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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.
The Halifax Greek Fest has been going on for 34 years but this year, like many others, it won't be the same during COVID-19, the organizers of the big event in Nova Scotia said.
Around June, the festival committee started trying to figure out what to do, Bessy Nikolaou, involved with Greek Fest since she was 11 years old, told the news site The Coast.
“We spun up the concept of Greek Fest To-Go pretty quickly,” she said. “We had the luxury of the tools and technology to facilitate a pretty committed volunteer team and the human resources.”
“We just thought, ‘Why wait until 2021? Let's try something different,'" she says. "Let's bring a sense of normalcy back in the city of Halifax. Bring a little piece of Greece to the heart of Halifax. We love doing that."
So every weekend in August, Greek Fest To-Go is offering traditional favorites like baklava, souvlaki, and chicken gyros served like they were in the drive-in diners of the 1950s and 1960s.
Orders are paid for in advance and the pick up is done “drive-thru” style. Festival grab-and-goers can also donate to Feed Nova Scotia when ordering.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
NEW YORK – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus attended a press conference at the Consulate General of Greece in New York on March 28 to continue to spread the word about postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections.
LONDON - A British Airways flight that started in Athens on January 3 just missed hitting a drone over the Kent countryside in England, coming within 5 feet at a height of 9,600 feet, the plane carrying 180 passengers and traveling 250 miles an hour.
It won’t pass through some French cities and towns that didn’t want it but the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will be lit April 16 in Olympia by priestesses wearing outfits that some on social media found weren’t just right.
ATHENS - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.