Fevzi Paşa residents raise local issues

RESIDENTS living in and around Fevzi Paşa – the seaside village that sites between Didim and Akbuk – have kicked up over a number of issues threatening their idyll.

Locals on the Akkent, Altın, Çağın and Denizlikent sites staged a brief demonstration on the main feeder road running along the coast, stopping traffic and calling for traffic lights.

They said that the lights were need in the village to lessen the threat of accidents, death ad injuries to pedestrians due to the speed of cars passing through the neighbourhood.

They were also scathing of the sewage water discharge into the sea from local businesses and called for immediate attention to the problem.

They have since launched a petition across all the complexes, with the aim of mustering enough support to call for Didim council to react to.

At his weekly press conference, Didim Mayor Deniz Atabay acknowledged the residents’ problems and said their concerns had been passed on to Aydin Municipality to be addressed.

Annual swim floats ‘Sports for Kids’ project

SWIMMERS from the expat and Turkish communities dived into the Aegean to help raise 4,748TL for Help-in-Hands new project.

The annual swim, now in its fourth year, saw the swimmers take off from Palm Wings Hotel, towards Tuntas Beach and across the bay towards Main Beach and the Harbour point where they were greeted by dozens of their followers.

The event this year is helping to fund ‘Sports for Kids’, their latest fund-raising project to increase children’s physical activity by providing various kinds of sports equipment.

The organization is looking to buy balls and skipping ropes up to hard-standing bases that can be used for a variety of sports/games.

Barbara Heywood,for Help-in-Hands, said: “The schools that need this kind of thing are usually the smaller out-of-town ones as the newer larger town ones are already equipped.

“It’s obvious that the children would benefit from it physically, but add team games, discipline as well as keeping them off the streets etc. Basically it’s something that can help to keep them occupied

“It’s a winner for the school, kids, parents, teachers and the local community. It was a great day all round and an extremely successful one, where 4748 lira was raised.”