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Samples of respect and affection in the homes of the honorees of this year before the Prologue Day International Festival del Cante de las Minas
The Executive Chairman of the Foundation and Cante de las Minas de La Union Mayor, Francisco Bernabé, and the Deputy Mayor of Culture of La Union and Director of the International Festival del Cante de las Minas, Julio Garcia, personally visited the mine on Sunday , Santiago Guillen, and the widow of a miner, Josefa Aguera, prior to the official tribute will take place on July 31 at the "Day of The Union" Foreword Day Festival del Cante de las Minas.
As every year, The Union presents its compliments to a miner and a miner's widow in memory of each and every one of the times spent in the harsh mining profession and today is a past everything unionense is proud.
In this personal visit to the house thereof, Bernabe said the tribute to the Miner and Miner's Widow "is meant to symbolize the love, affection and respect that The Union feels and experiences to all our seniors, to all those who lived his life toiling in the mines. "
He also said that it was they, with their hard work and honest, "those who managed to bring up their families and, ultimately, shape the culture and ethos of what today is the Union".
Both James and Josefa opened the doors of their homes to this personal interview and both have expressed their enthusiasm for receiving this honor by La Union.
Specifically, to Santiago Guillen, the miner honored, "I am very proud and I feel the need to accept this tribute because mining is my profession and my passion and I come from a saga where my father and grandfather were miners."
Specifically, Santiago recalls that "my grandfather was foreman of mine and my father was medical director of mines. I started working in 1964, influenced mainly by my grandfather, who was a great miner and a brave man, I fell with mine shafts him being very young, before you start studying. That was how I held such affection for mining. "
And with this background, Santiago Guillen became a mining engineer, getting mine owning San Rafael II and The Occasion in La Union, in addition to a silver mine in Guadalajara, one in Nador (Morocco) and a utility operating in Portugal.
Passionate about mineralogy and geology, acknowledges that "many difficulties were met, formerly technical means were very limited and could not trust them to keep the reefs, you had to have special knowledge and was a constant struggle. Always ensuring safety of workers. "
Indeed, still remembers its beginnings in mining complicated "when I started working was a harsh life and especially in our area, little by little, it was humanizing but within hardness. Worked at first still without water drillers , was almost slaves. "
Years after the exhaustion of the mines unionenses, Santiago did not abandon his true passion is "proposed to the Mayor Andres Martinez Canovas, in 79 or so, create the Mining Museum and four friends got to give us a grant to create, the I was director for 11 years. And besides, being extinguished create an association mining to remember, the Knights of Santa Barbara, of which I was President for many years. now I'm Honorary Chairman. So, in all that has been linked to mining have been me. "
And at 74 years old, you can summarize his life and that of their peers in the following way: "The mining work is a work of noble-minded people, in short, of good men."
Meanwhile, Josefa Aguera, born in 1928, remembers the life alongside her husband Francisco Cánovas Sánchez as follows: "I met him when I was 17, he was in La Union and I of Isla Plana, I came because My father started working in the mines, and that's how I met him and spent almost 30 years by my husband. He was manager and worked in the Brunita and the Peak Rajao and time in the Council. He worked with his father and his brother, who were also responsible "
At 86 years old, Josefa, with vital and cheerful attitude sums up those days as follows: "We lived well."
So just stay with the happy days beside their 9 children, 21 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren, plus another on the way.
Josefa arrived in La Union with 16 years "My father worked here for three years, but in a landslide, died the companion of my brother, so my father left and went with my brother to Isla Plana, and in those three years I married ", laying the roots of his life in the Union next to a miner who was, as he describes," hard working and very good, a family man and he loved the Festival del Cante de las Minas. He worked every day, even I would often bring food because we lived near the mine, at La Esperanza ".
Source: Festival del Cante de las Minas
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