The Rotary Club of Ravenna has awarded a Paul Harris Fellowthe highest Rotary award, to the prefect Castrese De Rosa. The reason for the recognition is “in his precious work during the weeks following the two floods and two typhoons that hit Romagna a year ago”. “The commitment of the Prefect – they explain from Rotary – has served to resolve many critical situations throughout the province, from Ravenna to Lugo to Faenza to Conselice to Castel Bolognese and in all the hamlets and hilly areas, coordinating all the bodies in the field and collaborating with the institutions of the other affected provinces and with the Civil Protection”.
In his thanks, De Rosa then retraced those days, focusing on some particularly dramatic episodes and thanked Rotary for the collaboration it gave. The engineer Adriano Maestri in fact recalled that the regional Rotary District, of which he was Governor, invested “500,000 euros in various projects to solve urgent problems that emerged in those days”. The evening then continued with the award ceremony of an important scholarship to Sebastiano Barbieri, double bass player, who graduated with honors. For the Ravenna Rotary it is the 35th edition of the award, a very long period of collaboration with the Verdi Conservatory, directed by Anna Maria Storace and recently promoted to State Conservatory.
The winner then treated those present to a double bass concert, accompanied by Maestro Mirko Maltoni, professor of the Conservatory, with music by Shubert and Mattia Dattolo, also a student of Verdi.
