Vanesa Martin, president of the San Gerardo Neighborhood Association, from the neighborhood of La Salud, did not quite believe it. “Have we won?” He asked with suppressed emotion, and then, after receiving the confirmation, burst with joy. And it is that, this year, the winning cross of the Santa Cruz Natural Flower Crossing Contest It was the one in San Gerardo, the first year in which they got an award. Along with that of the La Salud association, in this edition the Tamaragua Cultural Center, which took second place, the Era y el Trigo Neighborhood Association (3rd), the El Roque Neighborhood Association (4th) and the Neighborhood Association of Llano del Moro.
Martín says that last year, although there was a contest, they decided not to participate and use the money from the subsidy provided by the District “for the people who were having the worst time in the pandemic.” For this reason, this year, when neighbors and members of the association have been able to meet again to make the cross, it has been a source of satisfaction and joy.
“We started doing it yesterday (on Monday) at half past six in the afternoon and finished at half past two in the morning. About 15 people were working”, says the president of San Gerardo. In the design they have had the help of Jonathan Suárez and Adrián López.
Martín details that the enrame de la cruz is a party for the association. “We can never go down to the Ball of the Magi because we are doing the cross, so we set up a table here to celebrate it in our own way.”
The crosses were valued by a jury made up of the Craftsmanship technician of the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife and maker of flower crosses, Juan Carlos Camacho; the senior technician in Applied Arts, window dresser and expert in floral art, Moisés Norberto Pérez, and the designer and artist linked to the Fiestas de Mayo, Francisco Javier Romero.
school crossings
In the XIV Contest-Exhibition of School Crosses made with recycled material, the first prize went to the Hispano Inglés school and the second, to the Hermano Pedro CEE; both centers in the Primary and Special Education modality.
In the category of Preschool and Infant, the awards went to the Hogar Escuela María Auxiliadora and the Hispano Inglés school, which obtained the first and second prizes, respectively. Lastly, the Secondary and Adult Education centers that received the award were Escuelas Pías, first prize, and Hogar Escuela María Auxiliadora, second prize.
The specialists in charge of awarding the awards are the graduate in Fine Arts, illustrator and designer, Evelyn Reiriz Vieira; the graduate in Applied Arts, Cristina Rodríguez Mijares, and the graduate in Fine Arts and graphic designer, Esther Rufino García.
The awards ceremony will be held on the 14th, at 7:00 p.m., in an act presided over by the mayor of the capital, José Manuel Bermúdez, and the Councilor for Fiestas, Alfonso Cabello, on the stage of the Plaza de la Candelaria.
