Grosseto: The Spring Festival returns to the historic center.
The annual edition of the Spring Festival, organized by the Committee for Life, with the patronage of the Municipality and the Province of Grosseto. On 15 and 16 April, Piazza Dante and Piazza Duomo will be colored with hundreds of plants and flowers, giving life to an immense flower garden. The proceeds collected from their sale will be used to purchase tools and software to be donated to the Radiotherapy operating unit of the Misericordia Hospital to reduce the side effects of the treatment, worth 54 thousand euros.
Starting from this year and for all future editions the event will be dedicated to Enrica Tognazzi, president of the Association for 17 years. Not only for this reason will the 2023 edition be a memorable one, but also because we will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Association, founded in 1983 when a group of volunteers decided to raise funds for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Grosseto. In 40 years, more than 5 million euros have been donated in structures, machinery, projects and scholarships.
“Once again we thank the Committee for Life, which confirms its constant commitment to supporting the Misericordia Hospital and cancer patients – comment the mayor Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna and the councilor for Social Affairs, Sara Minozzi – This donation will allow us a further improvement steps from an oncological therapeutic perspective. We will never stop heartily thanking the Association's volunteers for this generous gesture and for the time and commitment they have dedicated to supporting the community for 40 years. If spring is the season of rebirth, let's try to make solidarity flourish again thanks to the love and generosity of the Maremma people".
“40 years of activity represents an exceptional achievement – states the president of the Committee for Life, Oreste Menchetti – made possible thanks to the passion of the presidents, the members of the Board of Directors, but also and above all by the enthusiasm of the Grosseto people. This is why today we can say that the Committee for Life is all of us! Behind all the plaques that commemorate the association's contribution to the Misericordia Hospital there are the names and stories of the men and women who for 40 years have donated, committed themselves and received treatment thanks also to the Committee for Life".
As usual, the Spring Festival will be inaugurated on Saturday 15 April around 10.00 am and will continue throughout Sunday. Over the two days there will also be the kids from the Agricultural Institute with their plants and an exhibition of paintings by the “Art and Study School”. On Saturday 15th April from 16.00pm to 18.00pm the stilt-walking artists of the “Mantica” Circus School will parade along the streets of the historic city centre. Throughout the day on Sunday, however, there will be an exhibition of vintage motorbikes and cars in Piazza Duomo. The art school will be present from 10.00 to 12.00 “Artistically”, with children who will make drawings on the theme of the event. There Philharmonic Society City of Grosseto with his "Band" he will play in the streets of the historic city centre; the now usual meeting will be held from 10.30 to 11.30 “Pink Walk”, organized by Pink Lady gym and UISP, a walk along the streets of the historic center in support of women suffering from cancer. The departure will be from Piazza Dante at 10,30 am and then along Corso Carducci, up Bastione Garibaldi, continuing towards Bastione Cavallerizza, Fortezza del Cassero Senese towards Bastione Rimembranza, crossing Via Saffi, Via Andrea da Grosseto, Piazza dell'Indipendenza, Via Cairoli, Corso Carducci to return to Piazza Dante at 11.30. In the afternoon at 17,00 pm, during the event, the prize draw for the “A Ticket for Life” charity lottery will be held at the Committee gazebo.
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