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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.
Lizzy Snyder loved the baklava her Yiayia used to make, and on entering the Opa! restaurant in Waterville, Maine was transported back with the smells of Greek food, including that sweet Greek treat.
“I just about freaked when I walked in and took a whiff. The smell of Greek food took me right back to my childhood. I am a proud Greek and enjoy eating the heck out of the food. My Yiayia used to make incredible Greek dishes, including baklava, spanakopita, and kourambiedes,” she wrote for B98.5.
There were memories of her grandmother wearing an apron and singing and dancing in the kitchen with Snyder’s mother. The remembrances and smells commingled for her.
Yiayia’s great baklava has been dethroned. Opa! wears the crown. She said the secret recipe is that restaurant owner Sotirios Gudis, who opened the place to honor his late father – who had escaped an Albanian dictatorship – has the baklava made by his mother Anna.
“So this restaurant isn’t like any other. It has history, survival, love, and the best Greek food I have ever had, sorry mom, sorry Yiayia.”
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.