Petronella Cavallaro is a well-known local identity that has a passion for family, art and life.

LIKE many other Italian families, Petronella Cavallaro's kin left Calabria out of need rather than from want.

And like a lot of other families from the same region and for the same reason, they chose Australia as a prospective new home.

“Mum, along with myself and my two sisters arrived in 1954 in...