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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.
Memphis is rated among the best places for barbeque and southern food but the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church festival packs in people with cravings for everything from spanakopita to the irresistible lamb chops.
Maybe it’s because the food is all homemade by a big group of volunteers who’ve been doing it for 63 years, way back when rock ‘n roll was just getting started, the church offering Greek music and dancing.
People come from far outside Memphis for the taste of Greece, sanctuary tours, and a marketplace – but it’s the smell of the food that’s the real lure, said The Commercial Appeal.
Maria Moore has attended every single festival. “I think I was 3 years old and in the crib when my parents started bringing me,” she said. “My mother and her ladies group were part of the group that started it. For our culture, it’s a sense of family. My church family is my family,” Moore told the news site. “It’s important to learn and pass on our recipes and our culture. I hope my grandkids and great grandkids remember – the things that my Yia-Yia passed down.”
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.