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Dec 11, 2024
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Bay radio International on a Wednesday
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please to welcome Raquel from Javier
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Town Hall back into the studio whose
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main job as we know is social services
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but in total uh you have seven different
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departments to take care of yeah which
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which departments are they I take care
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of Social Services Health children youth
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the elderly as well the municipal like
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school for little children that we have
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and residents mostly foreigners and
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experts why I'm here we know who you're
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talking about um yeah so that's quite a
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wide portfolio and sounds quite busy as
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well it is it is but we we're we're
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having well I have great people working
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in the Town Hall in this department and
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we having created like a lot of projects
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that I think that going to be like very
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useful and of course you've got to
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battle for your own money for your
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departments haven't you only there's
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only a finite amount of money in the
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budget for jaier Town Hall so you've got
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to fight for you know for your money for
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your people and the thing is that we're
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fighting for money for people that is
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usually invisible for the others and and
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children who cannot like decide for
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themselves and and mostly we we don't
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give a voice to these people like
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children youth the elderly they don't
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have the voice that they deserve so I'm
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trying to give them that voice you
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really you certainly are yeah so very
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busy Department I think we spoke briefly
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about this when you first came in that's
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when Rosa offered you the job and you
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weren't quite sure what to expect were
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you yeah but I just one thing I have
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clear is that I want to use like who I
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am and my resources as a person to help
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people so I have that like that's like
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my main purpose and that's why I'm here
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and I'm happy to do it excellent and
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we're going to be talking at least once
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a month AR we about what's happening in
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Javier what's happening at the Town Hall
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so if anyone has any questions for
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having your Town Hall you can get in
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touch through the regular email address
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Studio Bay radio.fm or WhatsApp 6844 584
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but for today we heard back in November
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that Javier will be lowering the iby to
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compensate for the increase in the waste
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tax now that's something you've had to
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do increase the waste tax by law right
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yeah so what happens was like the
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European Union asked for the countries
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to reduce the waste and there was not
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like a mandatory way to do it so each
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country could decide how to be more
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sustainable and the thing is we walking
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wordss who polles who pollutes more pays
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more so the Spanish government decided
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uh to create a law in which the town
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halls had to collect the whole cost of
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their Waste Service from the citizens
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before until now what happened uh what
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happening was that we could decide just
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to collect a am an amount from citizens
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and then you could use like other
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resources to pay for the cost mhm now
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it's not the case you have to ask so in
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Havier for example the the total cost of
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the waste uh service is around €6
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million EUR okay and until now we were
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collecting from citizens like
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4.5 so to say so the rest of the money
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was coming from somewhere else in the
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budget that's it and now we have to
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collect the total the the total that's
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by law so
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no choice so we were studying a lot and
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and we are very thankful for the
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municipal technicians because they've
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done an amazing job and so we have used
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like the cadastral value because like
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it's the the fairest thing to do the
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value of somebody's house yeah the the
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economical value of the house and the
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property H and so what is happening is
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if you have a value you pay something
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according to a study that has been made
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so for example like the average value is
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57,7 and 94 okay that's the average
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value so those people will pay
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€34 for the waste tax before everyone
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paid
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$125 yes it cannot happen anymore no you
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have to find a way to to comply by the
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law effectively but doing doing that
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there are a lot of hous houses that are
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below this average value so they they're
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going to pay even less that they were
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paying before and to compensate for
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those who aren't paying less because of
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the tax we have some measures um for
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example the E like we have a reduction
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in
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2.35% in the EB so people will be paying
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like uh like 12 EUR or something like
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that the average value less we also have
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a reduction in 60% of the water play
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connection tax so people who want to
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have like the water uh Supply they a
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reduction of
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60% and then what we are doing is having
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the tourism housing pay more okay that
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makes sense it's a big Topic at the
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moment of course right across because
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what's happening is that uh tourism is a
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business as well and tourism housing is
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an economical activity and they weren't
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paying as such so we have created a tax
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for them to pay as such like any
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business so what we what they are paying
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is like the house and then um another
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tax kind of €20 per person they can
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accommodate in the house because they
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have like the house and then the other
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tax for the tourism because in at any
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time you can just suspend the license
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and say no this is a house this is not
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tourism housing anymore so you just pay
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what what your house uh costs that's it
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and then also we've done like some
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bonification for people who are like
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vulnerable MH a 50% reduction in uh
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retired people with low pensions not
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everyone uh 50% reduction in vulnerable
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people and 50% reduction in numerous
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families only if you are registered as
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residents obviously yeah you have to be
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on the padron for this yeah that's it on
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the pon so we are doing that so like all
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all in all uh the majority of the people
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like generally speaking will be paying
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less than before because we have
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compensated everything so people have to
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pay less yeah when it was announced back
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in November I was thinking how is this
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going to work but it sounds like the
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songs have been done quite well yeah we
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have we have studied a lot and we have
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worked a lot to get to the best solution
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to something that
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was made by law nothing you can do
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nothing you can do about it back on the
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tourist license situation we hear quite
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a lot about it right across Spain there
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are issues of course it's good to know
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that the town hall is really looking
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into the situation yes because we
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think we have to have a
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balance because right now people that
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live here don't find a house to live in
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absolutely to find an apartment to rent
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um for somebody who's on a local wage is
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is impossible yes so these kind of
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measures and and stopping the licensing
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as well like we have having uh a lot of
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studies done to to know what's happening
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and what we can do about it so we can
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find like this balance because we are
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grateful for people coming to visit
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because yes Javier is beautiful and we
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know and and we want to to people it BR
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people to know it does bring money into
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the area sure absolutely but people who
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live here like the whole year they have
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to have like a dignified life as well so
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and of course we'll be seeing much more
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of you over the coming year won't we as
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we catch up every month and we'll be
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seeing you out and about doing your
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thing with the bay media crew following
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you around in the next couple of weeks
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as you lead up to Christmas so look
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forward to uh seeing that uh but of
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course there are some things starting
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already for the Christmas period aren't
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there I know there's a big calendar yes
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there's a big calendar and hopefully we
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will have it in in English and for now
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we will I will talk about this more in a
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few weeks but for now just inviting
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people to go to the well this Friday we
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have like in the morning a activities
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for children in K Cultura and on
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Saturday we will have a solidarity fair
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at the Port where a lot of associations
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will be like like a Christmas charity
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fil yeah that's it and and people will
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be like collecting money for the causes
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and also for others like Dana as well
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well we look forward to those and all
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the events coming up over the festive
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period glad to see you back in the
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studio with us and look forward to
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catching up with you for more from
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Javier Town Hall talk again soon
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