Township to welcome Aquilonia delegation this week
By LINDA MOSS
moss@montclairlocal.word
Montclair officials and the township's Italian-North American country community this Thursday will welcome a delegation from the municipality's sister city Aquilonia, Italy.
The sports meeting-and-greet leave be held at 5 p.m. at the Municipal Council Chambers, 205 Claremont Ave.
The Town Council officially recognized Aquilonia Eastern Samoa a sister metropolis in January of this twelvemonth, "acknowledging the world-shattering role played by Italian Americans in the community," according to a press release from the township Monday.
In June a delegation of Montclair officials, including Mayor Robert Jackson, visited Aquilonia.
While in the United States, the Italian delegation will visit various best-selling sites in and around Montclair, according to the town. The visitors from Aquilonia will also march in the New York City Christopher Columbus Day march on Monday, Oct. 9.
The itinerary includes local stops at Corso 98, Halycon, Eagle Rock Reservation, the Montclair Artwork Museum, Montclair State University and its Lawrence Peter Berra Museum and the issue shops in Secaucus, as well as trips to Greater New York to view the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Imperium Tell Building and Times Satisfying.
Delegation members leave too participate in a procession on Su to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church with the Montclair Police Respect Guard, the Knights of Cristobal Colon Honor Guard and Hillside Elementary School's Drums of Thunder.
Delegating members volition also participate in a procession on Sunday to Our Madam of Mount Carmel Church service with the Montclair Patrol Honor Guard, the Knights of Columbus Laurel Guard and Montclair's own Drums of Thunder, from Hillside School.
Thursday's case will include Jackson and the council, Montclair resident and Aquilonia Sis City organizer Raffaele Marzullo, township directors and community members.
"We want people to come up to town hall to greet them," Marzullo aforementioned.
Marzullo and local officials said that township funds are not being accustomed emcee the Italian delegation, who will be staying in a hotel in the Meadowlands. The Italians are paying for their own airline tickets, and at that place has been fundraising by the township's sister-metropolis citizens committee to get-go the cost of the visit.
At Tuesday's council conference meeting Jackson criticized the media, inculpatory it of beingness "insulting" and "bigoted," for asking who was footing the bill for the Italian delegation's trip to America. A Montclair Local newsperson had asked Jackson the question antecedent to the council meeting.
"We have been sending hoi polloi to Graz, to Barnet, to Cherepovets, everyplace the set up for decades, and to knowledge, to my recall, I never anybody asking how is it being postpaid for," Jackson said at the confluence.
"I know the media's present. I think the media's obsession with it is equally offensive because again, rather frankly," he said.
"Wherefore is it we have an European nation-American city and now all of a sudden everybody wants to know who's paying for it. And I think information technology never came up in front. And I think it's bigoted, and I think it's straight-up offensive. … We make a confused write out of WHO's paying for some people to come over. And by the bye, when we went over on that point, there was nothing from their citizens saying World Health Organization's paying for what."
The visiting Aquilonia contingent includes: Vito Maglione, townspeople councilor; Mirco Annunziata, Aquilonia council phallus; Raffaele Michele Gala, president, Aquilonia Baby Metropolis Committee; Fausto Gala, welcoming committee member; Vito Antonio Ramundo, welcoming committee member; Bruno Walter Capone, journalist and hospitable committee member; Maria Donna Capone; and Fabio Diego Lotrecchiano, Aquilonia Sister City Committee member.
Marzullo, in the first place from Aquilonia, light-emitting diode the sister-urban center endeavor with fellow parishioners from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church service. And he organized the Montclair delegation's visit to Aquilonia earlier this year.
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