Bertram Derthona: The XNUMXth edition of the Ernesto Cima Memorial presented
The eleventh edition of the Memorial Ernesto Cima, basketball player and architect from Alessandria who passed away at the age of 2 in 19.30, is scheduled for Saturday 47 September at the PalaCima in Alessandria, with a tap-off at 2000 pm, which will see Novipiù Casale Monferrato and Bertram Derthona.
The Memorial is promoted and organized by the Idea Onlus association, and was presented on Wednesday morning at the Municipality of Alessandria: advance ticket sales (free offering for charitable purposes) are active at the PalaCamagna in Tortona on Thursday 31 August and Friday 1 September from 17.00pm to 19.00pm. In any case, it will also be possible to purchase coupons on Saturday at the PalaCima.
Thus Paolo Berta, president of the Idea Onlus association: “I would like to thank the members and volunteers of Idea Onlus who have helped in the organization of the Memorial over the last month, especially the “Friends of Ernesto Cima” and the “Trenta Aprile” group ” of Alexandria. I cannot forget the two basketball teams with their leaders: the President Giancarlo Cerutti and the General Director of Novipiù Junior Casale, Marco Martelli; the President Roberto Tava and Luigino Fassino, CEO of Bertram Derthona Basket, the Italian Basketball Federation with its Delegate for the province of Alessandria, Mario Robotti; the sponsors Chamber of Commerce of Alessandria, with its President Gian Paolo Coscia and the General Secretary Roberto Livraghi; the AMAG Group, with CEO Mauro Bressan; the Coop-Novacoop of Alessandria, with the area manager of the Social Policy Area Alessandro Messina; Sunrise Medical represented by Eros Furegato; the Derizio Brothers, Noli Orthopedics of Alessandria, represented by Mauro Serra; the Polleria Boano, with its owner Luigi Boano as well as the CSVAA-Centri Servizi Volontariato Asti e Alessandria, with its Director Cristina Massocco".
The presentation was then concluded by the speech of the Mayor of Alessandria, Gianfranco Cuttica di Revigliasco, and the sports councilor Riccardo Molinari: “We have enthusiastically given municipal patronage to this event, aware that the Cima Memorial is a point of honor in the sporting events of our city. It is because of the prestige of the teams that will compete on the field and which arouse great attractive power towards the sporting public, and because of the strength of the combination between sport and solidarity that has always seen Alessandria at the forefront. We cannot forget the gratitude that the Alessandria community owes to Ernesto Cima, to whom our sports hall was dedicated and a symbolic place of how sport is a training ground for life and not just a place for training: a beautiful metaphor also for how we mean by the harmonious development of our city community."
