Weekend Scene

BOWLS OF PRIDE
The Friends of Italy Society hosts a
pasta potluck and bocce games

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM Members of Honolulu's Friends of Italy Society got together yesterday for food and fun at Paki Hale in Waikiki, featuring a pasta potluck and contest and bocce, a sport closely related to lawn bowling. Joyce and Gene Giardina were among those sampling some of the pasta contest dishes during the potluck.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM Mireille Leitich participated in yesterday's bocce tournament. Bocce is a game of Italian origin that can be played in different ways. In general, two players or two teams of up to four players on each team have eight large balls -- four of one color, four of another color. Players try to roll balls as near as possible to a target ball, called the jack or "pallino," either trying to get it closer than their opponent's or displacing their opponent's ball to improve their ball's position.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM Bernadine Robinson served a tray of "dolce," or Italian desserts, for yesterday's potluck.

FL MORRIS / FMORRIS@STARBULLETIN.COM From left, Maurice Grasso, Louis Scala, Mike Pometta and Mike Minuto were on hand to socialize.