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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.
To the Editor:
I am a long-time reader of The National Herald and I appreciate your continuing coverage of the coronavirus and its spread, but I would like to say that this is not the first time that a disease has spread and caused such panic worldwide. I want to remind everyone that most of us alive today are the descendants of people who survived the Black Death which wiped out an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. And people in the Middle Ages didn’t wash their hands nearly as much as people do today.
The panic in the media seems to be exacerbated by social media as everyone shares whatever nonsense they see and then it gets posted all over. It seems like people are either freaking out or completely ignoring the advice of doctors and scientists. I saw someone this morning on the subway wiping his nose with his hands. We need to be cautious but have common sense. Wash your hands as you should be anyway and don’t touch your face. You also should never lick subway poles; that’s just wrong.
Charalambos Papavasiliou
Sacramento, CA
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.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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".