Popolana 2010 - first day
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This year’s, fourth in a row, sports and recreational manifestation entitled Populana was opened with song and dance by those youngest in Rovinj
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This year’s, fourth in a row, sports and recreational manifestation entitled Populana was opened with song and dance by those youngest in Rovinj. The entertainment programme at the town quay and the central square gathered young attendees of the town kindergartens Neven and Naridola, pupils from the elementary schools Juraj Dobrila, Vladimir Nazor and Bernardo Benussi, and high school graders of the Italian High School, the Zvane Črnja grammar school and the Eugen Kumičić vocational school. All of them, accompanied by attractive majorettes, animators of Maistra and members of the Rovinj marching band, were active participants of the three day Populana, taking place this year under the motto of “I can! How about you?- Io posso! E tu?”, which eventually gathered some 1,700 participants and as many as 140 sports professionals, as well as more than one hundred volunteers and those into sport.
The fourth edition of Populana likewise included charity work and showing love and care for fellow citizens. Along with promoting sports, this year saw the collection of funds for the Association of disabled persons, aiming at procuring special desks for children with autism. With this in mind, specially designed t-shirts were sold, bearing the emblem of “I can! How about you? - "Io posso! E tu?”, donated by the town Tourist Board, the sale of which cashed in some twenty thousand kuna. The stalls also sold flower pots – a gift from the owners of Rovinj commercial gardens, as well as handicraft by kindergarten children.
The latest Populana simultaneously reminded of its third edition – dedicated to the Jurić family. This young family of five from Rovinjsko Selo, has two gravely ill children, for whom the townsfolk of Rovinj and their Selo collected funds for the construction of a house during several charity campaigns. The house features its roof today, so the citizens of the town of St Euphemia, by and large members of the Association of retirees and the Association of disabled persons, as initiated by the marathon runner Mirjana Kmačić Pellizzer, visited the Jurićs, followed by their walking step by step for seven kilometres from Rovinjsko Selo all the way to Rovinj, under the motto of “Let’s all walk!”
It should be pointed out the entire happening is a project by the Association of sports of the Rovinj town, who – year in and out –succeed more in gathering multitudes of participants, in cooperation with the Tourist Board, the Maistra Hotels company and numerous sports and recreation clubs and associations of Rovinj.
