Scholarship Award Winners 2022

The Gold Country Sons and Daughters of Italy located in El Dorado Hills, CA, is proud to announce the winners of our 2022 Scholarships. They and their families were guests at our lodge’s annual May ravioli dinner meeting. Each student, who was awarded the Italian Heritage Scholarship, shared the stories of their heritage, immigration, and success in the United States of America. They also shared their career plans. Thanks to successful fundraisers (Bocce tournaments and local restaurants support), each student was awarded

On June 12th Sunday afternoon, Jimmy Maestretti did the most mouth watering Salmon dinner for us. He even went so far as to have tortellini with a light creamy pesto sauce, Caesar Salad and oven roasted veggies. We had 70 people that were overwhelmed with the quality of the dinner, me included. It was great to see Fred Schram in attendance. He just got over a bout with Covid and pneumonia and a stay in the hospital. Welcome back Fred... He looked great by the way.!

Hope everyone is well and thriving. This pandemic

Happy Summer! Our Lodge hopes you are getting together with your Lodges, fundraising, initiating new members, and socializing again. It’s been really wonderful seeing our members again and welcoming new ones. Our dinner meetings at the Elks Club in Reno have been a big success. So much more parking, room, and an incredible kitchen for our cooks.

Our “Non Festa Fundraiser” or also called “Fill the Boot” ended in January of 2021, but we continued it through May of this year. As we were not able to have our big Festa in 2020 or 2021, which is our big fundraiser, we started the Non Festa Fundraiser. As of the end of May, we collected $7,674. Our goal was

Sisters and Brothers:
Last meeting was on Mothers Day May 8th so it was only attended by 38 members. Joe Panfiglio, our Guard and also part time cook, did BBQ Chicken and it was outstanding. Thank You again, Joe, or you can call him Giuseppe, Joey or Pinky! ! !.

Our next meeting will be June 12th when

My apologies for omitting some of the polenta and chicken drive-thru crew from last month’s Il Leone.
Cooking staff also included Bill Chino, Erling Dellabalma, John Salizzoni, Eddie Morgan, Gene Perricelli, and John Senestraro.

And the bag and distribution organizers (some of whom were pictured in last month’s article but were not captioned): Bonnie DuMond,