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Silvio Laccetti Foundation 2020
2020 will be an exciting year for the many college student members, Garibaldi award winners, of the Silvio Laccetti Foundation. At its recent meeting, the foundation committed to two projects of public significance. The first is the Venice Project, which seeks to increase public awareness of the catastrophic economic, ecological, environmental and preservationist problems confronting…
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Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award 2020
The Silvio Laccetti Foundation has just announced a new award, the Charlie Kontos Environmental Activist Award. This award has been named for one of Prof. Laccetti’s Stevens students who went on to begin a promising career in Wildlife Biology. Charlie Kontos was 33 when he died suddently of an undiagnosed heart condition in 2010. Charlie…
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Foundation’s Venice Project an Astounding Success
The Silvio Laccetti Foundation decided in its January 2020 planning meeting to focus attention on the environmental problems of Venice. Originally, their plans called for Garibaldi Award winners to volunteer to raise awareness on their college campuses by showing a film and circulating petitions to ‘help save Venice’ from the behemoth cruise ships which were…