El Cos Blanc Salou 2010

El Cos Blanc, the grand parade of floats amid persistent rain of confetti is the central event of the winter festival of Salou which takes place the first Saturday of February.

VIDEO FROM LAST FEBRUARY'S COS BLANC SALOU

This popular event will gather between 30,000 and 40,000 people participating and 26 floats, 1,500 people in disguise, 175,000 watts of sound ...

And you can not miss in a big festival, the speech, meeting of giants, parade, films, concerts, theater, traditional cadence, the Mass or wreath of Maria del Mar to their patron, habanera, chess, sardanas, vermouth ...
Photos courtesy of Ajuntament Salou

New Train Station?

The plenary meeting held yesterday in Salou came marked, beyond the points addressed in the agenda, by the controversy built around of the future railway station in the municipality. Thus, whereas the Government team remained firm its assertion that the Ministry of public assured them that for a year and half there station, the opposition defended the topic was being studied.
It was Salvador Pellicé (of the non-attached Group) who opened Pandora's box: 'You must have knowledge of all the efforts we made into the station because it was a matter that was currently under consideration'. A phase which was not beyond because 'we encounter the problem of the impact that this supposed to Vila-dry'. The Mayor, Pere Granados, replied that 'there is study and non-budget, therefore no station'.
For its part, the leader of the PSC, Antonio Banyeres, stressed that 'beyond of that or not, has licitado in Madrid we were told there station', something that denies because 'wasn't that what we said the Ministry' Granados who, as published on 19 November, the Diari ensures the option of giving a train station Salou is never aborted. In view of the magnitude that generated the debate, Alue recalled that 'went 2 times to Madrid to defend station' and requested Granados not create 'shadow of a doubt on the effectiveness of the previous Government team'. The Mayor was clear: ' I don't think doubts; I am strong and forceful: no station and this is a lack of defence of the interests of Salou '. Therefore requested 'agreement and drive' both policy as a citizen to achieve Salou 'Note station'.

Salou Squid hunt begins

Salou is, of immemorial years, a town whose roots are due to the sea. It has always been and always will be. To keep these seafaring customs each year, for already 35, the fishermen sailing out to sea in search of them crowned champions piece of squid fishing contest.

This edition (XXXV) with the participation of 37 boats led by professional fishermen, amateurs and fans of all ages (30 to 80 years) working from yesterday until Saturday, to get the squid, cuttlefish and largest octopus. However, the thing does not look too easy: even if this season looks as good, Josep Brull (known as' Pepito Cap de Sucre "), skipper of the boat 'Herisau' regrets that" it is very difficult because there are seasons squid very good and some very loose. However, Brull says' good time find says that this year.

Intuition and experience Brull (has participated in every edition of the contest) portend a competition that will have nothing to do with last year, when bad weather undercut the capture of three species of cephalopods. "Last week some 1 kilo squid caught, which shows there," says Brull.

Chupinazo and the sea!

While Brull explained that the name of his boat owes it to the Swiss city where he lived for 10 years and which served as a fisherman and rang the traditional chupinazo that began the first day of competition. The cries of his three boat mates alerted the skipper, who rushed to join them to undertake his umpteenth trip to sea. Time passed and squid, cuttlefish and octopus (rare), impatiently waiting the arrival of the boats.

The first few hours of fishing are the weakest because there is still sunshine and Brull explained that "when the sun goes down, the squid bite more. Still, yesterday began with force: the Magic Grup boat, run by Jacob Fibla (owner of the catering and restaurant company that named the boat) managed to steal a squid (250 grams) and a cuttlefish nothing further out to sea. This good start was glad to Fibla, a young fan who says goes fishing every evening after work when "we keep a good average. In addition, last week we caught 8 squids of 1.5 kilos each.

First results

The boat of more than one crew member yesterday took more points (830) was Argos IV, run by Joan Carbonell, while the boat Salou (last year's winner in the category of a single crew) got 510 points. The largest squid was caught yesterday that the boat did it Lídia 4, whose patron is Anton Ginovart (the specimen weighed 1245 grams). By contrast, smaller squid (80 grams) is what took the boat Andreamar, Esteve Giralt.

Salou puts up the Christmas lights.

After many weeks of doubt and second thoughts, the association of merchants 365, Salou has decided to loosen the rope and light the streets at Christmas with 76 lights. This decision, however, has been taken in spite of the members of the board of the agency, which reluctantly complied 'sentence' end. And is that despite the insistence, the association has raised only (for now, since mid-December still accepting donations) € 1,300 of the 6,000 needed to install the lights. A cost, explained the president of the association of traders, Joan Vicens, the lighting installation company, Commercial 54 SL, agreed to lower due to the situation found in the municipality.


However, Salou enjoy Christmas lights thanks to the contribution of the City Council (20 bridges) and partnership (the rest), which faces spending without sufficient economic support. In this sense, trade councilor of the consistory, Pedro Lavilla, nuance that "there has been an agreement, it must be clear which side is up to each one," and made a call to traders from Salou to be aware of that "it is they who pay the lights. Although Lavilla said that "it is a problem that is not new," also wanted to point out that if the association had been closed in band, "had done something" not to leave Salou 'dark'. For example "some of the money earmarked for trade promotion at this purpose."


Lighting Contest for 2010


To prevent this problem from recurring next year, Vicens raise the organization of a Christmas lights contest: "If done windows and it works, why not do it with the lighting of the streets?". The idea of the president of the association of merchants already well developed in his mind: "the companies would bring their best lights and make a popular vote in associated businesses. Apart from solving the conflict this year, an initiative of this caliber "would make people come to Salou to see the lights and buy in order to vote. The award for best lighting would be in cash, "an amount that would share in prize money and could be the equivalent we spend now to put the lights'.


This contrasts with the solution he offered the councilman of Commerce Council, which proposed that the Association 365 dies allocate a minimum quota of Christmas lights, something that "should be raised with well in advance for what has happened this year does not flies to be repeated. Anyway, there's still a year to set an exit because right now, for 2009, salou can 'breathe' quiet: not run out of lights for the holidays.


Christmas came


Salouense City Hall sources said the lights will be lit during the bridge of the Constitution. Instead, Christmas is underway in PortAventura, who will present the season on Wednesday with the presence of tennis star Feliciano Lopez and the model M ª José Suárez. The holiday activities in the park will start on Sunday 28 and lasts until January 6.

13th International Open Draughts Tournament of Salou

May 23 - May 31, 2010


We invite you to participate in our 13th international open draughts tournament in Salou, that will be played from Sunday, May the 23rd until Monday, May the 31st , 2010.

The tournament will be played in the Swiss system with 9 rounds. The complete program is shown below.
As all former years the tournament turns out to be a great event. After the enormous success of last years, we are sure the participants will succeed in having a good time, because of the combination of a good holiday near to the beach (50 m), a fine hotel-accommodation and most of the time a spectacular draughts tournament in which excellent draughts players as well as the weaker ones participate.
The accommodation for the tournament is the same as the last years, namely Hotel Cala Font in Salou.

The participation fee for the tournament is € 55,--. The money prices (in number and height) will depend on the number of participants. The first price will be at least € 750,--. Other prices will be paid for highest classifications, the best woman, best senior (over 55 years), best combination or best game and a "surprise - price" for one of the weaker players.

Hotel-accommodation is available for the price of € 310,-- PER PERSON (including the tournament) and is based on a two-person room.
For persons, who don't participate in the draughts tournament, the price is € 275,--.
Additional costs for a single room is € 120,-- for 10 days.
A reduction of 5% will be given to the people, who already participated in one of the former tournaments in Salou.
The hotel accommodation is Hotel Cala Font and breakfast, lunch and dinner are included.

There will be transfers from the airport of Barcelona to Salou and the airport of Reus to Salou on May 22nd and from Salou to Barcelona and Reus on June 1st. The price for both transfers (together) is for the airport of Barcelona € 40,-- per person and for the airport of Reus € 20,--.

Contact person: Peter Pippel
Email: pippelp@xs4all.nl
or peter@salou-open.nl
Address: Grutto 7, 2831 XK GOUDERAK
Tel.: 0031182374546 (in the evening and the weekends)
0031302860765 (Monday till Friday from 10.00 till 17.30)
Website

Salou New Train Station

The mayor of Salou, Pere Granados, the councilman Urbanisme, Marc Montagut, Secretary of the corporation, Alijo Francisco and the architect, Lluís Serra were in Madrid on Monday to meet with the director general of Railway Infrastructure, Carlos Maria Juarez and the deputy director general for Planning and Designing, Francisco Javier Sanchez.

"The visit was meant to know to what extent they Salou railway projects and learn, if possible, a timetable and program of actions," Granados said yesterday. However, the first surprise of the meeting was that "there was no rail link to Salou nor station," added the mayor. According to Granados, the Ministry has already reported this situation to the previous government, led by Antoni Banyeres-known that the new situation for a year and a half.

Former mayor defends

Former Mayor Antonio Banyeres (PSC) yesterday told the newspaper that 'it is false that there was a rail project that would unite Salou Vila-seca and Broker. The only certainty is that only an informative study, and nobody dared to put execution date. He also admitted that "there were no reports of visits to Madrid in time to the opposition (current government) because there has never been a good relationship with them."

After recovering from the initial surprise, great argument the director general of Railway Infrastructure that "tourism capital of the Costa Dorada and the largest theme park in Spain could not stay without a rail link. After the explanation, the mayor said he "understood our position and we promised we would recover the link and the station to Salou and PortAventura.

Conflicting

This version was denied last night by Charles himself Maria Juarez. The Diari could talk to him through the PSC's deputy in Congress, Francesc Vallès, who stated flatly that "the study information has always contemplated PortAventura Salou-station and on no account has been canceled this option now or in the past ' . Even said they had spoken with Mayor Granados of looking for financing future building to house this season.

The mayor of Salou, having heard the statements of Juarez, reiterated that the version of the director general of Railway Infrastructure "was false" and was delighted by "being able to redress the situation and get a station that had gone to Salou. It also took the occasion to criticize the former local government (led by the PSC) and the deputies in the Congress of this party in Tarragona "for not defending the interests of Salou.

This past Tuesday, the board chairman of the City Council (formed by the spokespersons of the party-government team FUPS, PP and CDC and the Mayor) agreed to commission a project technical services to connect to the network Salou suburban and Mediterranean Corridor. "What we can not allow is that we run and also train with Tramcamp l doubt, we are unaware of the schedules," he concluded Granados.

Moreover, Salou started the commitment to the deputy director general for Planning and Designing, Francisco Javier Sanchez, so when existing roads are dismantled "the rights revert to the city," concluded the Mayor.

The letter 'of concern'

Furthermore there is a letter signed by the municipalities of Salou, Cambrils, Vila-seca, PortAventura and the Chamber of Commerce of Tarragona (2008) which expresses 'concern' about the lack of an executive project and a provision economically to the branch and station-PortAventura Salou, since unlike the main route of Corridor has only one informative study. Salou The current City Council said yesterday that ignores the existence of this letter.
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The mayor of Salou, Pere Granados, the councilman Urbanisme, Marc Montagut, Secretary of the corporation, Alijo Francisco and the architect, Lluís Serra were in Madrid on Monday to meet with the director general of Railway Infrastructure, Carlos Maria Juarez and the deputy director general for Planning and Designing, Francisco Javier Sanchez.

"The visit was meant to know to what extent they Salou railway projects and learn, if possible, a timetable and program of actions," Granados said yesterday. However, the first surprise of the meeting was that "there was no rail link to Salou nor station," added the mayor. According to Granados, the Ministry has already reported this situation to the previous government, led by Antoni Banyeres-known that the new situation for a year and a half.

Former mayor defends

Former Mayor Antonio Banyeres (PSC) yesterday told the newspaper that 'it is false that there was a rail project that would unite Salou Vila-seca and Broker. The only certainty is that only an informative study, and nobody dared to put execution date. He also admitted that "there were no reports of visits to Madrid in time to the opposition (current government) because there has never been a good relationship with them."

After recovering from the initial surprise, great argument the director general of Railway Infrastructure that "tourism capital of the Costa Dorada and the largest theme park in Spain could not stay without a rail link. After the explanation, the mayor said he "understood our position and we promised we would recover the link and the station to Salou and PortAventura.

Conflicting

This version was denied last night by Charles himself Maria Juarez. The Diari could talk to him through the PSC's deputy in Congress, Francesc Vallès, who stated flatly that "the study information has always contemplated PortAventura Salou-station and on no account has been canceled this option now or in the past ' . Even said they had spoken with Mayor Granados of looking for financing future building to house this season.

The mayor of Salou, having heard the statements of Juarez, reiterated that the version of the director general of Railway Infrastructure "was false" and was delighted by "being able to redress the situation and get a station that had gone to Salou. It also took the occasion to criticize the former local government (led by the PSC) and the deputies in the Congress of this party in Tarragona "for not defending the interests of Salou.

This past Tuesday, the board chairman of the City Council (formed by the spokespersons of the party-government team FUPS, PP and CDC and the Mayor) agreed to commission a project technical services to connect to the network Salou suburban and Mediterranean Corridor. "What we can not allow is that we run and also train with Tramcamp l doubt, we are unaware of the schedules," he concluded Granados.

Moreover, Salou started the commitment to the deputy director general for Planning and Designing, Francisco Javier Sanchez, so when existing roads are dismantled "the rights revert to the city," concluded the Mayor.

The letter 'of concern'

Furthermore there is a letter signed by the municipalities of Salou, Cambrils, Vila-seca, PortAventura and the Chamber of Commerce of Tarragona (2008) which expresses 'concern' about the lack of an executive project and a provision economically to the branch and station-PortAventura Salou, since unlike the main route of Corridor has only one informative study. Salou The current City Council said yesterday that ignores the existence of this letter.

Salou Business Competition

The Institute Jaume I, Escola Elisabeth and Economic Promotion Area Salou City Council have launched the first contest of business ideas for young entrepeneurs, explained the charge of the area of the consistory, Marc Montagut, to "make available to students the tools to develop their business skills. Are 140 students from Jaume I which may participate in this contest and another 60 over Elisabeth.


The highest rated papers (which are due by April 30) will receive 600 and 500 euros for the best business idea, 500 more than the most innovative project, and another 500 euros to the project rather worked. Prizes will be awarded on a journey that can be expected Montagut "within the school '