October 11, 2024

WANTED!!

BASKETS or ITEMS FOR OUR HOLIDAY RAFFLE    (December 10, 2024)

All Baskets must be submitted by the November dinner – NOVEMBER 14th

Choose a theme and have fun creating your basket.

Items must be newly purchased, some theme suggestions:

Italian themed food and gifts

Movie Night

Barbecue

Spa

Coffee

Golf

Sports

Handyman

Pet Lover

Gadgets

Stationary

Lottery Tickets

OR, please consider a donation – your donation will either go towards creating a basket in your name, or helping to fund music for our special events.

Direct any questions to Patricia Pannullo, Event Coordinator,  [email protected]

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SURVEY RESULTS from May 2, 2024, posted August 30, 2024

The survey responses have been tallied and the results are in, and they are in order of most popular to least popular:

1.)    Sisk Park Potluck/ Bocce ball—-39 votes

2.)    Italian Wedding—32 votes

3.)    Great Italian Bake Off—31 votes

4.)    Italian Comedy Night—29 votes

5.)    Italian Mobster and Gumba night–24 votes

6.)    Interactive Italian Trivia—23 votes

TIED for 7th with 20 votes each:

    Italian Wine Expert

    Best Italian Cities to Tour —Suggested cities: Lake Como, Rome, Assisi, Amalfi Coast, Naples, Palermo, Sicily, Firenze, Catania

8.)    Italian Circus—16 votes

TIED for 9^th with 15 votes each\

    Italian Consulate Speaker—15 votes

    AZ Opera Singers had 15 votes

10.)   View short Italian movie—11 votes

11.)   Photos of Italy—10 votes

         Choral Christmas singers had 10 votes

and 2 people circled @ Christmas Party/Raffle

No one disagreed with the “Club policy of charging $23 for your dinner if you do not cancel your RSVP before the deadline date”

Many positive comments that the club is fun and enjoyable, and that we are doing a good job.

Suggestions and comments included:

-Salute to Italian Composers/Singers—hire a band and I’ll donate my voice as well as help as a sponsor

-Someone who can actually speak about genealogy–not like the last speaker on the subject

  AND Board decisions need more visibility

-Travel agent–small town/city tours

-Best wine & cheese combinations and kinds of different cheeses from Italy

-Home cooking

-Cooking contest–pasta fagioli

-Is there a way for more people to sample the desserts from the bake off?

-Food has improved this year

-Dances

-Sophia Loren movie

-Great Italian Pasta Cook off

-Christmas Carols

-Better Italian Food

-Italian Wine Tasting

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