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Constantine Mitsotakis’ Grandson, Constantine, Named After His Late Grandfather, Placed a to Travel to Northern Europe S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ nd W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald 10 2 N anniversa ry www.thenationalherald.com A wEEKly GREEK-AMERIcAN PUblIcAtION 1915-2017 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1026 June 10-16, 2017 c v $1.50 Santorini The Acropolis Museum Honeymoon Wins Raves But Will it Turns to Stand Test of Time Too? Nightmare By Andy Dabilis Greece’s Michael Photiadis, a TNH Staff project aimed at also hoping to get back the Parthenon Marbles For Greek Canadian ATHENS – It has been ac - stolen by Lord Elgin 200 years claimed as one of the best mu - ago and now housed in the couple as husband seums in the world – mostly for British Museum, which refuses what’s inside and what’s not, to return them. There’s space suffers health crisis i.e., the missing Marbles – but waiting for them on the top the exterior of the Acropolis Mu - floor, with a view to where they TNH Staff seum is far from as classical as used to sit. you can get, a bold modern con - Tschumi's design revolves ATHENS – Disputing earlier me - crete departure from what visi - around three concepts: light, dia reports that indicated his tors can see from its expanded movement, and a tectonic and honeymoon turned into a night - windows rising above, designed programmic element, character - mare when he fell seriously ill, to give a bird’s-eye view of the istics designed to "turn the con - Greek-Canadian Nikolaos Sar - stunning Parthenon. straints of the site into an archi - lakis, 33, said that it was skilled Ironically, more people now tectural opportunity, offering a Greek doctors and surgeons who – more than 1.5 million a year simple and precise museum" saved his life. – come to the museum than the with the mathematical and con - Sarlakis, who was transferred 2500-year-old classical structure ceptual clarity of ancient Greek from the island of Santorini to atop the Acropolis that remains buildings. Athens, spoke to The National one of the world’s greatest trea - The irony is that it’s concrete- Herald’s Aris Papadopoulos’ sures and iconic sites. and-glass in a city renowned for briefly at the Athens Naval Hos - The $130 million, four-story ancient architecture, although pital, saying he and his wife, museum opened on June 20, it’s also surrounded by similarly Stephanie, wanted to correct the 2009 to great fanfare, and more concrete apartment buildings record of reports in the Canadian AP PhOtO/MAtt ROURKE, POOl than a little debate over its de - and businesses, which he said Broadcast Corporation (CBC) Greek-American Faces Cosby in Court sign and location and several he took note of in finalizing his story and blogs he said incor - competitions, with Swiss-French winning design. rectly dramatized what hap - Andrea Constand walks to the courtroom during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Mont - national Bernard Tschumi, who Inside are marble treasures pened to him. gomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Cosby is accused of lives in New York, finally being Doctors coming from his drugging and sexually assaulting Constand at his home outside Philadelphia in 2004. chosen, in a collaboration with Continued on page 8 room in Athens said the patient was doing well and would be dis - charged in less than a week, far quicker than earlier reports in - dicated as he was recovering af - Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago, 89 ter an intestine ruptured from diverticulitis, which causes pouches to form on the walls of By Theodore Kalmoukos plans to chant a Trisagion service his deep piety, his ecclesiastical the colon. in the Cathedral. Many hierarchs ethos and the special love he had When asked if there compli - CHICAGO, IL – His Eminence and priests are expected to at - for the sacred services of our Or - cations from his hospital stay in Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago tend the funeral. thodox liturgical tradition. Santorini, the Athens doctors passed away at age 89 on June In accordance with The Arch - “Always noble in his ways, said there were not. “Thanks to 2, after a short illness. diocesan Charter Article 12, ready to listen to the problems, the very good job the doctor did He was taken to Chicago’s Demetrios, in consultation with and the disappointments and the there, Mr. Sarlakis is alive. Here Weiss Memorial Hospital on May the Eparchial Synod, named His pain of countless people, he did we are just taking care of him.” 31. He had emergency surgery Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas not hesitate to offer plenty of Sarlakis’ father, Demetrios, a in his intestines that was suc - of Detroit as locum tenens, until time for therapeutic advice and priest in Canada, came to be cessful, but he suffered a heart a successor is elected. spiritual guidance of his flock. with him as well after his wife attack and was placed on life Demetrios said that “with the Throughout his diakonia as Met - said she wanted family to be by support according to the hospi - falling asleep in the Lord of the ropolitan of Chicago he was al - his side after his ordeal that tal’s protocol. His Eminence late Metropolitan Iakovos of ways untired and present with - turned their honeymoon into a Archbishop Demetrios Geron of Chicago, the Church in America out exception, in all the events nightmare of worry and a finan - America informed The National has lost a prominent Hierarch, of our Holy Archdiocese in all cial burden. Herald about Iakovos’ passing. known for his great and long the meetings of the Holy They didn’t want to comment Archbishop Demetrios is service to the people of God. Eparchial Synod and in the much but said the doctors on scheduled to preside at the Fu - “A long friendship connected many Clergy-Laity Congresses. EUROKINISSI Santorini, Lambros Sakkas, neral Service for Metropolitan me with the departed Hierarch “I remember especially our The Concordia Europe Summit in Athens Demetris Banos, and another Iakovos, on June 9, 2017 at the since the time we were both stu - common diakonia as members doctor whose surname they Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the dents at the School of Theology of the Holy and Sacred Synod The summit offers an exchange of ideas on Europe meeting didn’t remember, the surgeon Annunciation of the Virgin Mary of the University of Athens fol - of our Ecumenical Patriarchate the challenges of the 21st century through public-private part - Andreas, were flawless in their in Chicago. The Divine Liturgy lowing World War II. Already at because of his prudent, well-doc - nerships. His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew, Prime Min - treatment and “They took care will precede the funeral. The that time, the unforgettable hi - ister Alexis Tsipras, and UNESCO Ambassador and philan - of me and ran every kind of test,” previous evening, the archbishop erarch distinguished himself for Continued on page 8 thropist Marianna Vardinoyannis were among those present. Sarlakis said. “Yes, I had to have a second operation because of complica - tions but what was written left and right is not true,” Sarlakis Eleonas Refugees in Athens said. “The hospitalization, the in - terest and daily care was at a very good level and we thank Share their Plight with TNH them,” he added. He and his wife said the be - lieve the CBC story was based By Achilleas Kouremenos The National Herald visited on incorrect information given the Open Refugee Hosting the broadcast agency. ATHENS – An everyday life Structure in Eleonas on May 30 Asked why he was transferred without workers going to work, and had the opportunity to find to Athens, his wife said she asked without students going to their out exactly how its 1,800 inhab - schools, and without the inten - itants live, coming from Syria, Continued on page 6 sity of city life is what one faces Afghanistan, Kurdistan, but also when visiting a refugee camp or from African countries such as hot spot, as they used to call it Algeria or sub-Saharan Senegal. a while ago. “The population composition However, what dominates is has changed, the number of Syr - The 11th LA total uncertainty about the fu - ians no longer dominates,” said ture for the inhabitants inside Nasim Alatras, working as an in - the few square feet of a shipping terpreter at Eleonas, shortly be - Greek Film container, the walls of the camp, fore introducing Saadi Jazul, a and finally, within the bound - refugee from Syria. aries of Greek territory. “I’ve been here close to 15 Festival What is prevalent is the mo - months,” the 36-year-old, who notony of a daily life without lives with his wife and three By Vasilis Papoutsis obvious purpose, and the un - children in a container, told known including which corner TNH. LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los An - of the Earth will end up being “I came on the first day the geles Greek Film Festival's the new homeland of all those EU agreement with Turkey was (LAGFF) theme of Building uprooted from their countries. implemented,” he continued, re - Bridges is reflecting the new so - And if they are the lucky ones, ferring to the agreement cial economical realities that they will escape from the reached on March 18, 2016, in have shaped a new landscape, transnational vice, get the nec - which Turkey agreed to stop im - not only in Greece, and the EUROKINISSI essary documents, and manage United States but internationally Constantine Mitsotakis’ grandson, Constantine, named after his late grandfather, placed a to travel to northern Europe. Continued on page 9 as well.
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