Chris Wright: This Sporting Life
- Written by Lynne Booker, Algarve History Association
Chris Wright is so interested in sport and reporting sport that This Sporting Life was the obvious title for this piece. Within the context of the Liga Zon Sagres (the Portuguese Premier Division) this title might create confusion with Sporting Clube de Portugal, Sporting Clube de Braga or even in the Algarve with Portimonense Sporting Clube. But why let potential confusion spoil a witty headline?
Tela Leão - Culture without limits
- Written by Lynne Booker, Algarve History Association
"In an ideal world the words tolerance, solidarity and charity would not exist," says Tela Leão. If we instinctively treated each other with trust and respect we should not need those insulting and patronising words. Developing this concept, her friends José and Raquel Martins of Casa das Artes in Tavira decided to launch a project based on an idea by the Swiss artist Doris Sanders (and her Portuguese husband António Almeida) to generate Tavira Ilimitada - Against Racism and Xenophobia.
A new dawn - Alison Blair, President of Madrugada
- Written by Lynne Booker, Algarve History Association
"I woke up at 4.30 am with a sudden flash of inspiration. If there is no hospice here in the Algarve why can´t we just make it happen?" said Alison Blair. And that was the beginning of the charity association Madrugada.
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Judy Pinto: Caring in the Community
- Written by Lynne Booker
Whether she is meeting ex President of Portugal Mário Soares or current President of Faro Câmara José Macário Correia, Judy never forgets her that two purposes in life are first the preservation of the Jewish heritage in the Algarve and second the care of the sick and needy.
Len Port and the Holy Grail
- Written by Lynne Booker
The quest for the Holy Grail - Len Port has a personal Holy Grail - it is his desire to write an outstanding novel that is likely to endure for a long time. It would be a novel with a profound theme, a simple plot, great clarity of language and lots of humour, so that it is easy and fun to read.
Algarvian re-elected as President
- Written by Len Port
Aníbal Cavaco Silva, born and bred in the modest Algarve village of Boliqueime, has secured occupancy for the next five year in Lisbon's Belém Palace, official residence of the President of the Republic of Portugal.
