Santa Marta de Tormes celebrates the festival for San Blas as usual on these dates with an extensive program of activities, facing this Sunday a special day, above all, for those who work and/or have worked for and for the town.
The City Council has paid tribute to some of its municipal workers who are now retired, in an act that was led by this year’s town crier, Luis Mateos, a worker for more than thirty years in this town at the service of the city council. When it was announced that he would be the person in charge of delivering the proclamation, the mayor of the town, David Mingo, pointed out that he was “a very beloved person in Santa Marta.”
Mateos in his speech expressed his gratitude to the city council for carrying out the task of being his town crier; a “great honor,” he said. He has also expressed that “I have been lucky enough to work for 36 years in the Santa Marta de Tormes City Council where my father worked and to be part of a special stage in the municipality where there were only four workers: Claudio, Aurora, the secretary and I, when the town did not reach 2,000 inhabitants and the sheriff did everything.”
David Mingo with the crier Luis Mateos during the proclamation of San Blas in Santa Marta
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David Mingo, mayor of the town, has also praised this neighbor: “Luis is, above all, a man from Santa Marta. He was born here and has lived here practically his entire life, except for a brief break of four years in which he worked in the municipality of Lasarte, in San Sebastián, which did not break the bond with his town, but rather strengthened it. We know him because for 36 years he was part of the Santa Marta City Council as sheriff, a beautiful word, almost forgotten, but loaded with meaning”.
For more than three decades, Luis became an “everyday face” and an “essential” figure in the daily life of Santa Marta, for which Mingo confirms that “10 years after retiring, it is difficult to imagine the City Council without your figure.”
Proclamation of San Blas in Santa Marta and tribute to retired workers
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Luis Mateos was a direct witness of the transformation of this municipality for 36 years, which is why the City Council wanted to start the San Blas festivities, characterized by the closeness and spirit of the town, with him: the person who for so many years has been watching over Santa Marta.
