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NEWSLETTER ottobre 2019

SEPTEMBER MEETING 8 December, Sunday: SPECIAL DAYS Riunione settembre AIH Family Party at Manakiki IN OCTOBER Our September Membership Meeting on the Country Club from 11:00a to 4:00p. The Co- Tue, 1 Oct ...... International Coffee Day 25th, was back at Pine Ridge Country Club Chairs are Don Rapposelli and Richard Fri, 4 Oct ...... Taco Day where we were entertained by John Adams, the O’Keefe. Additional information will be Sat, 5 Oct...... Astronomy Day Indians’ Bleacher Drummer. forthcoming. Reservations are required Sun, 6 Oct...... Mad Hatter Day See attached flyer Tue, 8 Oct ...... Pierogi Day UPCOMING EVENTS Thu, 10 Oct ...... Handbag Day Prossimi eventi Fri, 11 Oct ...... It’s My Party Day OCTOBER ottobre OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS Sun, 13 Oct...... International Skeptics Day Compleanni di ottobre 9 October, Wednesday Mon, 14 Oct ...... Angelo Cicconetti ...... 2 AIHC Executive Committee Meeting at The Thu, 17 Oct ...... Wear Something Gaudy Day Tony Cicirella ...... 4 Mentor Firefighter’s Museum @ 5:30p. Fri, 18 Oct ...... Chocolate Cupcake Day Adolfo DeGennaro ...... 2 23 October, Wednesday Sat, 19 Oct...... Sweetest Day Mike LaMalfa ...... 4 AIH Executive Committee Meeting at The Mon, 21 Oct ...... Count your Buttons Day Joe Petrarca Jr...... 24 Mentor Firefighter’s Museum @ 7:00p. Thu, 24 Oct ...... Bologna Day 30 October, Wednesday: When you see these members this month, be Sat, 26 Oct...... Howl at the Moon Day AIH Membership Meeting and Annual Clam sure to wish them buon compleanno. Sun, 27 Oct...... American Beer Day Bake at Pine Ridge Country Club @ 6:30p. Wed, 30 Oct...... Candy Corn Day Spouses are invited. This event is chaired by Thu, 31 Oct ...... Vince Pona. HEALTH AND WELFARE Data taken from timeanddate.com Reservations are required salute e benessere See attached flyer Member Glenn Pizzuti’s passed away on September 19 at the age of 96. THE GREGORIAN NOVEMBER novembre CALENDAR 13 November, Wednesday Member John DeAngelo is recovering from surgery. If you stop to think about it, it’s a miracle of AIH Executive Committee Meeting at The sorts that the whole world recognizes a single Mentor Firefighter’s Museum @ 7:00p. Please keep these members and their families calendar and that we can all agree that October 20 November, Wednesday: in your prayers 4, 2019 is October 4, 2019 for everyone. After AIH Membership Meeting and Game Night at all, if you’re Jewish, for example, you just Pine Ridge Country Club @ 6:30p. After a brief SOME HISTORY OF THE celebrated the year 5780 a few days ago. For business meeting, Tom Fioritto will host Muslims, the year 1441 began last month, and another of his famous Italian themed Game MONTH OF OCTOBER the Chinese are soon to welcome 4717. But Shows. October is the tenth month of the year in the the agreed upon standard for civil purposes Note: Because of Thanksgiving, both the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and the sixth worldwide is the Gregorian calendar, named Executive Committee Meeting and the of seven months to have a length of 31 days. after Pope Gregory XIII. In fact, it was on this Membership Meeting were moved up to a week The eighth month in the old calendar of day in 1582 that Pope Gregory XIII first earlier respectively. Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name implemented the calendar in Italy, Portugal, 30 November, Saturday: (from the ôctō meaning "eight") after Spain and Poland. AIH Charities Ohio State v. University of January and February were inserted into the Michigan Football Game $4,000 Pool. This calendar that had originally been created by the It was created by Aloysius Lilius and year we are just having the Big Board Pool, Romans. In Ancient , one of three Christopher Clavius. The adjustment they there will be no party. There will be a revised Mundus patet would take place on October 5, made were designed to align the calendar with pay-out format however. They used to pay October 11, on October the equinoxes and solstices. To make that based on the scores at the end of each quarter. 12, on October 15, and adjustment, in 1582, the day after October 4th This year there will be a pay-out for every score on October 19. These dates do was October 15th. The people were terribly change. Tickets are available from Ron not correspond to the modern Gregorian opposed to the calendar at first, believing that it Wassum. calendar. Among the Anglo-Saxons, it was was an attempt to cheat them. See attached flyers known as Ƿinterfylleþ, because at this full The Gregorian calendar is, in fact, a slight DECEMBER dicembre moon (fylleþ) winter was supposed to begin. adjustment of the Julian calendar, which many Note: Because of the Christmas Holidays, October is commonly associated with the Protestant and Eastern Orthodox countries there will be no Executive Committee Meeting season of autumn in the Northern hemisphere continue to rely on for religious holidays. and no Membership Meeting in December. and with spring in the Southern hemisphere. Information taken from 2019 Living Language Information taken from 2019 Wikipedia Calendar Information taken from 2019 Wikipedia

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NEWSLETTER OCTOBER ottobre 2019

SWEETEST DAY was first proposed by Faustino Rodríguez-San HALLOWEEN Sweetest Day is a holiday that is celebrated in Pedro y Díaz-Argüelles in 1913. The word “Halloween” or “Hallowe'en” dates to the , and parts of the Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day about 1745 and is of Christian origin. The word Northeastern United States, also in the as a celebration of their heritage, and the first “Hallowe'en” means “Saints' evening.” It comes northern part of on the third Saturday in such celebration was held in on from a Scottish term for “All Hallows' Eve”, the October. It is a day to share romantic deeds or October 12, 1866. The day was first enshrined evening before “All Hallows' Day.” In Scottish, expressions. 10 states and parts of two states as a legal holiday in the United States through the word “eve” is “even”, and this was observe Sweetest Day: Illinois, Indiana, the lobbying of Angelo Noce, a first generation contracted to “e'en” or “een.” Over time, “All Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, Italian, in Denver. The first statewide holiday Hallows Even” evolved into “Halloween.” Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia, was proclaimed by Colorado governor Jesse F. Halloween is a celebration observed in several and areas of both New York and Pennsylvania McDonald in 1905, and it was made a statutory west of the spine of the Appalachian countries on 31 October, the eve of the holiday in 1907. In April 1934, as a result of Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. Mountains. Sweetest Day has also been lobbying by the Knights of Columbus and New referred to as a "" or a York City Italian leader Generoso Pope, It is widely believed that many Halloween "concocted promotion" created by the candy Congress and President Franklin Delano traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest industry solely to increase sales of sweets. Roosevelt proclaimed October 12 a federal festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival The first Sweetest Day was on October 10, holiday under the name Columbus Day. ; that such festivals may have had pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was 1921 in Cleveland. The Cleveland Plain Since 1971 Columbus Day has been Dealer's edition of October 8, 1922, which Christianized as Halloween by the early celebrated on the second Monday of the month Church. chronicles the first Sweetest Day in Cleveland, of October. states that the first Sweetest Day was planned Information taken from 2019 Wikipedia Dolcetto o scherzetto? Trick or treat? by a committee of 12 confectioners chaired by (lit. A little sweet or a little prank?) candy maker C. C. Hartzell. The Sweetest Day Information taken from 2019 Wikipedia in the Year Committee distributed over 20,000 WORLD PASTA CONGRESS boxes of candy to "newsboys, orphans, old MISSION STATEMENT folks, and the poor" in Cleveland, Ohio. The On October 25, 1995, Rome hosted the first The purpose of this Association is to promote Sweetest Day in the Year Committee was World Pasta Congress. Forty pasta the moral, social and civic advancement of its assisted in the distribution of candy by some of manufacturers from around the world came membership, and to perpetuate the customs the biggest movie stars of the day including together and declared October 25th World and cultural aspects of Italian Heritage. Theda Bara and Ann Pennington. Pasta Day. In fact, October might just be the Article II, Section 1 of the AIH Bylaws Information taken from 2019 Wikipedia best month to visit Italy if you’re a food lover. During most weekends in October, Many small COLUMBUS DAY towns hold a sagra, which is a festival devoted AMERICANS of ITALIAN Columbus Day is a national holiday in many to the local delicacies. In addition to sampling HERITAGE countries of the Americas and elsewhere which fine food, you can enjoy the accompanying celebrations, invoking the culture and history of EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE officially celebrates the anniversary of 1 July 2018 – 30 June 2020 the area. So whether it’s a chestnut festival in Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas President ...... Gus Paolucci Tuscany, truffle hunting in Alba, a mortadella on October 12, 1492. The landing is celebrated Vice President ...... Ron Wassum festival in Bologna, a polenta festival in Lazio, a as "Columbus Day" in the United States, as Secretary ...... Glenn Pizzuti beer festival in Lombardy, or an autumn "Día de la Raza" ("Day of the Race") in some Treasurer ...... Bill Petrello tortellini festival in Emilia-Romagna, it’s simply countries in Latin America, as "Día de la Trustee (elected) ...... Rio DeGennaro Jr. Hispanidad" and "Fiesta Nacional" in Spain, impossible to go wrong. Information taken from 2019 Living Language Trustee (elected) ...... Jim Federico Sr. where it is also the religious festivity of la Calendar Trustee (elected) ...... Bob Andreano Virgen del Pilar, as Día de las Américas (Day of Trustee (elected) ...... Tony Munaretto the Americas) in Belize and Uruguay, as Día Trustee (elected) ...... Don Rapposelli del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural (Day of IT’S ALL ABOUT Trustee (appointed) ...... Mario Fioritto Respect for Cultural Diversity) in Argentina, and THE SHAPE Trustee (appointed) ...... John Perrotti as Giornata Nazionale di Cristoforo Colombo or Pasta comes in about 200 shapes. Spaghetti is Trustee (immediate past President) ...... Dave Vegh Festa Nazionale di Cristoforo Colombo in Italy the most popular type of the long pastas. as well as in Little Italys around the world. As Among short the short pastas, most people ATTACHMENTS the day of remembrance of Our Lady of the prefer penne and rigatoni.  AIH Clambake Flyer Pillar, 12 October had been declared a religious Information taken from 2019 Living Language  AIHC OSU v. U of M Pool Flyer feast day throughout the Spanish Empire in Calendar  AIHC OSU v. U of M Pool Score Card 1730; the secular Fiesta de la Raza Española  AIH Christmas Party Flyer

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