Around & About With Safety in Place
Our Answer to Covid-19)

C. Colombo Lodge President Carol Esposito has been working from home following Covid-19 restrictions. She also uses her tech skills to keep the members informed and connected. In-personmeetings may have stopped, but Carol does her best to reach out to lodge members via email and Zoom. Carol has created cards to be sent to members on their special occasions; labels for the monthly greeting cards given to the local VA Hospital patients; formalzing

Eureka Lodge #1274 extends March & April birthday wishes to our lodge members Nancy Paoli, John Senestraro, Lorene Luster, Dave Olivieri, Bonnie DuMond, Linda Biondini, Erling Dellabalma, Rosemary Fitzpatrick, Bill Chino, Joe Ceriani, Julie Stagnoli, Cecilia Mattana-Smullin, and Julie Williams Bonino.

Lodge President John Salizzoni just returned from visiting his brother in Yuma, Arizona, in March. While there he did some mechanical bird

Being a human means we are not perfect, but that is perfectly fine.

There is a huge race going on now between those that refuse to wear masks and those that are getting vaccinations to keep them, their family, and their neighbors safe from the COVID-19 virus.

We are now one fourth of the way thru the New Year. Things are looking better. We have to stay positive! Last year at this time I was planning on going to Disneyland prior to our Grand Council meeting in Torrance, but things changed on March 16th, the state of California pretty much shut down? Who would have thought we would still be making our way towards the right direction a year later.

On February 13th I was on a “Zoom” meeting with National OSDIA. We were supposed to be meeting in South Carolina, but instead everyone was in thier home. Our National President Nancy has done an excellent job in leading

I want to let you know that I have submitted my “Letter of Intent” to run for the position of your President of the Grand Lodge of California. I know that this term will not be easy coming back from the Pandemic, but I know that I am up to the challenge. I know that our Officers and Members are with us because of their Love of the Order. I am calling upon you all to share with family, friends, and neighbors, why you love the Order and bring them into our Fraternal Family. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me and I will be happy to discuss them.

I receive a periodical each week, the “Italian Tribune”. I know there are many of you who also subscribe to it. As I was reading my January 21st issue, I came across a short article about the Colosseum in Rome. Ken and I got to visit the Colosseum last March before the pandemic closed Italy. While I was standing on the sides looking down at the area that held the animals, gladiators, and later, the Christians to be sacrificed, I