I have been working with Dr. Alberto Lunetta, the Public
Affairs Officer at Sigonella to provide our branch with service projects the
entire stretch of our mission. He as
proved to be a great resource to community involvement. We want to be able to connect with the Italian
Community around the base and provide service that is needed in their
communities. About 25 members of the
Sigonella Branch gave up their Saturday to reach out to the Italian community
of Carlentini.
Saturday Morning we landed at the “Parco Archeologico Di
Leontinoi, which hosts the ruins of the Ancient Greek City dating back to 730
BC. This was a spruce up, clean up, and
exploration of the ruins kind of day.
The City Mayor came to thank our branch, hand out gloves and garbage
bags to accommodate the clean up. It took us approximately 40 minutes to drive
from our apartment to the location. The
weather was great and the location turned out to be quite an amazing spot on
Sicily that I am sure we would never have found otherwise. Another great benefit of service!
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| Kids are really the best at cleanup! |
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| President Petersen with is broom is pretty fearsome! |
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| Extra take home treasures can also be found! |
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| The Sigonella Branch work crew! |
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Pizza, bread and oranges arriving for lunch!
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Pizza arrived from the local Pizzeria, local oranges, local
bread soaked in local olive oil.
But the
best part of lunch was the sliced oranges served with a sprinkle of salt, a
drizzle of olive oil and pepperoncini.
I
would never have thought of that or even ordered it off a menu but it was such
a nice contrast of flavors I served myself two or three!
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Locals are always proud of their own olive oil!
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| Local Newspaper coverage of our service project! |
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