LYNN – “Italian food brings out the best in everybody,” said Bill Travascio. “Everybody likes Italian food.”That?s the spirit the Italian Church of Holy Family Parish on Bessom Street hopes to evoke with its annual Festa Italiana July 28-30.Holy Family has been putting on the festival for so long, most church members and officials don?t remember when it first started. Travascio said maybe 50 years ago, while the church?s priest, Father Gregory Mercurio, gave an estimate of 40 years.?The old Italian people just turned around and wanted an Italian Festa like they have in Boston, and have it on the North Shore,” said Travascio, who is in charge of advertising for the event and also runs the slush stand with the Sons of Italy.Though the festival is intended as a fundraiser for the church, Mercurio said the real meaning behind the event is to build teamwork and togetherness in the parish.?It?s basically one of our big fundraisers for the year, but it?s a community-building activity for the parish,” said Mercurio.He added that last year the festa made $15,000 in profit, but is hoping to make more this year.It takes 300 volunteers to plan and run the event. Mercurio said that the last two weeks is nonstop for volunteers as they get ready for the festa.Travascio said though the festival usually falls on the first or second week in August, there will be no shortage of attendees this year.He estimates that three to four thousand people total passed through the gates last year, and is hoping to have even more this year with the new addition of a fourth day dedicated to rides only.?People come through the gates at different parts of times of the day,” he said. “The die-hards stay until 10 o?clock, right up until the end.”Travacio said this is the first time in awhile that the festa will have a fourth day. He added that next year they might even extend the food to the fourth day.Though the rides, provided by Cushing Amusements, are a big selling point, Travascio says what people come for is the food. The festival will have pasta, homemade meatballs, calzones, sausages. pizza, fried dough and Italian pastries.?These people in the back who cook the macaroni have been doing it for years,” said Travascio. “They have a system like you wouldn?t believe. The girl that fills the cannolis, you fill it the wrong way, she?ll tear your head off . I?m not kidding. Some of these people are old Italians. They have they?re own way of doing things and this is the way they are.”The festa will also have musical performances and carnival games.?It?s just a well-known festa,” said Travascio. “Everybody looks forward to it because it?s a coming-to-the-end-of-the-summer festa.”The times for the festival are as follows: Thursday and Friday from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. Saturday, p.m.- 10 p.m., and Sunday, rides only from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Admission is free.