Information: Bestowal of Autonomic Commendations on a Day of a Azores
Friday, May 24th, 2013
The former President of a Government of a Azores, Carlos César, was a usually celebrity to be renowned with a Autonomic Commendation of Value, a many critical Honorary Commendation of a Azores. The endowment of Autonomic Commendations took place in a city of Horta on Monday during a honest event to applaud a Day of a Region, an beginning jointly organized by a Government of a Azores and a Legislative Assembly. This year, 37 personalities and institutions were renowned with Honorary Commendations. The list of Commendations awarded this year is a following: The Autonomic Commendation of Value distinguishes “the performance, unusually relevant, of positions during a self-government bodies or during a use of a Region or county deeds of good relevance.” - Carlos Manuel Martins do Vale César (He was in Ponta Delgada in Oct 1956. He served as President of a Regional Government of a Azores between 1996 and 2012, Vice-President and Member of a Regional Assembly, Member of a National Assembly, Deputy Secretary of State of Internal Administration, Member of a Municipal Assembly of Ponta Delgada and President of a Village Assembly of Fajã de Baixo. He was also a member of a State Council, a Supreme Council of National Defence, a Supreme Council of Internal Security and of a Supreme Council of Civil Protection.) Insígnia Autonómica de Reconhecimento – Autonomic Commendation of Recognition (12): The Autonomic Commendation of Recognition aims to honour “the acts or a control of well-developed relevance” of Portuguese and unfamiliar adults who “value and consult status to a Region in a Country or abroad,” “contribute to a enlargement of a Azorean enlightenment or to a believe of a Azores and of their story or who “distinguish themselves by their literary, scientific, artistic or sports merit.” - António Clemente Pereira da Costa Santos (He served as Regional Secretary for Commerce and Industry of a II Regional Government. He also hold a positions of Chairman of Clube União Micaelense, Clube de Tiro de S. Miguel and of a Regional Section of a Portuguese Engineers’ Association. He is a Member of a Holy Christ of Miracles Brotherhood, being also a Secretary, Vice-President and President of this Brotherhood.) - Ariel Edison Guadalupe Cabrera (posthumously; he was innate in a city Madonado, Uruguay, in 1942. When he was still in his teens, he changed to San Carlos, where he lived for a rest of his life. Los Azoreños, a Rhythm and Dance Group, was combined on a arise of a 200th anniversary of a substructure of San Carlos on Aug 24, 1963. Several decades later, this organization became a Civil Association in 2004 and a House of a Azores in 2011. A giveaway thinker, he wrote communication and brief stories as a hobby. He worked for many of his life as a conductor and teacher.) - Artur Teodoro de Matos (He graduated in History during a Faculty of Letters of Lisbon. He was in assign of a organization of a Department of History and Gaspar Frutuoso Studies Centre until his appointment as Vice-Chancellor of a University of a Azores in 1983. His movement was deliberate wilful for a expansion and a avowal of a University of a Azores.) - Francisco Cota Fagundes (He was innate on Terceira Island and emigrated to a United States at a really immature age. While critical in a United States, he followed his studies and finished his Doctorate in Hispanic Languages and Literatures in 1976. He has taught Portuguese during a University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a author, coordinator and translator of 28 books. He is also a author of 70 articles published in systematic journals and monographs.) - Heitor Miguel Medeiros Sousa (He complicated during a Angra do Heroísmo Seminary, where he finished his nominee education. During his veteran career, he worked as a clerk in a Courts of Ribeira Grande and Ponta Delgada, carrying also worked during a Caixa Económica da Ribeira Grande, Banco Borges e Irmão and a Banco Comercial dos Açores; he was in assign of a bureau representing a Banco Comercial dos Açores in Fall River from 1981 to 1995. He was a owners of a Holy Spirit Festivities of New England, a jubilee that annually gathers thousands of Azorean emigrants from several tools of a world.) - Manuel Edward de Mello (posthumously; also famous as Eddy Mello. He was innate on S. Miguel and emigrated to Bermuda during a age of 11. He hosted a Portuguese Radio Programme for 30 years and was a member of a Portuguese Center Committe and a Committe for Long Term Residents. As an entrepreneur, he promoted shows in Bermuda featuring low-pitched talents as Amália Rodrigues, Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder.) - Maria João da Câmara Silva (She was innate in a municipality of Lajes do Pico in 1975. At a age of 32, she started attending a Occupational Activity Centre of a Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Madalena do Pico, where she had a event to learn her talent for sports, quite in Track and Field and Racewalking. She has trisomy 21 and in 2010 she was comparison to join a National Down Syndrome Team. In that same year, she won a 400M and 1500M racewalking competitions in a World Athletics Championship. Since then, she has participated in all regional, national, European and universe competitions. She has won all of them, always violation her universe records.) - Mário João de Oliveira Ruivo (He graduated in Biology during a University of Lisbon and binds a specialisation in Biological Oceanography and Management of Living Resources. He has conducted an endless investigate in Portugal and abroad. He hold a positions of Director of a Division of Water Resources and Environment/Department of Fisheries of FAO (Rome), Coordinator of a Independent World Commission on Oceans and Member of a Strategic Commission on Oceans. He now binds a positions of President of a Intersectoral Oceanographic Commission of MCTES, a National Council for a Environment and Sustainable Development and a Permanent Forum for Maritime Affairs.) - Nuno Duarte Gil Mendes Bettencourt (He was innate in Praia da Vitória, Terceira, in Sep 1966. When he was four, his family emigrated to a United States of America. In 1985, he assimilated a stone rope “Extreme”, being deliberate by critics as one of a best guitar players in a world. He combined his possess guitar model, a N4, that is sole during normal of 300,000 per year. He is now furloughed with thespian Rhianna.) - Seminário Episcopal de Angra do Heroísmo (The Seminary was founded in 1862 and is a usually ecclesiastical training investiture of a Catholic Church in a Azores. It was, for a prolonged time, a usually post-secondary preparation investiture in a Azores, carrying supposing a critical grant to a preparation of several generations as good as to egghead life of a archipelago. Several personalities in a fields of humanities and novel have attended a Angra do Heroísmo Seminary.) - Vasco Manuel Pimentel Pereira da Costa (He was innate in Angra do Heroísmo in 1948 and has lived in Coimbra given 1966. He binds a grade in Romance Philology from a Faculty of Letters of a University of Coimbra. He has taught during nominee schools and aloft preparation institutions. He hold a position Director of Department of Culture, Tourism and Green Spaces during Coimbra City Hall. From 2001 to 2008, he served as Regional Director for Culture in a Azores. As a writer, he has published 6 novella books and 7 communication books. He was a target of a Miguel Torga Award in 1984 and a Aquilino Ribeiro Award in 1985. He is also a painter, famous by a pseudonym Manuel Policarpo, a name of his grandfather.) Insígnia Autonómica de Mérito (Autonomic Commendation of Merit The Autonomic Commendation of Merit aims to heed “meritorious acts or services rendered by Portuguese or unfamiliar adults in a practice of any open or private duties.” It comprises 3 categories. - Augusto Pamplona Monjardino (posthumously; he was innate in in Angra do Heroísmo in 1909. He graduated in Medicine during a University of Lisbon. Having returned to his homeland, he used Medicine in all medical specialties that are not accessible on a island of Terceira during that time. He hold a position of Delegate of Health for many years and was also a Chairman of Rádio Clube de Angra.) - Dinis Manuel Pacheco Martins (He was innate in Lagoa, São Miguel Island, in 1957. He graduated in Medicine during a Medical School of a University of Porto in 1984. He binds a subspecialty in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Interventional Cardiology. He was a manager of a Programme for a Prevention and Control of Cerebrocardiovascular Diseases underneath a Regional Health Plan between 2009 and 2012. He has been a Director of a Department of Cardiology during a Divino Espírito Santo in Ponta Delgada given 2006. - Vasco Augusto Sodré Aguiar (He was innate in 1932 in Angra do Heroísmo, where he followed his studies until University. He graduated in Medicine during a Medical School of a University of Coimbra and specialised in Radiology during a Santa Maria Hospital. He binds a specialty in Radiodiagnostic by the Portuguese Medical Association given 1962; he attended a Mammography march in 1979. He was a Director of a Department of Radiology during a Santo Espírito Hospital from 1962 to 2002 and a control of a Mammography Services of a Azores Oncology Centre.) - Artur Ribeiro Ramos (He was innate in Santa Cruz das Flores in 1939. He started his career in his father’s company, where he became a handling partner in 1958. He fostered a growth and modernisation of commerce in Flores, contracting hundreds of workers. He has also hold several positions in sports, amicable and informative areas as good as in several institutions such as a Clube de Futebol União Desportiva de Santa Cruz, Sociedade Filarmónica Dr. Armas, Santa Casa da Misericórdia and a Clube Pérola do Ocidente da Silveira; a latter was a target of a Club Excellence Award.) - Emiliano Arruda de Castro Carneiro (posthumously; he was innate on São Miguel in 1926. As an agronomist, business manager in a areas of agri-food prolongation and distribution, he lifted to inflection with a actions we carried out while boss of a Chamber of Commerce and Industry of a Azores. He was a owners and a initial Chairman of a Regional Sector of a Portuguese Engineers’ Association.) - João Batista dos Santos (He was innate in Batalha 72 years ago. He began his veteran activity in a construction zone in a segment of Leiria, carrying grown his business activity in opposite tools of a country. He has also extended his business activity to a hotel and grill sectors. In a Azores, he determined a organization Praia de Lobos Empreendimentos Turísticos, S.A. in Vila do Porto in 1983. He is now a company’s Chairman of a Administration Board; he has been a partner of a organization VOPARUT – Investimentos Turísticos, Lda given 1999.) - José Aurélio Martins Mendonça (He was innate in a encampment of Santa Cruz in a municipality of Praia da Vitória in 1951. He renowned himself as a rancher businessman nonetheless he has also played a distinguished purpose in amicable activities. He has managed several butcheries on a island of Terceira. He was a initial member of Farmers’ Association of a District of Angra do Heroísmo in 1975 and a Chairman of a Board of Unicol for 13 years.) - Luis Alberto Meireles Martins Mota (He was innate in a municipality of Lagoa on a island of São Miguel in 1945. He graduated in Chemical Engineering during a University of Porto in 1969 and in Pharmacy during a same University in 1975. He began his domestic career as a Member of a Legislative Assembly of a Autonomous Region of a Azores and was also a Mayor of Lagoa City Hall. He hold a positions of President of a Administration Board of a Association of Municipalities of a Autonomous Region of a Azores, Administrator of Empresa de Eletricidade dos Açores, S.A., President of a Board of a Association for Rural Development and Promotion and Member of a Administration Board of a Company PROCONFAR S.A.) Insígnia Autonómica de Mérito Cívico – Autonomic Commendation of Civic Merit (9): - António José Pimentel Cassiano (He was innate in Furnas in a municipality of Povoação in 1943. He attended to a Angra do Heroísmo Seminary in 1954 and was consecrated a clergyman in 1966. From 1967 to 1973, he served in a Parish of Norte Pequeno on a island of São Jorge. From 1975 to 1996, he worked in a area of Social Security in Vila Franca do Campo, carrying grown his kinship movement activities as informal and inhabitant personality of a Civil Servants’ Union – Sul Region and a Azores. He was a Azores deputy during a National Council of CGTP [General Confederation of Portuguese Workers] for 3 years. He is now a Priest In Solidum and a “Ouvidor” [parish administrator] in Vila Franca do Campo. He has been a Director of “A Crença” journal given 2000.) - Fernanda Correia Garcia Trindade (She was innate on a island of Faial in 1945. She began her career as an facile propagandize clergyman on Terceira Island, an function she has hold for 30 years. She combined a initial propagandize newspaper, “Janela Aberta,” and collaborated with several Private Social Solidarity Institutions. In 1996, she founded a Friends’ Association of Angra Hospital, that she led for 17 years. She was a member of a Socialist Party during a Legislative Assembly of a Autonomous Region of a Azores in a legislative duration 2004/2008.) - Filarmónica Lira Corvense (This investiture was determined on Nov 4, 1938, being a usually symphony rope on a island of Corvo. Since a establishment, this symphony rope went by formidable times and was even forced to postpone a activity due to a diminution on a island’s girl race as outcome of flight and troops service. The Filarmónica Lira Corvense was reactivated in 1991. Despite not carrying a proprietor conductor, this symphony rope has collaborated with some vital names in a song scene.) - Fundação Faialense (This substructure was combined in New Bedford in 1969 as a outcome of a plan envisaged by Father Manuel Garcia. It was welcomed by a organization of Faial islanders who supposed a plea of formulating a account for scholarships to be postulated to students from Faial with financial difficulties. The initial grant was postulated in 1972 and this plan shortly stretched to California in 1973. In 1980, a substructure began awarding scholarships to a children of Faial emigrants. Over time, a loyalty of a volunteers has combined a work of a Foundation with a extenuation of over 325 scholarships and a account over 200 thousand dollars.) - José Soares Nunes (He was innate on a island of São Jorge in 1934. He finished his nominee preparation as good as his philosophical and theological preparation during a Angra do Heroísmo Seminary. He has taught a theme of Theology during this Seminary given 1964. He hold a position of Vice-Rector of a Angra do Heroísmo Seminary. In 1990, he was allocated Monsignor with a pretension Chaplain of His Holiness, and in 2006 he became a Honorary Prelate of His Holiness. He has been a Vice-Chancellor of a Diocesan Curia given 2005, a position that has been successively renovated adult to a benefaction by a Bishop’s appointment.) - Obra Social Madre Maria Clara – Açores (This investiture was founded by a Congregation of a Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of a Immaculate Conception in Sep 1997 underneath a sign “Wherever there is any good to be done, go and do it.” The investiture is commissioned on 3 islands: Pico, a Temporary Shelter and a Home for Children and Youngsters; Terceira, a Day Nursery, a Kindergarten and a Basic Education School [up to a 6th form]; São Miguel, a Home for Children and Youngsters, a Free Time Occupation Centre and an Itinerant Game Library.) Insígnia Autonómica de Dedicação – Autonomic Commendation of Dedication (7): The autonomic admiration of loyalty “aims to heed applicable services rendered in a opening of duties in a Public Administration, for a workers who denote surprising qualities in their position and who, by their conduct, might turn an instance to follow.” - Adelaide Maria Medina Teles (As a teacher, she attended a march that took place in 1975 with a aim of lifting recognition for a democratisation of education, new programmes and new training methods. She was partial of a organisation of teachers who founded center school, that was afterwards famous as basic school. She hold a positions of educational coordinator, kinship nominee and belonged to several church, training and amicable oneness organisations. She was a member of a Legislative Assembly of a Azores Autonomous Region for 16 years. She has been a Director of a Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Santa Cruz da Graciosa given Jan 1, 1980.) - Arminda Maria Ávila Pimentel da Silveira (Known by her theatre name Arminda Alvernaz, she was innate on a island of Pico, where she began her artistic career that was serve extended to all islands and to Mainland Portugal as well. In 1990, she began her general career. She has expelled 3 fado solo albums: “Maresia” in 1999; “Água de Fado” in 2006 e “Fado Lira” in 2012. She available a reverence manuscript to soldier Genuíno Madruga, carrying also available with several artists as good as with a band done adult by musicians from several European countries “7 Luas Orkestra.”) - Carlos Alberto Marques (He went to live on a island of Flores in Jul 1976 as a Navy sergeant nurse. Throughout his career, he has achieved several veteran duties: hospitalisation, puncture service, teenager surgery, orthopaedics and cardiology. He is a colonize in home caring and an active upholder of telemedicine services. He was obliged for a origination of a unchanging use of tele-electrocardiography and earthy medicine as good as of a mobile health section and unchanging consultations in a specialties of Paediatrics and Paediatric Cardiology, Psychiatry, Physical Medicine.) - Francisco da Encarnação Afonso (He was innate in a Municipality of Freixo de Espada à Cinta in Sep 1931. He finished his Pilot training during a Portuguese Air Force, carrying also finished an Air Navigation Course and a Course on Multi-motor Aircraft. He came to a Azores in 1965 – Lajes Air Base. The Azores became his adopted land, where he assimilated a informal airline SATA. He was in assign of SATA’s Flight Operations for some-more than 20 years in further to operative as commander in command, instructor and commander monitor. He flew a whole SATA swift with a difference of a Dornier aircraft.) - José Costa Melo (He was innate on São Miguel in a encampment of Relva in 1946. He worked in a “Diário Azores” journal for 6 years while studying. He worked during RTP/Açores for over twenty years. In 1995, he motionless to retire and persevere his time to a open cause. He has served a race of Relva as boss of a encampment legislature for thirty-three years.) - Maria Simas Cardoso (She was innate in Horta in 1929. She attended a Horta Elementary Teaching School and began her career in 1951. She has taught in a villages of Angústias, Pedro Miguel, Feteira, Praia do Almoxarife and Matriz. In 1969, she was allocated clergyman of Special Didactics, Legislation and School Administration during a Horta Elementary Teaching School. She hold a position of executive of a house of Horta Elementary Teaching School from 1978 to 1989 and from 1990 to 1995. She was also in assign of a origination of a Teachers’ Training Centre in Horta, that authorised her to lead a negotiations to extend Universidade Aberta to a city of Horta.)
Insígnia Autonómica de Valor – Autonomic Commendation of Value (1):
- Meaghan Benfeito (She was innate to Portuguese relatives in Canada in 1989. She began her sports career in 2005, carrying won a bronze award during a 2005 World Aquatics Championships in her hometown of Montreal. In 2006 and 2007, she won bronze medals during a Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games in synchronised swimming. She also won another bronze award during a 2012 Olympic Games in a difficulty of synchronised swimming.)
Insígnia Autonómica de Mérito Profissional – Autonomic Commendation of Professional Merit (3):
Insígnia Autonómica de Mérito Industrial, Comercial e Agrícola – Autonomic Commendation of Industrial, Commercial and Agricultural Merit (5):
- José Cardoso Romeiro (He was innate in a encampment of S. Sebastião in 1930. Having emigrated to Brazil during a age of 21, he found work during a butcher’s shop; he was paid in food and accommodation. After training a butcher’s trade, we was invited to turn partner of a butcher’s shop. He has given turn a successful businessman, initial as a grocer and afterwards as a owners of gas hire and a owners of newcomer ride company. He now employs some-more than 7 hundred people.)
- José Simões Borges (posthumously; he was innate on a island of Terceira in 1928. He was consecrated a clergyman on Nov 16, 1952. He served as bishopric clergyman on a islands of Terceira and São Jorge until he left to Graciosa in 1964 to offer a parishes of Ribeirinha and Vitória. In 1985, he became a bishopric clergyman of Guadalupe. He was also an organization leader, columnist, lecturer, ancestral researcher, carrying left his personal symbol on folklore, radio, entertainment and on a common memory of a Azores, and in sold of Graciosa islanders. As a violin player, composer and conductor, Father Simões also collaborated with several song groups.)
- Júlio da Rosa (He was innate in a encampment of Flamengos in a municipality of Horta in 1924. He served as bishopric clergyman in Angústias, carrying also worked during Horta Secondary School. He collaborated and combined some periodical newspapers. As an clergyman and male of culture, he is a author 13 published works. He was also in assign of a organization of a Sacred Art and Religious Ethnography Museum; he is a member of a International Council on Monuments and Sites and of a Institute of Genealogical Studies of Uruguay.)
- Ana Paula Medeiros Andrade Constância (She was innate in 1964 in Ponta Delgada, where she finished a General Music Course during a Regional Conservatory of Music. In 1987, she finished her Piano Degree during a National Conservatory of Lisbon and a Degree in Composition in a following year. She also complicated during a Gregorian Institute of Lisbon for 3 years. She has achieved many solo and organization concerts in Portugal and abroad via her low-pitched career, including a unison with soprano Eulália Mendes during Expo 98 in a context of a celebrations of a Day of a Azores. She has taught during a Ponta Delgada Conservatory given 1989 and leads a Children’s Choir given 2004. She has been a President of a Board of a Regional Conservatory for 9 years.)
