Lodge 2738

Southern Colorado

Chapter

President: Biff Gettel 406-8684 Arbitrators:

Vice President: Gino Carleo 671-0205 Jim Bacino 595-1254

Past President: John Obrin 406-5672 John Amidei 566-1729

Orator: Dominic Gallina 289-1166 Greg Lauricella 545-5045

Recording Secretary: Bryan Charles 560-1591 Jack Everhart 561-1701

Financial Secretary: Kurt Madic 561-1881 Norm Williams 544-7277

Treasurer: David Gohn 564-5639

Masters of Leon Harwood 250-3471

Ceremonies: Mickey Giarratano 561-4146

Guard: Bob Smith 564-8850 State 3rd VP: John Amidei

Historian: Sam Pisciotta 544-5145 566-1729

Trustees: Louie Carleo 543-7558 State Orator: John Carochi

Al Spinuzzi 564-6782 275-3219

John Panepinto 561-8966 State Trustees: John Rigarozzi

Gary Gennetta 903-2808 Fred Darpino

Brad Farbo 561-3415 State Treasurer: Dan Molello

Herald Vacant

Sons of Italy . . . A story worth telling August 2015

OSIA 2738

Upcoming Events

Thurs. Aug

13, 2015

Regular Regular Regular meeting at meeting at meeting at

lodgelodgelodge

6:00 pm social

7:00 pm

Meeting

Sun. Aug

16, 2015

Golf Golf Golf TournamentTournamentTournament

8:00 am shotgun

Start. Walking

Stick

Sun. Aug.

23, 2015

Family Picnic Family Picnic Family Picnic City Park Bocce City Park Bocce City Park Bocce

CourtsCourtsCourts

12:00 Noon

Sat. Aug.

29, 2015

State Fair State Fair State Fair Parade Parade Parade

10: 00 AM

Downtown

Thurs. Sept

10, 2015

Regular Regular Regular meeting at meeting at meeting at

lodgelodgelodge

6:00 pm social

7:00 pm

Meeting

Find us on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/Order-of-Sons-of-Italy-

Southern-Colorado-2738

State Web Site

We have the new vendor for shirts

that contain our own Southern

Colorado Lodge logo designed by

Al Spinuzzi. Hats and jackets

coming soon

WEB ADDRESS

www.osia2738.com

Newsletter lay out, designed,

edited by John Obrin

New lodge shirts are now available for $40.

Please contact:

Color Splash Uniform and

Embroidery at 2403 Santa Fe Drive.

564-9655.

Hats and jackets will be out

soon.

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July 9, 2015

Minutes

7 pm Meeting called to order by President Biff Gettel.

Roll call by vice president Gino Carleo.

Open prayer by Father Ben.

Pledge of Allegiance

David Gohn gave financial report. All bills are up to date.

Biff spoke about forming a building committee to remodel

the lodge, and come up with fund raising.

Kurt Madic spoke about the golf tournament on Aug

16 at Walking Stick, 8 am shotgun start, $80, see Kurt.

Family Picnic on Aug 23 at 12 noon at Bocce courts at

City Park. Lodge will provide meal, please bring salad

or desert.

Grand Lodge President Dominic LoSasso presented two

Grand Lodge $1000 scholarships. One to Tanner Gettel, and one

to Angelina Carochi. Congratulations to both of them.

John Panepinto gave an update on Columbus Monument.

7:30 pm Mike Marino closed meeting in prayer.

Recording Secretary

Bryan Charles

Golf tournament is scheduled for Sunday, August

16, 2015 at Walking Stick. Registration 7 am,

shotgun start 8 am.

Please contact Kurt Madic for sign up, and hole

sponsorships.

We will again have our one of a kind

Sicilian cart in this years State Fair Parade.

Parade is Saturday, August 29, 2015 starting at 10

am. If you would like to help, please contact Jim

Pagano, or John Obrin. If we have enough interest

will place cart on a trailer and have a great float.

Please come out to the parade and support our en-

try.

Plan now to attend Columbus Day activities.

Monday, Oct 12, 2015. Monument in am, Dinner

in the evening.

Family Picnic

Sunday, August 23, 2015. Bocce courts at Pueblo City Park.

12 noon. Lodge will provide BBQ and all fix's. Please bring

desert or salad.

1210 Holly

Pueblo, CO 81006

Come by and see brother

Geremia’s new store.

We have been discussing for a long time what it would take to

spruce up the lodge (decor is 16 years old, and is beginning to show

it) so that it is a little more inviting for our monthly meetings, spe-

cial events, and when we rent it out. We have discussed new floor-

ing, lowering the ceiling, painting, making the support poles in the

middle of the room look like columns, basic cleaning and reorganiz-

ing, new wall murals, TV with service to watch games. All of this

takes money. We have come to the conclusion we can continue to

talk and talk or pull the trigger and start to do something.

The board has decided to take on this project and we have a few

ideas to raise funds. Please if you have any ideas or would like to

help with this project please contact any board member. We would

like to have the funds raised and work completed within a year.

Please remember the lodge itself and the building we enjoy curtsey

of brother Louie is enjoyed by all members. We all need to be in-

volved and take part, you get out of it as much as you put in.

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Help me find a new home!!!!!!

In the eight years since it was built, our Sicilian cart has become the FACE our lodge. It

has been shown in many parades in Pueblo, Canon City, Colorado Springs, and Denver,

and has won numerous awards. It was even present at the funeral of brother Leonardo

Benevittie who hand painted all the murals on the cart. With the material involved, hun-

dreds of hours of work, and the new addition last year of the carousel horse, it can easily

be valued at over fifteen thousand dollars all of which was donated by lodge members,

and others.

But now We need help!!

Brother Don Pagano ( Jim’s cousin) has been graciously storing our Sicilian cart for the

past 8 years in the storage units he owns for NO charge. Thank you can not begin to ex-

press our gratitude for being so generous. Brother Don has recently sold his storage units.

The new owner will continue to store our cart but for a fee of $140 per month as of May

1, 2015. This issue was discussed at the April general lodge meeting. We have decided to

go ahead and store it there on a month to month basis since we have no other alternative.

This is where we need the membership’s help. We need a 25 foot (minimum) enclosed

storage area to store the cart and the articles that go with it. With our lodge building ex-

penses we would rather not have to pay to store the cart for too long. We do have a lodge

member with a trailer that can be used to transport the cart from storage to and from the

event it will be in. IF ANYONE CAN HELP EVEN ON TEMPORARY BASIS

PLEASE CONTACT BIFF GETTEL, JIM PAGANO, OR JOHN OBRIN.

WE CAN PAY A SMALL FEE.

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The Sons of Italy Lodge of Southern Colorado “ A STORY WORTH TELLING”

publication.

The Council for our Lodge has approved a plan to publish a new booklet, similar to

the one we had published ten years ago.

The Council feels it is important to document the work done on the

Christopher Columbus Piaza to restore and preserve the Monument.

This booklet will have six main themes.

1. The work done on the Monument and having it placed on the National Regis-

try of Historic Places plus listing the individual and family donors who made

the project possible.

2. The Italian men and women related to our members, who served in World Wars

I and II.

3. The Italians who settled the farming area on the St. Charles Mesa.

4. How did the Italian women come to Pueblo, with the husband or later.

5. The Sicilian cart

6. Additional biographies of Lodge members and their ancestry.

We will be asking for documents and photos related to farming on the Mesa and Vine-

land.

Such as: farm deeds, fliers, programs, men’s and women’s Lodges, vegetable carts and stands, water rights, livestock, churches, and businesses. Also information on your

grandmothers and great grandmothers travels to Pueblo, and why to Pueblo.

All documents and photos will be copied and returned.

More details about family stories next month.

Please help us “TELL OUR STORY” !

NEWSFLASH !

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SOUTHERN COLORADO ORDER

SONS OF ITALY 2738

117 W. 4TH St.

PUEBLO, CO 81003-3228

Friend us on Facebook @ www.facebook.com/Order-of-Sons–of-Italy-Southern-Colorado– 2738.

Website http://www.osia2738.com. Newsletter and other valuable information available. Please

share with us your email address to info@osia2738.com or j.obrin@comcast.net.

UPCOMING EVENTS Regular lodge meeting Thursday, August 13 2015.

Golf tournament Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015 8 am at

Walking Stick.

Family picnic August 23, 2015 12 noon at City Park

Bocce courts, east side of park.

State Fair Parade Saturday August 29, 2015. 10:00 am

downtown Pueblo. We will have cart entered.

Columbus Day Monday, Oct 12, 2015. 10:00 am at

Monument. 6:00 pm dinner at Arts Center.

Lodge dues billings will no longer be mailed. Dues

are due every January. We are trying to eliminate

mailing costs.

If you are not currently receiving newsletter by email,

please contact John Obrin at 406-5672 or

j.obrin@comcast.net. It is also available on our web-

site www.osia2738.com.

Plan an activity at the Lodge—the lodge can be rented for activities such as birthdays, family reunions, graduations, etc.

The lodge is perfect, since it has a kitchen and plenty of tables and chairs. Contact Charlie Montera for more info.

WHO WE ARE

We are a national organization of men and women who represent the estimated 26 million Americans of Italian heritage, dedicated to

promoting our culture, our traditions, our language, the legacy of our ancestors, and our contributions to the U.S. and the world. We

are sons and daughters, grandmothers and grandfathers. We are corporate executives and we are union members...young students

and retirees...teachers and attorneys...doctors and firefighters… bakers and Wall Street brokers...and everything in between. We are

philanthropists and we are model global citizens with purpose beyond ourselves. And we are proud and patriotic Americans of

Italian heritage.

We exemplify the very best of what it is to be Italian-American.

Membership Dues are now DUE!!!!!!. Dues are $60 (Jan.-Dec.) We are now collecting for 2015, please pay in a timely fashion. We have not raised dues in fifteen years despite State and National raising our per capita head dues we pay ($32 of $60 collected).

We supplement our dues with our event fund raisers, please support them as much as you can.

Family Picnic Aug 23 at Bocce courts 12 noon

Our Creed The Sons of Italy of Southern Colorado, Lodge #2738

was founded in 1999. One of the main reasons this lodge was formed was to protect and maintain the Monument in honor of Christopher Columbus. The lodge feels that it is their honor and responsibility to be the caretakers of this important Pueblo Treasure. Lodge #2738 not only feels the need to take on this important role because of their Italian heritage, but because it represents all of our forefathers and their pursuit of THE AMERICAN DREAM

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You are still able to pledge your support to the on

going Columbus Monument enhancement project.

We have further plans to enhance the area. If you

would like to purchase a plaque please contact

Brother John Panepinto.