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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.
ATHENS — Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Saturday the renovation of the old PYRKAL factory in the area of Ymittos with its transformation into a park with the proposed name "Andreas Lentakis", which will be a "lung" of green for the wider area and will host the services of nine ministries and other organizations.
Mitsotakis made the announcement during his visit to the historic industrial unit.
The intervention, according to the government's plan, will free public areas for the citizens, creating a park, something that has been a request of the residents for decades. At the same time, more than 1 billion euros will be saved in the long-term, based on the rents paid by the state.
"The plan prepared by the government envisages the creation of a new green lung in the centre of the city," the prime minister said from the facilities of the old PYRKAL facilities, which now belong to the Hellenic Defense Systems. The project is expected to be delivered in about five years and the relocation of public services is expected to take place in the period 2025-2026. The investment is estimated to amount to 250 million euros.
"It is a great day for the municipality of Ymittos – Dafni as we are announcing the launch of an extremely ambitious urban regeneration project," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.
"It is an area in the centre of the municipality, which employs a little more than 300 people. An industrial production that has no reason to be within urban fabric. At the same time, a public administration that still occupies dozens of rented buildings to serve its needs in the centre of Athens," he noted and added: "So the logic of creating this new government park offers a unique opportunity, a significant urban regeneration which on the one hand it will substantially change the face of the city and on the other hand it will offer important opportunities for the public administration to function better, in new buildings that are environmentally friendly and of course much more friendly to the employees."
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
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".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.