2 November 1999
The summaries in English were extracted from complete articles published on Il Centro - Quotidiano d'Abruzzo and Il Messaggero - Abruzzo edition.
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2 November 1999 - Il Messaggero
ORTONA - Inauguration of Piazza San Tommaso with Cascella's rosewindows / Inaugurata piazza San Tommaso con i rosoni firmati da Cascella
Yesterday morning Don Antonio Politi celebrated a Mass and blessed the restored square; the monuments to civilian victims was moved near the cemetery.
2 November 1999 - Il Messaggero
FARA SAN MARTINO - Grandmother Teresa Rotunno, 105 today, has a dream: entering the Third Millennium / Nonna Teresa Rotunno oggi compie 105 anni - è felice ed ha un sogno: entrare nel terzo millennio
The oldest person in Fara and Abruzzo, one of the oldest in Italy, Teresa Rotunno was born on 2 november 1894, was 21 years old when WWI broke out, 75 when man reached the moon; her four children Pietro, Luigi, Maria and Anna, innumerable grandchildren and great-grandchildren joined last Sunday for a Mass in her honor.
2 November 1999 - Il Centro
MOLINA ATERNO - An ancient settlement comes back to the surface / Tornati alla luce i resti di un abitato - by Angela Baglioni
At Campo Valentino 17 centuries ago the people abandoned everything in a hurry, leaving lentils still cooking on the fire. The excavations brought to the light also remains of "industrial" buildings. Geomagnetic studies have revealed greater structures still hidden under the ground, and a project is being prepared to start an archaeological itinerary through the Aterno valley.
2 November 1999 - Il Centro
Raiano - 100 candles for Luigi de Felice / Una festa di compleanno con cento candeline - by Pasquale D'Alberto
RAIANO. Luigi Di Felice, a Raiano resident born in Vittorito, in his 100 years fought in Two World Wars and has a "cavaliere di Vittorio Veneto", medal, worked as a farmer, a forest guard, a policeman, a railway worker, until in 1964 he retired. Congratulations from all over for his well-deserved birthday celebration.
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