Half a hundred companies, institutions and organizations, as well as dozens of individuals, have contributed more than three thousand gifts to the municipal toy collection campaign Juguetea, closed yesterday with the deposit of all donations in the Sports Palace.
The mayor, Noelia Arroyo, assured that the result is a complete success of participation and solidarity that will allow the Three Wise Men to put gifts that will bring some 1,400 children from families with few resources.
The City Council, the Regional Assembly, the UPCT, the Port Authority, the Ricardo Fuentes company and the Navy have participated in the campaign in a prominent way.
“Our purpose was that the Three Wise Men could reach all the children of our municipality so that no one is left without toys, and we have more than fulfilled that objective,” Arroyo stressed.
Without Preuvas or chimes
The distribution of these gifts is the only thing that is guaranteed for the next few days in the Christmas program. Yesterday, the government team made a first adaptation of the calendar of events to the new recommendations of the health authority: avoid concentrations and improve the control of capacity, the use of a mask and distances.
With that objective, the City Council decided yesterday to suspend the Preuvas of the Plaza del Rey and carry out the broadcast by La7 of the New Year’s Eve chimes from the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, without public, two celebrations with difficulties to control capacity and use the mask. The rest remains, for now.
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