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When in March 1988, in full carnival that year, the City Sewer, taking as Mayor Pedro Manuel Toledo and Councilman Works and Services, José Antonio Ferrer, it was decided to replant the already battered and sick centenary woodworm elm existing also called the Plaza del Olmo, where a sewage worker and toshers both saw walking alongside.

To do this, a call to address teachers gave, so they like to be called-of the Bar "Jacinto Benavente" who did not hesitate to collaborate and participate in the planting of a new elm attempt to create the same story its predecessor.

So this Sunday, March 23, at 13.00, the 96 students of EGB Promotion 1986-1989, which participated with teachers CP "Jacinto Benavente" Sewer, D. Fernández Cuenca Innocent, D . Ángel González Guerrero Marín and José Riquelme, who were accompanied at the time by Juan Antonio Lopez, then monitor the Popular University, have been present again remembering twenty five years later.

For Sewer Mayor Lazaro Mellado, when the organizing committee of this event proposed to perform this recall "did not hesitate to serve them in their requests, because we will have and will have them the opportunity to remember a nice anniversary, in a square as toshers loved by all, as is the del Olmo and of course, a reunion in time, because since of 1986-1989 is likely that some of these children, now all haunting and 40, can be seen live and remember old days. Plaza del Olmo is one of the places that has more "depth" over many years, all we've had the opportunity to enjoy, located in one of the oldest neighborhoods in our town as the Ranero. This tree and above, were place shelter and plenty of farm chores, as around him a number of alcantarilleras taverns were. All signs indicate, and so we suggest the publications and the memory of our ancestors The native elm was planted by a neighbor Sewer and nicknamed "The Placetas", with more than two and a half centuries of history, the ancestral elm by a plague of beetles looked like a June 15, 1985 was cut and removed from its place, as well as reflected in a poem Pedro Martínez Carrión "Perico, the Liter".

The previous mayor, Pedro Manuel Toledo, along with some of the alumni, Javier Guillamón discovered next to a plaque elm.

Act which was chaired by the mayor of Sewell, Lazarus Mellado, director of the Center for Child and Primary Education "Jacinto Benavente", Trinidad Martinez Aráez and teachers involved, among which is José Riquelme, who has been one of the organizers of this event, along with the CEO of City Hall and Municipal Heritage Archive, Casto Martínez Cascales.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla