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The director of special education center Primitive López, María José Puerto Candela, was elected this afternoon Cartagenera of the Year 2008, by a jury chaired by the Mayor Pilar Barreiro, and the council have participated, executives of the Centre for Initiatives and Tourism , sponsor of this award, "representatives of the media, the official chronicler José Monerri City and former award-winning photographer Ramon Garcia Perez.
The proposed Puerto José María Candela was awarded by unanimous view of the merits to attend in person and has been cited as an example as a work in favor of Cartagena and the mentally handicapped.
New Year Cartagenera was born in St Crispin Street Cartagena in 1948, after its entry into the national corps of teachers, with only 17 years of age has been continuously devoted to special education, whose teaching has been delivered without reservation.
His career, for 42 years, has always been linked to the vicissitudes of Early Lopez, from its precarious beginnings with two classrooms in the shelter begging from fawns in 1966, and its constant changes of location, to the achievement of the modern facilities which since 1997 has New Cartagena, and the high level of social recognition achieved by this institution, considered a model, under the impetus of its veteran director and the people who believed in his project.
Today the center serves over 100 students, aged between 3 and 21 years of age with special educational needs related to mental disabilities, multiple disabilities or severe personality problems and autism.
Pilar Barreiro The mayor has been in contact with the winner to inform the award, which has deeply grateful, but since it was out of Cartagena, it was impossible to go to the Palace Hall, as is traditional in such cases.
The Jury of the upcoming visit has been in Early Center to personally congratulate the winner.
José María Porto is the second woman to get this award, reserved in 36 of the 38 previous editions males.
The former was Florentina Moreno, president of the folk group La Palma City of Cartagena in 2001.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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