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Biden at Blue Dream Gala Honoring Late Son Honored on Greek Fundraiser at Kimisis Focused on Children’S Postage Stamps Protection Foundation S o C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com a weekly greek-aMeriCan publiCation 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 986 September 3-9 , 2016 c v $1.50 American Hellenes Biden at Blue Dream Gala Honoring Late Son Honored on Greek Fundraiser at Kimisis Focused on Children’s Postage Stamps Protection Foundation TNH Staff duced the My Big Fat Greek By Constantine Sirigos Wedding films. Special to TNH ATHENS – Five of the best- This year’s Entrepreneurship known and most influential award winner is John Catsima - SOUTHAMPTON, NY – The Greek-Americans are being hon - tidis, brought to the United white tents evoking sailboats ored by the Greek government States from the island of Nisyros amid the deep blue sky and wa - this year in a most prestigious by his parents as an infant, and ters of the Mediterranean over - way: each will have his or her grew up in very modest means flowed with love and family likeness commemorated on a to become a self-made billion - feeling during the 6th annual Greek postage stamp. aire – the owner of several busi - Blue Dream Gala of the Greek The five are also recipients nesses including the Gristedes Orthodox Church of the Hamp - of the International Foundation supermarket chain and the real tons Kimisis tis Theotokou on of Greece (IFG) awards, pre - estate Red Apple Group. In the evening of August 27. sented every three years at the 2013, he ran for Mayor of New The proceeds benefited the Acropolis Museum in Athens. York City, and came very close Beau Biden Foundation for the The award in Media recipient to capturing the Republican Protection of Children, which is George Stephanopoulos, who nomination in a very tight race. was “created to honor the life gained national recognition as Dr. Peter Diamandis is the re - of Joseph R. “Beau” Biden, III, an advisor in the Clinton White cipient of the Science award. His and to continue his life’s work: House, and currently serves as long and distinguished career ensuring that all children are ABC News Chief Anchor and includes an education from Har - free from the threat of abuse.” host of the Sunday morning po - vard and MIT, co-Founder of In - Biden, who championed chil - litical show This Week. ternational Space University and dren’s causes, especially as At - Winner of the award for Film International Microspace, and torney General of Delaware, is & Theatre is Rita Wilson, an ac - other entities regarding space the son of Vice President Joe tress best known for her roles studies. A physician, Dr. Dia - Biden, who along with his wife in films like Sleepless in Seattle, mandis is also a prolific author; Dr. Jill Biden thrilled the guests That Thing You Do! and Run - his book Abundance: The Future by joining the rest of Beau’s fam - away Bride, and who along with is Better than You Think is a ily for the event that honored husband/actor Tom Hanks pro - New York Times bestseller, hav - John Mindala/goarCh both his son and the foundation ing risen as high as #2 on the VP Joe Biden, His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, and businessman Dennis Mehiel at the Blue created to perpetuate his legacy. list. Dream Gala in the Hamptons on August 27. Also attending, Maria Allwin of the Host Committee. Beau Biden’s wife, Hallie, Finally, the Arts & Letters and his siblings Hunter and Ash - award winner is producer/di - ley Biden were honorary chairs rector Costa-Gavras, best known of the event. for the films Z, Family Business, Father Alexander Karloutsos, and Betrayed. Born in Loutra Fraudulent Article about Patriarch Protopresbyter of the Ecumeni - Iraios in Greece as Konstantinos cal Patriarchate, said of Beau Gavras, he attempted to shorten Biden, “although far too brief, his name to Costas Gavras, but By Theodore Kalmoukos that the patriarch, whose see is and attributed it to me. I have he lived his brilliant life in the the last “s” in Costas looked like in Constantinople, was con - subsequently learned that this service of others, especially for a hyphen. In the credits of the An article was written at - nected to the failed military article has been submitted to innocent children.” first film he directed, The Sleep - tempting to falsely implicate His coup in July against the govern - other journals. On behalf of his family the ing Car Murders, in 1965, his All Holiness Ecumenical Patri - ment of President Recep Tayyip “I can state categorically that vice president expressed deep name appeared as Costa-Gavras. arch Bartholomew and the Pa - Erdogan. I did not write this article, con - appreciation for the tribute to It would have cost too much to triarchate against the Turkish Ambassador Hughes emphat - tribute it to Oriental Review or his beloved son and spoke of the change it, and coupled with the government. ically denied that he is the au - elsewhere, nor do I have any love and gratitude he feels for positive reception of its unique - The opinion piece, titled thor of the article. In a letter to knowledge of the statements al - the Greek-American community, ness, he retained it, and he has “Will Ankara Take Aim at Patri - His Eminence Archbishop Geron leged in the article. Mr. Andrey not only for the support it has been Costa-Gavras ever since. arch Bartholomew?” first ap - of America Demetrios on August Fomin, Founding Editor of the given him for the very start of As described on its website, peared on the website of Orien - 30, Hughes wrote that “on Au - Oriental Review, has acknowl - his public service career but be - if-gr.org the IFG was founded tal Review and it reprinted by gust 16, 2016, an organization edged by email that they did not cause so many of its members by George and Aspasia Leventis other sites. known as Oriental Review (ori - verify whether I in fact had sent have stood by him in some of “with the aim of developing an The article, falsely attributed entalreview.org) placed on its the article, expressed regret and his most difficult moments. to retired U.S. Ambassador website an article concerning John Catsimatidis Continued on page 4 Arthur H. Hughes, purported the Patriarch of Constantinople Continued on page 5 Continued on page 2 Natsios and Negropointe Belle Chèvre Owner Malakasis Speaks to TNH Among 110 GOP VIPs By Eleni Sakellis Greek-American Tasia Not Voting for Trump Malakasis whose father’s side is from the Ionian island of Lefkada and her mother’s side TNH Staff Times listed the over 110 influ - from Alabama, produces goat ential and highly-respected Re - cheese which combines Greek The controversial remarks publicans who will not vote for tradition with local products made by Republican presiden - Trump along a timeline indicat - and the gastronomy of Alabama. tial nominee Donald Trump ing the date of Trump comments She owns Belle Chèvre in Elk - have led many leading Republi - that prompted the voicing of op - mont a creamery that produces cans to publicly state they will position to his candidacy. The delicious cheeses and promotes not vote for him. The New York Times reported, “more than 100 the dynamic culinary commu - Republican national security nity of Alabama. Malakasis gave leaders, many of them former up her lucrative career in web Republican administration offi - technology to follow her passion cials, signed a letter stating they for food. She spoke with The Serandis, at are ‘unable to support a party National Herald in a phone in - ticket with Mr. Trump at its terview about following her pas - head’.” Among them, Greek- sion and doing “what Greeks 90, Rides on American Andrew S. Natsios- have been doing for millennia” former administrator of the making goat cheese. United States Agency for Inter - "I learned from my Greek Motorcycle national Development (USAID), grandmother and my American current Director of the Scow - grandfather that food is a cele - croft Institute of International bration. We do not work to pro - TNH Staff Affairs and Executive Professor duce cheese, we work to make at the Bush School of Govern - people happy," she said in a MACON, GA – It took until ment and Public Service, a grad - Conde Nast Traveler “Meet the her 90th birthday, but Stella uate school at Texas A&M Uni - Makers” video showing how the Sarandis of Macon, Georgia fi - versity named for former stephanie sChaMban nally got a lifelong wish – albeit President George H.W. Bush. Continued on page 5 Tasia Malakasis, owner of Belle Chevre, with her son Kelly in the kitchen. a big surprise – riding aboard a Natsios is also an Archon of the Harley Davidson motorcycle, Ecumenical Patriarchate of the getting out on the highway, Order of Saint Andrew. looking for adventure, whatever John Dimitri Negroponte, came her way, a true nature’s former Director of National In - Ted Giannoulas: Beloved San Diego Chicken child, born to be wild. telligence, Deputy Secretary of Getting up there in age a bit, State, Deputy National Security she was working her way Advisor under the George W. TNH Staff the country regardless of their troit Tigers and Washington through a list of what she Bush administration, and for team affiliation. His classic Capitals mascot, added, “We wanted to and accomplish while many years a distinguished am - SAN DIEGO, CA – The San comic antics include the Velcro wouldn’t be doing what we do still around. She’d already gone bassador having served in Diego Chicken is an iconic mas - bases routine and the Baby today if it wasn’t for him.’” on hot air ballons, at 80 and 85 Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, the cot, a beloved fixture at Padres’ Chicks routine which still keep Giannoulas, at age 63, shows and wanted to go skydiving, but Philippines, and Iraq also signed baseball games since the 1970’s, the fans in stitches.
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