23.8.02023

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Italian

yesterday is Toto Cutugno died in Milan, a city where a Heilbronn mayor loves to shop; By now she should also know that Switzerland is not yet part of the EU.

Toto Cutugno became known to many in 1983 with his song "L'italiano"; us Meeting Point Europe participants in particular because the Coro del Grappa had it in its repertoire. Probably his best-known song dates from 1990 and is entitled "Insieme : 1992" and was created under the impression of the Maastricht Treaty, which brought the EU closer together in 1992. Won with this song Toto Cutugno the Grand Prix de la Chanson de l'Eurovision 1990, securing Italy's second victory.

What now?

Today we can read in the voice of Heilbronn that we are a tourist town, we have been Käthchenstadt for a little longer, as well as a cozy, if not "the most cozy wine village" - although these three topics could be summarized well.

But we are also a large commuter town and recently even a well-signposted university town. There is also Space City and Research City; oh yes, also AI city. In addition, we are also an industrial and commercial city, a former free imperial city, a garrison city and a wine and salt city. The port and trade fair city must not be forgotten either. And even cities with nuclear missiles, sports, culture, the environment, bicycles and multi-culturalism are talked about from time to time. The city with baths, cars, theaters and museums must have been a little longer ago and we were probably a railway city for the last time at the end of the century before last.

If you take a closer look at all this, there is actually almost nothing that we are not (want to be) or have ever been (thought to be).

Inevitably, one has to ask oneself what we actually are or at least want to be. If you want to be and can be everything, you ultimately are and can't do anything at all!

And maybe it's precisely this randomness in Heilbronn that's making things less and less smooth for us. But we all prefer to let our mayor and the voice of Heilbronn surprise us every day, what we Heilbronners are right now.

Birds

So we can be very happy that there are still birds in Heilbronn at all. According to the latest press reports, they are to blame for our very current environmental problems. According to the CDU parliamentary group, it has been the crows and magpies that have been making sure that garbage is everywhere in Heilbronn, especially around the garbage cans, for some time now.

And the fact that the Karlssee beach had to be closed yesterday is due to the germ load, which is too high due to the heat combined with contamination by waterfowl. This was announced by the city of Heilbronn's voice.

You could also explain to your fellow citizens that it actually makes a big difference whether you pee in the Neckar or in a small lake. And in any case, existing public restrooms would be a way to minimize the germ load throughout the city — the birds would definitely thank us.

Chlorine continues to reduce fecal pollution in our public baths, where birds can hardly be blamed — but who knows what birds do after dark?

Our southern European neighbors have long been a whole step further. They blame the introduction of too much human faeces for the beach closures, because "according to experts, the sewage systems are generally so dilapidated that the ingress of dirty water into the Mediterranean cannot be prevented."

The Italians and Spaniards could easily do without the renovation of their sewage treatment plants, we only have to tell them once that the whole thing is due to the many seagulls that cavort on the beaches there — just like here on the North and Baltic Sea.

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