La Casa de la Cultura "Pedro Serna" Las Torres de Cotillas hosted on the evening of Saturday 15 January the official ceremony of awarding the title "Son of the Villa" the retired teacher Joaquín Martínez Cantero.
A ceremony presided by Mayor Torreño, Domingo Coronado, where the president of the rock "L'Almazara" local, Francisco García (born in the nearby town of Molina de Segura), and writer Carmen Montero Huelva also received the distinction "Sons of the Village Foster."
This award, approved on 22 July by the City Torreño, recognizes the work of these three characters in the municipality.
Cantero is a prominent person in the different areas of Las Torres de Cotillas, especially in the cultural from his post as director of the local amateur theater group "Tejuba."
Justice of the peace of the town, the former natural teacher Cotillas Towers and get another sign of affection in his village, where for months the new school named 6 of the municipality, located in the district for the pulpits and to school and Primary Education.
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For his part, Francisco García, alias "El Riso", became president of the rock Torrena "L'Almazara"-one of the most important cultural associations in the town, back in 1991 and continues in his post on today .
Carnival Town Crier in 2008, was born in Molina de Segura, but is based in Las Torres de Cotillas, where he runs his company engaged in the production and distribution of salt throughout Spain.
And Carmen Montero Medina is very close to Las Torres de Cotillas, while a couple of years the town was established in the Foundation "Carmen Montero Medina" (www.carmenmonteromedina.es) whose purpose is to disseminate the work of this writer and perform other acts always linked to culture in general and in particular with the literature without linguistic differentiations.
Born in Almonte (Huelva), his family moved to Catalonia, where she still a teenager.
After living there for more than twenty years in Catalonia, he moved to Murcia where he became a member of the Literary Association of Las Torres. "
In 1992 he published his first book, which have been followed by many the result of his prolific creative career.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas