Murcia has been chosen by the Association, to be the protagonist of this year as a honored municipality, with the Huertano del Año that has been designated by the City Council of the capital, Emilio Muñoz Jiménez, from Puente Tocinos.
The Museum of Huerta 2018 prizes, have fallen to the humorist Manuel Sánchez Baena "MAN" Distinguished Character, for the Council of Good Men of the Huerta, the Distinguished Institution and the Distinguished Partner, for the sewer, Jacobo Marcos Martínez.
On Sunday morning has been held at the Museum of the Huerta de Alcantarilla, the DAY OF THE MUSEUM OF LA HUERTA, a party organized by the Association of Friends of the Museum of La Huerta, with the collaboration of the Town Hall Sewer, as well as other institutions, associations and companies of the Region, party with various events that, each year, is dedicated to reward a huertano chosen by the municipality protagonist, being it in this year 2018 the municipality of Murcia and designate in whom falls the Huertano Award of the Year , that has been for D. Emilio Muñoz Jiménez, from the hamlet of Bacchus Puente Bacchus, as it is said in our garden, huertano of pure strain, all his life with another brother in the garden, fighting and surviving, thanks to the same , to advance his family, with 87 years his experience will support him when it is necessary to be in the Board of Landowners or in the Council of Good Man, to be a mediator of the possible conflicts between huertanos, por e
llo made his proposal the Board of Landowners of the Huerta de Murcia and being accepted, was appointed by the City of Murcia, in tribute and thanks to his tenacity and sacrifice throughout his career.
The act was chaired by the mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía and the president of the Association of Friends of the Museum of the Huerta, Ángeles Ramos, accompanied on behalf of the City of Murcia, by the councilor for Urban Planning, Environment and Garden, Antonio Javier Navarro Corchón, as well as our councilor for Culture, Tourism and Sewer Festivities, María Luis Martínez León, along with other members of the Municipal Sewer Corporation and the Board of Directors of the Association.
The Association of Friends of the Museum of the Huerta each year pays homage to a population of Huerta tradition and have wanted that in 2018 be the municipality of our capital, Murcia.
East municipality that also with its districts Sangonera la Seca, Barqueros, Javalí Nuevo, Javalí Viejo, Puebla de Soto, La Raya, Nonduermas, San Ginés, El Palmar and Sangonera la Verde, surround our entire municipality.
In addition, today many commemorations oozed on the spot, since the Huerta Museum has been celebrating its big year since March 10th, to celebrate how we are celebrating the 50th anniversary.
But it is also the good circumstances that the two rock gardens that have participated in the morning celebrate their own founding anniversaries, on the one hand the Peña "El Barracón" de Alcantarilla, with its group of Choirs and Dances "Museo de la Huerta, its 40th anniversary, while La Peña huertana "La Crilla" from Puente Tocinos, with its Group of Choirs and Dances "Siete Coronas" commemorating its 50th anniversary this year.
After twelve o'clock in the morning the act began on the outside stage of the Museum of the Huerta, with the performance of the Group of Choirs and Dances "Museum of the Huerta" of Sewer, to happen to the delivery of the Prizes Museum of the Kitchen garden , awards granted by the Association, this year falling Distinguished Character: Manuel Sánchez Baena "MAN", who has maintained with his 'creature', the recognized "Uncle Pencho", a always fun love-hate relationship, similar to a marriage that takes a whopping forty-seven years of "coexistence."
From his daily vignette in the newspaper La Verdad, Murcia, has been close to his fifth decade translating the regional, national and international reality from the perspective of the huertanos.
And he does it from his condition of Melilla, in love with the Region and profoundly aware of his idiosyncrasy.
Uncle Pencho was born with the numbered days: his life was fixed for one year.
But the success and acceptance of the Murcia, who were 'hooked' to the panocha version of the news that every day offers from the pages of 'The Truth', as well as indicated in it, which has led to to be 47 years old, in which there has not been a single day missed for your appointment with the readers.
On the stage, an entertaining interview was held by the winner with whom he presented the prize, the president of L'Ajuntaera, Frasquito Fernández.
Award to the Distinguished Institution: Council of Good Men of the Huerta, an award that was collected by its president, who is also from the Junta de Hacendados, Diego Frutos Saura.
The Council of Good Men of the Huerta de Murcia is a customary court, that is to say, whose rules and authority are given by tradition and custom, which is in charge of settling irrigation conflicts in the Huerta de Murcia.
Being the depository of a millenary culture of solidarity and democratic water of Andalusian origin, whose mission is to ensure the proper functioning of the extensive and complex networks of communal irrigation channels that make up the agricultural cultural landscape of the Segura River, around the city ​​of Murcia, as well as the nearby municipalities through which it passes.
In 2009, he was elected by the Water Tribunal of Valencia, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, by UNESCO.
As a Distinguished Partner: the sewer Jacobo Marcos Martínez Martínez, for his many years in the Association of Friends of the Museum of the Huerta, as well as in other local associations, making many of the now partners participate to form and meet together with other sewers our Huerta Museum.
After the delivery of the Huertano of the Year Award, Emilio Muñoz Jiménez, appointed by the City of Murcia, has been imposed the silver shield of the Association of Friends of the Museum of Huerta, Councilman Antonio Navarro, through our council of Culture, María Luisa Martínez, while the mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, handed over to the councilor of Urbanism, Environment and Huerta de Murcia, Antonio J. Navarro, a replica of the façade of the alcantarillero town hall.
In two phases of an event that was packed with audiences, with more than five hundred people not only from the Sewer, but also from the hamlet of Bacchus Puente and the capital itself, who wanted to be tucking into their town and the Huertano del Año, masterfully performed the group of choirs and dances "Seven Crowns", the Peña Huertana "The Cricket" of Bacons Bridge, who were accompanied by its president Juan García Serrano, at the same time also Official Chronicler Bacons Bridge.
Later words of the councilman of Murcia, Antonio Navarro, the Huertano of the Year, along with those of the new president, Angeles Ramos, which replaced by death to the many times recalled Diego Luis Pacetti, who had been since the founding of the Association of Friends of the Museum of the Huerta and finish the interventions with the Mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, and finish as is already a tradition in the Day of the Museum of the Huerta, with the Anthem to Murcia, sung by all attendees.
Those present at the event had the opportunity to later savor some delicious rices, in the gardens of the Museum itself, which are always carried out by the Association of Housewives "Virgen de la Salud" of Alcantarilla.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla