To say that last weekend’s Saint Rocco’s Church Feast and Festival was many things for many people would be an understatement of huge proportions. Above all else, as Co-Chairman Richard Montella said, “Once again, our feast was a tremendous success for the parish community. We measure success in many ways; first and foremost it is our spiritual success.”

Montella, who like many volunteers performed several different duties such as cooking clam cakes, then heaped words of praise upon Rev. Angelo N. Caruso, the parish’s popular priest, who he said “went to great lengths to make certain we have speakers for each of our three opening nights of masses.” Sunday, though, may have been the most special success of the scheduled four-day celebration that was interrupted – for a spell – because of last Friday’s rain.