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Greg and Gloria Ionna will be cooking up the meatball hoagies, sausage hoagies and Italian pasta for the St. Columban Festival June 26-28 in Loveland along with about 30 family members.
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Home-cooked authentic Italian hoagies and pasta are coming to St. Columban Church festival June 26-28 in Loveland. Greg and Gloria Ionna will serve up home-cooked meatball hoagies, Italian sausage hoagies and rigatoni pasta meals at the church festival this year. The journey from the Ionna family table to the St. Columban festival started on a fourth-grade football practice field. Their daughter asked if they would cook an “Italian dish” for one of the Friday night “parent’s cook” meals after practice. “We decided on meatball hoagies,” Greg said. “Well the kids went nuts over it and the coaches loved it.” A year later it was their grandson who said the players were asking. They did it again. This time Tim Burns, who happens to be the festival chair-
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A page from The Ionna Family Table cookbook honoring Gladys Ionna offers the recipe for the family sauce being served up at the St. Columban Festival June 26-28 in Loveland.
person and father of a cheerleader, was there for the afterpractice dinner. The following Sunday, Ionnas were greeted by Burns as they arrived at
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morning Mass. “He comes up and asks ‘Do you think you would mind doing food for the church festival?” Greg said. “I said ‘Who
are you?’ he said I’m involved with organization of the festival.” Next thing they knew they did say yes. While Greg said he didn’t think much about it, his daughter and others started hearing something about an Ionna Italian thing coming up at the festival. Even the pastor, the Rev. Larry Tensi, knew about it. Ionna knew then they were committed; there was no backing out. They are not in the restaurant business, not in the catering business, and, aside from cooking for the Friday night football dinner, the largest meals they prepare are at the Ionna family table. “We had Tim over about two months ago just to learn more about it,” Greg said. “We cooked everything we’re going to cook to let him taste it again; to make sure it was what they wanted. Tim loved it. He gave us all the details.” They didn’t know how much See IONNA, Page 2A
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David A. Lane, a former broadcaster and board member of the Clermont County Board of Elections, will be remembered for his integrity. Lane died June 16 after a brief illness. He was 62. “The image that pops into my head when I think of Dave is he always had a smile on his face,” said RayDavid Lane mond Lembke, chairman of the executive committee of the Clermont County Democratic Party. Lane was Lembke’s predecessor in the position. Lembke said Lane retired as chairman of the executive committee last year. However, Lembke said if Lane had chosen to run again, “(there is) no question in my mind that he would have been re-elected.” “The county has lost someone who cared deeply about the political process.” Lane served as chairman of the executive committee from 2004 to 2014. Lane was a broadcaster and journalist in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In later years, he was president of Lane and Co. Communications Inc. and a regional manager for the American Home See LANE, Page 2A
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