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About 250 children and more than thirty between juveniles and juveniles participated yesterday afternoon at the Local Swimming Championship held at the premises of the Municipal Pool Summer on the occasion of the feast of the Big Gunpowder, September 1, before more a thousand people.
Many of these swimmers thus closing the swimming during Summer 2011 has conducted the Municipal School Swim Archena.
All participants were given these children the corresponding medal and a gift of City Hall.
This act was also attended by the mayor and aldermen Patricia Fernandez and Mario Fulgencio García Alcaraz, Youth and Sports, respectively, who delivered the corresponding gifts.
Later, following the program of this festival is celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving vegetable garden in the parish of San Juan Bautista, as is traditional for this day September 1, and attended by Majas and Queens of Past Patron, representatives of the Celebrations Commission and other groups and associations, as well as Councillors and Antonio José Andrés Luna Palazón.
The Mass was officiated by Pastor Alfonso Albuquerque and sung by the Chorus and Dance Group 'Verderol' Archena.
On September 1 is a local holiday in Murcia for decades as a celebration that exploded 48 years ago an old civil war magazine, which was very close to the town, and still being Sunday afternoon came not no disgrace personnel among the population.
The events continue this afternoon with the help of Cockaigne, on the River Segura, and I Tortillas Contest, barbecues and desserts and many more activities on Saturday, all day in the courtyard of the former Institute Vicente Medina, from 9 in the morning.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena
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