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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.
CORINTH – The situation with the wildfire burning in Kehries, Corinth was improving on Thursday morning but fire fighters remains concerned due to a forecast that winds will grow stronger during the day, the fire brigade press spokesperson Vasilis Vathrakogiannis told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
The fire started on Wednesday afternoon and burned through the night, with six settlements in the path of the flames and a children's summer camp in the vicinity evacuated. The evacuated settlements included those of Zimens, Agios Konstantinos, Galataki, Athikia, Alamanno and Agios Ioannis.
Vathrakogiannis said that the fire had caused damage but there was no official confirmation, as yet, that homes had been burned.
There were 236 fire fighters and 54 fire engines, a special motorised fire-fighting operations unit and 15 teams of fire-fighters on foot battling the flames on the ground, assisted by eight fire-fighting airplanes and four helicopters dropping water form the air. The fire-fighting operation is being coordinated by the fire brigade's chief, Lieutenant General Stefanos Kolokouris.
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.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".