Ave, atque, vale!! (Hail and farewell).

Br.#1959 is alive and well!! Come to our dinner on September 20. Our State President Barbara is attending to help initiate our new members. Opened since May 20, 2022 after a long hibernation. New cook,

Cesare Battisti Lodge #1518 has some good news. We have people stepping up to take offices just when we need them.. I am ever so grateful to all of you.

We are looking ahead to finding a new location in Petaluma, where this lodge was established in 1929. In 2023, we are looking

The Humboldt Crabs Italian Heritage night baseball game proved to be a big success. The Crabs won, our Lodge sold some merchandise and all of the homemade biscotti, and we handed out two dozen application forms. In addition to the positive publicity the non-profit Crabs Baseball Club profited by increased attendance and the sale of sausage sandwiches donated to the Crabs by the Eureka Lodge.

Our scholarship recipients and their families attended our May meeting pasta dinner. Gabriela Giraud, Jude Ortega, and Cicely Jones received

Greetings from Redding:

We were very happy to initiate five new members at our general meeting in August, all with Italian backgrounds. We welcome Dean Clark, Mary Clark, Lynette Porter, Lois Morgan and Carolyn Gomes. I am sure they will all enjoy Shasta Lodge as members of our family. We have five more applications we hope to initiate soon.

Congratulations to our former Junior member Andrew Zufall and his wife Lindsey Zufall, the two new Drs. Zufall in Redding. They both graduated in June, Andrew with his dental degree and Lindsey with her veterinary degree. Welcome back

It was an evening to remember! State Third Vice President, Louis Lodi, swore in 15 new members to our Lodge under a balloon arch of green, red and white, the colors of the Italian flag.

There were over 70 people in