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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.
TROY, NY – Members of the Trojan AHEPA Chapter 306 held their year-end celebration, the annual Christmas Dinner, on December 13 at Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse in Albany.
The chapter members had a lot to be proud of having raised close to $15,000 and spent $11,500 of it on philanthropic donations and four scholarships to local Troy community college-attending students.
Donation recipients included the Regional Food Bank (chapter members also volunteered there twice this year); Senior Veterans in the needy Rensselaer County Social Services Christmas Program; the Children’s Christmas Pageant at Saint Basil; Wreaths Across America; Lansingburgh Boys and Girls Club; Saint Basil Altar Boys; the Bernard and Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center and others. The chapter also awarded the Troy Ahepan of the Year to Paul Semon.
The officers and members of the Trojan AHEPA Chapter look forward to a successful and prosperous 2023!
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.