Hope you are staying cool during these warm summer months.

It has been a busy personal month for me, but it didn’t stop me from attending a few things.

July 20th, I attended the Bob Moresco Memorial BBQ in Watsonville. What a great turnout of support.  We had food, live music, a raffle and great fun socializing. I won a raffle prize to a

I hope everyone had a safe Fourth of July.

What an amazing convention this year. As your newly elected 2nd State Vice President-Central, I am excited to work with all our new and existing officers and represent a larger role in our organization. I want to thank all our delegates who have put your faith in me to help make the changes needed to keep our organization going for another 100 years. My first order of business is to focus on helping with making our organization more visible and

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I want to start my final monthly Il Leone article as Vice President of Northern California with a Huge “Grazie a Tutti.” For forty-one issues, I’ve sat at this desk and tried to put down in words things that I’ve thought were important to my fellow Italians, and all the eighteen Lodges in Northern California as well as their activities at the Lodges located from Klamath Falls, OR, to San Francisco, CA and then to Reno & Sparks, NV. I have attended 100th Year Lodge Anniversaries, Crab Feeds, Festa Primavera

Dear Brother and Sisters,

April is tax time for most people, but to Northern California OSDIA members it’s the start of bocce season. To start off, Sacramento Lodge #1352 is having their Twelfth Annual Bocce Tournament on April 26th at East Portal Park in Sacramento. Everyone is invited to play or just

Dear Brother and Sisters,

I’d like to apologize first for not having an article last month. Our Sacramento Lodge was having its 100th Anniversary Dinner and we had so much to get ready that I was not able to write my monthly article.  A fantastic time was had by all! President Danny Marinelli along with sister Pam, and the Anniversary committee did an outstanding job putting everything