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News in Abruzzo Year 2000

18 June/giugno 2000 MESSAGGERO - Chieti - Nonno Agostino turns 100 / Nonno Agostino compie 100 anni Birthday party for Agostino Santilli, born in Sant'Eusanio Forconese (L’Aquila) on 18 june 1900, a carabiniere and municipality guard, who has been living in Chieti for the last 40 years . 18 June/giugno 2000 MESSAGGERO - Pescara - Tourism lesson from twin Miami Beach / Città gemella, scuola di turismo per Pescara Pescara is beautiful, the mountains gorgeous, the people really warm says Matilda Bower, vice mayor of Miami beach, Florida, now second "sister city" for Pescara, after Arcachon. Among the 25 guests many whose origins are in Abruzzo. 18 June/giugno 2000 IL CENTRO - - John Gale says Italy is not only Rome and Venice / Bisogna sfatare l'idea che l'Italia sia solo Roma o Venezia John Gale, whose father Giovanni Galardi and mother Vincenza Del Rossi left Pescosansonesco in the 1920's, was always proud of his Abruzzese origins: Rocky Marciano, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Madonna, Henry Mancini, Tommy La Sorda, John Volpe. It is also thanks to his love for Abruzzo that the twinship pescara - Miiami Beach can now be accomplished.