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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.
If you want to eat at the best cafeteria in the United States you’ll have to go to Houston and try the fare offered up by the family of Nick Mackelis at the Cleburne Cafeteria that won that honor from Food & Wine magazine last year.
It’s been around for almost 80 years as a revered eatery although twice burned down by fire and having moved after Mackelis, a Greek immigrant from Patmos, bought it in 1952 after leaving Greece during World War II to escape starvation.
He came to Houston by train with only $2.50 in his pocket, a piece of paper pinned to his jacket with the word ‘Houston’ written on it because he hadn’t learned English yet.
“Houston’s beloved, old-school comfort food haven is better than ever, “serving up quality home cooking at reasonable prices to anybody and everybody wise enough to understand just how lucky we are that this place still exists,” the magazine reported.
His wife Pat, 90, comes in every day to oversee that the original recipes are prepared the same way she and late husband did, said his son George, who now operates it.
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.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.