They are passes 50 years to you nevertheless it seems yesterday that prof. the Michele Antenore reached from Triggiano, in those of Bariums, to Torremaggiore with 1' assignment of the Provveditore to the studies in order to teach "letters", in our Medium School, addressed to the Preside for knowing if in Torremaggiore were a Group of Scouts for being able to continue its service of begun educator before already various years. In Torremaggiore, except some temporary experience between 1944 and 1945 in occasion of the presence of the allied troops, a Scout Group was not present. Preside of the Medium School don Antonio Lamedica accepted endured the idea to give life to a Group A.S.C.I. (Italian Catholic Scautistica Association) proposed from the Antenore and gave to these the authorization to speak about the Method of Baden Powell to the students who attended the school. The first boys, fascinate you from the adventure that the Scoutismo proposed and also for diversivo to monotona the life of country, introduced themselves to house of the Antenore in order to constitute the first nucleus of what it would have been the future I leave again of Group A.S.C.I. Torremaggiore 1°. It was necessary an ecclesiastical Assistant that she placed side by side the job of Antenore Head and don Antonio - also on sollicitation of mons. Bordering, Severo Bishop Saint - not if it made to say it two times putting, therefore, to disposition of the newborn I share its numerous experiences of Salesiano, convinced to accept whichever sacrifice for the good of the youth and not lesinando that enthusiasm that characterized it especially of forehead to the innovationes. II group of boys grew more and more of number and it was not more possible to accommodate them all in house of the "University professor", cosi called the Antenore affectionately its boys and speaking about they it said "my sons". A center was attempted that it was put to disposition from the Sig.na Filomena Ciaccia in Via Sacco and Vanzetti. All requirement for 1' opening of the Group by now were and with the aid of the Provincial Commissioner of the time, the ins. Mario Fasano, came officially opened the Group: it was 1949

1949

When he begins it them group of exploratory wore for before turns the uniform scaut, between the admiration of some and the ilarità of others, new supporters introduced themselves in the center scaut in order to enroll themselves and with these, also, a discreet number of children around to the ten years that, for the age, could not make part of constituted Riparto as soon as. In 1952 he came opened the Branco in order to receive the children from the 8 to the 12 years because young Head, Happy Pontonio, than left the college, only attended the local Grammar school classico.Anche the Branco had endured tantissime adhesions, between which that one of writing, and the First "promises" came pronounced in the July of 1953

He does not go forgotten that for the opening of the Branco and in its first years of life the collaboration of Antonio Iafelice was precious, a Head of the Saint Group Severo 1°, while that the Pontonio completed its iter of formation in order to become Head. The center of Via Sacco and Vanzetti came more left for the other widest one and adapted the activities that the Group went carrying out. At first it was moved to us in a premises, not great, of the Church of the Carmine and then in antisagrestia of the Saint Parish the Matrix Nicholas where it remained in order nearly twenty years. Exploratory the largest ones, completed the seventeenth year of ages, constituted the first group of Rovers that in the 1958 gave life to the third Unit of the Group, the Clan, than therefore caught up its thoroughness. In 1959, in occasion of DECENNIAL, the Group it was engaged in various activities is inner that external. Just that year, prof. the Michele Antenore left transferred Torremaggiore because in its Triggiano. It that it conserved loads with Head Group, before leaving he wanted to entrust to the Madonna of the Scouts the fate of the Group and its members. Until its dipartita one it conserved the title it of Head emerito Group to memory of the profuse good between the young people of Torremaggiore and like founder of Group A.S.C.I. Torremaggiore 1°.

In 1974 the A.S.C.I. (become in the Italian meantime Association Scouts Catholic) and the A.G.I. (Association Italian Guides) respective the male branch and that feminine one of the Italian catholic Scoutismo were melted in an only Association, the A.G.E.S.C.I. . The fusion had place also in Torremaggiore inasmuch as a Group A.G.I. gives approximately a decade was present in our City. The years that followed saw the Group engaged in the various activities deriving from the traditions, by now consolidated, of the two Groups met in the A.G.E.S.C.I. and from new goals proposed to the boys and the girls with the modernization of the methodology of the Scoutismo that put in Association of Bologna the "coeducazione". In short all the Method came enclosed in the slogan: "MALES And FEMALES ARE BORN THEMSELVES BUT MEN And WOMEN BECOME THEMSELVES". With 1979 he came celebrated thirtieth of foundation of the Group with one great participation of Scout and coming from Guide from all the province of Foggia. During this period it has been given to a remarkable impulse to the foundation of the Community Heads with the qualification of its Members in order to improve the service to the boys and the girls entrusted from the families to the Group. At the same time it has been carried out a work of sensibilizzazione in the comparisons of the parents in order to render them more responsibles and participates to the life of the Group that in the meantime, thanks to the ecclesiastical assistant don Antonio Lamedica, received "incomodato" a new center, in the pressed ones of the pineta communal, from part of the Ancelle Nuns of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 1989, with an entire week of intense and characterized activities, it has been celebrated the "forty year period" of the foundation of the Torremaggiore1° Group. In the meantime, in our City, it had been opened a second Group that received many boys and girls who wanted living the adventure of the Scoutismo. Years "ninety" have seen the Group to above all carry out a great size of activity in social field. The engagement for a city more to man measure has seen the realization of plans in collaboration with the Social Services in favor of handicapped boys; the drawing up of a "book white man", delivered to the Communal Administration, in which the degradation of some quarters was presssed charges, in reference to the refusals and the lack of green very cured, and to the communal rubbish dump; the realization of "murales" in order embellishing the walls; the construction of baskets paper holder in wood. Lately they have been realized to fioriere in wood in order to embellish the city roads. The engagement for the resolution of the problems that plague Torremaggiore is, from various years, to the first places in the programs of the Group. For This engagement that the Scouts and Guide constantly profondono, would want one greater collaboration from part of the Communal Administration. 1993 have been a year of mourning for the Group that endured the loss of the Assistant mons. Antonio Lamedica who a lot has made and given for its Scouts. Because its memory remained yesterday to future memory - between the young people, today and tomorrow the Group has made to erect a monument to the margins of the pineta become, in all the hours of the day, the place of meeting of many young people that It prepreferred. Also leaving an empty incolmabile, don Antonio is always in our hearts; it is thanks to its tenacity that today children, boys and young people of ambo the seies can know the ideal intramontabili that the Scoutismo proposes in order to leave the world a po' better than as they have found it.