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AHEPA
Happenings |
Preparing
Thanksgiving
Meals
Ahepans
from Palmetto
Chapter 284,
Columbia,
S.C., continued
their annual
tradition of
treating the
low-income and
disabled
residents of
their four
affordable
housing for
the elderly
properties to
a Thanksgiving
dinner with
all the
trimmings.
AHEPA
Attends
Discussion
with Patriarch
of Jerusalem
and All
Palestine
Executive Director Basil Mossaidis attended an
intimate
discussion
with His
Beatitude Theophilos
III, Patriarch
of Jerusalem
and All
Palestine
hosted by the
American
Hellenic
Institute (AHI), Nov. 14. The event continued the dialogue
between the
Patriarchate
of Jerusalem
and
organizations regarding
the challenges
and burdens
facing the
churches of
the Holy Land.
AHEPA hosted
a similar
roundtable
discussion in
spring 2018
and has
visited the
Patriarchate
of Jerusalem
on several
occasions in
recent years,
most recently
in January 2018.
AHEPA
Expands in
Europe
Congratulations
to AHEPA's
newest chapter
chartered in
Vienna,
Austria!
Sixteen men
were initiated
into the "Nikolaus Dumba" chapter. Brother
Andreas Pappas
will be the
chapter's
first
president.
Supreme
Governor
Phanos
Pitiris, with
the support of
Past Supreme
President
Anthony
Kouzounis and
Past Supreme
Governor Nick
Papadopoulos,
installed the
chapter, Nov.
18. Welcome,
Brothers!
SOP
Manhattan
Chapter
Reactivated
Sons of
Pericles
New Renaissance
Chapter 5,
Manhattan,
N.Y., was
reactivated on
Nov. 13.
Congratulations
to the newest
brothers of
the Junior
Order! read coverage in The National Herald
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#GivingTuesday:
Support Your
Heritage
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Supreme
President
Loucas
delivers a
#GivingTuesday
message.
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Support
your heritage
by supporting
the charitable
programs that
project and
promote our
heritage and
strengthen our
communities.
Visit http://ahepa.org/donate
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Upcoming
Events & Deadlines
December
15 | Visit to Saint Basil Academy,
Garrison, N.Y.
31
| Membership
submission
year-end
deadline
January
4-6
| Epiphany
events, Tarpon
Springs, Fla.
February
1 | Deadline
for the spring
2019 issue of The
Ahepan
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Greek
American News Digest
Editor's Note: Editorials,
Commentaries, and Opinion
pieces are shared for
information purposes only
and do not necessarily
reflect the views or policy
positions of the Order of
AHEPA, its affiliated
organizations, and members.
Greece's
creditors approve debt relief
package
Associated
Press (Nov. 22)
A
eurozone
bailout fund
has approved
the
implementation
of a major
debt relief
plan for
Greece that it
says would
provide the
crisis-scarred
country
significant
savings over
several
decades.
The measures
include a
complex mix of
interest rate
improvements
and repayment
deferrals that
were initially
agreed upon in
June. read more
Israel, Cyprus,
Greece and Italy
agree on $7b. East
Med gas pipeline to
Europe
The
Times of
Israel
(Nov. 24)
Greece,
Italy, and
Cyprus have
reached an
agreement with
Israel to lay a
pipeline
connecting the
Jewish state's
gas reserves to
the three
countries, in a
major project
estimated at
costing over $7
billion that
will supply gas
from the eastern
Mediterranean to
Europe, as the
continent seeks
to diversify its
energy
supply. read more
Energy
giants Total, Eni seek
to expand Cyprus
search
Energy
giants Total and Eni
have jointly bid for
another licence to
explore for and
exploit oil and gas
reserves off Cyprus
despite warnings from
Turkey, Cypriot
authorities said
Monday. In
October, Cyprus
invited France's
Total, Italy's Eni and
ExxonMobil of the
United States to bid
for the unclaimed
block 7 of its
Exclusive Economic
Zone
(EEZ). read
more
'The Owl's Legacy' Explores the Glory
That Was Greece
New
York Times (Nov.
23)
Chris
Marker's 1989
television
series, "The
Owl's Legacy,"
is something
for the ages.
This
13-episode
examination of
ancient
Greece's
contribution
to the modern
world
(streaming on
VHX) is
at once
illuminating
and
confounding,
heady but
playful.
It is also
seldom less
than
entertaining. read more
One of Greek America's Greatest Untold
Stories on
DVD: Louis
Tikas, Ludlow
Massacre
The
Pappas Post
(Nov. 21)
An award-winning
documentary film
about one of the
greatest Greek
American stories -
largely unknown in
America - is now
available on
DVD.
Palikari: Louis
Tikas and the
Ludlow Massacre
about a Greek
immigrant from
Crete who was a
labor organizer in
the early 1900s in
Colorado has been
released on
DVD. read
more
Greek
monument at
Tatnall was
once a 1920s
gas station
Associated
Press
(Nov. 23)
You could say
the
Grecian-style
monument that's
been sitting on
the grounds of
The Tatnall
School in
Greenville for
the last 54
years is a real
gas. And
you wouldn't be
wrong.
Though you'd
never know by
looking at it,
the structure
was a gas
station in
downtown
Wilmington
during the
1920s.
Today, the
former roadside
attraction is
much more than a
curious relic of
a bygone era.
It's extremely
rare. The
structure,
inspired by the
classic Choragic
Monument of
Lysicrates. read more
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