Dear All,
Last year Al was the worthy winner of this special award, for his contribution of forming the website www.torricellapeligna.com that links so many around the world, both Torricellans and people who love Torricella - and gives us so much information, genealagy, news, etc and real pleasure. What an achievment! Well don Al.
This year, because Al cannot sort out the website for us at the moment, I have taken the unusual step of emailing all the people listed in the website who do not live in Italy (all friends of Torricella) to tell them about the search for new candidates for this year and to urge them to send in details to the Town Hall of Torricella Peligna of anyone they think is a suitable candidate.
In so doing I mentioned that Al is in hospital, so you may get an influx of people thinking about him or trying to contact him!
This is what I wrote:-
Dear Friends of Torricella,
I am taking the unusual step of writing this email directly to you all today, to be certain that you have the information about this year's award for "Torricellan in the World".
We are not able to put this item onto our own website www.torricellapeligna.com at the moment, because that is normally the job of our "Editor-in-Chief", Al Porreca, who unfortunately is rather ill in hospital at the moment. (Which is why the site has not had any additions to it recently either.)
For your information, I have translated the Notice of the Competition (see here below) into English.
If you know of anyone who fits the bill, please let the Town Hall at Torricella know as soon as possible so that they can be considered for the award.
The full version of this notice, in Italian, together with the regulations, can be found on Torricella's own official website and for your convenience it is also attached here as a Word file. If anyone is interested in recommending a suitable candidate and needs the full rules to be translated please let me know and I shall try to do that for you.
As you will have read on our website, the joint winners of this award last year in 2007 were in fact the originators of the site, Al Porreca and Dan Aspromonte. Congratulations to them! Now it is up to you to try to find some worthy winner(s) for this year.
With kindest regards,
Marion Porreca (from England).
TRANSLATION of notice of competition:
Torricella Peligna Town Hall
Notice of Competition
“Torricellano Nel Mondo” (Torricellan in the World)
2008 Edition
The prize aims to recognise the merit of citizens born in Torricella Peligna or elsewhere, but descendents of Torricellans, who are distinguished in the fields of culture, arts, sports, or in their professional activities, in Italy or elsewhere in the world, whilst always cultivating links with their place of origin.
Full details are available at the official website http://www.comune.torricellapeligna.ch.it/
Proposals for candidates can be put forward by anyone and must include the name and address of the person proposing as well as that of the candidate, the curriculum and reasons for which the named citizen has distinguished him/herself in Italy or in the rest of the World. These details should be sent to the Town Hall either by Fax: Number (0039) 0872-969681 or by email to info@comunetorricellapeligna.it .
Proposals must reach the Town Hall by 30th June of this year.
The prize giving ceremony will take place on 13th August in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall of Torricella Peligna .
The Mayor
Tiziano Antonio Teti.
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