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Two Events for Children Organized by
El Mina Municipality and AFAAK
Association
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AFAAK charitable and social
association, in cooperation with El
Mina Municipality, organized an
entertainment festival for El Mina
children in EL Mina Central Park on
Sunday May 6th, 2007. This is the
second event for the association in
less than a month. The Association
organized a special event on the
Child’s Day in Al Nasr Square, which
was renovated and beautified by Al
Azem and Saadeh Association. Mayor
Alameddine and Mrs. Roula Mourad,
the President of the AFFAK, spoke on
the inauguration of the festival.
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El Mina Municipality Honors 51
Retried Private and Public School
Teachers
(from the Years 2004 till 2007) in
El Mina
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Under the patronage of his
Excellency Minister of Education Dr.
Khaled Kabani, El Mina Municipality
hosted a special lunch to honor 51
teachers who retired in the period
between 2004 and 2007. The
ceremonial lunch took place in the
Silver Shore Restaurant to honor the
efforts of teachers in both the
private and public sector. The
ceremony was attended by Mr. Hussam
Shahade, the Director of the North
Educational Zone, who represented
the Minister of Education, El Mina
Mayor and the Council Members, the
President of the Union of the
Teachers in North Lebanon, Mr. Tony
Mahfoud, the Delegate of Secondary
Tecahers in North Lebanon Mr. Zuhair
Naboulsi, Media representatives,
school principals and the honored
retired teachers.
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lunch view
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Alameddine speech
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Marwan Assoum
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The ceremony started by the National Anthem followed by a welcoming speech by lawyer Issam Sbat, El Mina Council Member, who praised the importance of this event as a loyal gesture for those who gave their utmost efforts to raise the young generations in our city. Then the Vice Mayor and the President of the Education Committee in El Mina City Council, Mr. George Drouby, emphasized the pioneering role that the teachers play in shaping the future of students and in drawing the picture of a new Lebanon. Mr. Marwan Assoum, the Principal of El Mina Secondary School for Boys, spoke on behalf of the honored teachers and he said: “We, the honored, insist that our efforts will never end no matter how old we are. We thank his Excellency Dr. Kabani for his patronage and Abdul Kader Bey and his City Council for their absolute cooperation through out the years both with public and private schools”.
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Droubi, Alam Eldine,
Chahade and Saidi Khayat
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Alam Eldine, Chahade and
Salah Sidawi
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The Mayor, Mr. Abdul Kader
Alameddine, spoke about the immense
projects that are under way.
However, he emphasized the fact that
“Humans are more important than
stones. This is why the City Council
insists on honoring those people who
donate their life for the sake of
their city in order for it to grow
and develop culturally. We are
honoring you because you are the
unknown and hidden City Council
members who sincerely worked to
develop El Mina generations. God
bless your efforts and be confident
that what you did in the past and
what you will do in the future has
been of great importance for El Mina
Community which is famous for its
openness and for the coexisting
urban fabric”.
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Finally, Mr. Hussam Shahade, the Director of the North Educational Zone, who represented the Minister of Education, praised this event and talked about its uniqueness because it comprised public and private school teachers which signal the unity of the educational workshop in Lebanon.
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The meeting was adjourned after Appreciation Awards were given to the 51 retired teachers and after photos commemorating the ceremony were taken.
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El Mina City
Celebrates the Arab City Day on
March 15, 2007
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The
Organization of Arab Cities (OAC)
was established on March 15, 1967
and it is permanently headquartered
in Kuwait City.
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OAC
is an NGO, specialized in municipal
and city issues in the Arab world,
and is politically neutral.
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The
objectives of the organization are:
preserving the identity of the Arab
City; developing services and
municipal resources; modernizing
municipalities and local
authorities; and assisting the
member municipalities in achieving
their development projects through
providing long-term loans.
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The
Lebanese cities participating in
this Organization are: Beirut
(permanent member), 1967- Tripoli
(permanent member), 1967- Zahle,
1968- Sidon, 1986- Ally, 1986- EL
Mina, 1974- Jounieh, 1977…..most
recently Sheheem, 2006.
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The
organization started its work in
1968 with 20 Arab cities and now it
comprises 400 municipalities. The 14th
Conference will be held in Marrakech
(Morocco) between 4 and 6 July
2007.
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The Program of El Mina Celebrations
in this Day
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Mina Municipal Council will give the
Public Park (Street Number 1056) in
the New Mina the title “Kuwait
City’, which is the permanent
headquarter of the Organization of
the Arab Cities.
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The
Mayor and the Council Members will
raise the Lebanese flag and the flag
of the Organization of the Arab
Cities on the Municipality Palace.
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Banners
will be posted on the streets of EL
Mina to celebrate this Arab event.
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The
City Council will invite educational
authorities in the city to a dinner
to celeberate this event and Dr.
Jean Touma will deliver a speech on
behalf of Mr. Abdul Aziz Al Adasani,
the General Secretary of the
Organization.
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The Major Municipal Decisions in
January and February 2007
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El Mina Municipal Council has
continued all the preparations
needed to launch the construction of
El Mina Municipal Palace which will
see the light by the kind donation
of his Excellency Prime Minster
Najib Mikati. The Municipal Council
unanimously accepted Mr. Mikati’s
unconditional donation in the
meeting that was held in January
30th 2007.
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In addition, Mayor Abdul Kader
Alameddine and the Municipal Council
visited Prime Minster Mikati to
thank him for the generous
contribution, and they discussed
with him the latest news. As a
follow up, El Mina Municipal Council
agreed the appointment of Mr. Spiro
Rohana to continue studying the
preparation of maps and all the
necessary documents that are needed
in addition to the supervision of
the construction of the Municipal
Palace.
Regarding Arab an International
cooperation, the Council agreed to
pay the annual participation fee of
the United Cities and Local
Authorities Organization in addition
to approving the Archimedes Project
as part of Med-Program sponsored by
the European Community. The program
will last for two years and the
participating cities are: El Mina,
Bordeaux, Venice, Genoa, Oran,
Beirut and Istanbul. Archimedes Main
object is the economic and touristic
development of the local
capabilities and the EU will donate
through the City of Venice 63.817€.
Moreover, the Municipal Council has
elected the new committees and
approved the biding procedures to
buy the tools for the municipal
construction services. The Council
also approved the banking protocol
between El Mina Municipality and the
Lebanese Bank for Commerce for the
domiciliation of the salaries of the
employees in the Municipality.
Furthermore, the Council accepted a
cardiographer from Mr. Abdul Baset
Darwiche to Habib Falah Infirmary
and also approved the plan of the
Health Committee to develop the
capabilities and services of the
Laboratory that the Councilor of
Romania, Mr. Abdul Hamid Ghandour,
donated to the Infirmary.
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EL Mina municipality signs the EU
MED-PACT project
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El Mina Mayor, Abdul Kader
Alameddine, participated in the
Euro-Med conference of the
Med-cities that was held in Torino,
Italy last November. The conference
comprised presentations and
technical visits in the following
fields: waste treatment,
rehabilitation of the green and
neglected areas in addition to
strategic and urban planning and the
participation of citizens in
governance.
After this participation, El Mina
Mayor followed up the meeting in
Istanbul on February 8th 2007, where
the Actions to Regenerate Cities and
Help Innovative Mediterranean
Economic Development Enhancing
Sustainability” (ARCHIMEDES) Project
was launched. The new project is
chaired by Venice Municipality and
co-chaired by Istanbul Metropolitan
Municipality and, Italy’s Genoa
Municipality, France’s Bordeaux
Municipality, Lebanon’s Beirut
Municipality, Algeria’s Oran
Municipality, Lebanon’s El-Mina
Municipality, Bulgaria’s Sofia
Capital District Administration,
Turkey’s Marmara Straits and
Municipalities Union, Italy’s Genoa
Chamber of Commerce and Genoa
University are among the other
participants of the project. The
project’s budget is 734,177EURO and
will be financed by the European
Commission.
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Within the scope of project,
creation of sustainable tourism
application in port cities of
Mediterranean Basin and creating
awareness for the underrated
historical and cultural heritage are
aimed at. Also with this project,
exchange of experience and good
applications among local
administrations, universities,
research institutes, urban
transformation, tourism and cultural
heritage institutions and providing
long term cooperation among the
participant countries in the project
are aimed.
* El Mina Municipality Council
approved (in decision number 8 dated
16 January 2007) the Archimedes
Med-Pact Project and appointed Dr.
Samer Annous and ABAAD Association
to follow up the implementation of
this development project.
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