Lonato and Ipaa Launch Eco Projects Including Tree Census and Park Renovation

The Comune di Lonato (the Department of Ecology led by Deputy Mayor Davide Baccinelli) and the Istituto professionale per l’agricoltura e l’ambiente (Ipaa), located in the San Tomaso district (Principal Vincenzo Donato), have recently launched a collaborative project that will begin with the census of public trees, assessing their health status and identifying potential treatments.

Subsequently, they will move on to designing the renovation of the public park on Via Galilei, in front of the middle school in the center, and later on, to the preparation of high school thesis topics naturally related to the environment and ecology: students will discuss water quality or waste sorting with concrete application models.

“The administration wishes to publicly thank the leaders of this institute,” comments Baccinelli, “for their willingness to collaborate with the Municipality on issues of collective interest. A partnership that, the Municipality hopes, will only be the beginning of a continually more productive relationship with an institution that is developing and is important for the economic fabric of Lonato.

All projects born from this synergy will be publicly presented once completed. The history of this Lonato school is long and troubled, but always connected to the town and its territory. Founded in 1946, it was closed in 1948 by the Brescia Province’s Education Department due to lack of funds.

It reopened in 1966 as Ipsia (Istituto professionale di Stato per l’industria e l’artigianato), a state-run institution, but was able to finally utilize funds from the bequest of Mrs. Girelli—a long-time resident of Lonato who had explicitly expressed her desire to contribute to the creation of an agricultural technical school in the town years earlier.