Rotary Club Lanzarote has awarded the Maritime Fishing Institute of the Canary Islands of FP, known since its origins as Fishing School, the award 'Conejero del Año' in its 2018 edition, coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of the creation and foundation of this training center on the island of Lanzarote, where the professionals of the sea have been trained in recent decades.
In the past edition, the award winner was the founder of the NGO Calor y Café in Lanzarote, with 20 years of experience. In addition, among the winners in previous editions, the Cabrera Medina Group, awarded in 2016, César Manrique, the Hermanos Díaz Rijo, architects of the first seawater desalination plant, the artist Jesús Soto, the ceramist Juan Brito, the hotel manager José Figuereo Vivancos, the businessmen Juan Rosa Perdomo and José Calero, the psychiatrist Julio Santiago Obseo, and the Societies La Democracia and El Torrelavega, as well as Kenneth Gasque, the creator of Ironman Lanzarote, the artist Santiago Alemán and the Palliative Care Unit of the General Hospital of Lanzarote Doctor Molina Orosa, among others.
This year's award recognizes "the contribution and dedication of those who, throughout their 75 years of history, have been its teachers and staff who have made it possible, in the absence of these intermediate and higher degree studies on the island for many years, that a part of the conejera population accessed a level of training that allowed them to open a future in the labor field on the island, where even the fishing and maritime sector was a strategic part of Lanzarote before the arrival of tourism." Now, from the Rotary they emphasize that the Fishing School "has been able to adapt to the new training needs and has managed to be a reference in the Canary Islands and Spain in everything related to nautical education, aquaculture and professional diving, in addition to mechanical propulsion of ships and industrial refrigeration facilities, among others."
The award that the Educational Community of the Fishing School will receive will be a reduced-size replica of the 12-meter-high sculpture located on the Avenue in front of Playa del Reducto, in the capital of Lanzarote, dedicated to entrepreneurs and people awarded with the Conejero del Año. The sculpture and the Conejero del Año award is the work of Paco Curbelo and was inaugurated in 2016 and fully funded by the Rotarians and transferred to the Island. Next to it, the names of the personalities recognized with the Annual Award of Rotary Club Lanzarote are inscribed.
The award ceremony of Conejero del Año 2018 and the subsequent cocktail will be this Friday, June 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the assembly hall of the Fishing School. Authorities and representatives of the cultural, sports, economic and social sectors of Lanzarote will attend, as well as those awarded by Rotary in previous editions.
