From the whole Spano family, let me wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and glorious 2025 to come!!

When thinking of the month of December, as a Christian, Christmas 12/25 and my birthday 12/30 is what I first think of. Celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ isn’t the only celebrated religious holiday in December!

The OSDIA, as a large fraternal organization,

On September 14th, I attended the Hanford Lodge 1543 96th Anniversary!  A beautiful location and everyone had a fantastic time!

On September 27th, from the Long Beach terminal, we boarded the Carnival Radiance for our September 2024 Grand Council meeting at Sea!

On Saturday, A productive meeting was held, lead by our State President Arlene, who ran a smooth and orderly meeting!

COLUMBUS DAY 2024

More than 500 years after he “discovered” the New World—kicking off centuries of exploration and colonization of the Americas—Christopher Columbus is honored with a federal holiday on the second Monday of every October. However, as historians have continued to dig into the life of Christopher Columbus, controversy has arisen over continuing to honor the Italian explorer as a hero.

Today his historic legacy as a daring explorer who discovered the New World has been challenged. The rewriting of the historical record of his voyages, that launched centuries of European

On Monday May 6th, I had the honor of representing our state president Arleen, at Roma lodge # 1573’s 94th anniversary, held during their regular monthly meeting

Their traditional anniversary dinner of Sausage and Risotto was excellent!

Even with the Rosary one of their long time members rosary, held at the same time, they still had close to 100 members, about

Just finished up with the 2024 Spring Grand Council meetings, held at the new home of Order Sons &  Daughters of Italy in America California Grand Lodge, at 9300 Madison Ave., Orangevale CA 95662.

To say it wasn’t a productive meeting would not do it justice! We had a lot of open and to the point, discussions on several major topics facing the Grand Lodge and more importantly the Filial

Lots of local lodges are having their annual crab feeds, Sausage and Polenta dinners, or like the Roma lodge #1573, has for the past 56 years, serving their delicious Sausage sandwiches, pasta plates, antipasto salads, meatball sandwiches and a variety of other food items to the 100,000 plus visitors to the World Ag Expo, held February 13th-15th, in Tulare Ca.

The Enrico Caruso lodge #1473 will serve