Saturday May 28, 2011

Bocce: Lincoln Park – John Ratto Bocce Courts
Play starts at 9:00 a.m. sharp. Be at the courts by 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast snacks\beverages provided.

Dinner:
IAL Hall. 2712 Encinal Avenue Dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m.
The IAL Hall and bar will open immediately after the tournament.
Additional cost for drink tickets.

Cost:
$25.00 per person bocce and dinner $15.00 per person dinner only

Game Play:
  • Double elimination tournament of 6 teams each from the IAL and Alpicella.
  • The winning team takes home the trophy!
  • Prizes awarded for first, second and third place teams.
Contact:
Alpicella players:    Joe Restagno 523-4412  Email:  joe.restagno@gmail.com
IAL players:            Mimi Laubach 522-1511  Email:  mermimi@gmail.com

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Please RSVP by May 23rd

Join us for the annual Alpicella vs IAL tournament and dinner!

Where: Lincoln Park – John Ratto Bocce Courts

When: Saturday, May 22nd. Play starts at 9:00 a.m. sharp. Be at the courts by 8:30 a.m. Breakfast snacks\beverages provided.

Details: Double elimination tournament of 6 teams each from the IAL and Alpicella. The winning team takes home the trophy!

  • Prizes awarded for first, second and third place teams
  • The IAL Hall and bar will open immediately after the tournament
  • Cost: $25.00 per person bocce and dinner $15.00 per person dinner only

Alpicella players, sign up with Joe Restagno

IAL players, sign up with Mimi Laubach

Join us for dinner at the IAL Hall, 2712 Encinal Avenue, Alameda.

Dinner will be served at 6:00 pm (additional cost for drink tickets).

The East Bay Italian-American Clubs Annual Picnic, at the Alameda County Fairgrounds, in Pleasanton, is coming up on September 13th and all Alpicella Club members, along with their families and friends, are invited to join the festivities.

Picnic highlights will include:

  • Live Music (George Campi, Vito Riggio on accordian, and Vince Pistello as DJ))
  • Door Prizes
  • Raffles
  • Tombola Game
  • Salami Throw Game
  • Jump House for kids
  • Clowns, Face Painting, and Balloons
  • SnoCones Machine

There will be a small admission fee of $2 or $3 (kids 12 and under are free) at the door.

A complete BBQ steak meals will be available for purchase (adults=$12/10oz and kids=$6/6oz).  Advance meal tickets will be available for purchase through the Alpicella Club. We'll be compiling a list of club members who plan on purchasing steak meal tickets, so that they can order enough food for everyone. If you plan on buying steak tickets (in advance), please make sure that you're on the list.

There will be no alcoholic beverages for sale, but you're free to bring your own. Should you prefer to, you can also bring your own picnic food.

Parking will be available across the street (except for the handicap).

Picnic flyers will be available, from the Alpicella club, soon.

Lastly, this event requires a lot of time and effort to organize and run, most of which is being taken care of by our generous friends at the Columbo and Fratellanza clubs.  However, volunteers are needed to help with event t-thirts sales and post-event cleanup. If you're willing and able to volunteer, if only for a one or two hour shift, please contact me or one of your friendly club board members.

Thanks and we'll see you at the picnic!

Following the great success of last month's family dinner's raffle, based on our members' heart and enthusiasm, the 50%-50% raffle is quickly becoming a great club fundraising tradition. 

At the April family dinner, we sold $786 worth of raffle tickets, 3 lucky winners went home ritcher, and the club raised $393.

The family dinner raffles (introduced by our club president, John Gentilin) are primarily intended to benefit another of our club traditions, the scholarship fund. From time to time, however, the club members may decide to opt to divert individual raffles' proceeds to other, more urgent, causes of common interest.  In April, for example, the club board approved a proposal that, pending the members' vote/approval in the upcoming May club meeting, would divert the proceeds to a fund to help the tens of thousands of people injured and left homeless by the recent 6.3 earquake in L'Aquila, Italy (less than 300 miles from the town of Alpicella).  If approved by the members, the $393 donation will be made through the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF).

Our first 50/50 raffle was a fun and exciting gamble during the annual Crab Feed.

The winner was Dave Bernhard. With his great generosity of donating his winnings back to the cause, the club raised $800.00 towards the Alpicella Scholarship Fund!!

We will offer an even more exciting raffle at the April family dinner - with prizes going to 3 winners!

Joe Bonadona and Steve Crosetti were voted in at the January members dinner.

This brings the club to a total of 193 members, 152 active and 42 active lifetime.

Dinners