we announce the passing of our husband and father who joined God and the angels in Heaven on Monday He passed away at home with his family by his side in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica in the province of Calabria to Maria Giuditta Restagno Femia and Nicola Femia He emigrated to Masury in 1957 at the age of 16 where he was educated in the English language Vincent worked at GATX Corporation in the repair shop for 18 years from 1965 he later was employed by the Teamsters union hall on construction projects from 1983 until his retirement in 2006 He was preceded in death by his parents; beloved sister whom he married at Our Lady of Mount Caramel Basilica Nick (Stacey) Femia of Canfield and Melissa (Charlie) Hess of Gilbert Arizona; and five beautiful granddaughters Caterina (Giuseppe) Commisso and Rocco (Kathy) Femia of Masury and Anna Maria (Rocco) Barletta of Hubbard; as well as brothers-in-law Frank Iaderosa and Donato D’Urso; and sister-in-law He also leaves his adored nieces and nephews He will further be greatly missed by many extended family members locally He was active in the local Italian community as a member of Sons of Italy Lodge 2539 and often played bocce and cards with this group they maintained and celebrated Italian traditions and culture always having a cup or two of espresso to complete the evening He also enjoyed hunting and bowling on the GATX team and appreciated his occasional trips to the casino always saving the vino cotto as an ingredient for his sisters to make Italian fig cookies Vinny was also an avid gardener and could often be found cultivating his crops in his massive backyard garden he waited for that very first red tomato so he could make a vegetable salad and utilized the bulk of the tomatoes for canning a year’s worth of Italian pasta sauce He also treasured his return trips to Italia where he visited his cousins and had the opportunity to share his birthland with his wife With an astute and curious engineering mind in combination with his strong hard work ethic Vince was a problem solver and known to offer his huge heart to help others with their mechanical and electrical projects and challenges Many regarded him as the smartest man they knew despite him not attending college or completing high school once venturing to the USA his greatest joys were his children and grandchildren and he exuded such pride in their accomplishments We extend heartfelt gratitude to all those who spent time making beautiful memories with him A special thank you to Traditions Health Hospice who did their very best to comfort him in his last weeks A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m Please visit www.kcummins.com to view this obituary and send condolences to the family Copyright © 2025 Eastern Ohio Newspapers, Inc. | https://www.vindy.com | 240 Franklin Street SE, Warren, OH 44482 | 330-841-1600 | Terms of Service This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. 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Print Reporting from RIACE Italy — From the kitchen of their new apartment Mohammed Ali and Kinda Nonoo watched their children run across a rooftop terrace with a view of the rolling green hills of southern Italy They could see a shining sliver of the Mediterranean Sea The tranquility of the scene was a marked change from war-torn Aleppo which Ali and his family had fled nearly five years ago and the chaotic situation they had found in Lebanon afterward And unlike in Lebanon, where the estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees were seen as pulling jobs away from the local population leaders in this Italian community were pinning their hopes on the refugees helping to rebuild its economy The family from Aleppo had landed in the southern province of Reggio Calabria an area that young Italians have largely abandoned in search of better economic opportunities in the north and abroad leaving behind shuttered schools and fallow fields In the four-story building the Syrian family now occupied a flood of migrants and refugees have begun to replace the Italians who left the percentage of foreign migrant workers in the Italian farm industry nearly doubled to 37% from 19% according to the National Institute of Agricultural Economics where Ali and his family settled when they first arrived in Italy has garnered international attention in recent years for making a deliberate effort to attract migrants from around the world Immigrants from more than 20 countries now make up one-third of the town’s population of 1,500 The Syrian couple and their five children arrived in Italy in late February via the “humanitarian corridors” program launched a year ago by a pair of nongovernmental organizations affiliated with the Catholic Church and a coalition of Protestant churches funded by the money Italian citizens divert from their taxes to the churches has brought about 800 Syrian refugees from Lebanon to communities throughout Italy since February 2016 It will bring 200 more refugees from Lebanon and possibly Morocco along with about 500 Africans now living in Ethiopia Many new arrivals cross the Mediterranean on smuggler boats — and many more don’t make it. Last year, more than 5,000 people died in the Mediterranean according to the United Nations refugee agency The main aim of the new humanitarian corridors project was to prevent refugees from attempting the dangerous sea crossing said Paolo Naso of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy Tahira Yasmine is one of about 500 immigrants living in the small town of Riace in southern Italy works in a ceramics shop to support her husband and 2-year-old daughter (Abby Sewell / For The Times) Under the new initiative the church organizations fly the refugees to Rome and take them to their new homes in communities around the country that a new generation of workers from abroad could help replace the nation’s shrinking workforce if they can be integrated into Italian society “Our population is aging and declining and the decay is very severe Italy has taken in fewer than 1,000 refugees through the official U.N but has seen much larger numbers arriving in smuggler boats The arrivals have been met with some surges of anti-immigrant sentiment. Last year, residents of the central town of Gorino put up barricades to block the arrival of a small group of refugee women. But migrants and refugees have also had an influential defender in Pope Francis, who has brought a few Syrian refugees to the Vatican and urged Catholic parishes to take in more In Riace, the migrants come from sub-Saharan Africa Immigrants herd sheep in the rolling hills surrounding the town drive tractors on the winding road leading up to it sweep the streets in the town square and work alongside Italian residents in the handful of artisan shops in the town’s center The push to welcome migrants earned Lucano a spot on Fortune magazine’s list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders last year Mayor Domenico Lucano of Riace in southern Italy at work at City Hall (Abby Sewell / For The Times) “We are basically proposing a humane alternative,” the mayor said in an interview at Riace’s City Hall “This is the message we are sending to this world where closures and barriers are prevailing.” a Ghanaian who came in a smuggler’s boat from Libya eight months ago sat on a bench outside the town’s park chatting with a friend as a gaggle of newly arrived African teenagers passed by on the road leading into the town’s center left her young son with relatives and made the sea journey three years ago After the boat landed on the island of Lampedusa then helped supervise children in the local school until it closed because of a lack of enrollment Now she cooks for unaccompanied minors living in a group home “The life in Riace is very good for me,” she said About 100 of the migrants in Riace have settled as long-term residents find the situation less welcoming and move on wait in the Beirut airport for their flight to Italy on Feb 26 (Abby Sewell / For The Times) Tears of happinessWhen Ali and Nonoo unloaded their luggage at the airport in Beirut in preparation for their flight to Italy broke down in tears of happiness and relief Mais had watched her aunt — Ali’s sister — and five cousins die in an airstrike below the family’s apartment bears a scar below one knee from a knife attack by a group of older boys The young men were affiliated with Hezbollah the Shiite Muslim political party and militia that supports Syrian President Bashar Assad and sees the refugees as enemies “Even if we wanted to go out to see the doctor the first thing that has improved is that there is security.” and the family didn’t get along with the two Ethiopians who served as interpreters and go-betweens with the local authorities Ali and his family asked to be relocated to a nearby town Gioiosa Ionica has a smaller immigrant population — about 100 among 7,000 inhabitants — but some local leaders are hoping to attract more hopes the Syrian families and other migrants will help revive the local farming industry and bring in tourists looking for a quiet retreat amid vineyards and olive groves the people who came here stayed for just a little time because after a while they saw the condition of this area there is a high rate of unemployment,” he said The challenge with these families is to give them a sense of stability and a longer permanency.” and the language barrier became an additional problem as Mais was suffering from a perplexing medical issue she had begun to complain of persistent severe headaches and dizziness the family was able to get her to a hospital Mais collapsed in the hallway one afternoon “My head is hurting me!” Zavaglia and an Italian friend happened to be present who took the girl to a hospital in another town The family came home several hours later with a referral to another hospital and no answer to what was causing the problem with the children playing on the terrace after dinner Ali and Nonoo talked anxiously about the difficulty of accessing medical care in the remote area and in another language and about the prospects of finding work that would sustain them once they stop receiving the small amount of aid they were getting via the program but without enough money or a grasp of Italian but without the language it’s difficult,” Nonoo said “We love Italy and the Italian people and the language But the children were happy with their new home they hadn’t gone to school for most of the last five years names of fruits and vegetables and were excited to start attending the local public school A Moroccan man passing by as the boy and one of his younger sisters stood outside a neighbor’s house one afternoon stopped and asked in Arabic and smiled as he continued down the otherwise empty street Here’s one way of fighting terrorism that the U.S. may be rethinking under Trump These Syrians were finally being evacuated to safety. 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Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map Get quality reporting directly into your inbox Antonio Coluccio was arrested in 2014 in a mafia-related anti-corruption sweep in Italy after which he was charged with extortion and mafia association Coluccio lived a lavish lifestyle in Toronto with his three brothers in the early 2000’s he remained in Canada living in a lakefront condo making regular trips to the Italian enclave Woodbridge (about 30 minutes north of Toronto) in his yellow Ferrari Coluccio’s landed immigrant status was rejected by the Canadian federal government because he was believed to be tied to the ‘Ndrangheta The Canadian immigration authorities alleged he was connected to the Commisso clan of the ‘Ndrangheta The 2014 Italian police operation used wiretaps between Canadian ‘Ndrangheta members and their Italian counterparts as evidence against Coluccio and others Coluccio’s two brothers were previously imprisoned on mafia-related charges was murdered several years ago in a mafia-feud in their Italian hometown of Marina Gioiosa Jonica Support from readers like you helps OCCRP expose organized crime and corruption around the world you’ll be directly supporting investigative journalism as a public good You’ll also gain access to exclusive insights and benefits Luxembourg’s company registry turns up firms controlled by people with ties to the ’Ndrangheta a court had to requisition a local call center to make room for 355 defendants A UK-based accountant keeps getting accused of helping the Italian mafia hide its money — and British authorities keep doing.. The Calabrian 'ndrangheta is the most powerful crime syndicate in the West with ever-expanding investments in global capital markets and collusion of white-collar workers The biggest ‘ndrangheta trial is underway in the southern Italian region but Calabrians say only a cultural shift will free them from the clans’ stranglehold with the southern spine of Italy's Apennine mountains rising in the distance the latest chapter in the country's long struggle against the Mafia is unfolding inside a sprawling abandoned call centre that has become a bunker courthouse The trial began in January and is expected to run as long as two years It is the largest-ever "maxi-processo," an Italian anti-Mafia trial with dozens of defendants the 62-year-old head public prosecutor who grew up playing soccer barefoot in the local piazza with boys whom decades later he would send to prison said for him the biggest significance of the trial is shining light on the spreading "grey zone" of collusion around the 'ndrangheta They evolve and mutate and increasingly resemble the rest of society," said Gratteri who for the past 30 years has lived and worked under heavy police protection the Calabrian capital a half-hour drive from where the trial is being held in Lamezia Terme "What this trial shows is the growing extent to which white-collar workers and professionals are working with the 'ndrangheta." a name that stems from Greek meaning virtue only entered the Italian criminal code as a Mafia-type association in 2010 almost 30 years after the Sicilian Cosa Nostra When the Cosa Nostra found itself in disarray following the historic maxi-trials of the 1980s 'ndrangheta clans seized the chance to expand from their main activity of skimming off public contracts and plundering the federally funded regional health-care system into international arms and drug trade They forged ties with groups in South America to eventually dominate the cocaine market in Europe Experts on the 'ndrangheta say the criminal syndicate is now the most financially sophisticated in the West with capital heavily invested in the world of finance and clan branches firmly ensconced around the globe including in the Toronto and Montreal areas Experts estimate the clans' annual income ranges from $50 billion to $85 billion a year While the trial is not as historically significant as the Sicilian maxi-trials it involves a high number of "pentiti" or clan members providing testimony against their own WATCH | A prosecutor enlists key witnesses to testify against the 'ndrangheta Mancuso clan: Of the 20,000 or so suspected 'ndrangheta members only several hundred have turned state's witness a low percentage compared with other Mafias where the local boss cuts the baby’s fingernails and toenails and pledges him to the clan "The first thing to know is that the 'ndrangheta calls everyone else 'contrasti' — opposers," Gratteri said "When a young man aspires to become part of the 'ndrangheta he is called 'an honourable opposer.' At the end of this trial period there is a dinner where the young men pledge that from this moment on Female members of the clans have been killed disappeared or "suicided" — in one case forced by family members to drink hydrochloric acid — for everything from being in a relationship with the wrong man to trying to flee with their children drug trafficking and extortion remain the 'ndrangheta crimes that grab most headlines the toe of Italy's boot and the country's poorest region deficiencies and eyesores that Mafia dominance inflicts on public space The region is breathtakingly beautiful: a rugged pine and fir and rolling hills covered with vineyards hugged by hundreds of kilometres of sparkling Half-built constructions stand like starved sentinels around towns Stretches of highways and main roads are lined with illegal garbage dumps along with animal remains — including A special squadron of the military carabinieri police called "Cacciatori" — hunters — patrols the rough interior known as the aspromonte The platoons were formed in the early 1990s to look for family members of industrialists and local dignitaries the 'ndrangheta began kidnapping in the 1970s but their mission has since shifted in response to the clans’ activities "Intimate knowledge of this region is our biggest weapon against the 'ndrangheta," said Cacciatori commander Ivan D’Errico WATCH | How a specialized platoon of the Italian military carabinieri looks for hideouts When the Cacciatori took me to see the abandoned tunnels Stretched across the entrance to the bunker was a dead cat — a message of the town's displeasure at journalists visiting Despite the ‘ndrangheta stranglehold over much of the region there are tenacious pockets of resistance that date back decades a social worker and the president of Don Milani a non-profit after-school program in the town of Gioiosa Ionica near the eastern coast of Calabria is part of one such locus of anti-Mafia activity learning help for kids of ‘ndrangheta families assistance for teens in trouble with the law and even support for 'ndrangheta widows or women whose husbands are in jail and who want their children to live a different life "These are kids who don’t have a childhood who see their fathers arrested and who have a Mafia culture drummed into them from a very early age," Giocondo said "They are taught who to show respect to and what words to use like the Mafia insult 'infame' — vile or villainous — or 'omerta,' " meaning silence or secrecy to cover up for cheating or a crime Giocondo describes growing up in Calabria as “suffocating like there was never enough air to breathe.” It’s a feeling that came in part from having to pass on her way to school chalk outlines of those gunned down on the streets in the local clan wars at the time her feeling of suffocation also came from not being able to even visit friends in the next town because there was no public bus or train service That isolation affects Calabria as a whole with its striking lack of infrastructure — everything from high-speed trains connecting the region to the rest of the country and modern highways to well-functioning hospitals with care at the same level as the rest of Italy the Mafia culture is a culture of bullying where the bullies exert their power on every level of society," Giocondo said "If I have to get a new ID or health card and I don’t want to wait for hours at town hall I don’t get it because I’m the best candidate very problematic because I have to answer to them." The patriarchal structure means women’s power is expressed primarily in shaping their children to conform to the Mafia system She and Don Milani founder Francesco Rigitano say they try to provide the kids in the program with "antibodies" against the Mafia as well as a way to read and make choices about their environment — to understand when a club or bar is a money laundering outfit where criminality ends and where it begins." For those who take a clear stance against criminality Antonino De Masi owns a factory that produces olive harvesting machines off the highway on the outskirts of Gioia Tauro a Calabrian port town on the Mediterranean renowned as a gateway of cocaine trafficking into Europe Armed guards stand at a military checkpoint outside his factory gate the walls are lined with awards and plaques in recognition both of his business success and of his Mafia resistance De Masi appeared as a witness against an ‘ndrangheta boss who had tried to extort him for hundreds of thousands of euros the imprisoned boss vowed to murder De Masi his family moved to northern Italy and all five have since been under 24/7 police protection he flies back and forth between Calabria and northern Italy De Masi sifts through the dozens of anonymous extortion letters the family business has received over the decades some written in formal bureaucratize that would be comical if someone hadn’t set fire to the factory or unloaded 44 bullets from a Kalashnikov into his office our apologies for disturbing you once again," reads one "but this letter is to communicate we are following up from last month’s letter to urge you not to repeat your foolish behaviour This time around we are rather seriously mal-intentioned so if you would like your factory to properly function Despite the anti-Mafia accolades on his walls De Masi said standing up to the 'ndrangheta has been an overwhelmingly lonely experience "Sometimes I think the media depiction of me as a hero is a way for Italians to clear their conscience," he said "Turning me into a hero implicitly conveys the message that ordinary people cannot do what I do pretending not to see what they do and failing to report them "This is a problem for me and this is why I often question what the real effect is that I’m having in this land." His refusal to pay and being under police protection have meant he has lost family unity — his siblings have separated their parts of the family business from his — and lost friends and support from colleagues but you've lost all your freedom,' " he said I gained an intellectual and moral freedom." Giuseppe motions outside the window to the orange and olive orchards in the distance and says his dream is not only for the natural beauty to be preserved but also that jobs for young people are created in a region where almost 50 per cent of youth are unemployed he plans on moving back when he graduates to contribute to what he calls "a culture of self-awareness" and to help build a legal economy Many in Calabria are pinning their hopes on the almost $300 billion of European Union COVID recovery funds coming to Italy over the next six years Forty per cent of those funds have been earmarked for development of the southern regions wary at the opportunity for further grift this could provide the 'ndrangheta say the future of the region hinges on infrastructure development and failure to invest in Calabria would constitute abandonment of the region by the central government "I've met with high-level politicians and told them 'You take care of coming up with public work projects that will improve the lives of everyday citizens here and we [prosecutors] will take care of the 'ndrangheta,' " said Gratteri Back at the after-school program in Gioiosa Ionica Mariaelisa Giocondo stands chatting with kids making beaded bracelets and earrings for their mothers She said when she left Calabria at 17 to study in Rome the last place she ever expected to find herself living again was here But an internship after university at the Don Milani program made her realize that for her region to change the culture of its inhabitants needs to change from the ground up She said she wants to help the next generation of Calabrians breathe in the oxygen that she felt starved of as a teenager "We never know if the seeds we're planting will come to fruition," she said "But it's important for us to keep sowing." CBC Radio-Canada This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Another results realized by Citizen Science Two specimens of Pterois miles scorpion fish sighted in the Calabrian waters the first captured a few days ago in the locality of 'Le Castella' by professional fishermen at a depth of about 24 metres the second sighted and photographed on 25 June during a dive along the coasts of Marina di Gioiosa Ionica (RC) The sightings were promptly reported to ISPRA the Crotone Harbor Master's Office and the AlienFish project of the Mediterranean Marine Fauna Authority involved together with the CNR-IRBIM (Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology) in the alert campaign called Beware of those 4 The species was reported for the first time in Italy in 2016 in south-eastern Sicily and is one of the most invasive species in the world known to have invaded most of the western Atlantic coasts with massive ecological impacts The sting of these thorns can cause serious damage to those who suffer it The poison remains active from 24 to 48 hours after the death of the fish so the danger of the species remains high even on specimens that have been dead for several hours Press release (ita) Brochure Rocco Commisso net worth and salary: Rocco Commisso is an Italian American businessman who has a net worth of $3.5 billion Rocco Commisso was born in Marina di Gioiosa Ionica and CEO of the 5th largest cable television company in the U.S. Commisso has also worked for several other companies including Chase Manhattan Bank In 2017 he became the owner and chairman of the soccer team the New York Cosmos He graduated from Columbia University and the Columbia Business School and was co-captain of the varsity soccer team Rocco Commisso started his career working at Pfizer Inc He serves on the board of directors for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association as well as C-Span and the Cable Television Laboratories Commisso was inducted into the Cable Center Hall of Fame and has received many awards © 2025 Celebrity Net Worth / All Rights Reserved