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Weekender Alicante North Issue 117

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4 FRIDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2019<br />

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Rocking out to save the trees<br />

FORESTS without Frontiers<br />

is a non-profit global organisation<br />

dedicated to the<br />

cause of protecting and replanting<br />

the world’s trees.<br />

They have a charity music<br />

Cancer sacking row<br />

A FORMER Miss Spain<br />

claims she has been<br />

sacked by a cosmetic<br />

company after revealing to<br />

her bosses she is suffering<br />

from breast cancer.<br />

Ines Sainz said the Bilbao<br />

company she was working<br />

for as a director of communications<br />

has fired her after<br />

by Simon Russell<br />

event for their cause at the<br />

Sun Palace Hotel in Albir<br />

this Saturday, 16 November<br />

starting at 3pm. There will<br />

by Alex Trelinski<br />

her diagnosis in September.<br />

The company has denied<br />

any breach of contract.<br />

The 44-year-old, who<br />

was crowned Miss Spain in<br />

1997 at the age of 21, says<br />

the company still owe her a<br />

thousand euros.<br />

She said: “I have been<br />

thinking about it a lot, and as<br />

my mum raised me as a lady,<br />

I will not mention the name<br />

of the company. Clearly it<br />

was because of the cancer as<br />

I told them before work, because<br />

I needed to take sick<br />

leave for my breast cancer.<br />

Two days later I was fired”.<br />

New blood for orchestra<br />

be live music from international<br />

DJs such as Nico from<br />

Romania and a varied mix of<br />

other musical performers.<br />

Tickets cost €20 and as<br />

well as the music this includes<br />

a cocktail on arrival,<br />

tapas and a selection of Indian<br />

food. Among Forests<br />

without Borders ongoing<br />

projects is the planting of<br />

50,000 new trees.<br />

Ines Sainz<br />

THIS is the month when<br />

Javea’s Musical Centre<br />

welcomes new members<br />

to its band and orchestra<br />

and there are five<br />

youngsters joining up this<br />

month.<br />

Laura, Vicent and Pau<br />

who play the French horn,<br />

drums and trumpet respectively,<br />

are joining the band<br />

while Adaya and Lucia, both<br />

violinists, are starting out<br />

with the orchestra.<br />

Just a reminder for classical<br />

music lovers that the conby<br />

Simon Russell<br />

cert season also gets underway<br />

this weekend with the<br />

first Santa Cecilia concert on<br />

Saturday 16 November.<br />

The second is the following<br />

Saturday and the<br />

venue for both is San Bartolome<br />

Church, starting at<br />

9.30pm.<br />

The cycle ends on 6 December,<br />

at the same place<br />

and time.

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