Ciao from Chico. 

Our Lodge had 7 New Members initiated at our February meeting. Presiding over the ceremony was State 3rd Vice president, Louie Lodi, and our participating State Deputy,Yvonne Vanoni. 

Also last month, we had a nice social event at New Clairvaux Winery, which is at Monestary outside of Chico. The Trappist Monks

New Members

Roma Lodge #1573 initiated 14 new members at our September meeting. It is the largest group of new members to join the lodge in recent memory. This brings the membership in the lodge to 290 members. 

Being a little late is as bad as much too late.

Last month Bert Liberta presented a short history of Luna’s Restaurant with a good crowd attending at the “Let’s Talk Clovis” event which is sponsored by the Clovis-Big Dry Creek Historical Society. 

Reminder: Our meetings are now on the first Wednesday of the month at 6:00 PM at Luna’s, on Pollasky Ave.

At our February meeting we choose Michael Croaro to be our “Sweetheart of the Year”! Mike has been a trustee for Columbia Lodge for the past three years and has been very generous and helpful to our lodge. He does all of our printing at no charge and has saved us money.

Our first Bocce tournament was held Sunday, March 12 and was very successful. Fun was had by all who attended. Thank you

Our March meeting had a great member attendance. We had further discussions on a new day, time and location. The members voted for the first Thursday of the month. Our April meeting will be held on Thursday, April 6th with cocktails from 4:30pm - 5:30pm, meeting at 5:30pm followed by dinner at 6:00pm. We will be meeting at our new location at Herman Sons Hall, 860 Western Avenue, Petaluma. Please call Diane Gizzi at 707-588-1942 prior to Sunday, April 2nd to