These Volunteers are Winners!
Where would any self-respecting city of Italian heritage be without a Bocce Court? The Bocce Club Complex, in the 300 block of West Walnut, has been a labor of love […]
Category Archives: Behind the Scenes
The McCuans Love Being “Bartenders for a Day”
If you have ever stopped by for a drink at the HerrinFesta Wine Booth, chances are you have met Pat and Carole McCuan. Carole is a 25 year employee […]
Entertainers’ Home away from Home
Heroes of the Morning
Bob Scillufo and Craig Herman are indeed HerrinFesta volunteers, but most Herrinites and visitors from out of town will never see them at work, for they are out at dawn, […]
For Lee and Debbie Perkins, Festa is a Family Affair
For Piazza Chairman Brett Crouse, life gets easier when Lee and Debbie Perkins show up the week before Festa begins. Lee, owner of Southern Illinois Services, puts life on hold, […]
Art Show Volunteers Are a Piece of Work
HerrinFesta Italiana is the harbinger of summer. Herrinites from near and far look to that week-end in May as the official springboard for that all too short season of barbecues, […]