Commemorative events of June 26, 1959
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Commemoration of June 26, 2012
June 26, 2012 - Susan - daughter of first officer Frank William Ellis who perished in the crash - reads the ecumenical our Father in English
June 26, 2012 - Sophie - granddaughter of Percy Charles Nicholls who perished in the crash - reads the ecumenical our Father in French
Commemorative events 2012
Many people from Olgiate Olona and from other towns attended the commemoration of June 26, 2012, a solemn and sober ceremony performed at 16.33 UTC in front of the memorial of “via 26 Giugno”: some relatives of the seventy immortal lives coming from USA, Switzerland, Italy (who read the ecumenical our Father in English and French); Elen Downes (pastor of the Anglican Church of Milan, already present at the ceremony of 2009) and don Sergio Perego (parson of Olgiate Olona) who recited the ecumenical prayer; Olgiate Olona mayor Giorgio Volpi who made the commemorative speech; Paolo Pettinaroli (president of Comitato 8 ottobre per non dimenticare committee, attending with some relatives of victims of Milan-Linate air disaster) who greeted the people present; the military authorities; the students of junior high school of Olgiate Olona participants of the educational project (carried out with a conversation in the classroom and the development at home of a written composition inspired by the memory of June 26, 1959), including the authors of ten finalist works (all rewarded with merit certificate, the first three classified rewarded with a book-coupon).
(page containing the works rewarded)
Invited by “Comitato 8 ottobre” committee, on October 8, 2012 mayor Giorgio Volpi and Alberto Colombo represented the town of Olgiate Olona at the commemoration of the victims of Milan-Linate disaster celebrated in Milan and at two other events: July 15, 2012 inauguration of Parco 8 ottobre in Samarate (hometown of Laura Fogliani and Roberto Gatti); November 11, 2012 unveil of the memorial stone Linate 8 ottobre 2001 per non dimenticare located in front of Villa Oliva in Cassano Magnago (hometown of Andrea Conte).
Commemoration of June 26, 2012
Selection of articles related to the commemorative events of 2012
La settimana June 29, 2012
I ragazzi ricordano la tragedia
L’inform@zione online June 28, 2012
26 giugno, Olgiate non dimentica
L’inform@zione online June 28, 2012
Premiati gli scritti dei ragazzi sulla sciagura
La prealpina June 26, 2012
Settanta vite immortali nel ricordo inossidabile
Commemoration of June 26, 2012
