Monday, 3 August, 2020 - 11:30
The Calp plenary session on Friday unanimously decided to award the Jaume Pastor i Fluixà - 9 d'Octubre Prize to the Calp Health Centre this year. This is to pay tribute to the work of the Centre's staff and the unconditional commitment of all its professionals, doctors, nurses, assistants and other health professionals who have helped the citizens of Calp during this pandemic.
The plenary session also approved the other awards to be presented on Valencia Regional Day:
- Isabel Signes, Civic Merit Medal: founder of the Calp-based NGO Visió sense fronteres, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. She is a committed person with a vocation for service, who every year, through this NGO, promotes numerous campaigns for the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness in third world countries. In these 20 years, the NGO has reached more than 100,000 people, performed more than 8,000 cataract surgeries and donated more than 35,000 pairs of glasses.
- Vicente Esquerdo Santas, sports merit medal: Footballer from Calp, who made his debut in the first team Valencia C.F. last season. He is the first player from the Calpe C.F. squad to reach the first division of Spanish football. In addition to the Calp team, he was trained in the squad of the Benidorm and Valencia teams.
- Jesús Pastor Tomás, winner of the Tourist Merit Medal; a businessman who began his professional career as an insurance agent with Dapa Seguros, which was later renamed Pastor Tierra Correduría de Seguros. He also founded the car rental company Pastor Rent a Car, now known as Neptuno Hires, both of which are the oldest companies in Calp in their sector. He is an entrepreneur who has made a significant contribution to the growth of tourism in Calp with his companies, which are now run by his children.
- José Manuel Gómez y Rodríguez de Pumarada, Cultural Merit Medal: Publisher and Chairman of the Board of Grupo Anaya since 1998, he was involved in the creation of the first two publishing houses of the Anaya Group: Ediciones Cátedra and Ediciones Pirámide, and in the expansion of the group. He is closely associated with Calp, as he has a residence in the city. He has also made several book donations to the municipal library. In 2010 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit for Services to the Fine Arts, awarded by the Council of Ministers in 2010.
- Hermanos Jorro, Medal of Business Recognition for 70 years of business career. The company began its commercial activity in the 1950s in a softdrinks factory founded by her father Juan Jorro Sapena. Later they dedicated themselves to the distribution of beverages to major customers, mainly restaurants and bars. In 1983 they founded their first shopping centre in the food sector, JOVIMA, a pioneering initiative in Calp at the time, as it was a large supermarket with 50 employees, a company that expanded with another five supermarkets in the province. Now that they have retired, their centres continue to operate under different brands: Caprabo, Eroski, Dia...
- Teo Zaragocí and Elías El-Hani, Youth Medal, students who have achieved an average of 10 in their academic career in the fourth year of ESO .
- Solera Artística, Corbata de la Villa de Calp - This is a non-profit association for dance, music and theatre in the popular Andalusian style. The association was founded in 2009 to promote the interest of its members in these artistic disciplines. They not only promote culture, but also have a charitable vocation. Every year they organise a festival to collect donations for organisations or people in need.