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, impromptu soccer matches, climbing a greased pole and playing "tug-of-war." At this Italian picnic, we see the men demonstrating their strength to an appreciate audience of women.',3))
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![Italian shareholders set up the Sunshine Mine near Wayne in 1921 and the Camp became a "Little Italy." The Loggia Enrico Caruso, No. 16, in Drumheller, provided a focus for community activities, which included dinners, dances and musical performances. This photograph of the women of the community preparing for a "spaghetti feed" is perhaps one of the last, happy community activities. With mine closures, many families scattered to seek work elsewhere leaving the old people and those who had left the mines and found other careers in the Drumheller Valley.](javascript:Dynapop(2,'images/clozza/clozza_02_det.jpg','Italian shareholders set up the Sunshine Mine near Wayne in 1921 and the Camp became a "Little Italy." The Loggia Enrico Caruso, No. 16, in Drumheller, provided a focus for community activities, which included dinners, dances and musical performances. This photograph of the women of the community preparing for a "spaghetti feed" is perhaps one of the last, happy community activities. With mine closures, many families scattered to seek work elsewhere leaving the old people and those who had left the mines and found other careers in the Drumheller Valley.',3))
![Il Bosc [the wood] or Maple Leaf Bush Town, was a part of Bellevue from 1910 until the 1950s.](javascript:Dynapop(2,'images/crowsnest/03_unit07_det.jpg','Il Bosc [the wood] or Maple Leaf Bush Town, was a part of Bellevue from 1910 until the 1950s. Adie Rinaldi describes this small Little Italy under the Mohawk tipple as a close community where every family had cows and chickens, and they made their own entertainment and wine. There was also a "Bocce Alley" (an Italian bowling game that has elements of lawn bowling and curling). They survived floods and accidents and it was only mine closures that drove them away. Families that lived there for over 45 years include: Giovanni and Sylvio Gatto, Sesto Fidenato, John Petrini, Giovanni Scodellaro, Louis and John Vandresko, Fred, Epanio and Angelo Bosetti, Giovanni Artico, Angelo Filipuzzi, Benedetto Maniago, Tony De Zarzi, Batiste Lenardon, Marco Facin, Joseph Scodellaro, Pio Vigna, Giovanni Bosa and the Budda brothers. ',13))
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 and, for the community, this was evidence that they had "made it." Back row, left to right: R. Horne, H. Murphy, J. Krkosky Fr., A. Olson, a. Bosetti. Front row: J. Aschacher, R. Peressini Sr., W. Knight, ? Fitzpatrick, J. Krkosky Sr. Romano Peressini served on the Town Council for 25 years on all committees. He was also one of the oldest members of the Loggia Societa Operaria de M.S. No. 3 in Coleman.',13))
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