The third edition of the memorial in memory of Alfredo Salerno, the mayor of Fallo who suddenly passed away on 6 December 2021, took place this morning at the San Francesco Caracciolo stadium in Villa Santa Maria.
The sporting event, promoted by the association The Friendship Train, with the collaboration of the Benedetto Croce di Quadri comprehensive institute and the Municipality of Villa Santa Maria, involved the pupils of the lower secondary school of the Villa Santa Maria institutes, Pizzoferrato and Quadri, who tried their hand at various sporting activities, coordinated by Alberico Di Cecco and the motor science professors Dino Celommi and Salvatore Ziruolo.
Many authorities were present at the event: the director of Anci (National Association of Italian Municipalities) Abruzzo, Massimo Luciani, the mayor of Villa Santa Maria Giuseppe Finamore, the deputy mayor Marcello Fortunato, the mayor of Pizzoferrato Palmerino Fagnilli, the mayor of Quadri Assunta Fagnilli, the deputy mayor of Bomba Salvatore Martorella and the mayor of Pietraferrazzana Ciro Carpineta.
Also present were the school director Costanza Cavaliere, the president of the Il Treno dell’amico association Adriana D’Agostino, and the family members of Alfredo Salerno, his wife Carla Marchetti, his brother Angelo Salerno with his wife Elena, his sister Franca Salerno with the husband Marco, mother Anna Di Sciullo, brother-in-law Gianluca Marchetti and mother-in-law Menina D’Amico.
“The purpose of the event is to remember the figure of the mayor of Fallo, a person with great moral integrity who knew how to look far ahead and believe in the values that give meaning to life and the human condition – explains Adriana D’Agostino, president of the Il Treno association of friendship – A great model of life for our children who, with the memory of this beautiful person and through sport, can recognize and make their own values such as loyalty, a sense of solidarity towards others, integrity towards in public affairs and in private relationships, always making oneself available to those in need, to those who are weaker, more vulnerable”. The boys tried their hand at a morning entirely dedicated to sport, with warm-up and conditioning activities for the high jump, with particular attention to the flight phase, reactivity and agility exercises on obstacles and relay races with the passage of obstacles of progressive height in based on age groups.
This year’s memorial winners were: for the first classes, the team composed of Giuseppe Martorella, Stefano D’Orfeo, Maria Colangelo and Daniele Di Sciullo; for the second classes, the team composed of Emma Di Paolo, Giorgia Iannone, Elia Mariano, Eduard Ventileano and Antonio Pasquarelli; for the third classes, the team composed of Elia Pasquini, Glieca Domenica, Denis Camiscia, Elena D’Orazio and Martina Nasuti.
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For the mayor of Villa Santa Maria, Giuseppe Finamore: “This year the memorial was concentrated in just one area of the sports facilities, due to the renovation works, with the reconstruction of the synthetic grass playing field and the modernization of the changing rooms. Despite this, we wanted the third edition of the event to take place in the best possible way and with all the planned activities. Today we celebrated the memory of an upright administrator of our territory who did everything he could for the development of the territory, also looking to the future. Alfredo left us so much and this is why we want to always be present in these circumstances, in memory of his person and his great personality.”
The director of Anci Abruzzo, Massimo Luciani, added: “The mayors of the internal areas are the guardian of the territory, Alfredo was this for his fellow citizens and for the territory. I had the pleasure of meeting him within the Anci and working with him on the Land Bank project, which involves the restitution of abandoned lands to the community. He wasn’t just thinking about his municipality but about the territory as a whole.”
