overcome it despite the difficulties and barriers that life has put in their way.
The city council has already decided to grant aid to local companies to alleviate the effects of the COVID pandemic. After the errors had been corrected, a total of 262 applications were accepted. The total amount of aid granted amounts to 198,800 euros.
The grants range from €1,000 to €600 and are aimed at both the self-employed and small businesses operating in the municipality.
EXFICALP, the philatelic exhibition organised every December by the Calp Philatelic Association, reaches its 25th edition this year, and it does so by commemorating the anniversary of the twinning between the city of El Penyal and the city of El Puerto de Santa María in Cádiz, which is also celebrated for a quarter of a century.
The plenary session of Calp Town Council today agreed, with Defendamos Calpe and Compromís voting against and the PSPV-PSOE abstaining, to allocate 4,178,125 euros of the remaining funds from the 2019 budget for a total of fourteen investments to be implemented during 2021.
This morning the campaign was presented, which will be run by the town of Calp from today until the end of the Christmas season, to encourage purchases in local shops and at the same time "to make COVID not take away our Christmas enthusiasm".
A total of 95 female applicants have benefited from the aid line, which is aimed at businesses run by women and businesses under three years of age affected by the COVID-19 crisis, which the city council launched a few months ago with a grant from the provincial council.
Yesterday in Valencia, the Commission for Interadministrative Cooperation of the Comunidad Valenciana was launched, a body which serves as an instrument of coordination between the various public administrations with powers or responsibilities in the field of social services and is attached to the Department for Equality and Inclusive Policies.