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<p>Mayor Enrique Cresto received the members of the Peña La Tortuga, organizers of the XXVI National Boga Fishing Festival, which will be held on February 3rd and 4th. Arturo Cabrera, president of the Peña, and Hernán Fuerte, treasurer of the entity, highlighted the municipality's support for the "most important fishing festival in the province and one of the most important in the littoral region".</p>

<p>Raquel Colombani and Juan Carlos Mendoza, parents of the Concordia-born ARA San Juan submariner, Fernando Mendoza, were received by Mayor Enrique Cresto, who reiterated his support and availability to the family. During the meeting, different initiatives emerged that will begin to be carried out in the city, to always keep Fernando and his 43 crewmates present.</p>

<p>Mayor Enrique Cresto, together with Vice Mayor Armando Gay and Aldana Liubici, coordinator of the Student Residence of the Municipality of Concordia in Paraná, toured the facilities in the provincial capital, which will begin receiving students from our city in a few days.</p>

<p>Mayor Enrique Cresto received the directors of the Concordia company Agroberries S.A., which was distinguished with the first prize in Technological Innovation at the 28th Edition of the BBVA Francés 2017 Agricultural Entrepreneur Award, for its work "Value-Added Blueberries", in which organic production is prioritized.</p>

<p>"We are happy for all the love and support they gave us this year," says Norma González, mother of Milagros, a girl who began attending the CDI in the Villa Jardín neighborhood in 2017 at the tender age of two. The promotion of childhood is a State Policy for the government of Enrique Cresto; for this reason, work is carried out with great dedication in the 15 Child Development Centers, spaces created for the comprehensive care of more than 1200 children in Concordia.</p>

<p>As a year-end balance, Mayor Enrique Cresto referred to the end of 2017, the objectives achieved in these first two years of management and the main challenges for 2018.</p>

<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Plurinational State of Bolivia presented Mayor Enrique Cresto with a special recognition "for his fraternal service to the Bolivian community and his construction of the Patria Grande". The delivery of the distinction was carried out in the city of Rosario, where the Bolivian Consulate is based. Councilwoman Julia Saenz participated in the act, receiving the distinction on behalf of the Mayor from the hands of the Bolivian Consul in Argentina, Mr. Sixto Valdéz.</p>

<p>In a ceremony where the vocation of service and commitment to the community were highlighted, Mayor Enrique Cresto presented medals to municipal employees who reached 30 years of service.</p>

<p>This Monday, Mayor Enrique Cresto will participate in a special broadcast of the program "The Municipality Informs and Responds". As a year-end balance, the municipal president will be interviewed by three specially invited journalists. Osvaldo Bodean, Sergio Fischer and Juan Pablo Arias, together with Amelia Olguín, will have a one-on-one dialogue with Cresto starting at 9:00 PM in a program that can be seen live on the local cable channel and also through YouTube and Facebook.</p>

<p>"This Gobernador Cresto street, Eva Perón Avenue, Monseñor Rösch, the 015, the Frondizi, the entire micro-center, the Costanera, Salto Uruguayo, among other streets, are the accesses to Concordia and are the streets used by tourists and the families of Concordia every weekend when they go out for a walk," indicated the mayor. Therefore, he maintained, "we are launching today with this work, this Urban Beautification Program, which consists of different stages," announced Cresto. The planned investment will be approximately 200 million pesos in total.</p>

<p>This Thursday, the Productive Integration Roundtable will be held in Concordia, which seeks to support companies in this region with financing tools and simplification of procedures to access new markets. The opening ceremony of the activity will be attended by the Secretary of Production of Entre Ríos, Alvaro Gabás, the Undersecretary of Integration of Productive Policies of the Nation, Gustavo Perego, and the Mayor of Concordia, Enrique Cresto. The working day will take place on Thursday, December 14th, at the Concordia Convention Center from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Mayor Enrique Cresto signed the decree establishing the customary year-end administrative recess within the Municipality of Concordia. It begins next Monday, December 18, 2017, and extends until&nbsp;Friday, January 5, 2018, inclusive.</p>