FROM THE PRESIDENTS’ DESK: Dear Lodge Sisters and Brothers, SUMMER HAS ARRIVED ON LONG ISLAND. AND NOW WE CAN ENJOY ALL THAT OUR ISLAND OFFERS. WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THE WINERIES, ALWAYS A HIT. THERE WILL BE MORE TO ENJOY STAY COOL! AND AS THEY SAY IN ITALY, "COME BELLA LA STAGIONE." Happy 4 th of July, President Luisa LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY JULY 2019 VOLUME 6 ISSUE 7 BASILONE LODGE #2442 P.O. BOX 173 BLUE POINT, NY 11715 [email protected]Editor; Angela Donato June Meeting
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FROM THE PRESIDENTS’ DESK:
Dear Lodge Sisters and Brothers,
SUMMER HAS ARRIVED ON LONG ISLAND. AND NOW WE CAN ENJOY
ALL THAT OUR ISLAND OFFERS.
WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THE WINERIES, ALWAYS A HIT.
THERE WILL BE MORE TO ENJOY STAY COOL! AND AS THEY SAY IN ITALY, "COME BELLA LA STAGIONE."
1. THE HORSERACE IS CORSA DEL PALIO, OR PARADE OF THE BANNER.
2. ENRICO FERMI, AN ITALIAN JEW.
3. THE LAST JUDGEMENT. PAINTED ON THE ENTIRE WALL BEHIND THE ALTAR IN THE
SISTINE CHAPEL.
CORSA DEL PALIO DEFINITION
The Palio, Italian in ful;l Corsa del Palio (“Course of the Banner”), festival of medieval origin conducted annually
in certain Italian cities and featuring bareback horse races. Best known to foreigners is the Palio of Siena. Horse
racing in Siena dates from 1232.
Palio is the name given in Italy to an annual athletic contest, very often of a historical character, pitting the neighbourhoods of a town or the hamlets of a comune against each other. Typically they are fought in costume and commemorate some event or tradition of the Middle Ages, and thus often involve horse racing, archery, jousting, crossbow shooting, and similar medieval sports. Once purely a matter of local rivalries, many have now become events staged with an eye to visitors and foreign tourists.
Lodge Sister Stephanie, with Friend of our Lodge,
Ed Romaine, Brookhaven Town Supervisor
WE REMEMBER IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT OF
THE PERRY COMO LODGE, ANN CAJIGAS.
SHE WAS A LOVELY LADY & FRIEND TO THE
BASILONE LODGE, she donated an AUTUMN raffle
basket to last years Basilone Lodge Auction.
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI, 96,
DIRECTOR. ROME. DIED
JUNE 15th. KNOWN FOR
HIS EXTRAVAGANT
PRODUCTIONS,
ROMEO AND JULIET ,
LA TRAVIATA
AND THE
MINISERIES;
JESUS OF NAZARETH.
== July is National Scams Awareness Month
JULY 2nd, NATIONAL ANISETTE DAY
IT APPEARS ON THE NATIONAL CALENDAR OF
CELEBRATIONS, BUT NO ORIGIN IS FOUND,
HOWEVER I THINK IT IS WORTH CELEBRATING!!!!
I JUST LEARNED OF A NEW SCAM, A YOUNG LADIES PHONE WAS STOLEN. THE THIEF CALLED THE PHONE NUMBER
UNDER HER LISTING, “DAD” . WHEN HER DAD ANSWERED THE CALL, HE WAS TOLD THEY HAD HIS DAUGHTER,
WITH A GUN TO HER HEAD, AND WOULD KILL HER IF HE DIDN’T DELIVER MONEY TO THEM.
DAD KEPT HIS COOL, ASKED TO SPEAK TO HIS DAUGHTER, OF COURSE THEY DIDN’T HAVE HER, BUT REPEATED
THEIR THREAT OF SHOOTING HER. HE AGREED TO THEIR DEMANDS, HUNG UP THE PHONE. CALLED HIS
DAUGHTER AT HER HOME PHONE NUMBER, THANKFULLY, SHE WAS HOME, AND THEY PROCEEDED TO CALL THE
POLICE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT. I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW FRIGHTENED THE DAD WAS.
I MYSELF RECEIVED THE GRANDSON IN JAIL PHONE CALL SCAM. THE BOY SAID, DO YOU KNOW WHO THIS IS
GRANDMA? I JUST LAUGHED AND SAID, OH YOU BOYS ALL SOUND ALIKE, WHICH ONE IS THIS? THE KID SAID
BOBBY, OF COURSE HE MUST HAVE SEEN OUR PHONE NUMBER IS LISTED UNDER MY HUSBANDS NAME, ROBERT.
SO I PRETENDED I HAD A GRANDSON NAMED BOBBY, AND LISTENED TO HIM. HE HAD HIS LAWYER CALL ME.
THE LAWYER GAVE ME THE INFORMATION, THE CASE NUMBER AND WHERE TO WIRE THE MONEY.
I JUST LAUGHED AND SAID, AH KEEP THE BRAT IN JAIL. NEEDLESS TO SAY, THEY HUNG UP ON ME.