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Torrevieja and local areas
Tuesday, October 20th 2015 - Edition 569
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APYMECO hold a special meeting
The Association of Merchants
and Professionals in Torrevieja
(Apymeco) called an emergency
meeting for all of its members
that was held last night in its
headquarters in Calle Ramon
Gallud 115. The call requested the
assistance of all partners,
numbering about two hundred,
detailing the fact that Board of
Apymeco is "in a critical situation,
in terms of campaigns, events,
projects and agreements that
directly affect their business." The
summons to the meeting was
called by the president of the
organization, Caridid Salmeron,
who highlighted the fact that
"individual and collective support and commitment is
needed to get out of this difficult situation in which
trade is Torrevieja."
Help and support from the new pentapartito council
has been poor, especially from the Department of
Commerce. This fact was highlighted by the fact that the
Mayor, Jose Manuel Dolon and other council members,
including the Green party's Councillor for Commerce,
told untruths to Apymeco few weeks ago when he
publicly announced that the MS Amadea would be
sending 90% of their guests on evening shore
excursions to Cartagana and Zenia Blvd: a statement
that was completely unfounded and untrue and even
the Director of Cruising at Phoenix Reising questioned
where the Mayor had received his information from.
As a result, Apymeco publicly denounced the Mayor
and the pentapartito council for their lack of foresight of
activities for cruise passengers who arrived on the ship
'MS Amadea'. However, thanks to the Costa Blanca
Tourism Board getting involved, and the Town Hall
being also forced into action, eventually most of the
guests from the MS Amadea came ashore and visited the
city during the hours that the ship was in Torrevieja.
However the Mayor was totally conspicuous on the
day by his absence, as was the Councillor for Commerce,
as during the entire time that the Cruise ship was in port,
they were nowhere to be seen. On a history making day
when Torrevieja received their first cruise ship ever, it
was only thanks to the concerted efforts of Apymeco
and the involvement of the Costa Banca Tourism Board
that turned the ship arrival into a success. Other
commentators have pointed out in the media that it
seemed as if the pentapartito government would have
A Star is Born
Torrevieja’s own singer songwriter
Shani Ormiston will be winging her way
to Hollywood after securing an
unbelievable 7th nomination at the
Music in Media awards to be held
November 11th at The Fonda Theatre,
Hollywood California. The songwriter
penned ‘Brave’ some years ago and the
song has been nominated three years in
a row in the Adult Contemporary
Category – let’s hope its third time lucky.
Shani began to really make a name for
herself in 2008 after the release of her
first album ‘This Is Me’. Eleven songs in
Spanish and English achieved worldwide
recognition with their ‘fresh and catchy’
feel. The single ‘How Do You Know’
reached number 1 in Radio Roda
Albacete charts and achieved airplay on
other well-known local radio stations as
well as further afield.
Her second album ‘Once Upon A Time’
released in 2012, featured ten songs with
a ‘European dance-pop sound’ and won
several awards including Best Soloist
Musical Work 2012-13 at the Provincial
Youth Awards in Alicante. The Hollywood
Music Media Awards is a contest to
promote emerging artists globally.
Shani won the Coastrider Best Female
Vocalist award in 2012 and went on to
represent Spain at Italy’s premier music
event Biela Festival Autori e Cantautori.
She has received invitations to perform
with some household names along the
way such as Ricky Vallance, Leo Segarra,
Joe Longthorne, Christina del Valle of
Amistades Peligrosas and Margharita
Pirri – the Italian vocal goddess whose
own composition was selected for the
Armani television adverts this year. In
June Shani won second prize at The
International Original Music Festival in
Alicante
with
a
mesmerising
performance of one of her own
compositions. The ability to write her
emotive songs in both Spanish and
English ensure that Shani’s light will
continue to shine bright for a long time
to come.
preferred the ship arrival to be a
complete failure so that the
council could then lay the blame
at the feet of the opposition
Partido Popular, who organised
the ship to call into Torrevieja,
when they were in power.
Last week the pentapartito
council announced that they were
spending 18,000€ planning a
Zombie Survival game on
Halloween night. The council also
cancelled the planned Halloween
Parade and special shopping
night for Halloween, which over
the past two years has attracted
thousands of visitors to the town
centre and resulted in major
revenue being generated by shops, cafes, restaurants
and bars in the town centre. However the Zombie
Survival game does not start until 11.00pm, resulting in
Halloween being 'just another Saturday night' in the
Town Centre, with the shops closing at their normal time
and without any additional revenue being generated. To
add to this insult to injury, the Zombie Survival expects
to attract at least 2,000 game players thus pulling a lot of
trade away from city centre bars and all the activities
that they had planned for the evening.
To date, the Department of Commerce run by the
pentapartito council has yet to add one new activity to
increase trade or commerce for business in Torrevieja.
The Coastrider has been a proud supporter of APYMECO
for more than a decade and wish them all the success for
their future endeavours.
This summer Shani has been
performing a series of shows at The
Casino Mediterraneo, La Zenia and has
recently performed at the p