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Christmas party set for Sat., Dec. 11Christmas party set for Sat., Dec. 11 Valentini’s Supper Club in ChisholmValentini’s Supper Club in Chisholm

((Please note time change from previous years) Please note time change from previous years) Cash baCash ba r social beginning at 12:00 noonr social beginning at 12:00 noon

Delicious Italian buffet at 1:30 Delicious Italian buffet at 1:30 Entertainment by I Cantatori SingersEntertainment by I Cantatori Singers

----------Dinner tickets, inDinner tickets, in cluding tax and tipcluding tax and tip ----------

$15.00 for members and guests.$15.00 for members and guests. In lieu of a gift exchange, those attending will be In lieu of a gift exchange, those attending will be asked to contribute asked to contribute $5.00 for area food shelves.$5.00 for area food shelves.

Make reservations by Mon., Dec. 6 by phoning club Make reservations by Mon., Dec. 6 by phoning club

treasurer Linda O’Brien at 218/262treasurer Linda O’Brien at 218/262 --5184 or Sue 5184 or Sue Gnoza at 218/263Gnoza at 218/263 --5067.5067.

You also can mail Linda a personal check at You also can mail Linda a personal check at 3227 1st Ave., Hibbing 55746.3227 1st Ave., Hibbing 55746.

Checks should be made paChecks should be made pa yable to yable to Trentini ClubTrentini Club ..

2011 DUES DUE Here’s a friendly reminder that annual membership dues for 2011 should be paid by Dec. 11, either by mail or at the Christmas party. Cost is $15.00 a person.

Members’ spouses, their children and others of Trentini lineage are encouraged to join the club as well and to participate in the many social and beneficial activities.

Please make your check payable to Trentini Club. If submitting by mail, your payment should be sent to club treasurer Linda O’Brien, 3227 1st Ave., Hibbing 55746.

ITTONA Convention on the Mesabi in 2012ITTONA Convention on the Mesabi in 2012 It’s a go, everyone; at least for nowIt’s a go, everyone; at least for now

Looking for something to do between now and the summer of 2012? Keep your Trentini Club in mind. We might be calling on you because attendees at the last club meeting Nov. 10 voted to take on the challenge of hosting ITTONA’s 20th international convention on the Mesabi.

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Another autumn, another batch of antipasto

T he scene was familiar; the setting brand new. After years of antipasto production in the Chisholm home of Rom and

Val Amistadi, Trentini volunteers moved their canning facilities and assembly lines to the First Lutheran Church in Hibbing. They met there for two Saturday sessions, Oct. 23 and Nov. 13, and produced 431 pint jars of the delicious Italian appetizer. In the photos at left, (1) Claire Rupar sterilizes the caps and lids that will be used on each jar of antipasto; (2) Louise Fort, Val Amistadi and Paula Vukonich fill the jars, and (3) Pam Rivera, Claire Rupar, and Dave and Nancy White slice vegetables that will be part of the ingredients. Pam, from Long Beach, Cal., was in town to visit her parents Dave and Nancy. Once the antipasto comes out of the pressure cookers and

cools, it’s ready for distribution to the membership for sale to family, friends and acquaintances. Even those who work so hard to produce it pay full price. Proceeds from the sales help to defray extraordi-nary club expenses. And each year, sales are so brisk that demand often outpaces the supply.

This is BIG TIME. Past conventions have been held in Toronto (2010); Solvay, N.Y. (2008); New York City (2006), San Francisco (2004); Trento, Italy (2002); Boston (2000); Calgary (1998).... So we’re awaiting word from ITTONA headquarters that our offer has been accepted. You can be sure we’ll keep you posted.

These were most of the participants at the annual Trentini picnic at LoRetta Seppi’s cabin on Dewey Lake north of Chisholm on Aug. 21. The day was filled with camaraderie, delicious food and refreshments as well as song by the I Cantatori Singers. Next summer’s event is scheduled for Sat., Aug. 13. Mark your calendar.

TO: T

rent ini Members

FROM: Debbie Corradi, President

SUBJECT: Your Club’s Activities

Saluti, I would like to take this oppor tunity to share what we have been doing since the last newsletter .

In July, 24 members traveled by bus to Toronto for our annual convention. We spent a day-and-a-half

in Chicago pr ior to ar r iving in Toronto. We attended many presentations, toured the city and enjoyed a

picnic. Mary Seppi was honored at the Gala Ball. Many members at the convention and dur ing the

Presidents’ meeting expressed hope that the 2012 convention would be held in M innesota.

We had another successful annual picnic in August with good weather and great fr iendships.

Eight members accompanied Mary Seppi (age 100) to I taly in September . She returned to her

bir thplace and hometown of Lavis where she was honored. She appeared in many newspapers and on

national I talian television. I t was quite an exper ience for all of us.

Joe and Sue Gnoza and Ray and Alicia Brozovich went on a separate tr ip to I taly in September. Rudy

Zattoni and family visited Val di Non in October .

The members present at our November club meeting voted to host the 2012 ITTONA convention.

Louise For t, Joe and Sue Gnoza and I are the co-chairs for the event. This is a very big event and we

will need help to make it a success. I hope you will be willing to assist in any way possible. We will keep

you appr ised of our progress in planning the convention and will welcome any suggestions you have.

I would also appreciate your input on how to make the Trentini club more meaningful to all us.

Lastly, I would like to extend holiday greetings to all of you and wish you a safe and wondrous

Chr istmas and New Year .

Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo,

Debbie

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Trentini Tirolesi del Minnesota 2011 Schedule of Events

• Vincent Gentilini Polenta Feed, Buhl Senior Center, Sunday, April 10 at 1:00 p.m. (Gratis for members; $5.00 a person for non-member guests.) Phone Linda O’Brien at 262-5184 for reservations as we approach the date. • Annual Picnic, LoRetta Seppi’s Cabin on Dewey Lake, Saturday, August 13 at 1:00 p.m. • Christmas Party...To be announced.

All members are encouraged to attend our club’s general meetings the second Wednesday of each month (except July, August and December) at the Buhl Senior Center beginning at 6:30 p.m. A cash drawing and snack social follow each meeting.

Overheard in the piazza

• Trentini club members are generous in many ways, working untiringly in a variety of capacities, ranging from club officer or committee head to events’ volunteer. Often they go beyond the ordinary with unexpected contributions: • Joe and Jean Marches of Escon-dido, Cal.: Two gallons each of black and green olives for our antipasto production. • Carol Stolcis , Duluth: $100 toward the scholarship fund. • LoRetta Seppi and friend Mary Kay Hill, $32 and $18, respectively, toward scholarships from club jackpot winnings.

• Our club has three new members: David and Marcia Zontelli, 22883 Agate Shores Road, Deerwood, MN 56444 and Richard Zontelli, 30090 Oak Ave., Aitken, MN 56431. We welcome them and hope to see them at some of our events throughout the year. • Congratulations to club member Eric Fort who received a doctorate in chem-istry from Boston College last August. Eric now has a tenured track professor-ship to teach and conduct research at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.

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Another successful polenta feed. Forget the first robin. The annual polenta feed among Minnesota Trentini is a better sign of spring. This year’s event was held April 25 at the Buhl Senior Citizen Center. Among the “early birds” to work that Sunday morn-ing were (l-r, front) Sue Gnoza, Val Amistadi, Mariannina Marano, Diane Sandberg, LoRetta and Mary Seppi, Sharon Kearney, and Rudy Zattoni. In back are Joe Gnoza, Deb Corradi, Dominic Rauzi, Cathy Gentilini, Bob Kearney and Rom Amistadi.

Her college scholarship application to Trentini Tirolesi del Minnesota begins like this:

“My great grandfather Eligio Corradi was born in the Trentino province of Daone on March 19, 1879. In November of 1903 he arrived in America aboard the ship LaTouraine to stay with his brother Isadoro in New York. He subsequently moved to Chisholm with the great opportunity of working in the mines.”

Haley Corradi is among a group of recent high school graduates

who not only shares the experience of receiving one of our club’s scholarships, but also cherishes her heritage in immeasurable ways, perhaps more so than most of her peers.

She continues: “I never was blessed with the chance to know either Eligio, or his son (my grandfather Angelo), but I was lucky enough to inherit their values, stories, ethnicity, food and pride in my heritage,” she writes. “Perseverance and independence are two values that Eligio Corradi knew best, and they are two qualities I also embrace in my values...I will always remember my Trentini heritage was, and continues to be, a gigantic part of my life.”

Haley is one of three graduating high school students who received this year’s Trentini scholarships, each in the amount of $200. The other two are Brandon Plombon and Kyle Hammer.

Haley’s dad, Tom Corradi, and her aunts, Deb Corradi and Wendy Maki, are members of our club. In her graduating year at Maple Grove Senior High School, Haley says her objective is to gain admission to the University of Minnesota in the College of Liberal Arts with aspirations of becoming a secondary education teacher.

Brandon Plombon’s grandparents are Rom and Val Amistadi.

They, his uncle Louis Amistadi, and his uncle and aunt Barry and Kathy Bresnik, are members of our club. Among his ancestry who emigrated from the Trento area to the U.S. were Louigi Amistadi, great grandfather, from Roncone in 1909, and Santa Bertelli Amistadi, great grandmother, from Daone in 1907.

Upon graduation from Minnetonka High School, Brandon plans to pursue a degree in business management at Minnesota State University in Mankato.

“I am always interested in hearing about our heritage,” Brandon says. “Because I was intrigued to learn more, I took an Advanced Placement class in European history at Minnetonka High which is used for college credits. I would like to someday visit Italy and learn more about its people and customs.”

Brandon’s Trentini scholarship is better known as the Ernst “Larry” Seppi Scholarship, which is entirely funded by the Seppi family.

Kyle Hammer has a grandmother, an aunt and two uncles who are Trentini

Club members. Respectively, they are Alice Turk, Debra Krall, Rudy Zattoni, and Frank “Dusty” Turk. The Eveleth-Gilbert senior plans to attend the University of Minnesota Duluth upon graduation from high school but as yet is undecided about his course of study.

His great grandmother, Irene Giuseppina Negri, left her home in Tres Val de Non to travel to America in 1920. His great grandfather, Celeste Zattoni, had emigrated from Tres to the U.S. eight years earlier.

Kyle says his mother, Sandra Hammer, remembers how his great grand-mother could see the Alps from her small village, how beautiful it was, and how important it was to help family and neighbors. “She also remembers my great grandpa telling her about a church he helped to build in their little town,” he says. “They made wine by stomping the grapes and were extremely hard workers; and all the while family always came first. Hard work and helping others is what mattered, not personal wealth and fame as it is today,” Kyle says.

All three of this year’s Trentini scholarship recipients have not only carried a

full course load and maintained high academic grades, but they also have been involved in a host of extracurricular activities. These range from student gov-ernment, sports and music to volunteer service to their communities, all of which have earned them many leadership awards for their dedication and hard work.

(Editor’s note: Last year’s Trentini scholarship recipients were Anthony

Palcich, Allison Maki, and Brian Arola. Their names were included in the last Trentini newsletter (April 2010) with the intention of providing an update about each student in this edition. Sorry, but time ran out for us to garner the necessary information. We will try to do better by the next edition.)

Proud of their heritage

Three students receive Minnesota Trentini 2010 scho larships

Note to self...Check out www.trentini.org and Google ITTONA for interesting Websites

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AATT Y YOUROUR S SERVICEERVICE

PresidentPresident........Debbie CorradiDebbie Corradi

Vice PresidentVice President........LoRetta SeppiLoRetta Seppi

TreasurerTreasurer........Linda O’BrienLinda O’Brien

SecretarySecretary........Sharon KearneySharon Kearney

TrusteeTrustee........Rudy ZattoniRudy Zattoni

TrusteeTrustee........Rom AmistadiRom Amistadi

LaCaritaLaCarita........Val AmistadiVal Amistadi

HistorianHistorian........Claire RuparClaire Rupar

HistorianHistorian........Nancy WhiteNancy White

MembershipMembership........Louise FortLouise Fort

ScholarshipsScholarships........Tom PalcichTom Palcich

Web MaWeb Masterster........Eric FortEric Fort

PublicityPublicity........Tom PalcichTom Palcich

EditorEditor........Joe GnozaJoe Gnoza

Chicago, here they are;Chicago, here they are;Chicago, here they are;Chicago, here they are;Chicago, here they are;Chicago, here they are;Chicago, here they are;Chicago, here they are;

R udy Zattoni’s portrayal of “See No Evil” in the July photo above proved to be prophetic two months later when he and

his buddy Rom Amistadi teamed up to harvest wild rice on a Mesabi Range lake. It was a warm, sunny day in September, but ricing was very poor. As their efforts came to a disappointing end, Rom paddled the canoe toward the marshy shoreline. Wearing waders, Rudy stepped out of the canoe into five or six inches of water to help Rom with the landing. He saw no evil. But near his feet at the lake bottom was a large, slippery rock. He stepped on it, lost his balance and fell over backwards into the murky shallows. When he stood up, Rom says, Rudy was encased in mud from head to toe, except for his face. And his eye glasses were askew. Rom couldn’t stop laughing at how surprised and disgusted Rudy looked. Unhurt but upset, Rudy blamed his ricing partner for causing his fall. Why would he do that, you ask? “Because Rom was the only one around,” says Rudy. Before the long drive back home from the lake, Rom protected the seats in Rudy’s pickup from the grime with sheets of plastic. Their take for the day was only about 12 pounds of the grain. “It’ll probably run us $125.00 a pound by the time we consider the cost of processing, licenses to harvest, gasoline for the truck and other incidentals connected with the outing,” Rom jokes. But that isn’t the end of the story. Once Rudy arrived home on Ely Lake near Eveleth, his wife Bobbette wouldn’t let him enter the house caked with mud. Before she would open the door, he had to strip naked on their deck. We can only hope the neighbors and passersby weren’t watching.

A trio of “monkey-shiners” on a bench. Going through the antics during a stop in Frankenmuth, Mich. on the return trip to Minnesota from the ITTONA convention in Toronto are “See No Evil” Rudy Zattoni, “Hear No Evil” Rom Amistadi, and “Speak No Evil” Joe Gnoza. Where were their wives all the while? Shopping, of course.

IN MEMORIAM DEEPEST SYMPATHY IS EXPRESSED TO THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF

THESE TRENTINI CLUB MEMBERS WHO HAVE DIED: WES PASCHKE OF SIDE LAKE , 70, MAY 13 RITA PERRY OF HIBBING , 71, JUNE 4 KRISTIN SEPPI TOMANDL OF MEDFORD, WIS., 42, JULY 21

with meetings, dinners, hospitality rooms and local tours of interest. In the photo at left, Alicia (cen-er) and Ray Brozovich share their experiences with Carla Marchetti, a volunteer with the Tyrolean Trentini Social Club of Toronto, host of this year’s convention. On the right, Luciana Svaldi (stand-ing), vice president with ITTONA in Chicago, reviews convention details with (l-r) Deb Corradi, Louise Fort, and Sue Gnoza. While enroute to Toronto on a chartered Happy Trail Tours Min-nesota Coach, the Mesabi Range group had a narrated tour of Chi-cago and stops at various sites, including the city’s Millennium Park and Magnificent Mile. While in Toronto, they also toured the city and visited places like the CN Tower and Eaton Centre.

Once every other year, the ITTONA international convention brings people of Trentino descent (and their spouses) together to explore their common heritage in both business and social settings

With the Chicago skyline as a backdrop, these Minnesota Tren-tinies were ready to explore some of the city’s highlights before reboarding their chartered bus from the Mesabi Iron Range to con-tinue their trip to the 19th annual ITTONA convention in Toronto July 23-25. From left are Linda and Pete O’Brien, Bob and Chris Springhetti, Sherrie Seppi, Rom and Val Amistadi, Mary Kay Hill (guest), LoRetta and Mary Seppi, Deb Corradi, Richard Seppi, Rudy and Bobbette Zattoni, Dominic Rauzi, Louise and John Fort, Myra and Tom Winn, Teri Weeks, and Sue and Joe Gnoza. The group of happy travelers later met up with fellow club members Ray and Alicia Brozovich at the convention.