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Belleville opinion: Italian immigrant lives dream by opening business in The Lake

by Marie Strumolo

It's time to spotlight some merchants in Silver Lake. The first on deck will be...drum roll please...Errico Violante. He started as a butcher's apprentice when he was 14 in Forino, a small town outside of Naples, Italy. He was the youngest in a family of seven children.

In 1964 he left Italy and came to the United States. His dream was to open a store of his own one day. Well, his dream came true in August of 1982 when he opened the doors as R. Violante & Son Meat Market in Silver Lake, Belleville.

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Source: http://www.northjersey.com/

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