Riva Scout Group Celebrates 80 Years of Service and Values

The Gruppo Agesci di Riva will celebrate its 80th anniversary on Sunday. It was founded in 1921 thanks to Luigi Avancini and don Gamberoni, who were the first to bring scouting to Trentino.

After a peaceful beginning marked by enthusiasm for the values promoted by scouting, which can be summarized as a substantial altruism—meaning attention to others’ needs and willingness to lend a hand wherever and whenever possible—difficulties began to emerge when fascism imposed its Youth Organization, erasing the others.

The scouts resumed activities in 1945, around Don Giovanni Parolari, Vittorio Sisler, and Lino Zucchelli. Since then, without further hesitation, Cub Scouts, Explorers, Guides, and Rangers have continued year after year, generation after generation, to uphold the spirit of Baden Powell, who urged his boys to live and act in ways that would leave the world a little better than they found it.

Celebrations and Activities

Within the association or within the pockets of need that even a wealthy and opulent society like ours continues to hide, scouts have never failed to live up to their motto, helping in a hundred ways anyone in need.

The celebrations will begin at 2 p.m. in the cloister of the Inviolata convent, with the raising of the flag and presentations from the current Riva group; followed by the Holy Mass concelebrated by the leaders, starting with Don Giovanni Parolari, and a performance at the Oratory’s theater.

Also in the cloister, a photographic exhibition has been set up to recount these eighty years of life, and it will remain visible throughout the week.