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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ALBANY, NY – The Daughters of Penelope, the Philoptochos and the Maids of Athena, the three main philanthropic women’s organizations of St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church in Albany, all share a common mission- to help charities and those in need in the community and beyond. This year the three organizations worked together for a spectacular Greek Pastry Holiday Drive Thru Bake Sale. Residents of the Capital District ordered pastry online and selected a pick up day and time just before Thanksgiving and Christmas for drive thru pick up, just in time to add a little Greek to their holiday table this year.
The online bake sale featured beautifully packaged pastry boxes in a variety of sizes with baklava, kourambiethes and almond cookies making the perfect holiday gift, plus trays of ready to serve spanakopita and pumpkin roll.
The Holiday Drive Thru Bake Sale also sold “Hero” pastry boxes which customers purchased to be donated to local first responders at Albany’s two major hospitals, Albany Medical Center and St. Peter’s Hospital. Almost 200 “Hero” boxes were sold enabling the organizations to donate almost 100 boxes of pastry to each hospital which were delivered by the Maids of Athena on December 28, 2020.
The bake sale also teamed up with the children’s book drive organized by Grassroot Givers of Albany. The drive thru was a collection site during the December pickup. Over two large boxes of books were collected.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.