This Sunday is the gala of delivery of the Hypnos Awards 2016, organized by the City of Jumilla.
The appointment is at 12.00 at the Teatro Vico and there will be seven awards to be awarded, according to categories called and jury decision.
The Hypnos Prize for Sports Work is for the Coimbra Sports Association, which after three decades active has represented Jumilla in innumerable tournaments, friendly and official, regional championships, Spanish championships, in other autonomous communities achieving a multitude of regional victories and championships.
He has also been the organizer of most of the regional championships that exist, individually and by teams.
The jumillana company specialized in all types of salts, Jumsal will collect the Hypnos Prize for Business Development.
Since its founding in 1968 it has only grown and is currently a benchmark in all kinds of high quality salts for food and industry.
It has in its workforce more than fifty workers, with three shifts a day and an annual turnover close to 9 million euros.
The Hypnos Prize for Dedication to Culture goes to the Miguel Hernández CEIP, which during this year celebrated its first half century of life.
Throughout this time students, families, teachers, custodians and other non-teaching staff have been part of the center at a very important stage in their lives.
All of them have participated in an educational community that has always sought to strengthen the Jumilla culture.
The school has passed from 350 m2 built initially to have at present 8,500 m2 between classrooms, sports pavilion, tracks and other dependencies of the center.
The Hypnos Prize to the Ambassador of Jumilla will be for the marriage formed by John and Sue Walker, coming from London and resident in Jumilla from June of 2008. Sue has written about Jumilla for several English magazines, including TIM and Mar Menor Focus.
They have long been offering Jumilla walks for people who do not speak Spanish, manage visits to wineries and meals in local restaurants and settle inquiries about Jumilla to tourists.
Sue even wrote a book about her experiences, which was published in 2009, in which chapter 13 is titled "Jumilla, open and generous."
Pascual López Sánchez has been chosen as Hypnos Prize for the Defense of Human Values. Alcohol has led him to miss moments and precious experiences, even related to his family.
It was for them that came to the point that he decided to be brave and fight to start a new career in his life.
Dioen Yeclacon what he defines as a family of friends.
It was deARY, Association for the Rehabilitation of Problems with Alcohol. After decincoañosde work and along with a few patients and relatives who were living at that time similar experiences, emerges create in the municipality the associationAlcohólicos Rehabilitados de Jumilla (ARJU).
Since then, for Pascual López this group, which is currently the president, became his second home.
Antonia García Guardiola will receive the Hypnos Prize for Equality for his personal and work experience.
She has been a farmer and cattle rancher for several years, leading to a cattle ranch of 350 goats.
At the moment she is the president of the Association of Rural Women of the Encebras, being this the first association of women in the district.
It has made women meet once a week, performing various activities and always seeking union, motivating them to visualize and share their knowledge in order to give them the value they deserve.
The Hypnos Prize Special Mention will be for Hilario Simón Fernández, posthumously titled. From very young emphasized by its great social and cultural implication in the locality.
Member of the Choirs and Dance Group Francisco Salzillo, the Peña El Mantecao and the Harvest Festival, as well as the Brotherhood of Santo Costado and the Association of Drums Christ of Blood.
Able to turn any situation into anecdote, with a humorespecial and innate that led him to make his pinitos as monologista.
He won several times the contest of Peña La Alborga and formed a poster of several galas of humor organized in the Vico Theater.
Tickets can be collected at the Vico Theater box office (Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 6 pm to 8 pm and before the start of the event).
At the end of the delivery will be a meal in the Museum of Wine with menu at 23 euros.
Entries can be made at City Hall.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla