Bloomfield UNICO, the Italian service organization, held its 26th annual Columbus Day observance this past Monday morning, Oct. 10, at the Christopher Columbus monument on the Green, across Broad Street from the Civic Center.

Always a charming public event in Bloomfield, it attracted a small gathering of fourth-grade essayists, parents, principals, police officers, firefighters and school district officials, including Bloomfield Superintendent of Schools Sal Goncalves. The young essayists had participated in a UNICO contest about Columbus.