Abruzzo News: 27 January 2000

27 January/gennaio 2000
MESSAGGERO - Ice blocks from the sky hit Abruzzo too/ Il mistero dei blocchi che cadono dall'alto fa tappa anche in Abruzzo, by Sergio Sciarra
Four ice bombs yesterday in Spoltore and Cappelle sul Tavo. fragments are being analyzed. Weather experts exclude this is another form of hail, or extraterrestrial, or also toilet water released from airplanes.

27 January/gennaio 2000
MESSAGGERO - Roccamontepiano - Happy birthday for Nonna Domenica / Gran festa per nonna Domenica
Domenica Spadaccini, born in Roccamontepiano on 27 january 1900, will be special guest at the municipality with children Chiarina, Benito, Mario, Lina, Edda, Iolanda e Bruno Capetola, the 14 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren, all there for "nonna za' Dumeneche", who passed through the war of Africa, the "spagnola" and two World wars.

27 January/gennaio 2000
IL MESSAGGERO - Sant'Eufemia a Maiella - Happy 101st birthday / Compie 101 anni nonna Irene
Irene Timperio, the "nonnina della Maiella", will be honored today by her daughters and grandchildren as well as by the other children living in Venezuela. She likes to talk and never gives up her daily coffee.

27 January/gennaio 2000
IL CENTRO - - Sulmona - Carnival waggons are back / Tornano i carri di Carnevale
This seventh edition of the Sulmona Carnival will be really great: a traditional parade of allegorical carts, a play "Il vernacolo, fontane antiche" by Antonio Del Beato Corvi, on Friday 3 and Monday 6 March, clowns throughout the center, on Sunday 5a contest for the best costume among children, and another contest for the best Carnival waggon.