The cooperative society San Pedro has been making artisan bread since 1977 in the neighborhood of Fátima, in Güímar. Now, after more than 40 years, this business so recognized in the municipality is doomed to closure because the Güímar City Council It does not grant you, as promised, the two months of extension that it needs to complete the renovations of the warehouse that Urbanism demanded in February to, among other issues, limit the smoke that several neighbors complained about by presenting 13 signatures in the Town Hall. “Curiously,” says the company denounced, “some of them come every day to buy here, even if it is not bread.” Another 300 have signed supporting the permanence of the bakery, including the municipal opposition parties, PP and Ciudadanos.
Yurena Diaz acquired the bakery, which today is called El Pan de Nara, in September, when, as a member of the cooperative, it was able to acquire the bakery-candy store without having to pay rent, almost in the midst of the pandemic. Since then “I have had to spend a lot of money to modernize the ovens and the electrical system, but I left the briar wood oven. And I did it at a bad time, because soon the complaints from four neighbors arrived because the smoke reaches their houses, when that oven has been there for 40 years ”. In February he received notification from the City Council that gave him four months to adapt his business to the measures required by municipal technicians. Yurena Díaz began to do it knowing that four months was a short time, so she was granted, according to her, an extension of two more months, which now the mayor of Urbanism does not want to comply, according to the owner. “I will keep the bakery open,” he says, “until the police come to kick me out.”
The owner regrets that they do not give her that time to finish the conditioning that began after the complaint, because “with the closure seven people are going to unemployment”, even some more “if we count the self-employed delivery men,” he remarks.
