By Amber Sandhu
Promising a bigger and better year, the Sons of Italy's Paesano Days began celebrations Friday night that ran through Saturday evening at South City Park in Redding. The event, which celebrates Italian-American heritage, had traditionally been held at Anderson River Park, which has a bocce ball court. But since most of the visitors were from Redding, the Sons of Italy members decided to bring the event to Redding, where it debuted last year at Lake Redding Park.
But last year there was no bocce ball, "which is the integral part of our celebration," said Jim Nobili, past president with the Sons of Italy. However, this year, on an August morning at the crack of dawn, Sons of Italy members broke ground at South City Park to build the bocce ball court.
Source: http://www.redding.com/
