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Baseball: Alessandro Volpe, il sogno azzurro è vicino

TORONTO – L’impegno paga. Lo sa bene Alessandro Volpe (nella foto sopra), 17 anni compiuti un mese fa, battitore di baseball che da anni si allena ogni giorno, per ore, con abnegazione e spirito di sacrificio. “Every single day since 2015. #NoDaysOff”, come ha scritto lo stesso giovane italocanadese sul suo profilo Twitter poco più di un anno fa, postando il video di un allenamento, che è diventato virale, raggiungendo 18.500 visualizzazioni… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Baseball: Alessandro Volpe, the “Azzurri” dream is now closer

TORONTO – Commitment and hard work can pay off. Alessandro Volpe, a baseball player who celebrated his 17th birthday a month ago, who for years has been training every day, for hours, with self-denial and a spirit of sacrifice, is well aware of this. “Every single day since 2015. #NoDaysOff”, as the young Italian Canadian himself wrote on his Twitter profile just over a year ago. He had posted a video of a workout, which went viral, reaching 18,500 views. 

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Italian and Indigenous cuisine together: interview with Theresa Contois (and the Native’s recipe for bison stew)

VANCOUVER – A “culinary” bridge between the Italian and Indigenous communities: the idea comes from Apci Canada, the Professional Association of Italian Chefs chaired by Chef Giovanni Trigona, an Italian in Vancouver, British Columbia, who is currently launching a collaboration with fellow Chef Theresa Contois, a Native of the Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba. A friendship destined to lay the foundations for a series of initiatives that will see the collaboration of Italian and Native chefs for the first time in history (in the pic above, Giovanni and Theresa). 

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