Italian Festival hosted in Wheat Ridge/Denver area. Date listed as October 4, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Participating organizations include Denver Sister Cities International – Potenza Committee, IABA Colorado, Italians of America North Denver, The Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America, Tirolian Trentini Di Colorado, and others.

Throughout the years, the Denver Lodge has been involved in events around the community. The Lodge has been an annual participant in the Wheat Ridge Carnation and St. Patrick’s Day parades. The Lodge also participated in numerous fairs, festivals, and public events. In the past, the Sons of Italy chorus, led by John and Gloria DeFrange, performed in various local events. Who can forget the many queens that gave the Lodge a strong positive presence in the community as well as competing in the pageant at the Grand Lodge of California Conventions? The Lodge even sponsored sports teams.
Members of the Denver Lodge bought their first building at 38th and Harlan in 1981. Finally, members had a place to call their own and a place to hold meetings and host events. They rented the hall to other organizations as a way to raise funds. Near the end of the payment terms, the interest rate was set to spike from 12% to 18%. Displeased with the increase, Anne Ciancio launched an alternate plan to take pledges from the membership to pay off the remaining balance. When the idea was presented to the membership, the needed funds were raised in just 10 minutes. Each member was repaid in full at the original interest rate of 12%. It’s fair to say that the membership really did live up to the true good of the order.
In 1983 the Denver Lodge started organizing bingo events. Sessions were originally hosted in the Lodge building but because of its size and the number of players, a decision was made to rent space in a bingo hall.

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