Ciao a tutti,
I am so pleased to report the Annual St. Joseph Table event has returned and returned in what I say was the best SJT I have ever attended at our club. Yep, I said ever, and that’s going back to my first one in 1980. I can’t express enough my gratitude to first, committee chairperson, Phil Luchetta for volunteering to head up the event. Phil came to me last October and very politely asked why we didn’t have the SJT event last year. I was embarrassed and saddened to tell him, because three days before the date, we only had 19 reservations. He told me he was confident with enough time to promote the event; we could bring St. Joseph’s Table back to the club. His enthusiasm and confidence convinced me, and that’s when I appointed Phil to be chairperson. He took the ball (as they say) and really ran with it. Phil asked and appointed Cynthia Hedahl, VP Tony Ricevuto and Bobby Benzo to join his committee. Special thanks to Cynthia who pretty much single handedly designed and built the fabulous altar. For those of the approximately 165 people who attended, I don’t have to tell you what a great job they did this past Sunday. The committee met several times since late last year and kept detailing every detail in order to achieve what happened Sunday.

Thank you to Axillary Bishop Gregory Gordon for attending and Blessing our fabulous altar, the room, the food and our members. Bishop Gordon was extremely impressed with our presentation.

Thanks to all who attended and contributed in showing off your culinary skills or donating auction items. The food was fabulous and plentiful. The auction items were also very nice and plentiful. Thank you to my young niece Diana Cassaro Provenzano for running the auction that brought in approximately $3,000.00.

Our Italian American Club food and beverage staff provided us with enough “back up” food and their help setting up and keeping the buffet line attended to and for that we thank the entire team. Ben Spano, Jimmy Girard and staff.

The committee will have a follow-up meeting next week to critique the event and see what went well and where we can improve. One thing I am sorry, we didn’t direct/insist/ask all the cooks and auction item donors to put your name on your items. We need to acknowledge the people that put an effort forward to make our event great.

See you all soon. Stay well and God Bless you all.
Angelo A. Cassaro

April 26 – Annual Spring Golf Tournament

May - No Membership Meeting
May 3 – Annual Nevada Special Olympics Bocce Tournament
May 10 – Annual Family Backyard BBQ

Please RSVP to attend the June 4 meeting by June 1 : rsvp@iacvegas.com
Dinner @ 6:15pm Member Meeting @ 7pm