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The Beginning Our History The History of Mokenas Festa Italiana In July of 2012 Vince Difiore with the help of The Mokena Downtown Merchants Association Charlean Bergman Tino Letteri and Dave Molinari created the 1st Mokena Fest Italiana. It turned out to be a great success and helped to bolster the Merchants Association. It was at this time that our committee determined that we should proceed on our own which we did by incorporating as Mokenas Festa Italiana a 501 c 3 not for profit organization. It was in our first year as a not for profit that we built on the Italian American Heritage when we added the St.