Greetings from Colombo-Stella Lodge #1149, the Mother Lodge, in Fresno!

Olivia DeLiddo has served the Colombo-Stella Lodge #1149 as President since 2010.  And in those 14 years, she has done a spectacular job of leading the Lodge to much success!

We are grateful for her.

However, she decided to retire

Roma Lodge is celebrating their 95th anniversary this year and our membership is composed of some of the most outstanding leaders in Tulare County.  We have had several members who have been honored as the Man of the Year, Woman of the Year, Farmer of the Year, Hall of Famers and other distinguished awards given by community organizations in the San Joaquin Valley.

This year is no different when our own Nancy Pitigliano was honored as the Woman of the Year by Senator Shannon Grove of the 12th District representing Tulare, Fresno and Kern Counties.  Nancy

Pictured above is a partial group of Roma Lodge members who organized and conducted our Italian food booth at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, February 11-13th.  The World Ag Expo was started at the Tulare Fair Grounds in 1968 and moved to the International Agri-Center in 1982 and has grown to 2.6 million square feet of exhibit space.  Roma Lodge is one of the only organizations that has been at the show from the very beginning.

For the past 12 years Michael DePaoli,

Columbia Lodge is now alternating their meetings at two different restaurant locations. Great menus and food at both places and everyone is loving the change.  We just have to remember where we are going each month!

State President Arlene Nunziati and State Deputy Maria Fassio Pignati installed the new 2025-2026 officers of the lodge at Sapore Ristorante.  Congratulations to all the new officers; thank you to the ones who stepped up to new positions and to the ones who stayed in office.  We have a

Michael DePaoli, Melissa Watkins and Maci Daramy will once again co-chair the Roma Lodge food booth at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, February 11-13th.  For the past 57 years the lodge has provided Italian sausage sandwiches to the 100,000 plus visitors to the show from all over the world. Over the past few years our newer members have revised the menu adding pasta, antipasto