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From today the existing garden next to the school of Infant Education and Primary Samaniego, the Pavilion of Sports "Pedro Agustín Pérez and the streets Francisco Carrasco Torres and Cura Francisco López Hurtado, has been nominated and the opening of the plaque has been made "Doña Encarna Martínez-Barberán", as it was agreed in the plenary session on November 30, 2017, unanimously by all the members of the Municipal Corporation, understanding this location more appropriate, to the one of the street that had previously, for the relationship of Doña Encarna with said School, today precisely that in the same they were celebrating the Day of Samaniego.

At the opening was the daughter of Doña Encarnacion, Encarna Martínez, also a professor of the School, along with the mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, the councilor for Education, Juan Manuel Gómez, the president of the Cooperativa de Enseñanza Samaniego and director of Secondary , María Concepción Carrillo and the director of Infant and Primary, Marina Lorenzo, in which we have also had the excellent performance of the recently created Samaniego Choir, under the direction of the music teacher Javier Bermejo.

Act that did not want to miss family and friends of the honoree, former teachers and members of the AMPA of the educational center.

The mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, has had words of recognition of the work done by those years Doña Encarna Martínez Barberán, who said that "having been born in the middle of the garden, in 1906, in the town of Zarandona (Murcia). Founder of the Balmes school in the Zamplana de Alcantarilla street that was moved, ending the decade of the 40, to the Vicent-López building in the main street, later, in 1981 it would be transformed resulting in the founding of the current Teaching Cooperative "Samaniego", the largest concert center in the Region of Murcia with more than 2,000 students ".

"The educational work of Doña Encarna, as it was familiarly known, was very important for the municipality of Alcantarilla, it was a pioneer in carrying out coeducation tasks, and with its innovative character it introduced mixed education, which at that time was forbidden. and discipline without the violence claimed to the educators of the time.As a consequence, its name was given to one of the most important literary contests at regional level with 29 editions held so far exceeding the 900 works submitted from locations throughout the region, "said Joaquín Buendía.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla