At the event, which will take place next Friday, November 22 at the Teatro Guerra, the Belenista Association of Lorca will also be recognized with this distinction and, posthumously, Alejo Molina and José María Rodríguez 'Sesé'.
The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, has announced the relationship of people and associations that this year will be recognized with the Diploma of Distinguished Services of the City.
Mateos explained that "the Municipal Plenary of an extraordinary nature that has taken place this morning has approved that the City Council delivers, this year, eight Diplomas of Distinguished Services to the City of Lorca. Specifically they will be Pedro Felipe Sánchez Granados, María Manuela Ayala Juan , Antonio Manzanera López, Juan Amorós Sánchez, José González Ruiz, Alejo Molina Martínez, José María Rodriguez 'Sesé' and the Belenista Association of Lorca ".
The First Edil has detailed that "Pedro Felipe Sánchez Granados, a native of Albox, is already a component of the deep and very personal landscape of Lorca that has highlighted the role of education in Lorca, since much of his work as a teacher was exercised as a professor of literature in the José Ibañez Martín Institute becoming Head of Studies, Deputy Director and Director of the center, obtaining the Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise granted by the Ministry of Education and, also, has an extensive literary work as well as a writer of press, essayist and poet and is a founding member of the Association of Friends of Culture. "
"We grant this recognition to Professor María Manuela Ayala Juan who, with an impeccable work and an absolute enthusiasm for archeology and, specifically, her research in the world of Culture of El Argar in Lorca has worked a strong bond and love for our city He managed to direct the excavations of the Coy International Field during all its years of operation and dedicate his doctoral thesis 'The Argaric settlement in Lorca. State of the matter' to our locality, something that in 2017 already earned him the Association of Friends of the Archaeological Museum awarded him the Golden Archer Award. But the most important thing is that his mark on Lorca is not only in the sites he excavated, in the materials that are now in the Museums or in the many pages he wrote, but in his love for Lorca and its people that has made it patent and public at all times, "Mateos continued.
Diego José Mateos has announced that "Antonio Manzanera López, the founding musician of the Choral 'Bartolomé Pérez Casas' will also be recognized since its creation and, since 1984, has also directed the Municipal Music Band of Lorca. In addition, he has written several works for band and instrumental groups, obtaining the First Prize of the Contest of Composition of the Federation of Bands of Music of Murcia, with the work the 'Heliotryptic', in the year 1988 ".
"Another of the distinguished personalities this year will be Juan Amorós Sánchez, a graduate in criminology, and Head of Local Police of Lorca for 34 years being even in his last stage Dean of all the local Police Headquarters of the Region of Murcia. His faultless career professional, characterized by the exemplarity, the constancy, the continuous training and innovation in each one of the departments and units of the Body, conditioning and anticipating the resources to the needs that the city of Lorca demanded make it also deserve this Diploma of Distinguished Services from the city".
The mayor of Lorca has reported the recognition of "José González Ruiz, known by his neighbors and friends as" El Mosquito "is a founding member of the SAT Oliva Irrigation Society, which he chaired for many years, also launched and chaired during more than three decades the SAT The Almenara. Great promoter of the associationism and ally for the defense of the interests of its neighbors in the district that saw him be born founded and presides over the Association of Neighbors of the Listening ".
Mateos has announced that "the Belenistade Lorcaque Association will also be recognized since its foundation, in 1998, a group of Lorca people in love with the Bethlehem tradition work for the conservation, promotion and promotion of Belenism in all its aspects: religious, cultural, artistic and, within the informative section, the organization of a multitude of exhibitions and exhibitions, the realization of courses and the recovery of two old Lorca traditions that were carried out during Holy Week, "The burning of Judas", the eve of Resurrection and he throws the step of the Risen Lord during the procession of Easter Sunday. "
Diego José Mateos stressed that "posthumously, will be recognized" photographer Alejo Molina Martínez who for at least 50 years photographs his personal theme and Lorca, especially his processions.
The generosity of this great photographer and his feeling of belonging to Lorca recently led him to the donation of his enormous photographic production, materials and utensils of his activity to the people of Lorca through the Municipal Archive and sportsman José María Rodríguez Cabaleiro (Sesé) who played a large part of his career as a soccer goalkeeper in Lorca Deportiva CF, a team with which he achieved promotion to the category of 3rd Division and, since he left professional football, remained linked to this sport as a goalkeeper coach.
He was also a coach at the bases of Lorca Deportiva and the Lorca Club de Fútbol Base, not only of goalkeepers, but also of different teams in the Children and Youth categories of the city of Lorca and, in 2009, he was a partner founder and manager in the constitution of the Lorca Base Football Club, which he would also be his coach for all those years. "
He also recalled that "this year the two Gold Medals of the City have fallen to the work of the Civil Guard singled out in the position of the company of Lorca, and that precisely this year marks the 175th anniversary of its creation and trajectory of the bullfighter Pepín Jiménez for the 'lorquinismo' that he has always shown bearing the name of Lorca by flag not only throughout Spain but throughout South America. "
The concession of these titles of Honors and Distinctions of the City will be delivered according to the annual tradition, coinciding with the festivity of the patron of Lorca, San Clemente, next Friday, November 22 in a solemn act that will take place at the Teatro Guerra.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca