GREETINGS FROM REDDING,
December has been a busy month for Shasta Lodge. We started the month with our annual council dinner prepared by Chef James Leedy and his culinary students. What a great group of students. They are preparing for an international culinary competition in April. We then catered two large Christmas parties. We will be hosting the Redding Police Explorers at their annual dinner later in January.

The Crab are here…we have scheduled our annual Crab Feed for February 11th and 12th. We were about 2/3 sold out on the first day

Charlotte Mary (Cappadona) Anderton, 96, passed away on Friday, October 22, 2021. Born on October 14, 1925 in Secaucus, New Jersey the youngest of nine, Charlotte moved to Napa when she was nine-years-old. Besides being a homemaker for her family, she also worked as a bookkeeper and a childcare giver.

She was active in our community, running the bingo

By the time you read this our first post Covid dinner.meeting went off without a hitch on December 12th. I hope to have some pictures will be in the January Il Leone. We have been idle for over 20 months.

I have decided that 2022 will be my last year as President. I have to pay attention to my health issues and also concentrate

The Gold Country Lodge #2705 recently celebrated its new member initiation on October 19, 2021. We have 10 new members!!

We had a wonderful turn-out by many of our lodge members attending. The Arietta Family provided an excellent ravioli dinner. New members initiated this evening include, Sergio Camerlo, Regina Roman,

SOON....yes, this has been said before, do step forward if you would like to help in the kitchen...at the meetings ….or any position that keeps the Valley of the Moon Sons of Italy Sonoma....running like a well oiled machine!

MEMBERS OF NOTE!
Marie Davis 52 years
John Musilli 48 years
Gary Hermes 43 years
Josephine Grant 39 years
Good and faithful members of Valley of the Moon Lodge....

VOLUNTEERS...
Sons of Italy runs on Volunteers..yep, just in case you were not aware....and one person (though) there are many...had some recipes that were interesting...perhaps you would