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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.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Senior Editor Rex Nelson travels the state to write about what he sees and one of his joys is going to food-themed events, noting the International Greek Food Festival in Little Rock was chosen for the state’s Food Hall of Fame.
This year’s at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Little Rock will be held May 15-17. Almost 30,000 people turn out each May for the three-day event, which began in 1984 to raise money for the church.
“Thanks in part to the money we raised from the food festival, we had the mortgage paid off on the new building by 1989,” said Little Rock construction executive Gus Vratsinas, one of the event’s founders. “At that point, we began giving to various charities. Those charities, in turn, started supplying us with volunteers for the festival. We’ve got this thing pretty well figured out after all these years,” he said.
“Though small in number compared to other immigrant groups, Greeks and Greek Americans in Arkansas have had a notable impact upon the state,” Helen Hronas wrote for the Central Arkansas Library System’s Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
SANTORINI – The prestigious sports event of Santorini, Santorini Experience, which highlights one of the top tourist destinations in the world through sports activities, will be held for the 7th year from October 3-6.
ATHENS – The distinguished Greek-American scientist Nikos Kyrpides, biologist, researcher, head of the Prokaryotic Genomics Program at the Joint Genome Institute of the U.
VILLA MADERO, Mexico — As a drought in Mexico drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action on thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City.
ATHENS – The world-famous humanoid robot Sophia filled the auditorium of the American Community Schools of Athens April 23, fascinating many in the audience.