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June 2015
Monza News
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Monza News
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NEWS
Monza
June ADVERTISEMENTS....................................................3
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.4
NEW BOARD ........................................................... 5
ANNOUNCEMENTS .5
FILM LIST....... .......................5
PREVIOUS EVENTS....................................................6
SUMMER ARTICLE....................6
UPCOMING EVENTS..................................................7
A SPECIAL LETTER ......................................8
BOOK REVIEWS .......................................................9
ADVERTISEMENTS........................10 - 13
CINEMA UNDER THE STARS .......................14
THINGS TO DO.......................15
SUMMER ARTICLE...................................................16
BIRTHDAYS..............................................................17
GROUP ACTIVITIES............................................18
THE BOARD.............................................................19
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Quote of the month
Sometimes its okay if the only thing you did today was B R E A T H E.
Dear friends,
Does the saying What doesnt kill you, makes
you stronger ring a bell with anyone?
Well, Im still here.
Im also very happy to say that Bolliger is also still
here to sponsor our Monza News for another
year [insert sound of me patting my back here].
I have many, many women to acknowledge, but
there is one particular person I am especially
grateful to.
I format, copy, paste. I hide.
You* share and reveal yourself with courage and
honesty in your writing.
I put my title as Editor aside and pick up my
pen...
Thank you*.
Melissa Saucedo l
You* = Rachael Martin
Letter from the E
ditor
The deadline for the June Monza News is
September 3, 2015
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letter from the president
Hello Ladies,
Well can you believe this is my last letter as President?
It sounds like such a clich but the year has gone so quickly and
sometimes so painfully slow at the same time. I cannot believe how much a club can achieve and pack into a year....
I feel like I have just got used to the role and now I am handing it over, albeit to a wonderful woman who will be a great President for the club.
My favourite personal highlights have been the Welcome/Halloween party as the costumes and the cake competition were amazing and created such a wonderful sense of family energy yet with a huge dose of competitiveness. I also learnt how to play Bunco and I have learnt how much I love having members who can cook incredible food from all over the world. The luck of having a cookie maker like Anna on the board too has meant the most delicious treats while having board meetings. I have learnt about mindfulness, I love Indian food and I love watching people sing and dance (who can forget the tango dancers).
From a club perspective, I have ended the year with such respect and admiration for the endless team of ladies and families who give up so much time to help our club be the strong club that it is. Welcoming new members, driving people to events, sewing, selling, baking, and running the groups that are a lifeline to some of our members. Language groups, exercise classes, book clubs, coffee groups, cinema trips all regardless of weather and personal time and expense.
To all you ladies, I really hope you realise how much the club appreciates you.
To all the committee members, I applaud you for the freetime you dedicate and for the sole reason of helping.
Each board has such a bonding experience together that I understand now why some of
the previous boards are still friends years later.
My own experience has been one of pure luck, as I have had such a unique and great bunch of ladies to work with. I say work because that is exactly what it is, a job you take so seriously and passionately that it can become all consuming. Yet it is voluntary. I have Ivana who has shown me how powerful dancing with your husband can be, Zizeth who is incredibly professional at all times yet has such a wonderful sense of fun. Eleanora who would do anything for anyone and has an incredible command of English humour and jokes. Susan is our dark horse and has had us laughing at times when we all need a pick up, usually in the form of hilarious pictures. Julia who is so proud of her husband and kids, she could burst. Anna, who is the best cookie maker ever and is an inspiration in her ability to share her valuable time. Melissa, who has the enviable skill of looking like she has come off a set of 1950s Mad Men set at all times and then of course we have Sushil. She came in at the 11th hour to stand in and has never looked back. No challenge is too big or too impossible for her to attempt...Together I call them all the "Benvenuto Insomniacs......"you are all wonderful and very hardworking....
So my last message to you all on this iconic 25th year of Benvenuto Monza, is a huge Thankyou to the ladies who started this club and for trusting us with it , it's purpose to help welcome English speaking women from all over the world and to create a " family " that we can all flourish in and be a part of. Thank you to all the ladies who work so hard to keep it running especially as it is all voluntary help.
But mostly to all you members who join and m a k e i t t h e u n i q u e c l u b i t is..............Thankyou.
Janine Davies
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Announcements
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DATE FILM
15 June THE AGE OF ADALINE
22 June TALE OF TALES
29 June TOMORROWLAND
06 July SUITE FRANCAISE
13 July A LITTLE CHAOS
20 July FURY
27 July INFINITELY POLAR BEAR
07 Sept EISENSTEIN IN MEXICO
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ENGLISH
FILM LIST
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The Benvenuto Board 2015 - 2016
Hana Da Ros
Membership Dir.
Maria Teresa Gambaro
Vice President
Zizeth Maroun
President
Irmgard Sieber
Treasurer
Susan Edick-Ferrara
Secretary
Audrey Garny
Newcomers Director
Cheryl Stockman
Editor
Ivana Menegardo-Develter
Special Activities
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Previous events
25th Anniversary
Dance
GETAWAY Just for a few days
By Barbara De Savorgnani
Approximately three hours on the autostrada and another 50 mins on provincial roads (its a slow drive down) will take you to Beaulieu Sur Mer in the south of France on the Italian side of Nice. The drive down from the autostrada to the lower cornice is, itself, breathtaking. At the very beginning of the descent there is a lookout point overlooking Monaco - the view at night is fairyland but for a first visit do it by day, you can always go back in the evening just as it is turning dark. Beaulieu offers clean, public beaches (good for families) and promenades like the one beside the bay leading to the village of St Jean Cap Ferrat once the holiday venue of the rich and famous. Both Frank Sinatra and David Niven had homes there, and the small square outside David Nivens old home has been named after him. You can extend this walk another 40 mins and walk around the little Cap; when we were there I often swam off the rocks during my daily circumnavigation of the small cap, so if you feel like it dive in! A bigger walk is the one around the Cap itself (no swimming facilities) - about an hour and a half it takes you by the lighthouse and the Grand Hotel, with wonderful views of Villefrance and its bay.
Beaulieu is very central Nice and Monaco are on either side, both easily accessible by train, and the hinterland is soon reached by car Canyons di Verdun for example a 2 day visit in my opinion. Close by is also Eze a medieval village on the hill overlooking Eze Sur Mer very touristy but worth a visit. These days we stay at the Hotel Comte de Nice, which lies at the end of the main road in Beaulieu, very convenient but also very quiet it is a family run hotel and has the big advantage of a place to park the car, so no running out to put money in the meters at 6am!
So when autumn comes, and the skies are grey, give Beaulieu Sur Mer a thought a pleasant getaway to unwind and practice your French!
Summer Article
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Upcoming events
Save the date!!!Welcome Party
Oktoberfest
Sunday, October 11, 201512:00 4:00
Ristorante La BergaminaVia Bergamina, 64, Arcore
Contact: Special Activities Director Ivana Menegardo-DevelterCel. Phone 338 535 4240
Fun for all Families and Friends!
21 NOVEMBRE 2015
This year the Bazaar is going to be
about food!
If you live in Brianza and have some
fruit trees could you share some of you
produce with your Benvenuto friends?
Its time to make jams and preserves
and....liquors.
Anna Vicentini will be happy to make
jam with all the fruit that you are able
to donate!
If you are going to Livigno or San
Marino during the Summer, could you
please bring back some duty free pure
alcohol 95 to make fresh limoncello
for our Christmas Bazaar?
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR
THE MOST UP-TO-DATE
INFORMATION:
www.benvenutomonza.com
If you are a newcomer and have not
seen your picture here, please
contact Elda Elvedese to have your
picture taken
Just a reminder that you are very welcome to join us (the writers group) at LA CAMILLA via Dante Concorezzo every first Thursday of the month during the summer holidays...
2 July, 6 August, 3 September
Anna Bodini
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IN MEMORY OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND GIANFRANCO: A letter from Gabriella Mapelli
My dear Kako, my dear Meiliana, and all my dear friends around the world.
After 55 years of our life spent always together, side by side ... my beloved husband, my lover, my friend, my everything, is gone forever.
He was very ill, but despite the tremendous disease he still had the courage to go on. He was brave and even happy when I was with him, hand in hand, eyes to eyes ...
He was 76 years old and he could have lived some more years, if the terrible disaese couldn't have hit him.
We met when I was 18 and he was 22 ... He fell deeply in love with me just the first day he saw me. At that time I was very shy, and I took a little bit to declare my love to him.
After so many years spent together he still was very deeply in love with me and he was used to repeat to me that he would have married me thousand and thousand time again.
He also use to say to me and to everybody: remember Gabriella, the love I feel for you, it happened just once in a lifetime, and this is why, in spite of my illness, I feel I have been a lucky man.
Now ... I'm heartbroken, I feel empty, I feel terrible. I miss him. I must think that he is still alive, and near to me, to feel some relief ...
All three of my children and my four little grandchildren are close to me and with their help I must try to go on ...
Love to you all,
Gabriella
SOME OF THE ANSWERS FROM MY FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD
Dear Gabriella and all my friends,
I have been thinking a great deal about your letter.
It seemed to me that you wrote a great love letter
to your beloved husband. When I face sunny day
or terrible day at my rest of life, I will try to think of your today's letter.
Thank you very much indeed for your writing to us.
Your ever, Kako
Dear Gabriella,
First of all, I feel very sorry for your loss of Gianfranco. I have been thinking of you for a long time after the sad news. I can't find what words comfort you even in Japanese. Especially when I read your letter about the heartfelt relationship between you and your husband, my tears came out. A Beautiful Love Story! I wish you live with your happy and beautiful memories with him for good. Please take care of your good health and be strong for your children and your grand children.
Lots of love, Junko
Dear Gabriella,
I've been thinking of you, but I just didn't know how to comfort you like Junko.
I really understand from your e-mail how much you suffer from the loss of your beloved husband. So I've been praying for you to get over it.
I do hope your sorrow will decrease day by day even though it' s very very hard.
People say time is the best medicine. And please remember the love from all over the world.
Kanae
Dear Gabriella,
As all other ladies from round the world we hold our hands together in a circle and give you the strength to overcome the sorrow. Your letter is a real diamond to your love. Thanks for sharing. Our Friendship is forever. A very big hug, Ursula and Adi
My dear Gabriella,
I'm so sorry that I am too far to be with you at this difficult time. But believe me my heart and thought are alway with you.
Cheer up my friend, I know you can ...
Such a beautiful and sweet friend of mind. From time to time I always flip you photo, imagine of our time in Mrs Cox's class room.
Write to me when you have time. Let me know if you've gone through the hardship.
I want to see your beautiful smill again.
Big hug and kisses, your Friend Meiliana and Family
A Special Letter
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Please note that if you are unable to attend a Special Activity for which you have paid, a minimum
of 48 hours notice is required for cancellation but a refund cannot always be guaranteed.
Book Reviews
A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson
Reviewed & written by Kate Icke
In Life After Life Ursula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In A God in Ruins, Atkinson turns her focus on Ursulas beloved younger brother Teddy would-be poet, RAF bomber pilot, husband and father as he navigates the perils and progress of the 20th century. For all Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge will be to face living in a future he never expected to have.
This is a novel about war and the shadow it casts even over generations who have never known it, but it is also a novel about fiction. Though it may appear to lack the bold formal conceit that made Life After Life so original, dont make the mistake of thinking that Atkinson has abandoned her interest in authorial playfulness. The book ends with a breathtaking volte-face which will infuriate some readers and delight others, forcing us to reconsider how we understand fiction and the uses of the imagination. I think that you can only be so mulishly fictive if you genuinely care about what you are writing, she writes in a postscript, and there is no doubt that this is a novel that cares deeply about its characters and about the purpose of fiction in making sense of our collective past.
A God in Ruins, together with its predecessor, is Atkinsons finest work, and confirmation that her genre-defying writing continues to surprise and dazzle.
The Hare with Amber Eyes - A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
Have you ever read a book that you didn't want to finish, because it was so good you were afraid that, when you got to the end, you would feel a little bereft? Well I had that feeling reading this book - in fact it took me 10 days to read, as I was savouring every chapter. It tells the story of the Ephrussi family, from their origins in Odessa through the family's moves to Paris and Vienna and Tokyo, against the dramatic backdrop of the end of 19th century and the first and second world wars. The fil rouge is a collection of carved ivory and wood Japanese miniature figures (netsuke) which passes from the rich ancestors right down to Edmund, a contemporary ceramicist in England. The family's history is traced by Edmund but is written almost as a novel, recounting the stories of his ancestors and describing in vivid detail their lives as a rich Jewish family in France and Austria - I found the part regarding the social standing and subsequent fate of the Jews in these two countries in the first half of the 20th century particularly interesting. Definitely a book to be read at leisure, if you are interested in art and history.
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal - Ben Macintyre
Reviewed & written by Elisabetta Buscemi
here's my review of Macintyre's biography A Spy among Friends, on Kim Philby's affair.
I loved the book and enjoyed the atmosphere a lot.
As you all know Philby was the most famous double agent in the history of British intelligence.He started betraying every secret of Allied operations since his university years, when he embraced the Soviet political belief and never repented, never doubted, thus sending hundreds to their death.
But the book is also about the parallel stories of his two closest friends who believed they knew Philby better than anyone and discovered they had never really known their friend's complete entity.
In particular Elliott, who must certainly have felt so painfully betrayed, as he had helped the Philby family so much during the period of Philby's inquisition, before he was cleared up.
And yet, from Macintyre's pages, you feel the depth of this lifelong friendship, you can almost imagine yourself subdued by Philby's charm, his greatest gift that fooled so many.
You can't possibly side for this double agent and traitor of his country, his being untroubled by his action's consequences yet his story is larger than life.
But more than all that, I felt so involved in the story that I found myself uttering more than once: "how can he (Macintyre) make up such gripping stories!".
Because that's it: if you were not aware that the book is factual, you would assume that this astonishing account were pure fiction!
The writer 's information comes from newly released M15 files, so it's detailed and precise, but it's the way he puts this material into his pages that makes the real difference. No one writes about deceit so dramatically and perceptively, his capacity to go deep into these friendships makes this a thrilling and extraordinary book, and it's the small human details that make the story so intoxicating.
Although I believe the biography centers more on Kilby's friendships than on his actual actions, it probably is the definitive biography of the greatest spy of English post-war period.
I'm not particularly keen on spy novels, Le Carr, Grisham and friends, yet I advise you all to read it: fascinating, engaging, you'll love it!
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Cinema Under the Stars
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40 Monza Sport Festival
From June 13, 2015 at 09:00 to June 14, 2015 at 18:00.
The event of over 50 different sports demonstrations will be held
at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza Park.
Entrance is free
For those of us who will be hanging around until August, especially with children, its easy to go into panic mode during this time of year. How do I keep the kids entertained without spending a small fortune in a beautiful outdoor setting?
Fortunately, a friend suggested the Parco Giardino Sigart. I just had to research the place as soon as I got off the phone at www.sigarta.it
Wow! This will certainly be out next family day trip!
Some points of interest:
The Avenue of Roses with over 30,000 roses
The Maze made up of 1500 yew trees that stretch over an area of 2500 square meters
The Great Lawn
The Romeo and Juliet Horizontal Sun Dial
The Medicinal Herbs Garden with over 40 different plants
The Water Gardens with water lilies and Japanese Koi carp
The Hermitage built in 1792
The Stone of Eternal Youth
The Castelletto
The Great Oak that is four centuries old with a 6-meter round trunk and 120 meter circumference crown that covers an area of 1000 square meters.
The T Farm with donkeys, goats, chickens, turkeys and ducks.
They are open from 8 March to 8 November from 9:00 to 18:00. Prices: Adults 12,00; Children ages 5 14 6,50; Children ages 0 4 are free; and Adults over the age of 65 pay 9,50
The location is Via Cavour 1, 37067, Valeggio sul Mincio (Verona).
I hope to see you there!
Melissa
Summer Article & Things to Do
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Summer Article
Summer by Rachael Martin
Summer, that six-letter word that conjures up visions
of beaches, lazy sunny days and warm evening strolls
along the seafront after a relaxing and ever-so-civilised
candle-lit dinner. For some. Summer, that six-letter word
that provokes... Think of this frazzled face with hair on
end and the caption reads What am I going to do with
them for fourteen weeks??? Yes, we're not even into
summer officially yet and school's out on the 5th of June.
Today I was at the park on the hill and we were talking
about the proposed reforms for school holidays. Shorter
summer holiday, no homework and more holidays
throughout the year. So that'll be the Northern European
model, then. But we what will do? some of the mothers
were saying. How will we manage when we're working?
Point taken, and a very good one too. Although I have to
admit there's something special about having this long
stretch of time in front of you. So long as you don't
mention the homework. 120 pages each.
Last summer we went to Spain for two months. The
builders were moving in to do work on the outside of
our house, and so it just made sense. You can't play out
on a building site, and I developed this highly-detailed
paranoia about the scaffolding which was to be all
around the house and outside the boys' window, and
conjured up visions of them walking out on to the
scaffolding which is pretty terrifying when you're living
on the second floor. We came home in the middle of
August and the scaffolding wasn't even up. It eventually
went up when the kids went back to school.
So this year I want to stay home a bit more. Yes, we'll
go to Spain for a while and we'll go to grandad's in
England, and they'll go to the Oratorio this year for the
first time this year, three days a week for a whole six
weeks. But my boys are growing fast and I'm wanting to
make memories at home too, lazing about (that's me) in
the park and wandering through the fields down to the
brook looking for heffalumps. I secretly hope we'll still be
looking for heffalumps and they won't turn round and
laugh at me. I want to go the Parco del Currone and
walk along the terraces and look down on to Galbusera
Bianca and Galbusera Nera, eat our sandwiches at Ca'
Soldato and trek upwards to Montevecchia. I want to ride
through the fields on our bikes and watch my kids
charging off in front of me, and fix it all in my memory
surrounded by the mountains and the smallholdings and
the strawberries that are growing in the allotment just as
you get to the little bridge. Me and my younger son
went down there on our bikes yesterday. The trees seem
to have grown tremendously since the last time we went
there and we had to lean down under the trees and
watch our legs for nettle stings.
And everywhere we go we'll be accumulating sticks.
Sticks and stones. We brought some amazing stones
back from the park on the hill today. Big ones, and
they'd painted them green with grass. Mum, we've dyed
them green! Look! I didn't see them do it as they were
just over the edge of the hill making their secret den, all
marked out with sticks. Maybe it's like that when you live
in a village, you can give them that bit more freedom
although I admit I'm lucky as I can always hear them.
They came back gloriously muddy and then it was time
to go home via a trip to the supermarket complete with
a friend where their behaviour was far from desirable and
they continued to lean on the glass counter at the
delicatessen. Three wild boys covered in mud and dirt on
bare legs and bare arms and all over their faces, and the
woman on the right looked on disapprovingly.
When my boys were young I used to have this thing
about a childhood from the Hundred Acre Wood (the
wood where Winnie the Pooh lives, and Piglet and Eeyore
and the Heffalumps and all.) When they were little,
summers were made of paddling pools and merenda at
the little red Ikea table and chairs and playing tea parties
and shops and trains out in the garden with the
neighbour's daughter who's two years older. She used to
be the mum and my older son was the dad and used to
leave the garage and go off to work on his bike. Things
have changed now and it's a lot more rowdy and
boisterous and they'll happily ignore the neighbour's
daughter. Well, she's a girl, isn't she? And despite some
of the little girls being rather precocious and wanting to
sit next to my sons at lunch, my older one pulls a face
and I'm sitting here typing with a felt purse my younger
one has placed round my neck, because you're my
amore.
It's like that with boys. One minute they're all
over you showering you with love, and then there are
the days when it all goes pear-shaped and I'm hurrying
them out of the door, throwing their shoes behind them
yelling Just go out and play! as they've started diving
on the sofa and a bomb is exploding in my living room.
Yet today was one of those days when it felt like
Swallows and Amazons and the Hundred Acre Wood all
rolled into one. Roll on summer.
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Month Name
June 12 Ursula Mosso
June 13 Johanne Trevisanato
June 16 Jet Gerla
June 19 Carla Foggini
June 19 Fabiane Hirata
June 23 Flores Pirola
June 24 Silvia Bedotto
June 26 Laura Panzeri
June 27 Karin Lindblad
July 01 Maryann Andreetta
July 02 Ester De Giuli
July 02 Nuccia Graziano
July 05 Barbara De Savorgnani
July 07 Yvonne El Masri
July 08 Giusy Sciacca
July 09 Bricci Silva
July 10 Isabella Bamber-Ranieri
July 11 Melissa Saucedo
July 11 Nuala Tansey
July 13 Ivy Ortelli
July 16 Linda Orlandi-Stonich
July 17 Maria Stella Garozzo
July 19 Lorraine Bagnall
July 21 Eda Turkhan
July 22 Yoko Satouchi
July 22 Cristiane Fonseca
Month Name
July 24 Ute Pastorelli
July 28 Nanette Zimitski
July 31 Isabella Paganini
July 31 Gianna Taccone
July 31 Adi Talmi
August 03 Ingrid Benvenuti
August 06 Marta Llinas
August 11 Clotilde Xuref
August 15 Sonia Amerigo
August 16 Marina Bruscoli
August 17 Silvana Confalonieri
August 18 Janet Chiota
August 20 Paola Balottin
August 20 Jeannie Bisanti
August 23 Laura Ferrario-Ricagno
August 25 Lia Orlandi
August 26 Ursula Accordino
August28 Trees De Steur
August 26 Mara Canti
September 02 Anna Bodini
September 02 Fecerica Basso
September 04 Jo Coke
September 06 Marilena Nigretti
September 06 Sonia Barni
September 07 Rina Casati
September 08 Cindy Brizzi-Leiberum
September 09 Anna Caputi
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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GROUP ACTIVITIES
Activity Contacts Tel & email Meets Venue Cost
BOOK CLUB
ONE
Barbara de
Savorgnani
039 200 6664
333 4931 018
3rd Thursday every
month,
10:00 to 12:00
Cindy Brizzis home Annual book
cost 15
BOOK CLUB
TWO Anne Stubley
039 671 359
Usually 1st Tuesday
every month, 10:00 to
12:00
Anne Stubleys home Annual book
cost 20
READING
GROUP Anne Stubley
039 671 359
Once a month
14:00 to 16:00
Members home or at a
bar free
WRITING
GROUP Anna Bodini
Anna: 039 608 2896
[email protected] Twice a month
Usually at the Sporting
Club Free
PARENTS &
TODDLERS Rachel Hawes [email protected]
Every Tuesday
From 16:30
Cold/rainy weather: Crivi
Bar, Vedano al Lambro.
Sunny days: SantAndrea
Park (exact location tbc)
Free
MOMS NIGHT
OUT Gayna Clark [email protected] Once a month Different restaurants
MONZA
WALKERS Cindy Brizzi
039 321 284
Every Monday,
9:15 Bar Cavriga, Monza Park No charge
FRENCH
SPEAKING
GROUP
Ivana Menegar-
do-Develter
039 647 962
Ivanamenegardo @yahoo.fr
La renconte avec les
francophones est
mensuelle.
n/a n/a
ENGLISH
SPEAKING
GROUP
Laura Panzeri
Giovanna
Casati
039 6064 698
039 382 048
Thur of Coffee
morning immediately
after meeting, and
Thur 2 weeks later at
14:30
Sporting Club please
contact Giovanna Casati Free
MONDAY
ENGLISH
MOVIE
Anne Stubley 039 671 359
Every Monday
afternoon n/a n/a
GERMAN
SPEAKING
GROUP
Ute Pastorelli
Wiechern
Ursula
Accordino
Ute: 039 367 397
Ursula: 039 920 5461
Every 1st and 3rd
Thursday
15:00 to 17:00
Sporting Club Lounge Free
LANGUAGE
EXCHANGE
Marisa
Cerizzi 039 249 6967
Every Wednesday,
10:00 to 12:00 Sporting Club Free
NEIGHBOR-
HOOD
NETWORK
Vimercate
Anna Bodini &
Gabriella
Mapelli
Anna: 039 608 2896
Gabriella: 039 685 0808
First Thursday of the
month - please
contact before
La Camilla, Vimercate Free
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Janine Davies
331 54 24 443
Sushil Penuti
039324083 / 3409168552
Anna Vicentini
348 87 12 329
publicrelations@
benvenutomonza.com
Melissa Saucedo
3389386783
Zizeth Maroun
320 31 43 665
Eleonora Litta Durban
347 22 44 927
Membership @benvenutomonza.com Julia Waters-DeZordi
338 23 97 850
specialactivities@
benvenutomonza.com
BOARD
benvenuto monza
MEMBERS
Susan Edick-Gianferrara
392 16 05 714
newcomers@
benvenutomonza.com
Charity Co-Chair:
Marina Lambrechts
Honorary Members:
Barbara De Savorgnani
Ivana Menegardo-Develter
338 53 54 240
President
Vice President
Membership
Editor
Newcomers
Special Activities
Treasurer
Public Relations
Secretary
The Benvenuto International Club of Monza wel-comes English-speaking women from all over the world and fosters international fellowship through its various activities. A monthly Coffee Morning is the Clubs principal social function. The Club is non-profit, non-denominational and a-political. English shall be the official language of the Club. All work per-formed by the Board and its committees is done on a voluntary basis.
Membership: The membership year runs from September through June of the following year. The Membership Fee for current members is due and payable no later than the October Coffee Morning of each year. A full years Membership Fee is payable by new members until February at which time new members pay one-half of the Membership Fee. For any questions about member-ship contact the Membership Director.
Name Badges: Name badges are supplied to each member to be worn at each Coffee Morning. If Members forget their name badge they will be required to pay a fine.
Guests: Members are welcome to bring a guest to one Coffee Morning to introduce potential members to the Club. The same guest is only allowed to attend two Coffee Mornings and the Christmas meeting per year. The Guest Fee is 4. All guests will be given a nametag to wear during the meeting.
Commercial Sales, Logo, Directory, Members Ser-vices: No commercial sales are permitted at Club functions and nei-ther the Benvenuto Club logo nor the membership directory is to be used for any commercial purposes. For a contribution, members providing goods and services are invited to post advertisements in the Monza News.
Babysitting during coffee mornings: Children are not allowed in the big hall in the Sporting Club where the monthly meetings are held. This is due to the Insur-ance and the requirements of the Sporting club itself. Babysitting is offered during coffee mornings, please contact Ivana ([email protected]) to book Baby Sitting. For the moment this service is free of charge if you book in advance.
CLUB RULES
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*Many thanks to Marilena Nigretti, a Benvenuto Member and local pharmacist, who provided much of the information
presented here. Marilena has a Pharmacy (Farmacia Trevisan) in Usmate-Velate and she speaks fluent English.
PAGE
PORTION
Contribution
MEMBERS
PERSONAL
Contribution
Contribution
NON MEMBERS
and MEMBERS
BUSINESS
Contribution
in color
Contribution
in color NON
MEMBERS
1/4 15,00 20,00 30,00 45,00
1/2 30,00 40,00 60,00 75,00
FULL PAGE 45,00 55,00 80,00 100,00
Contribution
All contributions in advance.
10% discount for a full
current year.
Monza News
Emergency Services
Free Call Numbers (Numero
Verdi)These national emergency numbers can be reached from pay telephones, without the use of a
phone card or money.
2 4 - h o u r P h a r m a c i e s
(chemists) in Lombardy
Pronto Farmacia Numero
Verde Tel: 800 801 185
The Pronto Farmacia helpline helps people to locate
an open pharmacy in Lombardy. It also assists those
in need of urgent prescriptions and general infor-
mation. The service is available 24 hours a day.
Every pharmacy is obliged to display a list of pharma-
cies open at night outside their door. The pharmacies
open at night must keep their sign illuminated and the
bell visible.
For further information:
http://milan.angloinfo.com/information/31/
em_no.asp
http://www.aslmonzabrianza.it/
Emergency Dentist in Monza
Open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 to midnight. Sundays and holidays from 14:00 to 19:00.
Location: Via Pellettier, 4 - Monza. Ample parking available
Tel. 039 388792 - 039 384952
Email: [email protected]
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From Name Language Telephone Transport
Carate Brianza Camilla Riva EN 036 299 3953 or 338 459 8262 Own
Cosetta Riva IT, GER, EN 362 993 953 or 335 620 2887 Own
Albiate Erica Callisaya Vela IT, EN, ES 320 481 3559 Own
Lissone Sujanika Elvitigalage Dona IT, EN, ES 338 4735 895 Own
Macherio Sara Valtorta IT 338 247 5082 Own
Monza Giorgette Savy IT, FR, EN 039 380 816 Own
Daphne D'Amato IT, EN, Dutch 346 628 1605 Own
Mileth Hernandez IT, ES 327 291 5270 Own
Stefania Candurra IT 347 645 0884 -
Wendy Hodgson IT, EN 3407969829 Own
Giulia Milan IT, EN, FR 3392071971 -
Claudia Ghilardi IT, EN 3803458183 -
Francesca Barzaghi IT, GER, EN 333 678 1489
Vedano al Lambro Josy Arcaya IT, ES, EN 329 073 3910 -
Sylvia Malnati IT, FR 348 244 2570 Own
Genevieve Sumiller EN 3884426131 -
Elizabeth Sabado IT, EN 3450121809 Own
Maria Castro IT, EN 3896488867 Own
Arianna D'Onofrio IT, EN,Greek 0392496666, or 3468336219 No
Disclamer: This list of babysitters have been produced for information purposes only and the club takes no responsibility for the qualifications of
these babysitters. However, all these names have been provided by members who have used their services.
BABYSITTERS
Service Tele-
phone Emergency Service Ambulance
(Pronto Soccorso) - www.118milano.it 118
National Police (Carabineri) 112
Local Police 113
Fire Brigade (Vigili del fuoco) 115
Forest Fire (Incendio boschivo) 1515
Car Breakdown Assistance
(Soccorso stradale) 116
Emergency Doctors (Medici Volanti)
7733
In Case of a night-time health problem that is not serious enough for the Hospital Emer-gency room service, but needs to be attended to quickly, call: Emergency Public Health Ser-vices
Guardia Medica Natl Call Number: 840 500 092
Recommendation*:
Listen to the recording (in Italian) and wait for an opera-tor on the line.
If you dont speak Italian, ask for someone who speaks English.
Provide all of your personal information: name, address, telephone number and the description of your illness. Ask if there is a doctor who speaks English or your lan-guage.
They will have a doctor call you back in the next hour (usually faster). The doctor will tell you, if they need to make a house visit or if you should to go to the nearest GUARDIA MEDICA. They will give you the address of the closest one to your location.
Visits usually free of charge. House visits may be differ-ent.
This service usually works very well for a quick diagno-sis or to resolve a problem, and to obtain a prescription to go to the pharmacy.
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