Get Well wishes to all members who

may be in ill health. We hope you have a

speedy recovery

Tickets have been selling briskly. Our goal was to sell 200 of them, and we are going to be close to reaching that num-ber, which repre-sents the largest profit we could make for our Lodge on this event. The first drawing for weekly prizes will be on Fri-day, May 9, and the Italian Buffet dinner is going to be on Friday, July 11. Re-member that we are giving away $1,000 in cash prizes!

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COUNCIL MEETING

Wednesday December 14th

7:00 pm

ASSEMBLY MEETING

Wednesday December 28th

7:00 P.M.

Official

Newsletter Geneva Lodge 2397

OSIA 31 Prospect Ave.

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December 2016 decembre Editor: Tony DiCostanzo

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Nominating Committee Selected

Pres. Sam Cosenti-no has appointed a five member Nomi-nating Committee to select a slate of officers for the 2017-2018 term. The committee members are as follows with phone #s: Mike Cutillo 315-398-1351, Dan Chelenza 315-759-9956, Maria Cohrs 315-719-5920, Ma-rie Bruno 315-789-1219, and Kathy Cosentino 315-254-6772 Contact any one of these committee members if you would like to hold an office, be a con-vention delegate, or serve as an arbitra-tion commissioner. Interviews will be held in December.

Early Bird Dinner

The year 2017 dues payment due date is Jan. 1, 2017 for all members. Please pay as early as pos-sible as per capita taxes are due in January. See the insert for all the information on pay-ing your dues and the reservation form for the Early Bird Dinner.

The Holidays are upon us as Thanksgiving has recently passed and we all gave thanks and en-joyed the bounty of fall. We had a somewhat successful turkey raffle and dinner and it is an effort we can build on. Christmas is coming and our lodge will celebrate with our an-nual Breakfast with Santa on December 10th (please rsvp soon) and bar Christmas party on December 16th (bring a dish to pass, starts at 6pm). We will also be holding our Christmas Eve fish and cannoli sale. Please get your orders in to Past President Jamie Kaim by December 13th.

If you receive this newsletter before December 2nd, we are hosting Andy Stobie’s Greater Finger-lakes Jazz Orchestra that evening with all pro-ceeds from the door going to Thrive to Survive, a local cancer support charity. Admission is only a $5 donation and the concert starts at 7pm.

We have received our annual allotment of Grand Lodge Lottery calendars for sale. Please contact the office as these usually sell out quickly.

As always we are looking for help with bingo. We can really use a couple of people to be callers. Please contact Sully Ciancaglini or the lodge if you can help out every once in awhile.

I’d like to wish you all peace and joy this Christmas and may your New Year be pros-

perous and happy.

Sinceramente

Sam Cosentino

Sat. Dec. 10th

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The year 2016 has been another successful year for our great Geneva Lodge and that success can be attributed to the many volunteers who step up time and time again to do all of the big things, and the little things, that make for a successful organiza-tion.

2016 started off with a hard working Nominating Committee who had the task of selecting the first council of officers of the soon to be new Geneva Lodge, formed when the GAIL Lodge and Geneva Lodge members voted to merge the two lodges. The official merger took place in March, presided over by State President Carolyn Reres.

These past eleven months have seen the successful completion of all of our annual events such as the Lodge Awards Dinner in April, the Summer Italian Festi-val in August, Lodge Clambake in September, and a jam packed Italian Heritage and Culture Month in October. In between these important events were doz-ens of lodge dinners, family piz-za and wings nights, Monday wings, winter bocce league, summer bocce league, plus our weekly Sunday bingo. In be-tween all of these events, the lodge hosted and catered dozens of private parties and rentals throughout the year and ……. we still have a month to go that is packed with events.

None of the above could have been accomplished without a tremendous amount of volunteer help. From myself, our lodge council, and all of our member-ship, a sincere THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has volunteered some time to help our lodge this year.

Buon Natale,

Sam

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Grand Lodge Lottery Calendars We have received our allotment of Lottery Calendars from our Grand Lodge and they are now on sale through our lodge office.

Each calendar has a three digit # from 000 through 999 imprinted on it. When you purchase a calen-dar that becomes your # for the year 2017. Cash prizes can be won every day of the year based on the evening drawing of the New York State Lottery.

This is an annual important fund-raiser for our Grand Lodge and we ask you to support it by pur-chasing one or more calendars. Each one cost $30. Call our office to reserve one before the end on the month. Christmas is coming and a calendar will make a great gift.

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BREAKFAST WITH SANTA

This very special family-friendly annual event will be held from 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10th. Come and enjoy a great breakfast, after which Santa Claus will chat with the kids and hand out gifts. There will be music, activities, and cartoons. The breakfast is FREE for all who attend. Adults should bring one gift (in the $10 range) for each of their children, wrapped up with the child’s name on it. Santa will hand out those gifts to the kids, along with candy canes.

9:00 am Adults and children begin arriving. There will be coloring activities for the kids and holiday music. 9:30 am Breakfast is served. Christmas cartoons for the kids. Free time for the kids to play, color, watch cartoons. 10:15 am Santa arrives. After a short time Santa will begin to hand out gifts and candy canes, assisted by his elf. Photo opportunity with Santa.

Please use the insert in this newsletter to RSVP for the Breakfast with Santa event so we may prepare for the correct number of adults and children - or CALL and leave a message. Buon Natale!

Days of Yore at Geneva Lodge - by Chuck Agonito

1982 - Venerable (President) John J. Greco was re-elected and installed by State Trustees Lou Giambra and Tony Camaro. Early in the year 1982 a Valentine’s Dance was held and the District 8 Bocce Tournament was hosted at the lodge. A euchre tournament held in conjunction with the bocce tournament drew 60 players and was won by lodge member Mario Pellegrine.

The April 17th Italian Night dinner featured lasagna alforno, veal scallopine, pasta fagioli, polenta, trippa, sausage, salad and a dessert - all for $7.50 per person.

Nineteen delegates attended the Grand Lodge Convention at the Concord Hotel and Resort, and the July Italian Festival was a huge success.

The Geneva Lodge purchased the former Prospect Ave. School building from the Geneva School District for $10, 500. Seventy five members attended the Aug. 12th meeting and voted to allocate funds for the remodeling of the vacant elementary school.

Let the Geneva Lodge help you keep alive a long held Christmas tradition among Italians of having fish on Christmas Eve.

Brother Jamie Kaim, Jr. is once again volunteering his time on Christmas Eve to cook and sell fish here at the lodge.

Fried Haddock, Fried Smelt, Butterfly Shrimp, and Calamari (in sauce) are available along with cannoli and crème puffs from

Lanovara Bakery.

See the insert for details on prices and how to place your orders.

Deadline to order is Dec. 13th

Fish for

Christmas

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QUICK SHOTS

Bar Christmas Party

The annual Bar Christmas Party will take place on Friday Dec. 16th beginning at 6:00 pm. Bring a dish

to pass. The lodge will provide piz-za and music.

33 Point Pool

If you are in the bar 33 Point Pool you should make sure you are

caught up on your weekly pay-ments. Also, don’t lose out on the

weekly attendance payout. Stop in on Mon. or Tues. evenings, have a

drink and you’re entered in the drawing.

Weekly 50/50 Drawing

Every member is eligible to enter once per week in our 50/50 Draw-

ing. Put in a dollar and if your num-ber is drawn you become the winner

of the pot. No winner means the pot carries over to the next week, more money is added, and then we draw

again. Stop in to enter any time you happen to be at the lodge.

Monday Wings

Monday Night Wings will continue right through to Jan. 9th when the

College Championship game will be played. Stop in between 6:30 and 9

pm any Monday to get some great wings.

Super Bowl Pool

Look for our Super Bowl Pool to begin very soon. $30 per square,

includes party on game day on Sun. Feb. 5th.

The Geneva Lodge was very recently offered an opportunity to host the Greater Finger Lakes Jazz Orchestra on Friday Dec. 2nd. As this oppor-tunity came up very late, we apologize for not being able to get this infor-mation out to everyone in advance. For those of you who do receive this info before Dec. 2nd, we hope you can come out in support of this chari-table endeavor.

Email ???

Do we have your email address yet? If you did not receive a copy of this newsletter by email then that means we do not have your email address. Each month we send the newsletter out by email prior to sending it out through the post office. This gives all those who receive it through email a two or three day advantage on the information within, over those who only receive the print copy. In some cases the advantage is a week or more due to post office delays in delivery.

If you have email and would like to start receiving the newsletter by email, just sent me a note at : tonyd1953@gmail.com. You can still opt to receive it by print also , in addition to the email copy, or can opt for just the email copy.

La Gazzetta

Geneva Lodge 2397 Order Sons of Italy in America

31 Prospect Avenue Geneva, New York 14456

Non Profit Org. U. S. POSTAGE

PAID PERMIT NO. 51

Geneva, New York

Geneva Lodge 2397 - Officers President - Sam Cosentino

Vice President - Nancy Gregory

IPP - Cindy Durso-Woodhams Trustees Orator - Paul D’Amico Mike Cutillo Rec. Sec. - Beth Clark Steve Venuti Fin. Sec. - Steve Muzzi Vince Bonetti Treasurer - Ken Gregory Sandra Schading Masters of Phyllis Lowrey Ceremony - Tom Quartaro - Helen Garlick Sentinel - Shawn Corcoran Deputy to Geneva Lodge 2397 - Sandy Meleca District VIII Deputy - Tom Meleca District VIII Trustee - Dr. Joe Rube’

Upcoming Lodge Events

BINGO - Every Sunday @ 2:00 pm

Dec. 2 FL Jazz Orchestra 7:00 pm Dec. 10 Breakfast w/Santa 9:00 am Dec. 14 Council Meeting 7:00 pm Dec. 16 Bar Xmas Party 6:00 pm Dec. 28 Assembly Meeting 7:00 pm

Address Service Requested

President of New York State Grand Lodge

Carolyn Reres

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LIBERTY-EQUALITY-FRATERNITY

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John Gregoria Gloria Ciancaglini Tony DiCostanzo Ramona Constantine Salvano “Sully” Ciancaglini Phyllis Lowrey Mary Jane Melito Mike Cutillo Dan Chelenza Carol Prete Jill Kaim Larry Cassell Jamie Kaim, Jr. Robert Taddario

John “Moon” Iannapollo † Al Liberio † Beverly Gregoria † John Greco Vincentina Salone Joe Perry † Olga Pacil Jeff Melito † Kay Perry † Humbert “Ham” Riccione Adeline Moracco Joseph “Jocko” Petrus † Louis Ciancaglini † Ada Cassell

Past Presidents of Geneva Lodge 2397