Sons Of Italy - Trieste Lodge

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Sons of Italy
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President’s Message
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H A M I L T O N
Septemer 2016
ear Brothers and Sisters, I
am honoured to write to
you for the first time as
President of the Trieste Lodge. I was
introduced to the Lodge by the late
Leonard Capone, my father in-law
several years ago. Attending events
with my family were truly memorable
times. I am now humbled to be your
President.
in September 2016 I hope you are pleased with some of the
changes that were made during the summer break.
I would like to thank our Past President Lou Filice for his
dedication to the lodge. His term as President was exemplary,
and I am fortunuate to follow in his footsteps. I look forward
to working with the outstanding group of individuals that
comprise your new executive and I wish to welcome our
newest trustees to the board – Alex Olivieri, Steven Zecchin,
and Gasper Lipari. I also would like to thank our departing
trustees, Justin Little and Eugene Catania for their service over
the past years.
At our June meeting we announced that the Italian- Canadian
Citizen of the Year for 2016. The award will be presented at
our Gala Dinner to be held on November 19nd, 2016 at Liuna
Gardens. Tickets are available by contacting Br. Lucas Costanzo
or any member of the executive. Please mark your calendar
accordingly.
Our annual golf tournament held on June 16th at Glendale
Golf Club was another great success, with over 100 golfers
participating. Congratulations to Br.Ralph Oliveri, Br. Frank
Merolli, Lewis Merolli, Enrico Seminerio and Justin Little and
the entire committee on a wonderful event. I wish to express
my gratitude to all the golfers and sponsors for supporting this
event.
The month of September has many different meanings to
different people, but to Italians in Hamilton, September means
Festitalia!! This year’s Festitalia calendar is full of wonderful
events. Please look inside the newsletter for more details. Our
Regional Food Night “Cucina Tradizionale” will be held on
Wednesday September 28, 2016 at 6:30 at our Hall. $40.00 per
person. Please contact Br. Anthony Chiarelli for tickets.
I look forward to an exciting year of fun and fraternity and I
hope to see everyone at our first general meeting on Tuesday
September 13, 2016.
Fraternally Yours,
Loris Pilot
President
Order Sons of Italy
Trieste Lodge
Liberty – Equality – Fraternity
Looking ahead, our event calendar is full and offers something
for everyone. I encourage our members to attend our events
with family and friends so they may appreciate our rich Italian
culture and warm fellowship. Our first general meeting will be
held on Tuesday September 13, 2016. I would like to remind
all our members that our General Meetings are always the 2nd
Tuesday of the month from September to June. Our September
meeting is our traditional “Steak Dinner” at 7:00 pm. I am sure
it will be a full house, so come early. When entering the hall
NEXT GENERAL MEETING: Tuesday, September 13, 2016
L I B E R T Y
E Q U A L I T Y
F R A T E R N I T Y
Letter from
the Editors
C
iao Brothers and Sisters,
We hope you have had
an excellent summer and
would like to cordially welcome
everyone back to the lodge!
Anthony and I (Jessica) would
like to introduce ourselves as your
new social media and newsletter
editors. Please feel free to talk to us
at meetings or send us a message
via phone or email if you have
any stories, news, updates, recipes,
opinions, pictures, events etc. you
would like to share with your fellow
SOI brothers and sisters. We will
try our best to incorporate as much
content and news as we can into
the newsletter, website, and social
media platforms as to keep all
members informed and up-to-date
with all the exciting things going on
at and surrounding the SOI.
Tribute to Paolo Tosti
T
he Federazione Abruzzese Distretto di Hamilton, The Hamilton Dante Center
for Italian Language & Culture Inc, The Festitalia Corporation of Hamilton,
The Order Sons of Italy Trieste Lodge and with the sponsorship of The Istituto
di Cultura Italiana of Toronto are pleased to present, during Festitalia 2016, a musical
tribute to Paolo Tosti, a renowned composer of Abruzzese origin. Soprano Angela
Papale & Maestro Fabio Marra play in a chamber music duo, Soprano and Piano, with
intensive concert activity. The free concert will take place on Tuesday September 27th
at 7:30 pm at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Bowling Team Updates
T
he Bowling Team will start up again on Monday, September 12th, 7:30pm
at Sherwood Lanes. New bowlers are welcome! Call Tony Giardino for more
information (contact info at back of newsletter).
Niagara Wine Tour/Tasting,
Dinner and Movie
Saturday, September 17, 2016
3:15 Bus pick-up at Eastgate Square (Return at 9:45 pm)
Sincerely,
Wine Tour/Tasting: at Cave Spring Winery in Jordan
Italian Dinner at Caffè Gatti (St. Catharines)
Antipasto: Prosciutto, Cheeses, Olives, fresh bread
Primo: Pasta corta with fresh tomato and basil
Secondo (pre-select one):
Cotoletta di Vitello con Rapini OR Salmone al Limone con Insalata Mista
Dolce: Fine Italian Pasticcini Tea, Coffee, Espresso
Vini: Choice of Pinot Grigio or Primitivo
Br. Anthony Chiarelli
905-517-8957
Sr. Jessica Petrunti
905-512-2919
Email: newsletter_admin@
sonsofitalyhamilton.org
Film Screening (7:00 pm) at the new Film House in
downtown St. Catharines:
Mia Madre (2015) by Nanni Moretti
All-inclusive price: $75.00 per person.
Reservations and Payment required by Sept. 10.
Contacts: Charles ([email protected])
Matt ([email protected])
Ernesto ([email protected])
agrozaffiro.com
One James St. South, 4th floor
Hamilton, ON, Canada L8P 4R5
p. 905-527-6877 f. 905-527-6843
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Charles P. Criminisi
Vanda A. Santini
David A. Elliot
Z. S. Pete Volaric
Kathryn A. McKague
Jeffrey E. Naganobu
Julian R.G. Thomas
Nina L. Di Pietro
Jennifer L. Somerville
Paul H. Philp
M. Edward Key
D. Dean Obradovic
James H. Aire
Sabatina N. Vassalli
Devon M. Ryerse
Andrea S. Griese
David J. Henderson
Andrew L. Keesmaat
Christopher P. Klinowski
Kelly A. Dunn
Louis A. Grilli
Jeffrey R. Goit
Jason A. Pilgrim
Monika S. Korona
Bradley M. Remigis
Charles P. Criminisi, LL.B.
Direct Line: (905) 527-6877, ext. 411
Direct Fax: (905) 527-6169 | Email: [email protected]
Festitalia Event Schedule – 2016
R
agazzi! The 41st Anniversary of Festitalia is upon us this September. As per usual, there is a wonderful line-up of events
taking place this month, and we encourage you all to take part in such a momentous time of the year. We would like to
remind everyone that our Regional Dinner will be taking place on Wednesday September 28th at 6:30pm at our hall.
Tickets are $40 and if you are interested in purchasing some, please contact: Br. Anthony Chiarelli (905) 517-8957.
Wed Sep 07 2016
Festitalia Opening
Thu Sep 08 2016
Venetian Club Regional Dinner
Fri Sep 09 2016
Festa Della Chitarra
Donnici Club Regional Dinner
Tue Sep 27 2016
Concerto Italiano
Thu Sep 15 2016
Festitalia serves at
The Good Shepherd
Wed Sep 28 2016
Sons of Italy Dinner
Fri Sep 16 2016
Alpini Club Regional Dinner
Sat Sep 10 2016
Locke St. Festival
Pettorano Sul Gizio Dinner
Sat Sep 17 2016
Wine Tour and Film
Southern Ontario Lyric Opera
Niagara Wine Tour/Tasting,
Dinner and Movie
Grape Stomp Competition
Sun Sep 11 2016
Festitalia Mass
Pugliese Club Regional Dinner
Sun Sep 18 2016
Santa Croce di Magliano Club
Regional Dinner
Wed Sep 14 2016
Federazione Abruzzese
Regional Dinner
Sun Sep 25 2016
Famèe Furlane Dinner
Fri Sep 30 2016
Sicilia Canta
La Vita E’ Bella Radio Show – CFMU 93.3 FM
C
ari Fratelli e Sorelle! We would
like to invite and remind you to
tune in with our very own local
Italian radio show “La Vita e’ Bella” based
out of the CFMU Studios at McMaster
University with VJ Stefano & VJ Luca. Live
every Sunday from 12.00 A.M to 1.00 P.M
on 93.3 FM! You can also stream the show
online on the official CFMU website cfmu.
msumcmaster.ca and a recorded piece
will be posted on the official facebook
page www.facebook.com/vjstefano. Like
the page to get updates on beautiful news,
events and pictures!
La Vita e’ Bella is a radio show created with
the intention to entertain and support
the Italian community in Hamilton and
surroundings and in particular those part
of the Sons of Italy Trieste Lodge with
updates with upcoming events and special
announcements, it strives to maintain and
spread the Italian language, traditions
and culture facing extinction in today’s
Canadian society. The topics vary from
medicine to science, sports to cinema,
cooking to literature and much more.
Given the particular nature of the target
audience the music played mirrors such
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Bus: (905) 523-1333
Direct Dial: (905) 526-4376
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peculiarity with music that ranges from
the 50’s up until today.
Any member interested in getting involved
with the show or that would like to make
any type of requests from dedicating a
song for a special event as a birthday/
anniversary or to discuss about a particular
important event is more than welcome
to contact Br. Steven Zecchin via e-mail
[email protected] or directly via
phone at 289-925-4362.
SOI Choir
A
fter a wonderful and hot Summer
the Sons of Italy Choir is ready
to restart rehearsals for the Fall
and Christmas Season. Rehearsals will
start on Wednesday September 7, 2016,
7:15 pm. We are still looking for New
Choir members both men and women.
no experience required, just a love for
singing. Rehearsals are every Wednesday
night from 7:15 pm to 9:30 pm. for more
information you can call Angelo at 905
388 0872.
The Choir will be performing at:
The Locke St. Festival ( in front of Mr.
Tony’s Hairstyle ) on Sept. 10, 2016,
from 12:00 noon to 1:00pm.
Friday Sept. 16, 2016, 6:30 pm at The
Church of Ascension, 64 Forest Ave.
Wednesday Sept. 28, 2016, 7:00 pm at
Carlisle Retirement Home, Main St.
East. ( The former Cathedral Girls High
School )
Also Mark on your Calendar Saturday
Dec. 3, 2016, The Sons of Italy Choir’s
Christmas Concert Dinner and Dance.
Hope to see some of you at one of our
performances.
Congratulations and welcome to our
new Sons of Italy Trieste lodge Executive.
We are looking forward to working
together in the coming year.
Auguri e Buon Lavoro
La Cantina Italiana
“Prima i conserva e poi si gode”
L
ast May we asked our members
to answer a simple question,
“What was in your father’s
(grandfather’s) cantina?” and we
received dozens of lists from members
ready to share the treasures from their
traditional storerooms–all of them
proud and delicious. My nonna Romana,
Margherita’s dictionary says: “Cantina una stanza sotteranea dove si custodisce
il vino.”
Our forefathers who were poor
“contadini” walked out to the land,
worked dawn to dusk; they harvested
and preserved the fruits of their backbreaking efforts. Our ancestors were
workers: some were “analfabeti, ma
saggi, sempre laboriosi.” Their work
was relentless, their pleasures simple.
Frugality was paramount, nothing went
to waste. The cantina was a treasury, a
storeroom of “necessità e delizie”; it was
filled with the work of human hands,
there was a prudent storing away of
what would be savoured in due time
in another season. The contents of the
“magazzino” was not only the means to
nourish and enrich the table, it also held
the spirit and bounty for the family.
“I piatti casalinghi tradizionali sono
di buon gusto e la cucina casareccia è
ineguale per mondo.”
“Vini, salumi, olio d’oliva, in
abbondanza nella cantina.” I remember
my nonna marchigana telling me:
“Berto, va giu bass e pigl’ il vino del
cantin.” My grandparents’ basement
has a Herculean, Volcanic furnace with
enormous tentacles a coal basin and
then the cantina. I knew where to go, to
that door behind which there were such
exquisite, sharp and familiar odours.
“Nella chiesa si trovano i santi. Nella
cantina si trovano tante abbondanze
della tavola.” You know so well that
there is an incomparable pride in each
family’s wine: “La vita è troppo breve,
bere vini mediocri, ecco provate il mio,
perche è ottimo, vero?” Allora, enjoy the
following answers; they’re not listed in
any order of importance or preference,
all are posted with interest and respect
to honour the place of our two most
important household rooms: la cantina
e la cucina!
Angelo Venditti, suo nonno, Fortunato
Iorio (Molisani): Vino, winter apples,
potatoes, jars of sausages sott’olio,
prosciutto, almonds dried olives.
John Foglietta, nonno Pamfilio
Ventresca: Vino, prosciutto, cheese,
potatoes.
Lewis Merolli: Tomatoes, bottled and
jarred; canned peaches.
Lou Filice, presidente passato
(Abruzzese): Vino, alcohol, jarred
tomatoes, beets, eggplant, peppers,
olives, sausage, cheese, soppresatta,
capocollo, prosciutto.
Robert Skaljin and Guido DiCesare
presidenti egregi passati: Vino è sempre
il re della cantina; conserva e confettura.
cont’d next page
La Cantina Italiana cont’d
“Prima i conserva e poi si gode”
Carmine Filice, presidente passato
(Abruzzese): Clay pot of vinegar,
tomatoes on the vine, demijohn of wine,
cigars, barrels of wine, torchio per uva.
Teresa Pagliaro: Salsa, pickled zucchini,
peaches, jam, sausage, prosciutto,
capocollo, espresso, damigana di vino.
Livio DiNello e padre (Abruzzese): 3
wooden barrels each 3000 litres, cement
tank of 400 litres, 3 copper containers each 25-30 litres, demijohns and open
wooden barrels.
Joseph Santaguida: Salsa di pomidoro,
peaches in jars, cracked olives, vino.
Frank Attardo (Siciliano): Vino,
aceto, “Unico” pasta in big boxes, fresh
and dried sausages, Pop - Diamond
beverages.
Joseph Savelli cousin Ettore Silvi
(Lazio): Vino, stainless steel vats of olive
oil, garlic, onions, farm tools and trailer
for olive grove in San Biagio, Nerola
Sabrina.
Larry Di Ianni (Abruzzese): Vino,
preserves, sausages, fruit, cheese.
Pauline Hewak grandfather’s cantina:
Wine, root beer, cookies, bottled
tomatoes.
Louis Firmi and Enrico Firmi: Wine
and salsa di pomodori.
Al Genesee: Wine, tomato sauce, peppers
in jars, cheese, sausage, salami, olive oil.
Mauro Di Pietro: Vino, pomodori,
salsicce patate, salami, frutta, prosciutto.
Emilio Ventresca: Vino, pomodori,
prosciutto.
Eddy Della Maestra: Salami, pancetta,
vino, prosciutto, grappa.
Rinaldo Agostino Sartor and Jack
Sartor: Wine tomato paste, equipment
for fermentation.
Joe Monachino, Pres. Grande Consiglio:
Olives, wine, almonds.
Luciano
Cavallin,
Trevisano
incomparabile: Salami, prosciutto,
pancetta, vino; in winter we would bring
in empty grape cases, earth-filled to
plant radicchio; cheese for aging.
The “Cantina” is a place where,
pride, tradition, hard work and
prudence reside.
E per fare una bella fine, ecco gualche
cosa inedibile ma tradizionale trovata
nella cantina dei nostri fratelli: ma
guard’ un po’ per bacco! –
• A statue of “La Moadonna”
• A rosary
• A portrait of “Santo Padre Pio”
• A framed reminder: “Del vino, sempre
meglio bere che invecchiare.”
A second edition of La Cantina:
“benpresto.”
Ci allegriamo in fraternità
Lucas Costanzo e Bob Savelli.
Ecco un’elenco a memoria una vera
bontà di buon sapore– la poesia della
cantina:
Aceto
Fagioli
Sacchi di lenticchi
Cinghiale in agrodolce
Pepperoncini
Tartufi
Bresaola
Herbaccio
Conserva
Confettura
Salsicci in fila
Collona di aglio
Olio d’oliva, senz’ attro
Mortadella
Coglioni di mulo
Formaggio odoroso
Nastri d’aglio
Salami
Sardines
Vino rosso e blanco re della
cantina
Prosciutto crudo
Salami e caponata
Verdure sott’olio
Mazza dei fici secchi
Capocollo
Scorza di limone
Liquore fatt’ in casa
Tonno in vasetti
This list is offered in Italian for the
beauty of its sounds for its poetry. The
only term you might want to be clearly
aware of : “Coglioni di mulo” - Testicles
of the mule. A well-known, much used
term in Norcia, Lazio, Italy– a type of
pork sausage in the form of …
Reproduce the list at your preference,
most of the v=words would be found in
a “cantina or cucina.”
-Bob Savelli
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Event Calendar
For those wishing to help with the following events, please see your Executive.
Regional Food Night
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Upcoming General Meeting
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Upcoming General Meeting
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Rent the Sons of Italy
Trieste Lodge Hall
Available for a variety of social events.
For rental Inquiries please contact
DMS Property Management
at 905-524-2985.
Sons of Italy
Executive 2016/2017
President
Loris Pilot
Cell. 905-518-1779
Past President
Luigi Filice
Res. 905-643-0594 Bus. 905-388-5251 x23
Vice President
Lewis Merolli
Res. 905-930-8762 Bus. 905-664-5088
Orator
Livio Di Nello
Res. 905-389-6930
Adm. Secretary
Joe Mongiardi
Res. 905-385-7845
Recording Secretary
Eugene Stodolak
Res. 905-573-0372 Cell. 905-730-7176
Treasurer
Lucas Costanzo
Cell: 905-517-9043 [email protected]
Chartered Accountants, LL.P.
TONY CIPOLLA, CA
Joseph Monachino, CA
Peter Bartens, CA
Vito SGRO, CA
Sam CipolLa, CA
Trustees
Tony Giardino
Res. 289-389-2917 Bus. 905-389-6760
Anthony Chiarelli
Cell. 905-517-8957
Andrew Monachino
Res. 908-383-1903 Cell. 905-902-1483
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