The Jameos del Agua auditorium hosted the institutional event of the Haría 2022 Awards ceremony this Friday night, the grand finale to the festivities of San Juan Bautista, the municipality's patron saint. In this edition, the award winners were Tomás Rodríguez Dorta and the Parish assistance volunteers.
The night began with a musical performance by the group Vocal 7, a formation that is celebrating its 15th anniversary taking its show "Punto y Seguimos" (Period and We Continue) to the stages. Vocal 7 recreates all the instruments of a vocal band with just their throats to perform genres of very diverse nature such as pop, rock, folk and reggae among others. With "Punto y Seguimos", they revisit several hits that have accompanied them in different moments of their musical history. The public enjoyed their performance and rewarded them with their applause.
After the musical performance, the presidential table was formed, composed of Chaxiraxi Niz, mayor of the Haría city council, and the instructing councilors, Fernando Fontes and Armando Bonilla, to present the recognitions.
The parish assistance volunteers are made up of women dedicated to the conservation, cleaning and preparation of religious celebrations in each and every one of the municipality's churches. A total of 20 who went on stage accompanied by the parish priest Norberto Medina. The Gold Badge was imposed on Escolástica Martín González by the Deputy Mayor, Victor Robayna Hernández, and the Palmera, symbol of the municipality, was collected by Sebastiana Mª de Jesús Márquez Martín from the hands of the First Deputy Mayor José Torres Stinga. Then the Councilor for Festivities, Alejandro Hernández, presented each of the volunteers with a bouquet of flowers. Alejandra Rodríguez Clement, on behalf of all of them, gave a few words of thanks.
Secondly, the award was presented to Tomás Rodríguez Dorta, who was in charge of the City Council's Mobile Park for many years. Armando Bonilla, instructing councilor, presented him with the Gold Badge and Chaxiraxi Niz presented him with the Palmera and Fernando Fontes presented a bouquet of flowers to Tomás Rodríguez's wife, Asunción Niz Curbelo. Tomás Rodríguez addressed those present with words of thanks.
In the final stretch of the institutional event, the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, and Chaxiraxi Niz took to the stage, both in their speeches congratulated the winners, thanking them for their involvement in the work carried out for so many years.
The musical closing of the event was provided by the young tenor from La Laguna, Besay Pérez, accompanied on the piano by Professor Diego Expósito. He performed some songs included in his album "Íntimo" (Intimate), which he defines as warm, intense and emotional. Besay's voice sounded with much more intensity in the vault of the auditorium with an audience that applauded each of his songs until the end.