ICC volunteers seeking donations for Thanksgiving dinner for less fortunate Tony Lupo, chairman of the annual Thanksgiving dinner for the less fortunate that is organized and staffed by Italian Community Center volunteers, announced that donations are being collected for the 2013 meal. The dinner will once again be held at the Open Door Cafe, a meal site at St. John’s Cathedral Catholic Church in downtown Milwaukee on Sunday, Nov. 17. Anyone wishing to make a donation for the food purchased for this complete Thanksgiving-style feast is asked to submit a check, payable to the ICC. Donations can be mailed to the ICC, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. Please list on the memo line of your check that this donation is for the “Thanksgiving Meal.” This will assure that your donation is properly credited for the dinner. Envelopes should be directed to the attention of Salina Castro. Salina will also be taking donations at the ICC reception desk. Lupo and fellow volunteers will be accepting donations at the ICC’s November 7 general membership meeting. This annual Thanksgiving dinner for the less fortunate has been going on since the late 1970s.
The Milwaukee Ladies of UNICO presented a $200 check for the Thanksgiving dinner for the poor that the Italian Community Center is sponsoring on Sunday, Nov. 17 at the Open Door Cafe, a meal site at St. John’s Cathedral in downtown Milwaukee. The check was presented to Gina Spang, ICC President,
Ted Glorioso makes $500 donation for Thanksgiving dinner for the poor
and Tony Lupo, dinner chairman, by Ann Romano, chairperson of the UNICO Ladies’ Community Projects Committee. Spang, Lupo and Romano are seen in the center of the picture. On each side of them are the members of the Ladies of UNICO who were present that night. (Times photo by Tom Hemman)
2014 schedules sought from groups that regularly use ICC The 2014 meeting and social event schedules of all societies, clubs and organizations that regularly use the Italian Community Center for their activities are needed by the Italian Conference Center’s Sales and Catering Department and The Italian Times. David Stachowiak, Director of Sales, Catering & Special Events, and Michelle LeFebvre, Catering Sales Representative, need these schedules to guarantee dates and hall/room availability. Tom Hemman, Times editor, needs the information to provide an accurate reporting of events in the calendar published in this newspaper. All groups are asked to submit their schedules including the starting time of all events as soon as possible. The goal is to have the schedules from all societies, clubs and organizations by the end of November. Please submit schedules by using any one of these methods:
Ted Glorioso (left), of Glorioso’s Enterprises, presented a $500 check to Tony Lupo for the annual Thanksgiving dinner for the poor that the Italian Community Center sponsors. The donation was presented on Friday, Oct. 4. This year’s dinner will be on Sunday, Nov. 17 at the Open Door Cafe at St. John’s Cathedral. Lupo, who serves as chairman, also enlisted volunteers to work at the event. The Italian Conference Center’s culinary staff cooks all the food that is served at the dinner. Lupo said, “We’re very grateful to Ted Glorioso for supporting this activity. All the funds that are raised for the event go for the food that is served at the dinner. There’s no middle man.” Lupo also thanked Glorioso for enlisting volunteers to help out the day of the dinner. Glorioso, who is a longtime member of the ICC and the Milwaukee Chapter UNICO National, said he plans to be one of the volunteers. (Times photo by Tom Hemman)
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• Send an email to Tom Hemman at themman@italiancc.org or to David Stachowiak at dstachowiak@italianconference.com or Michelle LeFebvre at mlefebvre@italianconference.com. • Fax the information to either The Italian Times or the Italian Conference Center Sales and Catering Department at 414/2232187. • Drop off the schedules in person at the ICC. Groups that don’t comply with this request may find it more difficult at a later time to get the accommodations they most desire. “We always try our best to accommodate all requests, but if we can reserve dates and rooms early, it’s to everyone’s advantage,” Stachowiak said. Added Hemman, “If we don’t
have your schedule of events and the starting time of each event, it becomes very difficult and a bit frustrating to prepare an accurate calendar listing for the newspaper. We do hear about it when an event is not listed in the calendar. This is why we have to depend on the presidents or the designated representatives of the many organizations to supply that information to us.”
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