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Fashionistas will be soaking up the style while tucking into the finest Italian cuisine on Wednesday, October 22 at the Colombo Lodge for the Can-Ital Ladies Society Fall Fashion Show. Can-Ital Ladies Society has a 50-year history of service in the community. The late Clelia Fuoco, mother of the late Ray Fuoco, had the idea to form a club made up of ladies of Italian heritage and wives of Italian men. Mrs. Fuoco was a well educated woman and when any of the Italian families had any problems, were faced with legal or medical matters, Mrs. Fuoco was often called upon to interpret for them. 20 ladies were in attendance for an organizational meeting held on May 16, 1962. The aims of the Society were to promote friendship, cultural, social and charitable causes among its members and the community. Meeting once a month at the Colombo Hall, the committee worked on drawing up a constitution, the name Can-Italian Ladies Society was decided on and following registry as a Society on September 1, 1964, the group was officially in business. Contact was made with the Italian Consulate and the group established Italian language classes that still continue today. Celebrating their 50th Anniversary September 20, the membership has grown to over 100 ladies. Over the past half-century, the la-
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From left to right are Can-Ital 50th Anniversary charter members Louise Malahoff, Louise De Monte, Marguerite Vigna, Joanne Uliana, Lina Basso, Fernanda Gnoata and Idanna Campagnaro. (Missing is Iridi Damini).
dies have promoted Italian culture through displays and demonstrations as well as selling Italian foods at cultural events. Money has been raised by participating in bazaars, rummage sales, Christmas card sales, raffles and through an annual dinner held in February. These dinners have continued every year and they are one of the group’s chief fundraisers. Following the popularity of their first cookbook, which sold out three times, the
Can-Ital ladies have put together a second edition cookbook of their favourite recipes to commemorate their 50th anniversary. Their first charitable donation was $5100 to the Kamloops Society for the Mentally Handicapped in November of 1964 and since then the ladies have continued to donate regularly to this cause. Over the past 50 years Can-Ital has donated $550,000 to various causes throughout our community as well
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as internationally and have been acknowledged with many awards for their fundraising efforts. To date, donations have been made to the Royal Inland Hospital, Diabetes Association, Canadian Institute for the Blind, Heart and Stroke Foundation, Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada, Kidney Foundation, Overlander Hospital, Hospice Society, Thompson Rivers University, Christmas Amalgamated and the sponsorship
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