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NON-PROFIT THE US POSTAGE PAID MILWAUKEE, WI ITALIAN TIMES Permit No. 5716 Published 11 times annually by the Italian Community Center 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202 Become a member of the Italian www.ICCMilwaukee.com Community Center and you will receive SEPTEMBER 2019 • VOL. 41, NO. 2 home delivery of this publication. Your address label will be placed here. – CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED – Festa Chair/ICC President Joe Emanuele reports on highs and lows of 42nd Festa Dear Members: nificantly larger gate ticket sales. Our 42nd annual Festa is now in Among the highlights this year the books. I think we accomplished a was the Mass, held for the first time lot by expanding the grounds and on the BMO Harris Stage. I want to giving the people more to see, taste compliment Sr. Marie Louise Bal- and enjoy. Our goal was to give this istreri and Sal Lo Coco and their year’s festival the feel and excitement committee for doing an outstanding of the Festas all of us remember from job. years ago. I think we accomplished The Italian Heritage Exhibit was that. outstanding. We received many nice People definitely enjoyed Festa. comments about the exhibit, all of Many people told me in person, and I which is due to the hard work put in received numerous letters with kind by Chris Conley and her committee. words. The Campari Club was very suc- Unfortunately, we lost a day and a cessful. It was an excellent addition half to the weather, which is going to to Festa and had a significant impact impact our bottom line. on our beverage sales, which were Overall, I think we brought back much higher this year than in the re- the luster to Festa, giving us some- cent past. Credit here must go to thing significant to build upon for Michael Maida and his volunteers. next year. Rich Busalacchi and his Food One of the things we decided to Committee volunteers did an excel- do this year was to cut back on the lent job with the addition of a few number of complimentary tickets we new food vendors and bringing back issue. The result was a sizable in- many of our longtime favorites. Here is ICC President/Festa General Chair Joe Emanuele (right) with Harry crease in advance ticket sales and sig- Continued on page 6 Wayne Casey (KC) of KC and The Sunshine Band, in a photo taken just min- utes before the concert started on July 20. (Times photo by Tom Hemman) Membership accepts slate of officers and directors nominated for next term, meaning no election required By Thomas Hemman • President – Joseph T. Emanuele Times Editor (second consecutive term). For only the second time in the • Vice President – Rose Anne 41-year history of the organization, Ceraso Fritchie (second consecutive an election will not be required to de- term). termine who will serve as the officers • Treasurer – Ted Catalano (third and directors on the Italian Commu- consecutive term). nity Center Board for the next term Continued on page 5 that officially begins Nov. 1. The Nominating Committee pre- sented a proposed slate of the five of- Cosa c’è dentro? ficers and four directors to the What’s inside? members attending the Aug. 15 gen- eral meeting that was accepted in its Many fun events for all entirety. in September & October page 3 The ICC Bylaws enable members in attendance at the August meeting Remembering Eddie Glorioso page 7 to place additional members’ names in nomination for any and all of the Tradizione Vivente hosting positions, but that did not happen. IFAFA Conference, Chris Conley to be honored page 8 The end result is that there is no need to conduct an election. UNICO Ladies, Pompeii The only other time that happened Men announce events page 9 was in 2011. Pompeii Women installs new Instead of an annoucement of the officers and directors page 11 election results at the October general meeting, scheduled for Thursday, Start to finish Festa coverage pages 14-25, 28 and 32 Oct. 24, the newly elected officers and directors will be sworn in, ICC Festa Italiana 2019 had its share of highs – such as great food, excellent cultural Mass Committee offers its President Joseph T. Emanuele told thanks to many page 20 exhibits, a well attended Sunday Mass, enough quality entertainment to satisfy The Italian Times. everyone’s taste and a fabulous fireworks finale (seen here) and its share of lows Who won the Festa – like heat, humidity and storms which ruined the first day and a half of the fes- With the members’ total accept- Raffle prizes? page 21 tival. The pyrotechnics shows on July 20-21 were presented by Wolvervine Fire- ance of the Nominating Committee’s Sezione Italiana pagine 26-27 works (Jeff Bartolotta and company). We will keep the many Festa photos inside slate, these are the officers and direc- this issue to the highs of the 42nd annual Festa. (Times photo by Craig Schoe- tors who will be serving the ICC in ICC Bylaws pages 29-31 nung) the next term: Grazie Mille a Tutti – Many Thanks to Our 2019 Sponsors! eneral everage Sales Co. Pompeii International Women’s Club Autos Milwaukee Brewers Jeff Bartolotta PAGE 2 – SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ITALIAN TIMES Free movie nights, moonlight bocce tournament, Halloween costume dance offered Membership Committee announces fun activities in September and October By Mary Anne Ceraso-Alioto courtyard. prizes for Best Group Costume, Best to make sure that you have the best Membership Committee Chair Films on our Movie Night are al- Adult Costume, Best Teen Costume time celebrating and sharing with The Membership Committee is re- ways shown at 7:15 p.m. whether in- and Best Child Costume. Alioto En- your fellow members at the Italian ally gearing up for the fall this year. I side or outside. We do an email blast tertainment will be spinning the Community Center. We are always hope everyone is well rested and to members on the Thursday prior to songs. Be ready to dance your socks looking for new ideas and members ready to go after our hard work at the showing as to which area we will off. The fun starts at 7 p.m. and goes to join our committee, so please feel Festa Italiana. be using. (Or you may call the ICC to 11 p.m. with Italian sausage sand- free to reach out to me or just come to We had many people stop by the Office at 414-223-2180). We sell Ital- wiches, nachos, snacks, beer, wine our monthly meeting at 6 p.m. in Membership Committee table set up ian sausage sandwiches and will have and soda available for purchase. Cafe La Scala on the first Thursday in Festa’s Cucina Showcase. Some wine, beer and soda available at the Members are free and non-members of the month. We would love to in- signing up to become members. If movie. Cafe La Scala will also be are $10 each. clude you in making our ICC the best you know someone who picked up a open. If this sounds like a lot to do in the place you can be proud to be a mem- membership form at Festa but hasn’t next couple of months, it is. We want ber. Moonlight Bocce Tournament sent in it yet, encourage them to do it on Saturday, Oct. 5 so they can participate in all the great On Saturday, Oct. 5 at 6 p.m., we activities we have planned for the have booked the bocce court for our fall. next Moonlight Bocce Tournament. September movie: We will be doing a single elimination Saturday Night Fever tournament. We have room for 16 Our next free Movie Night is on teams. So if you can put together a Friday, Sept. 13, when we will be team of four players, please contact showing “Saturday Night Fever” the ICC Office (414-223-2180) to starring a young John Travolta. sign up. The cost is $40 per team. The Come on in and join us with a flash first 16 teams to sign up are assured back to the early years of disco- of playing that night, so don’t wait mania. We will attempt to show the too long to get your team together. film in the courtyard. Of course, it de- We had so much fun with the first pends upon weather. tournament in March. We’re fine-tun- We managed to show La Dolce ing some of the details to make it Vita in the courtyard on Aug. 9 and more enjoyable this time. had a beautiful evening in a beautiful We will still have cash prizes (to setting. We are so lucky to have our be determined by the number of teams participating) and will have free pizza and Italian sausage sand- Deadline for our wiches, and will be selling wine, beer October 2019 issue and soda. October movie: All advertising copy, news sto- Roman Holiday ries and photos for publication in On Friday, Oct. 11, we will be the October 2019 issue of The Ita- showing the 1953 classic “Roman lian Times must be submitted to Holiday,” starring Audrey Hepburn, the editor no later than Wednes- Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert. day, Sept. 11. All materials can be emailed to Halloween Costume Dance editor Tom Hemman at them- Then, on Saturday, Oct. 19 we are [email protected] or sent hosting our first Halloween Costume to The Italian Times, 631 E. Dance. Come celebrate the holiday Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI with us in costume.