Last Friday, December 12, 2014, Matthew Garcia Martinez received a plaque from the Mayor of Alhama, Fernando Alfonso Morales Ceron, across the street from his name and received a tribute at the XXIII Gala Radio Cope Espuña by its great and long career in the world of journalism and communication.
"Alhama is my birthplace, in it I rocked my early dreams, my first concern, my first desires".
Thus evoked childhood journalist Mateo García Martínez, born in Alhama, on February 16, 1925, in his book Alhama: One hundred years of history in pictures, published in 1995.
Remember that Matthew Garcia began working in the world of the story, back in 1948 in the Journal Line and Sheet Monday Alicante and Murcia, Alicante and Information Deportivo until its demise in 1983, when they went on to write for the newspaper La Verdad.
Alhama, Mazarrón and Totana, primarily, with some chronicles of Aledo and booklets have been the sources of information News journalist Matthew Garcia to the regional press and local newspapers almost daily.
In Alhama de Murcia, its people, who donated his collection of over 700 photographs of the twentieth century and an exceptional collection of seashells, was a preacher of the festivity in 1988, Easter in 1990, has received numerous awards from Radio Cope Espuña and in 2006, the City of Alhama dedicated a street named Journalist Mateo García Martínez in the area of ​​Ral.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alhama de Murcia