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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.
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. — For Antonia Georgioudakis Georgioudakis, the old cliche perfectly described her experience when boulders crashed onto the Saw Mill River Parkway in Chappaqua, NY: She never saw it coming.
It happened on the southbound lanes between exits 32 and 33 around 11 PM on April 29 and she told CBS Channel 2, “I felt like a boom – like almost like an explosion – and then I felt the airbag was in my face.
“Georgioudakis’ sport-utility vehicle was nearly crushed under an avalanche of boulders and slabs of rock that came slamming down right in front of her…Heavy equipment was in service all day Thursday to move the massive slide off the road. The slide happened on a dark, windy section of the expressway,” Channel 2 reported.
“I felt like I couldn’t breathe,” she said. “I kind of looked up to catch my bearings. I saw parts of my car on the parkway, and all I could think of was: ‘Please, nobody behind me hit me. Please, nobody behind me hit me.”
Terrified and stunned, sitting in her car, “a stranger out of nowhere came to comfort her,” according to Channel 2.
“He held my hand tight and did not let me go, until the he had to with the paramedics,” she said.
That was retired NYPD Officer Kevin Martin.
“I was holding her hand…reassuring her.”
Martin was also stunned by the slide, but “Instincts took over…You know, 20 years as a police officer, it just took over to do what I had to do,” he said.
“He was amazing…He definitely was my angel,” Georgioudakis said.
The New York State Department of Transportation said it is checking the area to see if it can be made safer.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least 13 people, authorities said.
NEW YORK – Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) on April 17 announced the third annual Summer for the City, welcoming New Yorkers to hundreds of free events over three months.
ATHENS – Travel designers and experts, members of the media, creatives and senior executives of Louis Hotels were transported to the heart of Greek essence at a sophisticated corporate presentation of the Exclusive Collection by Louis Hotels at Fuga in Athens.
BUFFALO - There are Greek restaurants in Buffalo that have the name of Vasilis Panagopoulos but he said that the opening of The Original Vasilis Restaurant is the only one that still owns and is proud of it.
ATHENS - Aegean Airlines has announced its investment in four new Airbus A321neos with significantly extended range capabilities and a specially configured passenger cabin tailored for flights lasting 4 to 7.