TROY, NY – Continuing the tradition of giving back, Troy, NY AHEPA Chapter 306 members and their families spent the afternoon of December 14 volunteering at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York. They packed more than 4,500 pounds of frozen food for distribution to charitable organizations and persons in need. Chapter 306 also donated $500 to the Regional Food Bank. According to Food Bank officials, this donation will provide for 2,000 meals.
AHEPA Chapter 306 also awarded academic scholarships to three deserving students during a ceremony held on December 15. The students are Aaron McCarthy attending Alfred State College, Melina Vasil attending Siena College, and Talia Viscusi attending Marist College. The scholarship recipients are all currently college sophomores and are part of the St. Basil (Troy, NY) Church community. The Order of AHEPA congratulates all the winners, and wishes them success in achieving their goals.
OTTAWA – The Ottawa Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Euphrosyne Chapter 292 participated in the Fall Cleaning the Capital Program for the fourth year in a row.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
ATHENS — After several years of strained relations that raised tensions to alarming levels, longtime regional rivals Greece and Turkey made a significant step Thursday in mending ties during a visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
NEW YORK – Just in time for the holidays, Cerebral Palsy Greece/Open Door and Porta: Open Door-USA are staging a silent auction of vacation time in select houses throughout Greece for the 2024 travel season.
ΝΙΨΟΣΙΑ - Turkish-Cypriot hardline nationalist leader Ersin Tatar has one word of advice for European Union leaders who hope the island divided by unlawful 1974 Turkish invasions will ever come together again.
ATHENS - A former deputy prime minister for Greece’s major opposition SYRIZA has joined the ranks of defectors leaving the party’s central committee in disaffection with new leader Stefanos Kasselakis.
TIRANA - Defying Greece and the European Union, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said the prosecution of a detained ethnic Greek Mayor-elect of the seaside town of Himare will go on even though it’s blocking his country’s European Union hopes.
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