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IACCM 2024 Scholarship Awards

IACCM Members Hon. Joseph Toia, Joseph Burke, Secretary Aaron Marentette, President Charles Moran, and Leo Terzo with some of the 2024 scholarship recipients. Jun 24, 2024 BY: Sandra Tornberg The Italian American Chamber of Commerce of Michigan (IACCM) proudly announced the results of its 2024 scholarship competition at its monthly meeting on June 5 at […]

Charles Moran, President of the Italian American Chamber

Thank you for the warm welcome and congratulations on being elected as your President! I am thrilled to be part of this new induction of the Board of Directors and excited to work alongside you to achieve our goals for the Italian American Chamber of Commerce of Michigan. Our vision of growth in membership and […]

Festa Della Lira Coming This Fall To Fern Hill

October 02, 20246:00 PM – 9:00 PMFern Hill The event offers a chance at a grand prize of $10,000.  179 tickets are sold, with everyone having the chance to win the 180th ticket, and, using a reverse raffle, the tickets are pulled with the last ticket being declared the winner. Several other cash prizes are offered throughout the […]

Get Ready For Festa Italiana July 19, 2024

Festival Chairmen- Joe Vicari, Joe Ventimiglia, Aaron Marentette, Tom Bommarito Festival Emcee – Ron DiBartolomeo By: Aaron Marentette Festa Italiana is one of the most important and well-loved Italian American traditions in metro Detroit. It is an annual 3-day festival, which hosts more than 40,000 guests each year. For three days this summer, the entire […]

2023 Festa Italiana Had Record Turnouts

Festa Italiana 2023 had record turnouts despite a little bit of rain on Saturday morning.  This year’s festival was packed with even more vendors and activities than ever before.  The Festa welcomed Maserati of Troy as the new firework display sponsor and Don Christo’s cigar bar as the new entertainment sponsor.  We also saw the […]

New Chamber Digital Archives

With the recent renovations to Fern Hill Country Club and the Italian American Cultural Society, the Italian American Chamber was reluctantly forced to put our tangible archives in secure storage for the foreseeable future.  However IACCM Board Member Aaron Francolini Marentette volunteered to go through all of the archives and digitize as much as possible. […]