The Hellenic Initiative Awards Three Greek Entrepreneurs
ATHENS – While the country’s economic fate is a global question at hand these days, The Hellenic Initiative is determined to go against the tide, having named three Greek businesses as this year’s...
View ArticleAnnunciation Church Building Program in Sacramento is Underway
By Vasilis Papoutsis SACRAMENTO, CA – A 25 year-old dream started to become reality with the groundbreaking of a $12.5 million Family Center and Administration building for the parishioners of the...
View ArticleMichael S. Johnson: Discoverer of the Parshall Field in North Dakota
Obscurity to Fame in the Oil Business, is Michael S. Johnson’s 2012 autobiography with, as one might expect, special attention paid to his discovery of the Parshall Oil Field in North Dakota. A...
View ArticleTop Community Economists Weigh-in on Greek Crisis Developments
NEW YORK – Hellenes are well-represented in the ranks of economists around the world – Christopher Pissarides won the Nobel Prize in 2010, and Greek-Americans among them have been monitoring and...
View ArticleTourism Ministry Message to Visitors
ATHENS – The Greek Ministry for Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism has used social media to send messages to “reassure visitors to Greece that hotels, restaurants, shops and supermarkets...
View ArticleConstantinides Appointed Chair of Environmental Protection Committee
NEW YORK – New York City Council Member Costa Constantinides was appointed Chair of the Council Environmental Protection Committee, which was approved unanimously by full City Council. Constantinides...
View ArticleAHEPA Convention Shines in Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Order of AHEPA hosted its 93rd annual AHEPA Family Supreme Convention at the San Francisco Hyatt hotel July 1-5, electing John Galanis of Elm Grove, Wisconsin as President. The...
View ArticleThe Hellenic Initiative Hosts First Venture Fair in Athens; Greek-Americans...
ATHENS – Amidst a financial crisis and teeter totting business environment of crippling uncertainty, The Hellenic Initiative (THI) has taken a leap for Greek entrepreneurship, hosting its first...
View ArticleFordham the Scene of Conference on Orthodoxy’s 2016 Great and Holy Council
NEW YORK – The Orthodox Theological Society of America (OSTA) and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center (OCSC) of Fordham U niversity co-sponsored and presented a “Conference in Preparation for the...
View ArticleAlma Mobile Cash Introduced
ASTORIA – ALMA Bank has announced the launch of ALMA Mobile Cash, a new technology based product that allows customers to withdraw cash using their smart phone. Now there is a new way to access cash...
View ArticleState Senators Pappas, Raptakis Urge U.S. Action On Greece Crisis
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island State Senator Leonidas Raptakis joined with Minnesota Senate President Sandy Pappas in asking their respective delegations in the U.S. Congress to take action in response to...
View ArticleThere’s a Reason They Are Called Patients
HOUSTON, TX – I have a mammogram every spring. The preparation is the same. No lotion. No perfume. No deodorant. It is an uncomfortable exam, but the alternative hurts way more. I don’t really...
View ArticleInformative and Entertaining, Greek Agricultural Producer Event a Hit in NY
NEW YORK – Simple economics dictates that one of the im portant paths out of the Greece crisis is exports, especially, in the beginning, a gricultural products. The rising global respect for the...
View ArticleHELLENIC HAPPENINGS FROM COAST TO COAST
LANCASTER, PA – The Lancaster Historical Society hosted Gust. C. Kraras, now 94 years old, on June 11. Kraras is one of the oldest surviving members of the Office of Strategic Services (which preceded...
View ArticleHRF, Mikrokosmos Raise Funds for Humanitarian Aid for Greece
MATTITUCK, N.Y. – Concerts featuring a wide range of music and performers have proven to be an enjoyable and effective means of fundraising for the people of Greece during the economic crisis. On July...
View ArticlePenelope Karageorge’s Poetry Book The Neon Suitcase is Packed With Gems
NEW YORK – For people who are not artists, creativity is something between the fingerpainting they did in school and rocket science they will never grasp. That is what makes it so enjoyable to hear...
View ArticleEva Varellas Kanellis: College Counselor Who Changes Lives
By Barbara Harrison Plaudits and honors to Eva Varellas Kanellis, who retired in June after over 30 years of passionate commitment as founding director of U.S. College Counseling and Special Programs...
View ArticlePancretan Association of America Congress Glows with Pride in Salt City
By Chrysoula Tzortzaki SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The heart of Crete always beats in Salt Lake City, but it beat more strongly than ever June 27 to July 2 when approximately 1,000 Cretans from across the...
View ArticleHow Community Can Drive More Investment to Cyprus and Greece
NEW YORK – The idea that each and every person of Greek and Cypriot descent can be economic ambassadors for the homelands received a boost when Cyprus’ House of Representatives approved a bill paving...
View ArticleUniquity Enjoys Peanuts, Crackerjacks, and Fellowship on Coney
BROOKLYN – The Uniquity ministry of the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity had a blast – even before the fireworks that followed the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball game – at MCU Park off the...
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