NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER settembre 2019 ANNUAL Carmen Cesa year we are just having the Big Board Pool, AIH GOLF OUTING Donnie Rapposelli there will be no party. There will be a revised Luigi DiCarlo pay-out format however. They used to pay We had our annual Club Golf Outing on Friday based on the scores at the end of each quarter. the 23rd of August. The weather was great, Thanks to the event Chair, Ron Wassum, for This year there will be a pay-out for every score the course was great, the food was great and putting together yet another terrific evening for change. Tickets are available from Ron the camaraderie was great. the club. Wassum. As always, we played a “Best Ball” format with See attached flyer a 12:00 noon shotgun start. 96 members and UPCOMING EVENTS DECEMBER dicembre guests signed up to play, giving us 24 Prossimi eventi Note: Because of the Christmas Holidays, foursomes. SEPTEMBER settembre there will be no Executive Committee Meeting 18 September, Wednesday The winning teams were; and no Membership Meeting in December. AIH Executive Committee Meeting at The 8 December, Sunday: First Place – Team DeGennaro with a 58, Mentor Firefighter’s Museum @ 7:00p. Second Place – Team DiCarlo with a 58, AIH Family Christmas Party at Manakiki 25 September, Wednesday: Country Club from 11:00a to 4:00p. The Co- Third Place – Team Farina with a 59 and AIH Membership Meeting at Pine Ridge Fourth Place – Team Wassum with a 60. Chairs are Don Rapposelli and Richard Country Club @ 6:30p. The speaker will be O’Keefe. Additional information will be The Skins winners were Don Rapposelli and John Adams, the Cleveland Indians’ Bleacher forthcoming. Ron Wassum. Drummer. Reservations are required 28 September, Saturday: Thanks so much to the Co-Chairs; Dave Vegh, AIH Allegany Seneca Casino Trip. The day- Richard O’Keefe, and Joe Petrarca as well as long event is chaired by Don Rapposelli. SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS all the volunteers for putting together a terrific See attached flyer Compleanni di settembre event. Gary Pascarella .............................................. 3 OCTOBER ottobre John Pizzi ....................................................... 5 9 October, Wednesday Vinney Cicconetti ............................................ 6 AUGUST MEETING AIHC Executive Committee Meeting at The Domenic Palermo ........................................... 6 Riunione agosto Mentor Firefighter’s Museum @ 5:30p. Don Ramacciato ........................................... 10 Our August Membership Meeting on the 28th, 23 October, Wednesday Luigi DiCarlo ................................................. 16 was our annual club Bocce Tournament at AIH Executive Committee Meeting at The Vince Granito ................................................ 16 Spirits in Willoughby. Our buffet was prepared Mentor Firefighter’s Museum @ 7:00p. Fran Rozzo ................................................... 22 right at the venue this year, now that Spirits in 30 October, Wednesday: Dave Vegh .................................................... 23 Willoughby has a completed kitchen. We had AIH Membership Meeting and Annual Clam Rio DeGennaro............................................. 26 pizza and fresh vegetables for our appetizers. Bake at Pine Ridge Country Club @ 6:30p. Dominic Mongiardo ...................................... 26 Then we had Sausage and Peppers, Pulled Spouses are invited. This event is chaired by Pork Sliders, Mac-n-Cheese, and Coleslaw for Vince Pona. When you see these members this month, be dinner. Of course beer and wine was included Reservations are required sure to wish them buon compleanno. with our dinner. See attached flyer We had twenty four members, divided into six NOVEMBER novembre HEALTH AND WELFARE teams, who played in the bocce tournament. 13 November, Wednesday salute e benessere Prizes were awarded as follows: AIH Executive Committee Meeting at The Recently deceased member Joe Dardis’ wife, Mentor Firefighter’s Museum @ 7:00p. Christine Dardis passed away on August 17th at First Place 20 November, Wednesday: the age of 97. Bill Petrello AIH Membership Meeting and Game Night at Member Bob Studniarz’ sister, Anita Orndorff Bob Randazzo Pine Ridge Country Club @ 6:30p. After a brief Glenn Pizzuti passed away on August 26 at the age of 68. business meeting, Tom Fioritto will host She was also Jim Federico’s sister-in-law as Carmen Frederico another of his famous Italian themed Game well as Tom Fioritto’s first cousin. Second Place Shows. Note: Because of Thanksgiving, both the Please keep these member and his family in Tony Munaretto Executive Committee Meeting and the your prayers Mario Fioritto Membership Meeting were moved to a week Matt Gambatese earlier respectively. Don Patt LABOR DAY 30 November, Saturday: Beginning in the late 19th century, as the trade Third Place AIH Charities Ohio State v. University of union and labor movements grew, different Ron Wassum Michigan Football Game $4,000 Pool. This groups of trade unionists chose a variety of 1 of 3 . NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER settembre 2019 days on which to celebrate labor. In the United Early Sunday morning on September 2, 1945, Center complex in Lower Manhattan. Within an States, a September holiday called Labor Day aboard the new 45,000-ton battleship U.S.S. hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story towers was first proposed in the early 1880s. Alternate Missouri and before representatives of nine collapsed. Debris and the resulting fires stories of the event's origination exist. Allied nations, the Japanese signed their caused partial or complete collapse of all other unconditional surrender. At the ceremonies, buildings in the World Trade Center complex, According to one early history of Labor Day, the General MacArthur stated that the Japanese including the 47-story 7 World Trade Center event originated in connection with a General and their conquerors did not meet "in a spirit of tower, as well as significant damage to ten Assembly of the Knights of Labor convened in mistrust, malice or hatred but rather, it is for us, other large surrounding structures. A third New York City in September 1882. In both victors and vanquished, to rise to that plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed connection with this clandestine Knights higher dignity which alone benefits the sacred into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the assembly, a public parade of various labor purposes we are about to serve." United States Department of Defense) in organizations was held on September 5 under Arlington County, Virginia, which led to a partial the auspices of the Central Labor Union (CLU) Despite these words, none of the Japanese collapse of the building's west side. The fourth of New York. Secretary of the CLU, Matthew delegates were saluted by any of the high- plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was initially Maguire, is credited for first proposing that a ranking officers. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz later flown toward Washington, D.C., but crashed national Labor Day holiday subsequently be revealed that U.S. planes had been ready with into a field in Stonycreek Township near held on the first Monday of each September in bombs to halt any last-minute treacherous act Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after its passengers the aftermath of this successful public on the part of the Japanese. Seeing a deck full thwarted the hijackers. 9/11 is the single demonstration. of high Allied officers on the U.S.S. Missouri deadliest incident for firefighters and law might have presented a tempting target for a enforcement officers in the history of the United An alternative thesis maintains that the idea of final suicide attack. Labor Day was the brainchild of Peter J. States, with 343 and 72 killed, respectively. McGuire, a vice president of the American Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army Above information obtained from Wikipedia, 2018 Federation of Labor, who put forward the initial General Staff, signed the Instrument of proposal in the spring of 1882. According to Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Imperial FEAST OF McGuire, on May 8, 1882, he made a General Headquarters. Watching from across SAN GENNARO proposition to the fledgling Central Labor Union the table were Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland La festa di san Gennaro in New York City that a day be set aside for a and Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Representatives September 19th is the Feast Day of San "general holiday for the laboring classes". of the Allied Powers stood behind General Gennaro, the Bishop of Benevento, who was According to McGuire he further recommended MacArthur. martyred for being a Christian. He is the patron that the event should begin with a street parade saint of Naples, and on the morning of the as a public demonstration of organized labor's Today the U.S.S Missouri (Big Mo) is feast, thousands of Neapolitans pile into the solidarity and strength, with the march followed ceremoniously moored next to sunken remains cathedral hoping to see the Miracle of the by a picnic, to which participating local unions of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor Blood: If the saint’s blood (which is kept in could sell tickets as a fundraiser. According to special vials in the vault and taken out on this McGuire he suggested the first Monday in 9/11 occasion) liquefies, it is considered a blessing, September as an ideal date for such a public The September 11 attacks (also referred to as and the church bells ring out for al to hear. The celebration, owing to optimum weather and the 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist ceremony is followed by a procession through date's place on the calendar, sitting midway attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda the town, and then the party begins! between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving against the United States on the morning of Businesses are closed and the streets are filled public holidays. Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks with people and stalls. The festivities last for killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, In 1887, Oregon became the first state of the eight days, after which the vials of blood are and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure United States to make Labor Day an official returned to the vault.