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By Demetris Tsakas bingo hall, the profits of which ATHENS – As demands grow TNH Staff Writer were supposed to go to specific that Greece must restructure its charitable causes. Instead, how - staggering $490 billion debt to NEW YORK - Queens District ever, the defendants lined their insure it can repay investors – Attorney Richard A. Brown, own pockets with hundreds of primarily the European Union joined by New York State Rac - thousands of dollars belonging and International Monetary Fund ing and Wagering Board Chair - to the charities. Under the cir - (IMF) which has loaned the man John D. Sabini and New cumstances, the disposition, country $155 billion to stave off York State Police Major John J. which includes felony guilty default – Prime Minister George McCabe, Commanding Officer pleas and full reimbursement to Papandreou is readying sales and of Troop NYC, announced on the Greek Orthodox Church, is partial privatization of state-run April 13 that three individuals a fair, just and reasonable reso - entities and mulling further pay and a corporation who used a lution of the matter.” cuts for public workers. Germany, licensed church bingo hall in The District Attorney identi - the EU’s biggest economy and Queens as a front to steal ap - fied the defendants as Spiros biggest contributor to Greece’s proximately $830,000 from Moshopoulos, 62, of 52-21 rescue package, has amped up Greek Orthodox Church chari - Brownvale Lane in Little Neck, the chorus of calls for a restruc - ties have made full restitution Queens, and his corporation, turing. Lars Feld, a member of as part of their sentence and Spimos Enterprises Inc., of 82- German Chancellor Angela those funds were presented by 18 Northern Boulevard in Jack - Merkel’s Council of Economic Ad - District Attorney Brown to son Heights, Queens; Tommy visers, said Greece will probably Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Skiada, 49, of 23-18 35th Street have to restructure, and bond America Assistant Chancellor in Astoria, Queens; and Daniella buybacks are a possible solution. Michael Kontogioris. Brown Radulescu, 46, of 25-27 23rd A restructuring “only makes said, “The defendants have ad - Street in Astoria, Queens. EUROKINISSI sense if private creditors are in - mitted to duping the Greek Or - Brown said that the four defen - An Easter Gaffe? volved,” Feld told Deutschland - thodox Archdiocese of America dants appeared before Queens funk radio. Giving Greece more into allowing them to run a Supreme Court Justice Stephen In the days leading up to Easter, Greece’s Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos met with time to repay bailout loans would A. Knopf in February and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople on April 16. The two discussed issues of be another way to ease the debt pleaded guilty to second degree Orthodoxy at the Patriarchate, followed by a meal in Pangalos’ honor. Upon his return to Greece, burden, he said. “I fear that grand larceny. Knopf sentenced Pangalos faced criticism for an interview he denies giving to Turkish Hurriyet newspaper, which Greece can’t get out of this situa - WITH THIS ISSUE the defendants on April 6, 2011, claimed he called Greeks “lazy.” tion without some kind of re - to three-year conditional dis - structuring,” Feld said. While he charges. As part of the condi - added, “That doesn’t have to tions of his plea, Moshopoulos mean an actual default,” it could agreed to forfeit a total of $1 include “the buyback of bonds million ($830,000 to the Greek Karantsalis’ Public Records Crusade through a European institution,” Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - he said, without elaborating. A ica as restitution for the stolen restructuring probably wouldn’t charitable bingo funds and an Theo Karantsalis, a contribut - MIAMI, FLA. - Miami Springs kept telling me there wasn’t any have “major effects” on German additional $170,000 as statutory ing writer for The National Her - locals refer to Theo Karantsalis information,” said Karantsalis, banks that hold Greek debt, he forfeiture,) agreed to a lifetime ald, has carved a career out of as Civic Watchdog, a title that nominated by the First Ameri - said. ban from any licensed bingo ac - challenging authorities he said hints at the respect he has can Foundation as a member of If the country wants to retain tivity, and dissolved his corpo - unfairly keep public records pri - earned through his work in the Sunshine Brigade, a group any pretense of sovereignty, it ration. Moshopoulos and the vate. He won perhaps his tracking down public records as of about 40 civic-minded ac - must try to reach agreement with other three defendants – and biggest case, against the U.S. Air a journalist and librarian. tivists who have become experts creditors sooner rather than later, any entities controlled by or Force and Department of De - Karantsalis began looking for on navigating public records many analysts have said. Greece used by them – also surren - fense that perhaps the toughest, answers in public records after laws. has already bought itself a little dered their bingo licenses. Any but lost another that seemed his childhood friend, Capt. Paul Karantsalis, 49, began his time, extending the length of the violation of the conditions of the easier: forcing the release of the Lorence, was shot down in his quest in 2006, when he filed a bailout loan from three years to plea could result in the defen - mug shot of a convicted crimi - Air Force jet during a 1986 U.S. lawsuit against the U.S. Depart - seven and reducing the interest dants being re-sentenced to up nal. Here’s a look at how they air strike on Libya. Since then, ment of Defense and the U.S. rate on the bulk of its loans by to fifteen years in prison. The happened, starting with a story one question remained on his Air Force under the Freedom of 1%. “Officials and politicians can District Attorney said that, in about a friend shot down in mind: What happened to his Information Act, requesting keep saying that a restructuring Libya in 1986, but not forgot - friend and former babysitter? Continued on page 4 ten. “For many years the government Continued on page 8 Continued on page 11 Turn the Page Queen’s College Byzantine-Greek Studies’ 40th Orphanides on Greek By Stavros Marmarinos Says Greek TNH Staff Writer

Calendar On the occasion of the 40th Plan Working anniversary of Queens College’s Center for Byzantine and Mod - By Steve Frangos ern Greek Studies the Consul By Constantine S. Sirigos General of Greece in New York, TNH Staff Writer Greek sojourners lost many Ambassador Aghi Balta hosted traditions and customs on their a reception to honor its founder NEW YORK – While there is arrival to North American shores. Dr. Harry Psomiades and raise growing sentiment among eco - Calendar customs, celebrations funds. Ambassador Balta and nomic analysts that Greece must and observations that follow the Queens College President Dr. restructure its debt to prevent annual changes in the seasons, James Muyskens, Archbishop going bankrupt – giving in - were especially prone to be aban - Demetrios, Chairman of the Fed - vestors a so-called “haircut” in doned. Following the turn of the eration Greek Associations of the process by repaying less season the Greeks of old would Greater New York, Elias Tsek - than owed – Cyprus’ Central observe specific food prohibi - eridis and the Center’s director Bank Governor Athanasios Or - tions, house visits, prepare spe - Dr. Christos Ioannidis spoke of phanides told an audience at a cial foods and breads, worship the work of the Center and the discussion hosted by the Hel - saints, make bonfires, celebrate debt the Community owes to lenic American Bankers Associ - together in the town square, Psomiades. ation (HABA) that it won’t be masquerade, make of wreaths, Muyskens expressed how TNH ARCHIVES needed if Greece sticks to the perform plays, and sing in small pleased he was to participate in Graduates, honored guests, faculty and staff pose for a photo at the 2010 graduation ceremonies reforms initiated by Prime Min - the event and declared himself of the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek studies. (back row L-R) Christos P. Ioannides, ister George Papandreou: pay Continued on page 9 not just a Philhellene, but a director, Very Reverand Sevastianos Skordallos, Irene Stathatos, chief of staff of Assemblyman cuts for public workers, reduced Greek, in the tradition estab - Michael Gianaris, Queens College Vice President Sue Henderson, Queens College President benefits for pensioners, and tax lished by the ancient Greek James L. Muyskens, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, Queens College Provost James Stellar, Emmanuel hikes. It was a dissenting voice thinker Isocrates, who said: “A Demos, Consul General Aghi Balta, Chairman of Advisory Council Christ Stratakis, Savas Tsivicos in a chorus of pessimism sur - For subscription: Greek is he who shares our and Assoc. Provost Steven Schwartz. The program's assistant director Effie Lekas is in the front rounding Greece’s chances of 718.784.5255 Greek culture.” He praised the row far left. surviving its economic crisis, but [email protected] dedication and achievements of Orphanides stuck to his line that Psomiades and his work, which Lekas organized the reception abling it to reach its current Community and for Hellenism. it can work, if given more time. is continued today by Ioannidis, along with Balta. heights and called him a great He said the Center’s main pur - Orphanides strongly disagreed who in turn praised Effie Lekas, Ioannides said Psomiades academic, Greek American and pose is to promote Greek Edu - that restructuring is inevitable the Center’s Asst. Director, for was responsible for establishing Greek of the Pontos region who her 26 years of work there. the Center’s foundation, en - performed great deeds for the Continued on page 4 Continued on page 4 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 23-29, 2011

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n APRIL 27 and AHI Founder Gene Rossides. MANHATTAN, N.Y. – Capital Link is holding its 10th Annual Closed- n MAY 5 End Funds and Global ETFs Fo - NEW YORK - The Mannes Opera rum at the Metropolitan Club in presents a fully staged production NYC. 7:30am-7pm. A few of the Verdi's Falstaff under the direc - many speakers include Deborah tion of Metropolitan Opera con - Fuhr of Black-Rock, Mr. Steven ductor Joseph Colaneri in collab - Baffico of Guggenheim Funds oration with The Mannes Distributors, Inc. and John Orchestra at Location at The Calamos Sr, of Calamos Invest - Kaye Playhouse at Hunter Col - ment. Key Note speaker Dean lege. Greek Mezzo-soprano Maki, Managing Director, Chief Karolina Pilou who was featured US Economist Barclays Capital in the 2010 Little Orchestra So - will talk on US Economic Outlook ciety Christmas Concert will sing Focusing on the Risks of Today's the role of Mistress Quickly. Ad - Easy Monetary Policies. For reg - mission:Tickets: $30; istration/more info, visit: students/seniors: $15; call the http://forums.capitallink.com/ce Kaye Box Office at 212.772.4448. TNH/COSTAS bEJ TNH/COSTAS bEJ f/2011/index.html. Tickets available starting April 4, A Byzantine Holy Week at St. Paul's Cathedral Other Holy Week Activities: Shopping & Cooking 2011. www.newschool.edu n APRIL 27-29 For the congrgation and the dedicated altar boys of the Cathe - Greek Americans know that the week before Pascha in Astoria SACRAMENTO/OAKLAND/LOS n MAY 6 dral of St. Paul in Hempstead, NY, Holy Monday services evoke means stores filled with all the fresh and delicious products ANGELES, C.A. - AHI presents a MANHATTAN, N.Y. - The Cyprus- the Greek American community's Byzantine heritage amidst that will grace their Easter Sunday table. Above, Costas Mas - West Coast viewing of George Ve - U.S. Chamber of Commerce in - the magnificent reproductions of the mosaic icons of Constan - toras, owner of the famous Titan Food takes good care of a ras’ documentary Cyprus Still Di - vites you to its 8th Annual Dinner tinople and other parts of the Orthtodox world. customer. vided: A U.S. Foreign Policy Fail - Reception honoring the LSE’s ure on Wed. April 27 in Nicosia-born Dr. Christopher A. cooperation with The Sofia and Pissarides, 2010 Nobel Prize Lau - the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Family reate in Economic Sciences, with at the Crocker Art Museum (216 the Cyprus-U.S. Distinguished O Street), on Thurs. April 28, in Merit Award at the NY Hilton on cooperation with the Hellenic Friday, May 6, at 1335 Avenue of Journal and United Hellenic the Americas, New York. Cocktails American Societies, with KRON 6:30 p.m. Dinner 7:30 p.m. For TV Anchor Vicki Liviakis at the more info: www.cyprususcham - Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the ber.com/awards dinner-2011. Ascension (4700 Lincoln Ave, Contact: Despina Axiotakis at Oakland) and on Frid. April 29, (201) 444-5609 or in cooperation with the AHEPA [email protected]. El Camino Real District 20 and American Hellenic Council at n MAY 7 Sheraton Gateway Hotel LA Air - TARPON SPRINGS, F.L. – On port (6101 W. Century Blvd). Saturday, May 7, from 6:00- Screenings begin at 6.30 p.m., fol - 11:00pm, the City of Tarpon lowed by a 7.30 p.m. panel dis - Springs will present Night in the cussion, followed by an 8.18 p.m. Islands – a free event on the reception. R.S.V.P. at info@ahi - Sponge Docks (Dodecanese world.org or (202) 785-8430. Blvd, between Hope and Athens Sts). With Greek music, danc - n APRIL 30 ing, and dining. The event fea - LOS ANGELES —The words of tures live music by Ellada and TNH/COSTAS bEJ the poet Homer were originally the Bouzouki Boys. Night on the Greek School of Plato Presents Medea TNH/COSTAS bEJ spoken aloud to rapt audiences Islands returns June 4, July 9, Faithful Flock to Holy Week Services in L.I. who sat spellbound by tales of August 6, September 10, Octo - It’s never too early to teach people about the evils of hubris, kings and heroes, battles and sor - ber 1, and November 5, 2011. indifference to loved ones and vindictiveness. The gifted stu - Father John Vlahos, the Pastor of the Church of the Resurrec - row. Relive the experience of this dents of the Greek School of Plato in Brooklyn performed Eu - tion in Brookville, New York, censes the icon of Christ crowned oral tradition by taking part in a STAMFORD, C.T. - The Stamford ripides’ great tragedy before 600 people at John Dewey High with thorns during the service of the Bridegroom on Monday daylong marathon reading of the chapter of the American Hellenic School. evening that sets the spiritual tone for Holy Week services. Iliad at the Getty Villa on April Educational Progressive Associ - 30 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Read - ation (AHEPA) presents ers of all ages and backgrounds Aphrodite Daniel, Panos are invited to participate in this Chrysovergis and the Syn...pho - unique opportunity. An advance nia Band in a fun evening of un - In the Spotlight: Symeon D. Argyropoulos reservation is required. Space is forgettable Greek tunes on Sat - also available for nonreaders urday, May 7, 2011 at the hall who prefer to listen and take it of the Annunciation Greek Or - By Constantine S. Sirigos all in. At the conclusion of the thodox Church, 1230 Newfield TNH Staff Writer reading, participants will be in - Ave, Stamford, CT 06905, (203) vited to enjoy an outdoor recep - 322-2093. The entrance fee NEW YORK – Symeon tion with food and beverage ($40 per person if paid in ad - Demetrios Argyropoulos was reminiscent of Homer's time. vance, $45 at the door) includes born in Athens, Greece, and al - Yannis Simonides, vice president appetizers and wine. Doors open though he has not traveled as and managing director of The at 6:30pm. It will benefit the great a physical distance as his Readers of Homer, adds, “How, Greek Schools of the two Stam - friend and NASA colleague, As - at a time of heroic upheavals in ford churches. Reservations: tronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was many lands, to be able to read Arthur Kiratsous: 203-966-8307, the second man in history to together Homer’s impartial and [email protected]. walk on the moon, he has come magisterial Iliad at the Getty a long way. Symeon is Founder, Villa is to celebrate a noble work n MAY 9 Chairman, CEO and President in a noble setting.” For info: MANHATTAN, N.Y. – Pianist of Golden Fleece Designs, Inc. a www.thereadersofhomer.org. To Aglaia Koras is back by popular highly regarded creator of spe - participate and or more info, demand in an all-Chopin pro - cialty products for the marine please visit: www.getty.edu/mu - gram at Carnegie Hall (Weill industry. Symeon and his wife seum/programs/performances/t Recital Hall) at 8pm. The event Antoinette, his senior designer, he_iliad.html. is sponsored by MidAmerica Pro - opened the doors of Golden ductions, Inc.. General admis - Fleece on July 20, 1970, a year n MAY 2-16 sion is $40 and $20 (students, to the day after his friend joined MANHATTAN, N.Y. –Greeks of seniors). Call CenterCharge at Neil Armstrong in taking those Armenia (see www.greeksofar - 212-247-7800. More info at giant steps in space. Symeon’s menia.com) is the name of a www.carnegiehall.org. Tickets commitment to excellence has photographic exhibit created by available at Carnegie Hall Box launched him to great heights Dr. Marina Mhkitaryan to be Office (at 57th St. and 7th Ave). through the rarefied air of held at the Greek Consulate of Aglaia Koras is world-renowned America’s boating set. N.Y (69 East 79th Street). Co- and made her debut at age 11. TNH: In what capacity did sponsors are the Pan-Pontian Visit www.aglaiakoras.com. you work for NASA? Symeon and Antoinette Argyropoulos with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin(far R). Lois Aldrin Federation of USA and Canada SDA: I came to the USA as a is far left. and the Pontian Society of Nor - n MAY 12 university student in 1958. I walk CT, Pontos. The Associa - MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Venice and earned three degrees, in Engi - dros. Modern Greek and Orthodox tion litigations that I initiated, tion of Greek American Profes - Byzantium after 1204 is the title neering, Mathematics, and a TNH: What was your vision heritage? which yielded multi-million dol - sional Women (AGAPW) will be of Dr. Maria Georgopoulou’s graduate degree in Computer when you started the company? SDA: We are very proud of lar settlements. The big lesson sponsoring an inaugural event talk to be held at 6:30 p.m. at Sciences. While attending Port - SDA: The company is more our ancestry and - if the conver - in life is to set the right priori - marking Mothers of Greek De - the Consulate General of Greece land State University, I was than a manufacturer. It is the sation makes it necessary - we ties: Family unity; Love; and re - scent, on May 5, related to the in NY (69 East 79th Street). Or - hired by the ESCO Corporation culmination of ideals and stan - inform the ignorant that our an - specting one’s fellow man. exhibit. Dr. Mhkitaryan will de - ganized by the Consul General and within six months, I was dards gained in 40 years of ser - cestors, along with the Romans TNH: Do you have a role liver a lecture dedicated to her of Greece to New York and the promoted to Systems and Com - vice and work in the USA. It is and the Egyptians, civilized the model? Pontic mother. For more infor - Board of Overseers of the Gen - munications manager, manag - an establishment that outruns world we live in. My grandfa - SDA: I have learned much mation: www.agapw.org. nadius Library of the American ing seven people. In June 1967 customers’ anticipation and ex - ther’s brother, Metropolitan from the Greek philosophers School of Classical Studies at I began to work for NASA at the pectations and creates an exclu - Sophronios Argyropoulos, lived and U.S. President Ronald Rea - n MAY 3 Athens. RSVP by May 5 to Ms. Jet Propulsion Laboratory in sive collection of specialty prod - from 1839 to 1911 and is buried gan. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Greece’s Chesnut at (609)-683-0800 Ext. Pasadena as a Computer Sys - ucts that defy comparison. We in the grounds of the Ecumeni - TNH: What’s your ultimate Strategic Importance to the 15 or [email protected]. tems Engineer and Analyst, do - set our goals to develop a com - cal Patriarchate in Constantino - goal in life? United States is the name of a ing work related to the Apollo pany that would cater to the Ma - ple. He was Metropolitan of the SDA: To be successful and re - policy seminar to be held from 8 MAY 13 spacecraft. I moved to Litton In - rine Industry and the hobby that Dodecanese Islands and left a spected and to live a long and a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Capital Ho - WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Panc - dustries’ Guidance and Control we enjoy the most, sailing and, legacy for which we are proud. healthy life. I want to see our tel. The event begins with re - retan Association of America, in Systems Division in 1968, where in general, pleasure boating. I am currently a member of the grandchildren receive good ed - marks by A.H.I. President Nick association with the Embassies of my responsibilities included TNH: To what do you at - Church of Santa Barbara in ucations and be successful in Larigakis, and the Greek Em - Spain and Greece, presents working on the Apollo 11 and tribute your success? Santa Barbara and used to be their lives, and to have love for bassy’s Col. Taxiarchis Sardellis Bridging of Two Cultures: An - Apollo 13 missions. SDA: Although Golden on the parish council of St. each other, their family mem - and Ioannis Vrailas. The first dalucia-Crete. Showcased for the TNH: How was Golden Fleece Designs is regarded as Nicholas in Northridge, Califor - bers and their friends – they are panel will be moderated by John first time on the stage of the Lin - Fleece born? one of the finest marine canvas nia very young at this time. Sitilides of Trilogy Advisors LLC coln, experience the passion and SDA: After experiencing the accessories manufacturers and TNH: What has been your TNH: If you could change and feature Dr. Ted Galen Car - excitement of the intercultural glory of the aerospace industry, wholesalers in the country, our greatest achievement so far? something about yourself, what penter of the Cato Institute, Den - music and dance from the region my wife and I decided to start efforts never cease to make our SDA: Seeing the glory of would it be? nys S. Plessas of Lockheed Martin of Andalucia, Spain and the isle our own company, manufactur - products better, more beautiful, America’s aerospace triumphs SDA: I believe that I have ac - and Captain J. Stephen Hoefel of of Crete, Greece. The event will ing canvas products. As exciting more complete. From the start and the moon landing, and cre - complished the goals of my life, the U.S. Navy (Ret). Panal II will be held at 8 p.m. on May 13. as NASA was for me, she was the company was considered ex - ating our own successful com - but I would like to take longer be moderated by Amb. Patrick N. Tickets are at $30 and $60, on getting bored at home. Her fam - traordinary, the first complete pany that serves the needs of vacations. I have already trav - Theros, with Doug Bandow, of sale at Ticketmaster and the Lin - ily manufactured leather hand - manufacturer and wholesaler in the Marine Industry, the Federal eled extensively in Europe and The Cato Institute, energy con - coln Theatre Box Office. bags in Athens so she had a the country in the field, and and local governments, and the the Orient. My next project is to sultant Achilles G. Adamantiades www.thelincolntheatre.org valuable set of skills. One day catering to a pampered and ap - entertainment industry. explore my family history in she answered an ad for motor - preciative clientele. TNH: Your daughter is also Constantinople and its environs. cycle riders’ leather pants, which TNH: How has the company an entrepreneur? TNH: What’s your most en - she produced and sold. She changed over the years? SDA: Our artistic daughter joyable pastime? QUESTION OF THE WEEK liked her creations and decided SDA: In recent years we have Maria Antoinette is a graphic SDA: Sailing on our yacht, to start something on own and expanded our company by designer. She worked for Disney the Golden Fleece, and I also Vote on our website! as the business grew I decided adding silk screening and em - for eight years and when she like spending time at our sum - to devote myself fulltime to the broidery departments. We have won a design competition re - mer home in Santa Barbara. You have the chance to express your opinion on our website company. Once a client sug - also adding specialties such as lated to the celebration of When I travel I like to visit on an important question in the news. The results will be pub - gested I show our goods to a promotion and advertising. The UNICEF’s 50th anniversary, she places of historical interest. I lished in our printed edition next week along with the question store in Marina del Rey called company has also increased its represented the USA at cere - write poetry and enjoy reading for that week. Captain’s Locker. When they be - business with the General Ser - monies in Geneva, Switzerland. my extensive library’s books. I The question this week is: Should the Church be raising gan to buy our products, Golden vices Administration of the U.S. She now has her own company collect items and paintings of funds through activities like bingo and raffles? Fleece took its nautical turn.[Ed - government and the Dept. of that manufactures ladies’ hand - interest, old and new. o Yes itor’s note: Both their families Defense. We identify needs and bags. TNH: Share with us some o No have roots in the sea. Symeon’s challenges to create new ven - TNH: What’s the greatest les - words of wisdom. o Maybe is from the ethnically-cleansed tures and embrace opportunities son you've ever learned? SDA: Never give up. Be hon - The results for last week’s question: Should New York's Greek communities of the island to create the products our SDA: Take “No” for an an - est, and treat others with re - Cathedral Council be elected by its members? of Marmara that is now part of clients want. swer - civilize corrupt organiza - spect. 92 % voted "Yes" Turkey, and Antoinette’s family TNH: Has your life path been tions, through litigation. I have 8% voted "No" comes from Mykonos and An - influenced by your Ancient and been successful in four class ac - [email protected] Please vote at: www.thenationalherald.com THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 23-29, 2011 3

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Continued from page 1 turing “that are unheard of for based on unrealistic expecta - said events of the past year have developed countries,” he said. tions. They were led to believe weakened trust and solidarity in or is even a good option for Orphanides said he believes they were a much richer country Europe, leading to objections to Greece and said his analyses that critical reforms such as the than they were and everyone, any mutual support policies and suggest that staying the course elimination of the rigidities in the government and the people, emergency actions to handle with reforms – and adding more the Greek economy which make lived beyond their means. The crises not caused by lack of dis - as Papandreou has already sug - innovation and doing business people didn’t know but the gov - cipline. Northern countries that gested are coming - combined so difficult will enable Greece ernments knew better.” he said are more disciplined perceive with refinancing its debt at to address its “unutilized poten - Greece is a good example of the they are being asked to solve a lower rates are the critical fac - tial,” leading to rates of growth damage caused by “short- crisis caused by countries with tors. Greece is getting $155 bil - that will allow it to handle its sighted populism.” He insisted, insufficient discipline. He noted lion in bail-out loans from the debt. He said he thinks the however, that Papandreou and that Europe tends to move for - European Union and Interna - growth potential estimates dri - Greek Finance Minister George ward in small steps, usually only tional Monetary Fund (IMF) but ving the default speculation are Papaconstantinou “should be in response to a crisis, but he there is growing consensus the wrong. He noted there is a lot commended for their coura - wonders whether they will take country will need to extend the of entrepreneurship in the geous commitment to long-over - this opportunity to take bigger length of the payback period. Greek character that manifests due reforms,” Orphanides said steps. He concluded that, “If we The event was held at the itself in the Diaspora and which he believes will work. He said make enough progress, then this glittering Manhattan headquar - can be developed in Greece if is optimistic that the national crisis will be remembered for ters of Bloomberg LP on April its governance problems are adjustments necessary for sus - the progress we made, not for 14. The Bloomberg company overcome. Orphanides, tongue tained growth will enable the pain we are suffering.” provided the venue and the firmly in his cheek, noted his Greece to realize its potential. Papacostas welcomed the moderator, Tom Keene, Editor- country’s legal and cultural There will be painful, but he guests and thanked Keene for At-Large for Bloomberg News, framework is similar to Greece’s said there is no other way for being the moderator and gave host on Bloomberg Radio and and said: “If we brought a cou - Greece to return to sustainable a brief overview of some of anchor of Surveillance Monday ple of dozen developers from growth. But he stressed that the Bloomberg’s leading and new on Bloomberg Television. Dim - Cyprus we could develop that EU and Greek reforms to date services. Papacostas then intro - itri Papacostas, a member of place in a hurry.” More seriously, do not go far enough: duced HABA President Georgia HABA’s Board of Directors wel - he said that if the interest rate “There is still too much dis - Tavlarios, who thanked the US- comed the guests and intro - at which Greece refinances it cretion left in political circles” Cyprus Chamber of Commerce, duced HABA President Georgia debt is reduced by 100-200 ba - when it comes to determining the Hellenic American Chamber Mouzakis Tavlarios, who intro - sis points (1-2%) that would if a country is violating the rules of Commerce, the AHI Business duced Keene, who devoted his greatly help. There are talks and the sanctions that are being Network in NY, HBN, the Hel - greetings to singing Orphanides’ about that, but he added that, discussed are too weak to give lenic Lawyers Association and praises, “with his 10 years in “It’s extremely counterproduc - Athanasios Orphanides, Governor of the Central Bank of incentives to political leaders to the Hellenic Medical Society, Washington and his three de - tive when other officials in Eu - Cyprus, addresses the Hellenic American Bankers Association behave properly, he said. In the and the Cyprus Federation of grees from MIT.” After gra - rope” talk about restructuring. member and guests at Bloomberg headquarters in New York. Greek context he told The Na - America for helping to promote ciously thanking Keene and ac - He added that, “The benefits tional Herald that he is con - the event, noting the attendance knowledging HABA Vice from restructuring are quite low “additional progress is ab - Unfortunately, “In practice the cerned about the postponement of the latter’s president, Panikos President Costas Kellas, “Who for the Greek government .. solutely essential to restore the EU countries failed miserably, of Parliamentary votes on some Papanikolaou, and she also has been after me for a couple .and the mess it would create confidence of financial markets” both in discipline and surveil - critical measures, now re-sched - thanked the Bloomberg staff for of years to come to New York,” would be so massive that it is in these countries. What has lance,” he explained. The af - uled for the month of May. their cooperation. Orphanides gave an overview of not worth thinking about.” He gone wrong, he said, “is very fected countries, Greece being He said the long term solu - Tavlarios welcomed Amb. the Eurozone crisis. To illustrate stressed that Greece now has an common in democratic societies the worst case, were not provid - tion is that just as Eurozone Minas Hadjimichael, the Perma - the seriousness and urgency of opportunity to get rid of many ... there was insufficient bud - ing the others with correct in - countries gave up their discre - nent Representative to the the situation that has destabi - of the rigidities that lower effi - getary discipline” for a common formation, he said. tion to set monetary policy in United Nations for Cyprus, and lized the Euro, he focused on ciency and raise the costs of do - currency area to work as “The rules proved unenforce - order to gain the benefits of a Consuls General for Greece and the yields of 10-year govern - ing business in Greece such as planned. able in practice because they stable currency, they “gave up Cyprus respectively, Amb. Aghi ment bonds. The spread be - labor market practices that The EU’s leaders for political could only work through peer some sovereignty in order to Balta and Koula Sophianiou and tween Greek (at 13.3 percent) weaken its economy and con - and national reasons he said, re - pressure ... the M inisters of Fi - have a good outcome - they other honored guests including and German bonds (which yield tributed to the crisis. jected the creation of a common nance would pick on that coun - should also be willing to turn Cyprus’ former Ambassador to 3.4 percent) is approaching a DIAGNOSIS: BAD fiscal authority as requiring the try” and that would cause it to over some of thier fiscal discre - the U.S. Andrew Jacovides, and huge 1000 basis points – a gap GOVERNMENT surrender of too much sover - correct the situation, he said. tion.” Dennis Droushiotis, President of without precedent in Europe. Orphanides summarized the eignty. He said instead that they The problem is that “some of He noted there are states in the Cyprus – US Chamber of Before the crisis the maximum causes of the EU crisis as a prob - adopted the alternative of im - these people (finance ministers) the U.S. that have added bal - Commerce. The program was spread between the bonds of EU lem of governance not limited posing strict budgetary rules on are politicians.” anced budget amendments to preceded and followed by a re - countries was a mere 25 basis to Greece. The instability of the member states, the Stability and DON’T BLAME THE EU their constitutions and by such ception featuring wine and hors points (one-fourth of one per - Euro is costly for Europe and its Growth Pact which had both Orphanides said the anger means Eurozone states could be d’ourvres and some fine ouzo to cent). leaders are paying attention to preventive and corrective arms. and bitterness of the Greek peo - forced to behave responsibly. A take the edge off the harsh eco - The numbers are bad for Ire - reforms in the so-called PIIGS If the preventive guidance of - ple is justified, but said it should separate issue that is affected by nomic and political realities on land and Portugal as well and (Portugal-Ireland-Italy-Greece- fered by the EU didn’t work, be directed at their own politi - the debt crisis is the Eurozone’s both sides of the Atlantic. reflect the market’s sense of the Spain) countries. He said that there would follow corrective cians, not the EU. He said the need for a better crisis resolu - probability of default or restruc - progress has been made but, guidelines for tighter budgets. crisis “followed overindulgence tion mechanism. Orphanides [email protected] A Phantom Church Gets $830,000 Bingo Payback, Questions Linger

Continued from page 1 were conducted daily at the lo - said he was unaware of the is - volving the arrest and convic - tions. It was revealed that the Church Ladies Auxiliary, Inter - cation by people posing as mem - sue. tion of the two Greek Americans victim was the Greek Orthodox national Romanian Youth Orga - pleading guilty, the defendants bers of various charities. He was asked about the re - involved and pressing the Chuch Archdiocese of America because nization and St. Andrew Ro - admitted to operating a bingo Brown further stated that, lationship of Sts. Cionstantine in whose name the bingo oper - the permit was issued in the manian Orthodox Church of hall located at 82-18 Northern according to the charges, and Helen Romanian Orthodox ating license was issued. TNH name of Fr. Aourel Radulescu, America Women’s Club. Boulevard in Jackson Heights in Moshopoulos acted as President Parish with the Greek Orthodox discovered that at the church’s husband of Daniella Radulescu. The investigation was con - the name of various inactive of Spimos Enterprises Inc., Rad - Archdiocese of America, why it given address, there was no Fr. Radulescu was ordained by ducted by New York State Rac - charities under the umbrella of ulescu was a church officer and was not included in the official such house of worship. TNH a hierarch of the Greek Ortho - ing and Wagering Board’s Direc - the Romanian Orthodox Church Skiada was a security officer of yearbook of the Archdiocese, also found that permission to dox Archdiocese. tor of Charitable Gaming of Sts. Constantine & Helen, lo - Spimos Enterprises Inc. Konto - when the permit was given to play bingo was issued 20 years The National Herald has Compliance Daryll K. Messner, cated at 25-27 23rd Street, giorgis refused to answer ques - the premises to be used as a ago by the Racing and Wagering learned that Fr. Radulescu has Assistant Counsel Stacy Harvey, which is under the direct canon - tions from The National Herald gambling center and what hap - Board and was renewed every gone to Romania. The organi - Charitable Gaming Enforcement ical supervision of the Greek Or - regarding the parish of Sts. Con - pened to the money collected year by the New York City De - zations used to obtain the bingo Senior Investigator Gary Gri - thodox Archdiocese of America. stantine and Helen and its con - all the previous years from the partment of Consumer Affairs permit were Saints Constantine galus and Investigators Bryan The defendants obtained the li - nection to the Greek Orthodox Bingo. He said he would look for philanthropic purposes. and Helen Romanian Orthodox Panzanaro and Steve Harkavy, censes illegally and used the Archdiocese and Bingo playing, into the issue. It was also said that the Rac - Church, Saints Constantine and under the overall supervision of charities as a front to siphon referring inquiries to the Press TNH covered the story start - ing and Wagering Board does Helen Romanian Church Men’s NYSRWB Chairman John D. monies from the gaming for Office of the Archdiocese, whose ing in August 2010 when it not get involved nor check those Club, Saints Constantine ands Sabini and Executive Director their own profit. Bingo games director, Stavros Papagermanos broke and followed it closely, in - permits unless there are allega - Helen Romanian Orthodox Ronald G. Ochrym, and by New York State Police Senior Investi - gator Randolph B. Donaldson and Investigators Thomas Swanson and John Alfalla, un - Queen’s College Byzantine-Greek Studies Center Turns 40 der the supervision of Lieu - tenants John Ryan III and Kristina Sisbower, Captain Continued from page 1 the years.” Balta said that the courses devoted to Greece, Or - maintenance but the enhance - Republic of Greece ($5000) the Jamie A. Kaminski and Major Center will require a substantial thodoxy and Byzantium impacts ment of this Centre is worthy of Pan-Gregorians of New Jersey John J. McCabe, Commanding cation and preserve the Greek infusion of funds over the up - a very wide range of young peo - praise.” ($5,000) John Stratakis Officer of Troop NYC, and the identity of the community’s chil - coming three years, which is ple,” but he also stressed the Tsekeridis, who is also of ($3,000), Stefanos Cherpelis overall supervision of Superin - dren, while attracting an in - why she hosted the gathering. large number of Greek students Pontian origin, said of Psomi - ($1,000), the association of the tendent Joseph A. D’Amico. Also creasing number of non-Greek “We must also promote the rep - at Queens College. He called ades: “He is a complete human province of Kynourias ($1,000), aiding were Supervising Foren - students, who become philhel - utation of the Center and (as - Psomiades, a remarkable man being and a scientist...The en - the Cephalonian organization sic Auditor James J. Dever, of lenes through the program. Ion - sist) its efforts to survive,” and who “worked with great pas - deavor he initiated is very im - Cephalos ($1,000), the the Queens County District At - nides regretted the lack of time she said Psomiades “built and sion, but also with great skill portant and must continue. His Cephalonian Brotherhood torney’s Office, and Queens Dis - to thank all the Center’s bene - gave flesh and bone to the Cen - and competence. His successor successor, Christos Ioannidis, is ($1,000), Michael and Alice trict Attorney legal interns Iris factors and supporters, but sin - ter which undertakes significant is Christos Ioannidis, son of a worthy of this task. Everyone Halkias ($1,000) and Kyriakos Vukic, Joseph Berger and gled out the Onassis Foundation work that must continue.” hero of Cyprus, an excellent must support the program eco - Maragkoudakis ($1,000). These Kathryn O’Neill. Executive As - USA and its Executive Director, The Archbishop noted that, scholar who also works with nomically, and by recommend - gifts will be given this year and sistant District Attorney for In - Ambassador Loucas Tsilas “for “The Center is located in a large great zeal.” He closed by saying ing it to young students.” Dona - again in each of the next two vestigations Peter A. Crusco their continuous support over college and therefore, its “Assistance towards not only the tions were offered by the years. prosecuted the case.

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By Theodore Kalmoukos and professors of the Theologi - our words be read with the love then we all offer this up to God TNH Staff Writer cal School the priests of the 63 and care we have for you as a for the sake of the Gospel. churches in New England under brother priest and as leaders of We ask you within Holy BOSTON – Signaling the next his jurisdiction who have fol - the parish of Saint George. In Week to pray and help to re - salvo in a burgeoning war of lowed a directive from his Chan - Scripture we read and in turn solve this issue so that you, as wills, Metropolitan Methodios cellor, Father Ted Barbas in co - teach that our Lord came to not faithful stewards of St. George of Boston is reportedly set to re - ordination with the local to be served, but to serve (Matt. parish, led by your priest Fr. place the Parish Council of St. representatives, to turn against 20:28). These words echo George, and we as neighboring George’s Church of Lynn, Mass - the Lynn parish and Fr. throughout the Lenten period, faithful can kneel at the foot of achusetts, which has defied his Tsoukalas, but 14 priests refused and by them we clearly under - our Lord on Holy Friday in re - demands that members of the to sign the letter. The letter was stand that the ministry of the pentance and rejoice in the Res - church, many of them working circulated to the clergy and ini - Church is our diakonia to serve urrection of our Lord on Sunday class families struggling to make tially it was signed by 29 priests, the people of God through the as one family. ends meet, pay an additional a Deacon, and three retired Holy Tradition of our Orthodox Let this Holy Week be a time $20,000 a year in their church’s priests. Priests who spoke to Faith. According to that tradi - when all of us cry aloud with allocation, The National Herald TNH on the condition of tion, each of us leads a local Eu - new-found confidence and zeal, has learned. The move comes anonymity, saying they were charistic assembly and is united "Arise 0 God, and judge the as other parishes, sympathizing afraid of retaliation from Metho - in our common faith to the Of - earth, for you shall receive an with St. George’s, are said to be dios, said that “The faithful in fice of the local Bishop and to inheritance in all the nations" ready to follow its lead and balk our parishes has been scandal - the Church at large. We there - (Liturgy of Holy Saturday). at paying continuing demands ized, especially during these fore wish to unequivocally em - Christ says: "Blessed are the by the Metropolis and Archdio - holy days of Holy Week with phasize that, as the clergy of the peacemakers, for they will be cese for more money. It would what is going on in Lynn and Metropolis of Boston, we are called children of God." With be the umpteenth time Metho - the approach by Metropolitan united and stand behind the de - this Spirit, let us greet the days dios has used his powers to re - Methodios who incompetently cisions of His Eminence and the ahead, with the fear of God, move a Parish Councils, for - and imprudently dealt with this Holy Synod and Archdiocesan faith, and love-and draw near. merly stripping the board at issue also.” Finance Committee on this mat - It was signed by: Transfiguration Church in Low - The schism between the Me - TNH ARCHIVES ter. Archimandrite Constantine ell, Mass. for refusing to go tropolis and St. George’s has Metropolitan Methodios of Boston, facing a revolt from St. We are also saddened that Bebis along with a big pay hike for its widened as both sides have dug George’s Church in Lynn, Mass., over a $20,000 fee increase, this is being portrayed as a per - Archimandrite Andrew Ma - former priest there. in: Methodios using his power is reportedly ready to quash it by replacing the Parish Council sonal matter. The language that halares to prevent some sacraments and presiding priest. has been used to speak of His Archimandrite Makarios Ni - from being performed at St. Eminence is disrespectful, to say akaros “Your Church, your George’s unless he gets his One was from His Eminence cese, and to every other Priest the least, and has embarrassed Archimandrite Peter money, and the Parish Council Archbishop Demetrios on behalf and Community who are trying us all. Costarakis Metropolis, your defying what it said is an unfair of the Holy Eparchial Synod. their best to meet their respon - We belong to one Archdio - Fr. Robert Archon Archdiocese and yes, the assessment against a church The second was from the Arch - sibilities to the National Church cese, administered through the Fr. Robert Athas which has many working class diocesan Finance Committee Ministries. If indeed you are a Holy Synod and governed by Fr. Vasilios Bebis person of your members struggling during the signed unanimously by all mem - recipient of this letter from the the Canons and Regulations of Fr. Michael Bird Metropolitan are under recession. The Metropolis’ de - bers at their recent meeting in Lynn Parish Council, I suggest the Church. For this do we abide Fr. Constantine Cambas attack mand that St. George’s pay Chicago. These two communi - to you, my brother, that you re - by the decisions that we all col - Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas $20,000 more was the last straw cations, together with the others spond with your own admoni - lectively make at our Biennial Fr. Thomas Chininis for the Lynn church, whose offi - that you received from our Met - tion. A few brothers have told Clergy-Laity Congresses, which Fr. Greg Christakos Besides the Parish Council at cials accused Methodios of in - ropolitan previously, are the of - me that they sent the letter back are ratified at the Ecumenical Fr. Demetrios Costarakis St. George’s, the Metropolitan timidation tactics, first by calling ficial and accurate accounts of with a note, Return to Sender. Patriarchate. Fr. Anastasios Coulouras plans to remove the presiding other Parish Councils to discuss what has transpired with the It is time that you add your We also recognize the cur - Fr. George Daskalakis priest, Father George Tsoukalas, what’s happening at St. George’s Lynn Parish to date. I have been voice of concern on behalf of rent challenges of this day and Fr. Peter Day who had been close to him be - and urging them to put his re - informed that many, if not all, our Metropolis, your own priest - age, and the economic difficul - Fr. George Dion Dragas fore agreeing with the parish the marks in their parish bulletins, of our Metropolis Clergy and hood, and the Parish that you ties and pressures that are be - Fr. George Economou council in refusing to pay the although many have ignored Parish Councils received this serve. As we prepare to enter fore us. We do not dismiss this Fr. Anthony Evangelatos hike in the allocation, which him. week a three-page letter from the Week of our Lord’s Holy Pas - concern, nor do not take it Deacon Michael Fadel would have raised the assess - TRUTH IN LOVE the Parish Council of the Lynn sion, I ask that you continue to lightly, because we all share in Fr. Thomas Fitzgerald ment on the church to $88,000 In his letter dated April 12, Community. Let me be clear, the pray that the Lord will enlighten it. But there are also spiritual Fr. Chris Foustoukos a year. Among the members of Barbas urged the priests and ‘facts’ as stated in the letter are and guide those who spread lies difficulties and struggles which Fr. Andrew George the Parish Council is Tom De - councils in other parishes to inaccurate, misleading and do and disharmony among our abound and which can only be Fr. Peter Giannakopoulos makes a prominent business - take a stand against St. not represent the truth regard - people to ‘Come to the knowl - addressed by the Church. Fr. John Govostes Fr. man and great benefactor of George’s, whose defiance has re - ing the series of events con - edge of the Truth.’ I wish you a Each parish, including yours, Nicholas Kastanas Fr. Peter Hellenic College and Holy Cross portedly worried Methodios, es - nected to this unfortunate situ - blessed and rewarding Holy is therefore challenged to keep Katopis Fr. Panteleimon Klostri Greek Orthodox School of The - pecially inasmuch as other ation. St. Paul exhorts us in his Week and a glorious Pascha. ministries relevant and sustain - Fr. Nicholas Krommydas Fr. ology, the Archdiocese, the Me - priests and parishes are sympa - Ephesians (4.15) to ‘Speak the With brotherly love, Father ing, both for the local parish and Stephen Lawence Fr. John Ma - tropolis of Boston and its Camp thizing with the Lynn church Truth in Love.’ My dear brother Ted.” for the sake of the world. We heras Fr. Chris Makiej Fr. Kon - Center in New Hampshire. De - and are considering taking a in Christ, time has come for you AN EASTER NOTE turn to the Archdiocese and Me - stantine Menetas Fr. Adam makes also is a member of the similar stand, to lower how and your parish to ‘speak the A letter sent to St. George’s tropolis for guidance and assis - Metropoulos Fr. Philip Moussis Leadership 100 of the Archdio - much they pay the Metropolis Truth in Love’ with boldness. by the Metropolis, citing Biblical tance in the areas of Steward - Fr. A. Nenes Fr. Constantine cese and Archon of the Ecu - and Archdiocese, or stop paying Your Church, your Metropolis, scripture, stated that: “We have ship development, Religious Newman Fr. Dean Paleologos Fr. menical Patriarchate. TNH is in completely, what seems to be a your Archdiocese and yes, the witnessed from a short distance Education, ongoing clergy and Paul Pantelis Fr. Costin Popsecu a position to know that St. burgeoning civil war between person of your Metropolitan are the very unfortunate events parish development, youth min - Fr. Harry Providakes Fr. Peter George’s Parish Council, as well the member churches and the under attack by the leadership which have arisen concerning istry (including Ionian Village, Rizos Fr. Kyriakos Saravellas Fr. as its entire congregation are hierarchy. of the Lynn Community who the Archdiocesan assessment the Metropolis Camps, etc), Charles Simones Fr. Constantine strongly united and unwilling to Chancellor Barbas’ letter with every interaction display a and now respond with brotherly family support, and Greek edu - Sarantidis Fr. Michael Sitaras Fr. pay the demand. added: “Recently you received gross lack of respect to all ec - concern, in truth and love to cation (to name just a few!). Chris Stamas Fr. Demetrios To - Methodios has succeeded, from my office copies of two of - clesiastical authority - to their help heal this wound. What we "get in return" is what nias Fr. Theodore Toppses Fr. however, in getting the support ficial letters concerning the sit - Metropolitan, their Archbishop, We write to you as Holy enables us to better ourselves as Luke Veronis Father Harry Vu - of 55 priests including retirees uation with the Lynn Parish. the Regulations of the Archdio - Week approaches asking that priests and parishioners. And lopas Fr. Peter Zymaris.

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By Kim Hasty work ethic and - of course - their bing floors and washing dishes Skenteris, pointing out an item The Fayetteville Observer food. Food, after all, is their pre - at the Silver Moon Cafe on Hay on the menu to the group from ferred way of making everyone Street. By the time he was 17, Israel. At a nearby table, Arthur FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Chilly feel welcome. he had been on his feet so much explains the options for pasta to raindrops splash on the asphalt LONG WAY FROM HOME he developed varicose veins. the group from Germany. Even under the neon sign for the Hay - Central Greece is 6,432 miles But his hard work paid off. in retirement, the love of food mont Grill. A man walks in the from Fayetteville - a 13-hour After a stint at the Lighthouse and hospitality is so engrained door from the Fort Bragg Road flight and four hours of driving Restaurant, owned by Luigi’s that the two spend a couple of side of the restaurant and into north along a highway that hugs founder Pete Parrous, Skenteris days a week hanging out in the an empty banquet room. An ob - the coastline of the Aegean Sea went to work for Steve Fer - restaurant as volunteer greeters vious infraction: A sign on the before turning westward into manides at the Haymont Grill and translators. Another coun - door clearly asks that customers more mountainous terrain. In on Sept. 9, 1956. Fermanides al - try, another restaurant, but not use the Morganton Road en - other words, nearly a world lowed him to buy half of the much different from the wel - trance. The man looks around, away. A different language, a restaurant in 1960 and then, coming presence Pete Skenteris relieved to be inside the warm different monetary system, a dif - when Fermanides retired in brings to the Haymont Grill. room but puzzled by its empti - ferent culture. It took Angie 1967, Skenteris bought the He’s 74 now, but Pete still ness. Right away, Pete Skenteris Skenteris just a few seconds to other half. Not long after that, rises before dawn at least twice intercepts him. “You want some close that distance. With her he brought 47 of his relatives a week. Sometimes, he manages breakfast?’’ Skenteris asks, a stunning smile, she warmed the from nine families to the United to convince himself to relax. To greeting he uses as often and as early morning chill from the States. enjoy a solitary cup of coffee or warmly as some people say cobbled streets of Karpenisi, the Arthur Skenteris was not to take a walk. Years of hard hello. “You can go right through capital of the prefecture known among that group. He had work have paid off in the ability the kitchen.’’ He puts an arm as Evrytania in central Greece. joined his brother in Fayetteville to spend time in Myrtle Beach, around the man’s shoulder and “Ya sas!” she said, showing a few years earlier. He then met S.C., where he likes to walk in leads him past the grill, finally me to a well-worn four-door and married Angie, who was the sand and fish. But after seating him at a table in the sedan wedged into one of the born in the village of Klafsio decades of long workdays, re - main part of the restaurant, rarely available parallel-parking near Karpenisi. The couple laxation still takes practice. On where business is bustling. spots on the main street of opened Angie’s Family Restau - Tuesdays and Saturdays, the Skenteris then walks off to visit Karpenisi. Behind the wheel, her rant in Virginia and worked 70 routine is more familiar and, re - other customers - friends, he husband, Arthur, was ready to hours a week to turn it into a ally, more comforting. calls them - laughing and talk - show off the countryside. Sud - thriving business. But they even - On those days, so that his ing as he moves easily from denly, I felt at home. And in tually tired of the hectic pace sons can each take one day off table to table. It is a routine some ways, I was. Many Greek- and returned to Karpenisi when a week, Skenteris drives into the born of nearly 60 years in the Americans who live in Fayet - their three daughters were heart of town, unlocks the door restaurant trade - six decades of teville were born right here, in teenagers. to the Haymont Grill and starts hard work that started after his these picturesque villages that GREEK TO THEM the coffee brewing. He prepares arrival in Fayetteville from the dot the countryside. “We didn’t know our daugh - the biscuits, the grits and the rustic Greek village of Stenoma When people in Fayetteville The Haymont Grill in Fayetteville, N.C. is where Pete and Fred - ters until we moved back here,’’ hash browns before the break - in 1951. go out to eat, chances are fairly erika Skenteris have fed and regaled area families for genera - Angie said. The unmistakable fast rush begins. It is a routine he performs good that the person cooking tions, with good food and philoxenia. aromas of simmering marinara Then he flips the switch on now as easily as if he were flip - the meal learned about food by sauce and fresh fish waft from the familiar neon sign that has ping a couple of eggs over easy. watching his mother and grand - terises were related to many of “They destroyed most of the kitchen of the Taverna welcomed four generations of Skenteris long ago worked him - mother standing over a wood their neighbors, either directly Evrytania, but President Tru - Panorama, a favorite of the customers to one of the oldest self up the traditional Greek im - stove in a stone house in one of or by marriage. The villagers man, bless his soul, said that Karpenisi locals and the growing restaurants in Fayetteville. Sken - migrant ladder, starting out Evrytania’s villages. The recipe spent their lives together - tend - anyone from the state of Evry - number of tourists showing up teris works against a backdrop scrubbing a restaurant’s floors for Luigi’s spaghetti sauce came ing fields, celebrating marriages, tania could come to the United each year. On this day, two crowded with framed photo af - for a dollar a day. He provides a from here, handed down nearly observing funeral rites and States if they had someone to groups of customers stare hard ter framed photo of famous and pretty fair example of hundreds 100 years ago from the mother keeping an eye on each other’s sponsor them. “My Uncle at the menu, their heads bowed important people who have of Greeks who came to Fayet - of Pete Parrous, the founder of children. If you were part of the Tommy said, ‘What am I going in concentration. It is obvious stopped by over the years. Politi - teville in the last century seek - the restaurant on McPherson community, you were made to to do with Pete? He’s going to that both groups, one from Is - cians and entertainers. Army of - ing opportunity and a better Church Road. At last count, feel like part of a larger family. need a baby-sitter.’ rael and one from Germany, are ficers and businessmen. Nelson way of life. Like him, many ar - more than 70 restaurants in the That feeling of togetherness - a “I didn’t need a baby-sitter. I confounded. Rockefeller, Jesse Helms and rived with almost nothing, not Fayetteville area can trace their community bound by love, shar - worked my tail off.’’ They can’t read a word of the Terry Sanford. Red Skelton and even the basics of English. And roots directly to Evrytania, ing and hard work - went unin - Konstantine Skenteris hoped Greek menu. So how do you or - Roy Williams. But the fact is, like him, they worked hard from which is about the same size, in terrupted until it was shattered his son’s move would benefit der souvlaki or moussaka or Skenteris offers everyone the the day they arrived, saved their square miles, as Cumberland by two wars that prompted an more than just his son. Eventu - even a Greek salad when you same hearty welcome typical of money and turned their sweat County. Count the Haymont exodus to America. ally, it was a lifeline for an entire can’t find any of it on the menu? Greek hospitality. into success. Nowhere is that Grill among those. Its owner, The Greeks who immigrated family. Pete Skenteris left the Angie Skenteris comes to the It doesn’t matter whether the clearer than in the restaurant Pete Skenteris, grew up in to Fayetteville beginning in the port of Piraeus near Athens on rescue. customer has a famous name or business. Stenoma, a quaint village about late 1940s weren’t the first to the Christopher Columbus. “It And then, emerging from the is someone who just wandered Today, Greek-Americans op - 11 miles northwest of Karpenisi. arrive in the city. The first was half passenger and half kitchen where he has been en - in through the wrong door. erate dozens of restaurants in GYROS AND SUBS Greeks in Fayetteville were Con - cargo,’’ he said. “We hit every gaging in jolly conversation with Fayetteville, everything from the Angie Skenteris is Pete’s sis - stantine, Arthur and Thomas port, and it took 29 days to get the owner and the cooks, Arthur (Reprinted by permission of upscale Chris’s Steakhouse to ter-in-law, married for 37 years Havelos, brothers who arrived here.’’ As soon as he arrived in Skenteris comes to help, too. The Fayetteville Observer, the down-home Haymont Grill. to Pete’s younger brother, in 1908. In 1918, Nick Fasul ar - Fayetteville, his uncle Tommy “A green salad? That’s what http://www.fayobserver.com/sp They are places where the own - Arthur. Arthur helped start rived, followed by his brother Skenteris put him to work scrub - you want? Here it is,’’ said Angie ecial/2011/greek) ers will greet you when you Chicken King in Fayetteville be - Steve. walk in, pull up a chair at your fore moving to Fairfax, Va., and, They opened Steve’s Place on table to visit and ask about your finally, back home to Greece. Hay Street and were later in - children. “People will come in Another Skenteris brother, strumental in helping to found The Making of a Series and say, ‘We wish we were George, owns George’s Pastas, Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek,’ ‘‘ said Manda Parrous, Gyros and NY Subs on Yadkin Greek Orthodox Church. who became part of a Greek Road in Fayetteville, a restau - But the migration after The Ties that Bind is the product of The family in 1997 when she mar - rant he opened after arriving in World War II was the biggest. Fayetteville Observe, the largest independent ried Nick Parrous, co-owner of the United States in 1966. Be - During that war, German daily newspaper in North Carolina. It examines Luigi’s Italian Restaurant and fore the Skenteris boys were troops devastated Evrytania and the lives of a number of Greek Americans in Bar. The restaurants - the visible feeding people in America, they other parts of Greece, burning the area, their ties to their heritage and faith legacy of all the hard work - were sitting at the family table schools and villages and execut - and customs, from families to the old and young make the Greeks one of Fayet - in Stenoma while their mother, ing thousands. By the time the and were written by staff writer Kim Hasty – teville’s most recognizable im - Faye, did the cooking. “There Germans were defeated, the who had a personal stake in it because she’s a migrant communities. It is in was no Hardee’s or McDonald’s country was bankrupt, its gov - member of that community, and wrote pro - those kitchens and dining rooms in those days,’’ Pete Skenteris ernment in shambles. The civil foundly of what it meant to her in this accom - that so many have become vital said. “My mother had to feed war that followed - when Com - panying piece, in which she explained what and vibrant members of the nine kids. She would put lunch munists unsuccessfully tried to drew her to the mission – and got her to Greece community. But hard work and on the table, watch everyone eat take over the government - was too. friendly restaurants are only and then say, ‘Well, I’m going even worse. More Greeks were part of the Greek story in Fayet - back in the kitchen to start sup - killed in the civil war than in teville. Dig deeper and it is clear per.’” World War II, and as many as that the strength of their family The Skenteris family home 700,000 were displaced from Ties bind Observer's ties and the unifying grace of still sits at the base of the their homes. While the rest of their faith have helped them Velouchi, a majestic mountain the world was rebuilding, Kim Hasty to Greece Kim Hasty build lives here while remaining that now is home to a popular Greece faced economic ruin. bound to the home many were ski resort. ESCAPE TO AMERICA may have had here in Fayetteville. forced to leave. Angie and Arthur Skenteris It was against this backdrop In the first half of the 20th Century, thou - I started with long conversations with many “Isn’t it amazing?’’ asked can take you into the same that many Greeks were forced sands of people boarded ships that would take of my longtime Greek-American friends in Dina Goodson, whose father, kitchen where Faye Skenteris to make the decision to splinter them on grueling, month-long trips from Greece Fayetteville, who graciously and patiently John Moutos, came to Fayet - fed her hungry family. The two- their families, sending whoever to America, where they had heard prosperity helped me embark on my search for answers. I teville from Greece in 1938. “I’m bedroom stone house, which could escape to America for a awaited. My grandfather was one of them. He also talked to many other Greek-Americans who so proud of the people who has changed little through the chance at a better life. Panagiote died many years before I was born, but through would become dear friends along the way. came before us.’’ The roots of decades, now serves as a sum - “Pete’’ Skenteris left Stenoma having lived in Fayetteville most of my life, I They may disagree with each other from their enduring values can be mer getaway for family mem - and his parents as a boy in found other ties that bound me to the Greek time to time, but they are always ready with a found thousands of miles from bers visiting from the United 1951, like nearly 200,000 oth - community. Those ties are friendships formed hug, and, quite often, with food so wonderful Fayetteville in the rustic moun - States. And it still feels like ers. His father, Konstantine, per - in classrooms, at PTA meetings and at basketball that you will want to eat until you hurt. By tain villages of central Greece, home, too, down to the black- suaded a family member to or - games, where we tried our best to look out for traveling to Greece, I was able to truly find out the seaside towns of the Pelo - and-white family portrait that chestrate his eldest son’s move each other's children. And they are friendships about the ties that bind these people to a beau - ponnese and the crowded, graf - hangs on one wall. to America. Pete was 14. “The made at many of Fayetteville's favorite restau - tiful country that has endured the ravages of fiti-filled streets of Athens. In Long ago, the Skenteris par - Communists tried to take over, rants, where the food is always good and the war and economic devastation. Thanks to my their ancient homeland, it’s easy ents slept in one room while and if they caught you on the owner always makes you feel at home. Greek friends in Fayetteville, I was able to meet to see why the Greeks in Fayet - their nine children slept side by streets, they’d capture you,” Pete Through the years, I wondered why their Angie and Arthur Skenteris and the Papageor - teville hold so dearly to their side on a mattress in a larger Skenteris said. “They took my parents and grandparents before them chose giou family, who helped me experience these heritage, their faith, their strong room with a fireplace. The Sken - first cousin to Russia. Fayetteville. How has their presence managed ties firsthand. to shape and change our community? What did In Fayetteville and in Greece, I talked to they endure in arriving here and making a place many people and could have talked to many for themselves? How have they been able to so more, and I continuously worried about missing successfully preserve their own culture here? out on someone's story. I know I did miss many The Pat Reese Fellowship, named in memory of stories. our colorful, longtime reporter who died in But I am grateful to have been able to cap - 2000, gives veteran Fayetteville Observer jour - ture the stories of many people who have em - nalists funding and time to pursue a personal bellished all of our lives and who have left an project. It gave me the opportunity to try to an - indelible mark on our community. I am con - swer these questions and to learn a little more vinced that Fayetteville wouldn't be as warm about the kind of experience my grandfather and interesting a place to live without them.

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By Argyro Arielle Sourias true and as we beautified the has changed into a mosque. Paul cemetery, the more his words Hourmouzis, who knew the his - CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey - came true. I could not imagine tory of Agia Sofia in every de - God’s Will was something I just not coming and seeing the tail, outshined our tour guide. accepted but did not fully be - graves of Gregory or Anastasia Every fact he spoke of was laced lieve until during my trip to or all the others. with a deep passion. His face as Constantinople, known as Istan - During our beautification, a he told us the stories, was that bul. From how I got the infor - man who buried his grandfa - of a child on Christmas morn - mation about Real Break, an ex - ther, grandmother, and god - ing. Jenny Stasinopoulos was perience sponsored by the mother came, and when he equally informative about the Orthodox Christian Fellowship, asked us humbly to help with artwork. She single-handedly to meeting people who went his family’s grave, everybody ended the debate of the winged from strangers to friends and was gung-ho to assist. His ap - icon: Seraphim or Archangels? now to family, this pilgrimage pearance showed we are not After Agia Sofia, we went on fostered my growth in my faith just giving respect to those who a boat ride on the Bosporus, and also my growth as a person. have passed, but hope to those which was when we began The plane ride toward this who still live there. As we had bonding more and more as a dream of mine was full of ner - our own memorial service in the family. vousness and excitement, yet I small area around the icons, I believe I speak on behalf of could not fathom what was in everybody said a name, but our my group when I say that the store for me, and that is the group’s Arianna Gazis said the day that we met Patriarch beauty of God’s Plan. most memorable thing, “For the Bartholomew was the greatest Day One was an eye-opener, unknown.” It was very emotion - day of our lives. Being in his All as I entered a fairytale-like ally charged, for her prayer rep - Holiness’ presence was unfor - world, intertwined with horrific resent the bones we found and gettable, but being in his audi - history stories. As I sipped my graves we could not get to. As ence was indescribable. The fact first cup of Turkish coffee, my we finished up, Olga, the lady that he answered our questions eyes were already attempting to capture a city’s beauty that is beyond breathtaking. A little later - during a brief history les - son of the martyrdom of Gre - PHOTO/JENNIFER AVROS gory the Fifth at the Patriarchy ABOVE: The Real Break group. Back Row (L-R): Arianna Ranahosseini,Paul Hourmouzis,Andrew - I was reminded that I am a mi - Kalina, Miltiadis Constantine,Sebastian Flutowski, Carle Silvestri, Troy Gessner, Paul Shannon. nority. As I walked, a Burka- Front (L-R): Father Mark Leonidis, Arianna Gazis, Dina Baruth (bottom), Jenny Stasinopoulos, wearing woman tisked at me, Argyro Sourias,Niki Kleto, Sotiri Karambetsos. RIGHT: A meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew and from that point on, I was one of the most moving moments for the students, bridging their experience from the U.S. worked even harder to blend in to their religious foundation. BELOW: “I am about to see heaven on earth,” Rutgers University through acting respectful. student Argyro Arielle Sourias thought as she approached Agia Sophia for the first time recently. Quickly, that sour note was pushed away, for the next day was Orthodox Sunday and an Ordination of a Bishop. I knew it would be one of the most beautiful moments in my life. As I dressed the next morning, my mind kept replaying the idea that today I would be saying “Argyro” to a clergy member of who let the girls use her bath - was something out of a dream. the St. George Cathedral, and room, came to the cemetery and While he walked around the how I wish that my Grand - began to do her cross. We finally room, blessing us, I was proud mother, who I was named for were all aware that she too was to know that my faith brought and inspired me to be knowl - Orthodox, yet we still had a lan - me to this moment. The most edgeable in my faith, could see guage barrier; she only spoke touching moment was when and hear the service through my Russian and Turkish. Then Paul Jennifer Avros went up and pre - senses. Shannon started singing Chris - sented her gift to the Patriarch, The orthos (matins) was tos Anesti in Russian to further her present was thoughtful, moving; it brought tears to my bring Olga into our group. practical, and personal. She eyes to hear such sweet chant - When she realized what Paul made all of us proud. Her parish ing. As Patriarch Bartholomew was doing, she began to cry, in is lucky to have such a wonder - walked through the doors turn making me cry and I ful member who feels her faith. adorned in his vestments it fi - showed her I cared through a After, we went to tour some nally hit me where I was and hug, an expression of love that more, our first stop being Blah - that this week would only get requires no words but a deep ernae, the first church that sang better. Watching Chancellor Ste - understanding. the hymn Ti Ipermaho. It was fanos become a Bishop was the MORE THAN TOURISM the soundtrack of our trip, a epitome of the Orthodox Spirit; During our sightseeing, constant reminder of our unity. seeing 16 Bishops alongside the rather than just listening to our Next we went to Chora, and Patriarch proved that our tour guide, I also listened to the the magnitude of talent required brethren would be there for us. young adults who were very to create such majestic mosaics After receiving communion, I knowledgeable about most of is something I cannot fathom. heard the call to prayer outside the sites that we saw; it was It includes the most iconic de - and again the reality that I am more riveting at least to me. Our pictions of Christ and the Virgin a minority struck me. It did not PHOTO/ARGyRO ARIEllE SOURIAS first site was the Blue Mosque, Mary. The skill the tradesmen take away from the beauty of hearing the call to prayer was even those who no longer are and College Conference. He which was a site to see; yet I had was amazing, for they were the moment of receiving com - during communion, or how alive. A few hours into our opened me to becoming more could not shake the idea that able to inject emotion into every munion, but proved how the amazing the hymns sounded a work, we started a small pile of active with not only Greek Or - just across the street Agia Sofia icon. Next, we visited a Greeks who live here and prac - Capella. As I headed back to the bones that we discovered in thodox youth but also Orthodox was there. And while I learned monastery where a miracle hap - tice Orthodoxy are so incredibly hotel, I saw a priest and kissed small mounds of dirt. We all youth in general. I found his the place where a Sultan would pened; the white marble strong. Instead of moving to his hand and after receiving his longed to give them rest and knowledge about our faith re - stand and how the Mosque is gleamed when the sunlight hit Greece they continue on, an ex - blessings, he gave me a peace. For me the most majestic freshing. His interest was some - divided, my mind was at the it. Seeing that graveyard area of ample of what it means to let koumposkini (a prayer bracelet) moment was watching a peer, thing I admire and something I wonder that I was to behold mo - the Patriarchs was surreal. I felt your faith face your fears. and I learned that it he came Andrew Kalina, make a wooden rarely see in people around my mentarily. proud as I stared at each tomb Bearing witness to the pre - from Mount Athos. He reminded cross from sections of a tree. It age. As we left the Mosque and and I prayed for them. Finally, cession of Icons in the Courtyard even in an unknown place, there was such a sweet action that After the hardest day of work began our walk over, all that we went shopping at the Grand of the Patriarchate was inspiring are those who are like me in was a powerful statement of his we met the youth of Constan - was running through my mind Bazaar, which was fun, espe - and took me back to my child - faith and in spirit. faith. tinople and it was amazing be - was, “I am about to see heaven cially seeing the deals we could hood. I remembered the joy I CEMETARY CLEAN UP The next day of work was the cause, regardless of our lan - on earth.” As it came into my make. Later that night, we had felt walking around my church I took that feeling with me most grueling of my life, but guage barriers, through our eyesight, my heart’s pace quick - our final meal and as I glanced with my icon in my hand. Now to the site of our mission, the looking around, everybody was faith we united and friendships ened and I was surged with en - around to my peers I saw my that joy burst from within me, Cemetery of St. John in Bebek. motivated to complete the task were formed. The last day of ergy. As I walked into Agia new family. and the tears I expressed in the The souls there may have been of our mission with a spirit that work was the most emotional, Sofia, I was happy and sad at church were replaced by a smile abandoned, yet the 16 of us is associated with warriors. as Father Mark Leondis (F.M. we the same time. I was happy, for *Argyro Arielle Sourias, from that children wear, full of inno - brought them our love and our Working alongside Dina Baruth, called him) said: “Isn’t it strange I stood in the place where St. Oakhurst, N.J., is a sophomore cence and happiness, brimming prayers. While working at the with all her determination, that this cemetery has become John Chrysostom stood, yet I at Rutgers University, studying with a sense of accomplishment. cemetery, I felt that our task made fighting the overgrown home to us?” His statement was was sad seeing how the church English, Religion and Greek. As we were eating in the dining could not be completed. How ivy an enjoyable task. The two hall of the Patriarchate, the jour - can 16 adults correct the neglect hours we focused on our section ney from strangers to friends be - of more than 100 years? As I flew by. gan to flourish. stared at the picture of Gregory It was on the second day, that From frivolous activities such on his tombstone, I began to cry, my mindset about Orthodoxy as trying to get bread into for seeing his slightly vandalized grew due to Miltiadis Constan - other’s lentil soup, to in-depth grave broke my heart, that tine, who is active in many Or - conversations of how surreal anger and resentment attacks thodox activities, such as OCF

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By Angelike Contis political statement of the evening should do more to keep the ser - Say it to me in Greek.” As the sionals Association. Kitsios came everyone, not just the Greek TNH Staff Writer in her greetings, among the first vices intact and lower taxes, es - assistant principal of a very cul - to the U.S. 30 years ago and was Americans.” remarks. She said: “The Turks pecially for our residents and turally diverse school, in a time involved in civic life through the In presenting the third hon - NEW YORK – Fifteen months should leave Cyprus. The Turkish business owners.” of growing multiculturalism, she offices of Architecture and Engi - oree, Liu declared: “It’s because into his term, New York City army should withdraw its occu - THE HONORED TRIO noted that there is no excuse not neering for New York City’s of his dedication and leadership Comptroller John C. Liu made pation forces.” Sophianou added, “They represent what Greek to preserve Hellenism today. In Housing and Preservation as well and commitment to advancing the annual nod to Hellenes, by in Greek: “We will win,” Greek Americans have done right here the audience were her daughter as the city’s Housing Authority the message and contributions hosting a Greek Heritage & Cul - Consul of Greece Evangelos Kyr - in New York City,” said Liu of the Patricia, who works for NBC and Mayor’s Office. Kitsios also that Greek Americans have made ture celebration. The weather iakopoulos reiterated her point, three honorees. The comptroller Sports, and son Gregory, a sopho - had served as President of the to our society that we honor was stormy, but mood warm at also noting, “This very event lauded Gournardes’ “dedication more at Brooklyn College. Her Golden Key Honor Society Divi - tonight Mr. Elias Tsekerides.” The the event held on April 12. proves that the two countries, for our city’s students” and “civic son told TNH it was nice to see sion of NYC, and a member of honoree has been the Federa - Cypriot, Greek and American Greece and the US, work to - leadership.” He underlined her the tables turned and be watch - Building Development Commit - tion’s president since June 2010, flags few within Manhattan’s his - gether in a relation of friendship work developing a music pro - tee of City College of NY. arrived in the U.S. in1963. An toric Surrogate’s Courthouse as and alliance, defending values of gram in her school, but also her Kitsios thanked everyone, un - employee of General Motors for Liu honored Dianne Vivian freedom and justice...” extensive work with organiza - “They represent what derlined the important role that 23 years, he was a union repre - Gournardes, Assistant Principal Liu, inserted a sense of fiscal tions like GOYA, the Philopto - Greek Americans have children play at the Home - sentative for the last 20 years. of P.S. 170: The Ralph A. Fabrizio challenges during tough times, chos, her volunteerism in lun - done right here in New owner’s Thanksgiving event and He remains actively involved, as School; George Kitsios, the Hon - by noting: “It’s surely not an easy cheons and cultural events – not concluded: “I want to thank you Secretary/Treasurer of the Re - orary President of the Greek time to be chief financial officer to mention being a member of York City” very much all for coming here tirees of Region 9 of the United American Homeowners’ Associ - of anything, let alone the great the Dimitrios & Georgia Parochial and I hope that the honorable Auto Workers. He’s also President ation of New York, and Elias City of New York.” He briefly School Board of Holy Cross for ing his mother receive recogni - John Liu will continue this tradi - of the Prophet Elias Church of Tsekerides, the president of the plugged his Internet initiative last 21 years. tion: “It’s usually her children, tion honoring the Greek Ameri - Yonkers. Federation of Hellenic Societies year, entitled Checkbook NYC, The honoree touched upon that she has to see us get awards can community and the entire “You, Mr. Comptroller, know of Greater New York. About 130 which itemizes every municipal family many times in her speech, for scouting or whatever, and to citizenship of New York.” He told first hand what it means to be people attended the event, in - dollar spent. “Sixty-six billion recalling her father who came to see my mother being honored is the TNH after the awarding cer - an immigrant in this country, cluding many who worked with dollars. You can look at it as it the U.S. “ as a stowaway at age very nice.” emony: “I am also grateful to and what he or she has to go Liu from his days in was your own checkbook,” he 13 and never again saw his par - When it came to Kitsios, Liu New York City, because it gave through to realize the American Flushing/Queens politics. Among told the audience. ents.” She said, “He would re - said: “For all his hard work and us the opportunity to work here dream,” said the vivacious Tsek - the many VIPS was New York The NYC Comptroller empha - mind me that anything is possi - dedication as well as tremendous and succeed.” Costa Constanti - erides. He nodded to his family, State Senator Mike Gianaris and sized his ties with the Greek ble if you worked hard enough contributions to the City of New nides, the Democratic District pointing out his son and stating: business leaders including Nick American community, including for it.” Gournardes said too: “My York, please help me honor Mr. Leader for the 36th Assembly “I am particularly touched Gavalos and Michael Chalkias. having marched in the March 27 mother, who was born in the George Kitsios,” bestowing a cer - District of Astoria, who was tonight that some people came In an evening full of lots of New York Greek Parade. Of a re - United States and whose primary tificate to the Honorary President among those attending, also un - all the way from Milford, Con - mutual appreciation, it was cent meeting with the Home - language was English, refused to of the Greek American Home - derscored Kitsios’ important necticut, my nephews up there, Cypriot Consul General Koula owners Association, he said: respond to me if I spoke to her owners Association of New York work on the Thanksgiving feast Poughkeepsie, NY and Norfolk, Sophianou, in her elegant white “They certainly gave me a piece in English. I can still hear her and former President of the for those less fortunate. “They do Connecticut, came all the way coat/dress, who offered the most of their mind as to how NYC saying ‘I don’t understand you. Broadway Merchants and Profes - a fantastic job and reach out to to NY to honor us.” Karantsalis’ Public Records Crusade Mark a Dedicated Man’s Drive

Continued from page 1 sistance and then they learn the Gazette. “I share my informa - cases, notably when the Mar - nuts and bolts of open govern - tion because I’m a librarian and shals released booking photos records about his friend’s disap - ment law. “They’re mentors. I want citizens to know they of Bernard Madoff. The three- pearance. He found out infor - They provide assistance and have rights.” judge panel's ruling adopted the mation did exist and he released help teach people how to get ac - By Amelia Gonzalez Florida judge's ruling that found the information to Harvard Law cess to public records.’’ [email protected] the photos were gathered for School. It was believed that Karantsalis, a Miami Dade law enforcement purposes and Lorence’s aircraft was shot down College Assistant Library Direc - FED PANEL UPHOLDS that disclosing them would con - over the Mediterranean Sea, ac - tor, teaches an Internet research DECISION DENYING MUG stitute an unwarranted invasion cording to the records. “Al - class to show students and oth - SHOTS of Giro's personal privacy. That though I found out what hap - ers that all government records ATLANTA - The federal ap - came just weeks after a federal pened to him, I still don’t know are public, unless a statute says peals court in Atlanta has up - judge in Arizona cleared the where his remains are,” otherwise. “There is no interest held a court's decision that de - way for release of mug shots of Karantsalis said, who still in educating and teaching stu - nied a freelance reporter a Jared Lee Loughner, accused of searches for answers today with dents about this topic, but request for mug shots. The 11th fatally shooting six people and help from the First Amendment everyone has the nee d for in - U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals af - critically wounding Rep. Foundation, a nonprofit orga - formation,” Karantsalis said. firmed a judge's decision that Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in nization in Tallahassee that has “We are living in the informa - found the U.S. Marshals Service January. What really makes the launched the Sunshine Brigade tion age.” did not have to supply the re - 11th Circuit’s ruling interesting, statewide this week to raise On one occasion, Karantsalis porter with a mug shot. as Josh Gerstein notes on awareness of public records even ordered video footage of a Theo Karantsalis just won’t take no for an answer when it Theodore Karantsalis in July Politico, is that it conflicts with laws. “These are people who are camera that was placed inside comes to challenging authorities. 2009 requested a mug shot of a 1996 ruling by the Court of citizen activists, thy tend to be a water pipe by the Public Luis Giro, who had pleaded Appeals for the 6th Circuit, very involved in issues in their Works Department in his Miami ami Springs city clerk. “He is is also a freelance writer for The guilty to securities fraud which held that mug shots do community,’’ said Jim Rhea, Di - Springs residence. “He is our very involved in what he does.” Miami Herald, The National charges. He said the govern - indeed have to be released un - rector of the First American best customer at requesting Karantsalis, who was diagnosed Herald, Multiple Sclerosis Foun - ment should release the photos der the statute involving access Foundation. “They may get re - records,” said Magali Valls, Mi - with multiple sclerosis in 2002, dation, and the River Cities because it had done so in other to government records.

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ALL HISTORY Turn the Page on Greek Calendar Customs To Follow the Seasons

Continued from page 1 low countrymen as they could til the early hours of the morn - make “a wreath made of pome - muster. Photographs showing ing. Be aware that while men granates, grapes, quinces, garlic groups and as groups of traveling these all-male Easter gatherings may seem to be in the majority and a leaf from Hippocrates’ tree visitors. Everyday life among the are especially prominent. Today, as the streets filled with mas - … the wreath is called ‘first of Greeks was literally governed by many families all across the coun - queraders, as I have seen, the year.” On September 1st, be - the observances the 12 great try have oversize black and white women are not unaccustomed to fore sunrise, the village boys and Lenten feasts required. The in - photographs documenting of wearing the local costumes and girls go down to the seashore to tention of the majority of the these holiday events. Great- traveling the streets. throw away last year’s wreath Greek men was to work in Amer - grandfathers, grandfathers and What is most striking about and dip the new wreath in the ica only long enough to make all manner of uncles and cousins this round of seasonal events are water.” Those in Kastoria make money and return to their are identified in these much-trea - the folk plays, sometimes called a special bread-dish (bougatsa) homes. Available demographics sured photographs. dramas, involve an entire troupe with special yeast and place in - on Greek migration to North As families came to be estab - of maskarades, for within many side the dough a small cross, American from 1880-1924 show lished, Greek holiday events of these costumed traditions clearly a custom analogous to the half of them did. Traditions re - soon became marked by gather - there is a distinct troupe of cos - coin hidden in the vassilopita tained by the men, or which ings around the dining room tumed characters. The plays in - loaf. In what was once the Greek were reintroduced by the grow - table with all the family and evitably show the community town of Saranda Ekklisies in ing presence of women, never many Greek friends. These holi - something or put various indi - Thrace on the first day of vintage matched what was annually ob - days often meant that relatives viduals on trial. The diversity and the town’s people “used to gather served back in the villages and and friends had to travel consid - complexity of these plays is as - in some open place or square, towns from which all these Hel - erable distances to celebrate to - tonishing. The forms these plays with several masqueraders, and lenic sojourners hailed. Coming gether. This special time was take have suggested to many dance until midnight” with what to terms with social and cultural marked by using pristine white writers their origins must date Megas describes as frenzy. upheaval can be understood in tablecloths, the best china, the into the distant pagan past. CYCLE OF CHANGES many of calendar customs special etched dinner glasses, SUMMER SOLSTICE Not every calendar custom Greeks observed and that con - and the silverware no one saw The summer festivals begin in from every village, town or city tinue. Numerous writers claim except on holidays. Perhaps, in June and in virtually all lands can be noted, so if you’ve one these customs and the celebra - the early 1900’s to the Great De - where Hellenes live is a time of from your village celebration tions around them stretched into pression, those born in North harvest. St. John the Baptist’s then get a tape recorder and re - pagan and even pre-pagan times. America might have heard their birthday (June 24th) is still a call as much as you can. Remem - For the Hellenes the holiday year, immigrant family elders sing tra - much-celebrated holiday. The ber, exact details are critical to whether pagan or Christian, al - ditional songs. Certainly among lighting of bonfires is the most record. Either give this tape to ways followed the cycle of the the eldest Greek Americans now typical custom associated with St your family as a gift so they may seasons: winter solstice (Decem - living, many were taught in John’s birthday. The purification know more of their rich cultural ber 21st); vernal equinox (March Greek school or perhaps even from all evil by the power of fire heritage or donate it to your local 21st); summer solstice (June Sunday school kalanda and other is tied to the leaping over these historical society. When the first 21st), and autumnal equinox holiday songs. Individual fami - bonfires. Other observances used Greek laborers came to the (September 21st). lies across the country have very ing from the toil of spring, sum - house sing some songs and wish to practice on St. John’s birthday. United States, many America As winter turns into spring I clear memories of name day cel - mer and autumn. Then the fatted each housewife a good and pros - In Macedonia, Thrace and East - journalists remarked that the take Greek Calendar Customs by ebrations and even house visiting pigs are killed and the barrels of perous year. In turn, each house - ern Rumelia: “The inhabitants of new arrivals were amazed, at George A. Megas off my book - on New Years and other seasons. wine opened, and the great fes - wife would offer treats to the these areas used to celebrate the first, that Americans worked so shelf to flip through its pages. Recently I saw some videos of tivals of the year follow each traveling company. feast of St. John with masquer - hard especially without what Megas was one of the foremost young Greek-American folk other in quick succession. VERNAL EQUINOX ades and processions of boys and seemed to them any round of Greek folklorists (laographos.) of dancers that, along with their Leisure, plentiful food and drink The spring festivals begin girls escorting the Kalinitsa” who holiday celebrations. The White- all times. Greek Calendar Cus - dances, learned some seasonal give life to the villages, which with Apokreas observances and was deemed the most beautiful Anglo-Saxon-Protestant (WASP) toms, offers a panoramic view of songs to sing while they danced. take on a different aspect, gayer extend into May. This season is girl in the neighborhood. The journals used to find these re - customs and celebrations Greeks What is lost in all these obser - and more prosperous. A well- principally concerned with children from each neighborhood marks by the Greeks funny. Hel - observed as well as those days vances is the living cycle of the laden table and high spirits at Apokreas, Lent (Megali would gather at the Kalinitsa’s lenes have as rich a cultural past and seasons they still continue seasons. The changes in the the beginning of the year repre - Sarakosti); Easter Holidays and house and then dress her up as a to draw on as any group on the to mark with elaborate celebra - earth so well known to our sent for the peasant the best various holidays in May (May 1st bride. A procession was formed planet, although it’s uncertain if tions. Megas draws on evidence grandparents and great-grand - omen, the best guarantee for an or May Day; St Constantine and of boys and girls and with the what they brought to North and descriptions that span con - parents are today for the average auspicious New Year.” Masquer - Helen Day, Assumption and Pen - Kalinitsa in her finest dress the American will sustain them. siderable lengths of time and ge - American virtually invisible in its ades, house visiting, choral tecost.) St. Anthony’s Day (Jan - children would travel the town These seasonal folk plays and ography. With this book in hand nuances and significance. The singing and plays take place uary 17th) usually marks the be - singing songs. This notion of masquerading traditions are not anyone can begin their explo - voyage to Ameriki cost Greek (more often in the past than now, ginning of the Carnival season. neighborhoods within a village limited to just Greece. Peasants ration into the celebratory past culture more than we have yet certainly) during this season. In each season of celebrations, has always had strong meanings across Europe (and elsewhere) and present of Greeks. Much has come to reckon. Most Greeks recall and/or still men, women and children all within Greek society. The com - have long traditions of seasonal changed. The economic and so - DEEP AND DARK go house-to-house singing the have their own distinct forms of petition between the troupes of masquerading. Not only are cial success achieved in North DECEMBERS kalanda on New Year’s Eve as on expression. As early as St. An - traveling children cannot be ig - these traditions far from dead, America (or northern Europe, The winter festivals among Christmas Eve. thony’s Day, “The womenfolk be - nored. they are transforming. Watch Australia, New Zealand and else - the Greeks begin with St. In the village of Tzando in gin exchanging evening visits AUTUMN EQUINOX carefully the next time a Euro - where) did not come without its Demetrius Day and extend to Thrace, the eve of St Demetrious and gather at each other’s The traditional Greek calen - pean protest march is shown on own terrible cost in terms of cul - Carnival (Apokreas.) These are Day used to be celebrated by the houses. They play various par - dars customs of the autumnal television. Many European peo - tural traditions. the days of celebrations dedi - custom known as Tzamala. The lour-games; tell riddles and puns equinox begin in September and ples have taken their masquerad - For Greeks living in America cated to St Demetrious. St. peasants had “A rudimentary … there is also a great deal of extend across October until St. ing traditions of giant heads, in - after 1880 the transformations in Philip, the Twelve Days of Christ - camel made out of old wooden singing and dancing.” The mas - Demetrious Day (October 26th) dividuals on stilts, animal bells the annual holiday season took mas and St. John the Baptist Day. boards and draped (in) old rags querading during Carnival is still when the entire cycle begins and used them as symbols of on a specific expression. Before Different villages, towns, and re - and sheepskin; then the two widely observed throughout again. The Exaltation of the popular grass roots protest. Are the establishment of individual gions observe this round of holi - peasants would hide within the Greece. Costumed individuals Cross (September 14th) is the Greek Festivals all we have to of - families, the Greek men would days differently. As Megas ex - hollow frame of the camel - one called from place to place mas - most important festival of the fer our fellow citizens? Only the come together in large gather - plains this: “Winter festivals, in front and one at the back - queraders (maskarades), kar - month. “In 313 A.D., September changes in the seasons will pro - ings, sometimes with just those when work in the fields is sus - and make it walk.” Escorted by navaloi (clearly after carnival) or 1st was appointed as the begin - vide us with the answer. from their village or region, but pended and the peasants spend the camel costume clad villagers by some other local name fill the ning of the religious year.” On always with as many of their fel - most of their time at home, rest - would travel from house to streets at dusk and celebrate un - the island of Cos, the people [email protected] No Cousin Constantino, Socialism Doesn’t Work, Not Even in Greece

By Ellen Karis wealth and if we Americans were if you noticed but that kind of health care, no manufacturing, how we want to live. Making a use of the word Republic.) I re - all allowed to work in creative peaked right around Woodstock, distribution of wealth, sounds bureau draw into a makeshift ally do believe that Greeks are One of my favorite quotes is fields, as opposed to those me - so what else you got,” I said in like Socialism to me, should we crib for your newborn is just not born to be hard workers and are by Winston Churchill who stated: nial factory jobs for low wages, my charming New York manner. include naps during the day to going to cut it anymore or is a innately intelligent people as a “It has been said that democracy we would be more productive “Everybody should teach,” he that litany of good living? Seri - family of four living in a one bed - whole. It’s painful to see the is the worst form of government and so much happier. Excuse me said. Well, if everyone is teach - ously, this is the type of thinking room apartment. We need more richness of Greece not being except all those other forms that while I call the people of Detroit ing, who will be learning and af - that got our beautiful and his - than just food and basic shelter used to its full potential. Now is have been tried from time to to get a consensus on that little ter they have learned, who will toric motherland in trouble in and with so many advances in the time to get rid of that So - time.” You know Democracy. Ru - ditty of information. As the vol - be working? America was built the first place. Again, I needed modern medicine, we expect to cialist mentality with its debt be - mor has it that our ancestors ume from our vocal cords got on innovation and manufactur - to quote another brilliant man have a good chance at being able ing downgraded on a weekly ba - were the ones that started that louder and my Aunt Maria was ing, which has been slowly dis - Economist, Milton Friedman, to find a cure, or at least manage sis. Pretty soon they will be crazy phenomenon. I spewed nervously dancing around asking sipating from this great country who said, “There is no such thing whatever is ailing us. bartering in Feta and Haloumi. Churchill’s brilliant analysis at anyone if they wanted more for the last 40 years and one of as a free lunch” (stick with me So for a country like Greece Let’s face it my fellow Hellenians last Christmas Eve dinner, when Tiropites (Cheese Pies) and God, the key reasons we are currently pethia/kids, I got tons of them.) to consistently not want to look from across the pond, you can’t the conversation got heated as to tell us to stop talking politics, struggling so much. Oh, who Here’s a news flash Cousin, Un - within itself and realize that just be Sittin’ on the Dock of the we started talking about Greece I informed my cousin that, “I am cares, let China and Mexico have cle Petros and Thea Calliope there could be more productive Bay, Wastin’ Time, as the King and its struggling economic is - a Stand-Up Comedian, you can’t their 4-cents-an-hour jobs, we from Piraeus, who I love dearly - ways to use its resources and set of Soul Otis Redding so beauti - sues. Although my Cousin Con - get anymore artsy than that and should just do the work we want Socialism has never and will a structure in place where those fully sang, (I told you I had stantino did admit that there was I can tell you first hand, it’s a to do. We don’t need much to never work and here’s why. Peo - opportunities can be feasible, is more!). an abundant amount of corrup - real struggle.” live on and if we have the gov - ple need to feel good about criminal. To rely on anyone else, tion due to the Fakelaki (Enve - “Malista (Yes),” he said, ernment take care of our health themselves by being able to pro - let alone the government, which (Ellen Karis, the “Greek Goddess lope) System, people have been “Maybe you’re just going care, we will all be so much bet - duce, contribute and offer some - is in essence a large group of of Comedy,” will be contributing taxed way too much and other through a tough time, but if peo - ter off. Having an olive complex - thing to society and then get re - anyone else, to meet your needs to The National Herald occa - than tourism and shipping, there ple were allowed to write poetry ion I have to tell you a Kokino warded on whatever that is, has failed time and time again – sionally. She’s smart, and is no real industry. He proceeded and teach, the U.S. would be so (Red) face, even though it was based on what the market will just ask the people from the Re - funnier than watching Sarah to lecture me that the United much better off.” the color of the season, was not bear. In today’s modern world, public of Venezuela or the Re - Palin speak at a Mensa meet - States needed to distribute its “Really, poetry, I don’t know becoming on me. Government we have upped the ante as to public of Cuba (first clue, the ing.)

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Ted received the Kansas Centenarian Society. her mother-in-law. Dora was an ranging bus trips, especially to Distinguished Flying Cross and Katherine was born to Vasiliki avid gardener, and her yard was the casinos. She also was active the Oak Leaf with Four Clusters and George Giokaris, early always full of flowers and beau - in her daughters’ elementary during his Military career. He Greek immigrants to Kansas City. tiful color. Dora was always sur - school, serving as President of worked at John’s Hat Shop in Her father was one of the rounded by many pets. She is the PTA. Thelma is survived by downtown Spokane for some founders of the Greek Orthodox survived by her daughters, her daughters Marina and her years before he purchased the Church of the Annunciation. She Eleanor Abolafia Kennedy and husband Arthur of Delaware, store in the 1950’s from John was active in the church, serving Mary Abolafia Denena and her Crystal and her husband Rollan Kakakes, his father-in-law. Ted as President of the Ladies Philop - husband Joe; her five grandchil - of California, and Joanne of joined KXLY Television and Radio tochos Society. When the church PRINTED EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HERALD dren, Catherine Denena Sallman Florida; grandsons Douglas and in 1964 and built terrific sales celebrated its 100th anniversary VIA THE POST-OFFICE: and husband Scott, James Max Gregory Sarnecky and great- teams in addition to strong rela - last fall, Katherine was honored o1 month $11.00 o3 months $22.00 Kennedy and wife Alexis, An - grandson Colton Sarnecky. She tionships with clients that con - by Archbishop Demetrios of the o6 months $33.00 oOne year $66.00 thony Max Denena and wife An - also leaves behind several nieces tinue today. He remained a Sales Greek Orthodox Church of VIA HOME DELIVERY (NY, NJ & CT): drea, Jennifer Kennedy Stovall and nephews as well as many Consultant well into his 90’s. Ted America for her service through o1 month for $14.00 o3 months for $33.00 and husband Michael, and James dear friends. loved playing golf his entire life. the years. Katherine attended o6 months for $48.00 oOne year for $88.00 Robert Denena and wife Melissa; Among his many achievements Manual High School, where she and her 14 great grandchildren, n BAKALIS, JAMES were two holes-in-one and Club was a member of the track team VIA HOME DELIVERY who called her Mimi: Joey, The Washington Post reported Championship status at Manito and glee club. She was a mem - (New England, Pennsylvania, Alexandra and Emma Sallman; that James Bakakis, 88, of Silver Golf and County Club. He also ber of the Manual High School Washington D.C., VIRGINIA & MARYLAND) James Max II, Sophia and Chloe Spring, Maryland, passed away shot his age in tournament play Alumni Association. Katherine o1 month for $18.00 o3 months for $41.00 Kennedy; Anthony Max Jr., Ella on April 12, 2011. He was raised at the age of 69 and continued married George Eliopoulos, one o6 months for $57.00 oOne year for $109.00 and Sophia Denena; Max, in Beckley, West Virginia and at - to shoot under his age until age of the founding partners in the ON LINE SUBSCRIPTION William and Andrew Stovall; and tended Wake Forest University 90. In October 2000, Ted’s pic - United Theatres Co. and 63rd e www.thenationalherald.com Isabella and Juliana Denena. before entering the Navy. After ture made the front page of the Street Drive-In. Together, they NON SUbSCRIbERS: oOne year for $45.95 Dora is also survived by her sis - serving his country in WWII he sports section when at age 84 he traveled the world. 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Continued from page 1 collection. “There is no specific “disaster scenarios.” Govern - date of exit from the crisis. ment spokesman Giorgos Petalo - is not on the table, but in the end Whether it is sooner or later is in tis said that PASOK was not pay - the market will dictate what hap - our hands,” Papandreou earlier ing attention to any unfounded pens. Either the entire debt will told his party lawmakers after un - rumors or talk of “decisions that end up with the EU and IMF or veiling a three-year roadmap to have already been taken.” ND the debt will be restructured. The further overhaul the economy. “If spokesman Yiannis Michelakis market is telling you that,” said the difficulties overcome our called for the government to another restructuring adviser. Al - morale, we will never see the renegotiate the terms of its loan most a year after the EU and IMF light,” he said. “It is a marathon agreement with the European bailed out Greece, investors must run and mistakes will be made. Union and the International recognize that they have to share If corrections are needed it will Monetary Fund. He gave the ex - the cost “when a country over- be necessary to make them,” Pa - ample of the new Irish govern - indebts itself,” said Feld, an eco - pandreou said. The government ment securing changes to two nomics professor at Freiburg Uni - is hoping to initially garner some terms in the country’s loan deal. versity. The problem is that the 15 billion euros from state assets After the EU’s statistics agency austerity measures imposed by by 2013 to reduce a debt of reported that Greece’s deficit is Papandreou as a condition of get - around 340 billion euros. Most still above 10%, more analysts ting the loans haven’t worked to analysts believe the government predicted there was no option bring down Greece’s deficit – has no choice but to seek options other than restructuring. The once at 15.4% - below 10%. The to restructure its debt before government’s most recent esti - ceiling set by the Eurozone, the long. mate of last year’s deficit was group of 17 nations that use the Papandreou earlier presented 9.4 percent of economic output, euro as a currency, is 3%, a goal a broad outline of “radical while its lenders -- the ‘troika’ of Papandreou said he wants to changes” through a three-year the EU-IMF and European Cen - meet in two years but which crit - program to reduce state spending tral Bank - saw it at 9.6%. The ics said is mathematically impos - to around 44 percent of Gross initial target was about 8% of sible. Domestic Product (GDP) by 2015 GDP. “The revision will make it Papandreou has now turned against the 2009 rate of 53%. more difficult for Greece to to another implementing another The roadmap is expected to be achieve its 2011 budget targets. EU-IMF demand: privatization presented in detail along with a They will have to save more,” and sale of Greece’s public assets. AP PHOTO/PETROS GIANNAKOURIS timeline after Easter, said Papan - said Christoph Weil, Frankfurt- Last week he gathered his minis - A man walks next a closed shop in Athens, on, April 19, 2011, one of scores of thousands that dreou, whose party has a six-seat based economist at Com - ters to discuss how to raise $72.5 have closed because of Greece’s economic crisis. Greece had to pay a higher rate to raise $2.36 majority in Parliament and an - merzbank. billion and draw up a list of what billion that day as market pressures increased amid fears the government will have to default other two and a half years in “The EU/IMF safety net for will be sold. Among the top pri - on its massive debt load. power. Greece will probably have to be orities are allowing Greece’s A SHOT FROM THE RIGHT beefed up,” he said. “In the long Deutsche Telekom to increase its next year, while maintaining the maintain a majority share. The union said in the statement. The major opposition New term, this can’t be done without stake in OTE, Greece’s phone op - electricity giant’s management. It government will also sell a part FOR SALE: EVERYTHING Democracy Conservative privacy restructuring, in 2013 or later.” erator, which has been struggling. will also lower its stake in DEPA of its holdings in Hellenic Post - State casinos, weapons facto - blasted the Socialist PASOK gov - A recent opinion poll showed that Sources told Kathimerini that the to 34 percent this year. Mining bank by 2013. Workers at power ries, the main gas and train op - ernment for not continuing with about 55% of Greeks asked ex - discussion also included selling company Larco will be fully pri - utility PPC are threatening to call erators, ports and airports are the privatizations begun when pected a restructuring. Papan - the state’s horse race courses to vatized within 2011. a wave of strikes next month in also on the sale list to 2013, as is New Democracy (ND) was in dreou’s Administration could face Frenchg track owners, selling The state’s share in the water opposition to government plans the extension of a lease to Athens power from 2004-09, which in - renewed assaults in the form of shares in the Public Gas Corpo - companies of Athens and Thes - to sell a stake in the company. International Airport. Unpopular cluded the sale of Olympic Air protests and more social unrest ration (DEPA) this year and in saloniki (EYDAP and EYATH re - PPC’s labour union GENOP will austerity measures that caused and the concession of the Pi - as working class Greeks are buck - gaming company OPAP, ATEbank spectively) will also be reduced. meet on April 28 and it’s execu - strikes and protests last year raeus container dock. New ling under a wave of pay cuts and and Public Power Corporation Its controlling stake in ATEbank tive council is recommending managed to reduce the soaring Democracy leaders reserved tax hikes even as the government (PPC) in 2012, among others. will be reduced after the planned “rolling 48-hour strikes ... to Greek deficit but a deeper-than- their strongest criticism for the has not gone after major tax The state plans to reduce its hold - capital share increase and its re - make the government change its expected recession caused targets issue of debt restructuring, ac - evaders who cost the country $40 ings in PPC from 51% to 34% structuring, but the state will wrong decision,” the labour to slip, particularly on revenue cusing the government of fueling billion a year in lost revenues. Greece Should Default, Decouple, Devalue, and Develop

Analysis against default on comparable quiring a cadre of financial po - by aggressively lowering taxes Brussels, Greece’s creditors and with limited natural resources, By Armodios N. Turkish bonds costs about lice to implement and enforce. to lure British financial firms. even most of Astoria, Queens, defaulted in 2008, it allowed Papagianakis $200,000. Despite the Finance Meanwhile, the unemployed This free-market (common N.Y. knew that Greece’s inflation weak banks to fail (rather than Ministry’s indignation and lower and middle class having sense) tax policy has already rate and debt to GDP ratio were bail them out) and devalued its Now over one year since the Prime Minister George Papan - felt the brunt of austerity mea - provided incentive for long ad - much higher than EU limits. currency. Less than three years Greek economic crisis first dreou’s hollow cries of a “New” sures are further alienated from mired and growing companies Like modern day welfare, later, Iceland’s exports and man - erupted and nearly six months Greece, the capital markets have their government and prone to such as Kraft, Google and IBM Greece’s EU membership has ufacturing is growing by 20%, after receiving its second bailout declared that it’s still the same violence. The wealthy simply to establish their respective Eu - acted like an economic narcotic. tourism is back near all-time installment from the Troika, “Old” Greece – ethically broken, move out of the country with ropean headquarters in Switzer - Its dependence on European highs, real wages are rising, un - Greece remains mired in a politically bankrupt and fiscally very little impact to them. land. Would modern cosmopoli - support has numbed Greece’s employment is declining morass of strikes, violence and insolvent. A genuinely “New” Lowering corporate taxes, tan cities such as Thessaloniki competitive spirit and stifled do - sharply, interest rates have record high unemployment as Greece can evolve by officially slashing bureaucratic red tape or picturesque Corfu be such a mestic growth. Greece’s divorce fallen and the stock market has government revenues fall short defaulting and restructuring its’ and abolishing excessively pro- bad place to work and live? In - from the EU would not be with - rebounded 50% from its lows, of expectations and GDP (Gross onerous debts, leaving the Eu - labor laws will draw investment vestment capital flows to where out pain or without precedence. as it now prepares to tap capital Domestic Product) stagnates. rozone and reverting to a “Neo” capital from both smaller entre - its rate of return can be maxi - A sovereign bond default would markets. Instead of unrealistic This economic malaise has cast Drachma. preneurs and larger industries mized. likely lead to a wave of bank - visions of a socialist Pan-Euro - its pall on the global capital Although Troika packages attracted to Greece’s abundant Unfortunately, after 10 years ruptcies among Greece’s credi - pean utopia, Greece requires ag - markets as Greece finds itself and higher taxes may address agricultural and industrial nat - of European Union membership tors, including some banks. gressive market-oriented eco - unable to tap long term capital Greece’s short-term liquidity ural resources (shuttered mines promising “free movement of Greece’s subsequent departure nomic reforms combined with a (Greek 10-Year bonds trade at needs, restructuring its debt in Northern Greece,) mild cli - people, goods, services and cap - from the EU would compel significantly less debt load to prohibitively high 12% while a would address its long-term sol - mate/tourism (still Europe’s ital,” investment capital, other Greece to revert to a “Neo” provide a clean monetary and comparable German bonds vency needs and allow taxes to Florida) and educated work - than short-term infrastructure Drachma, triggering a sharp rise fiscal slate; Greece will then be trade at 3.25%) and is com - be lowered, not raised, as did force, ultimately providing jobs spending for the 2004 Olympics, in the euro and a de facto de - able to control its economic and pelled to borrow short term by the shortsighted Papandreou and profits for both Greek work - has been leaving Greece; now valuation in Greece’s new cur - political sovereignty while grow - rolling over treasury bills every government. Papandreou’s tax ers and businesses that will lay Greece must leave the European rency making imports, and the ing to prosperity. 13 and 26 weeks at a nearly 5% plan does not create wealth or the foundation for long term Union - and the euro. Greece’s cost of living, more expensive. annualized rate. It now costs $1 jobs; it redistributes it – in this prosperity. For example, Swiss entrance from the very begin - But the devalued “Neo” Armodios N. Papagianakis is million dollars to buy default case to Greece’s creditors. In ad - cantons (states/counties in ning was based on economic Drachma would quickly prove Managing Director of Dynamis protection for every $10 million dition, it further inflates an al - Switzerland) have been recently smoke and mirrors and doomed beneficial. Capital Management in of Greek bonds. Insurance ready bloated bureaucracy re - competing among themselves to failure. The bureaucrats in When Iceland, a small nation Mineola, N.Y. While Bee Colonies Fade Elsewhere, Greece Has A Buzz On

By Brenda L. Marder virus, but that diagnosis thus far band, Everett, and I visited the with solid background in both the CCD problem, it stands to uses. has not been credited as conclu - leading Greek expert on bees, the theoretical as well as hands reason that Greece’s bees would So Greece continues to be a Almost directly after its sive and other claims have been Paschalis C. Harizanis, Professor on experience at the Farm not be compromised,” he claims. leader in Europe in the produc - founding in 1904, the American offered. The toll on the bee pop - and Director of the laboratory School’s extensive bee facilities It is helpful to note that honey tion of honey and through ex - Farm School introduced bee cul - ulation has been reckoned in the of Sericulture and Apiculture at under the tutelage of the Farm functions as a healthy “pick me porting the product brings into tivation to its students and the billions in the United States and the Agricultural University of School’s bee specialists. At that up.” As a source of energy it is the country a much-needed in - subject has remained a vital part some areas in Europe have also Athens, sericulture being the institution, students learn all as - certainly better for you than flow of money during these of the curriculum. Why so? Be - suffered from CCD. While the study of silkworms. An interna - pects of bee culture from class - sugar, and tasty, when spread hard economic times. cause Greece has historically re - honeybee’s economic value lies tionally respected scholar, room theory to building of on bread, poured into coffee or mained one of the great centers in its production of honey and Harizanis has benefited from hives, to marketing the honey, tea, and can be used in recipes Brenda L. Marder is the in Europe for the export of bee wax, more critically it is both Greek and American stud - the final commercial product. for sauces and stuffing to men - historian for the American honey, producing today 12,000 simply irreplaceable as a polli - ies, a combination that has After graduation, continuing his tion just a couple of culinary Farm School in Thessaloniki to 15,000 tons per year, large nator of fruits, nuts, vegetables, given him that extra edge. His studies, Professor Harizanis re - amounts of which are exported. forage crops, and countless un - first instruction in bee culture ceived a BS in General Agricul - With 1.5 million hives, Greece cultivated plants that prevent began at the American Farm ture from the Aristotle Univer - holds the honor of ranking sec - erosion. School in Thessaloniki, where sity in Thessaloniki, followed by ond in Europe after Spain, To check on the bee situation he received his high school ed - a Masters of Science in Ento - which holds center spot with 2.3 in Greece, last summer my hus - ucation, graduating in 1969 mology in 1978 from the Uni - million hives. France ranks versity of California, Davis and third. To get an even better per - continuing at the same univer - spective on Greece’s honeybee sity he earned a Ph.D in Ento - industry, called apiculture, it is mology in 1981. Many bee ex - instructive to note that the perts both in Greece and abroad country claims the greatest hive have profited from his extensive density in the world. Due to its publications, and the numerous flora, warm climate, abundant seminars he conducts for Greek sunshine, extremely varied land - and Cypriot farmers, and his scape; Greece asserts that of the participation in international 7400 varieties of plants thriving conferences. “I am stimulated in its soil, many can only be by the brilliant students who found in Greece. study with me at the Agricul - Naturally with this resource, tural College here the country is also a leader in in Athens. Many Greek stu - Europe for research and schol - dents specialize in apiculture arship for apiculture, the scien - and enter some aspect of the tific name for the science de - field when they graduate,” he rived from “api”, the Latin word says. “Young people are espe - for bee. The modern Greek cially intrigued by the ever ex - word for bee is melissa. The sen - panding medical applications of sational news about Greek hon - bee venom deemed helpful in eybees is that they have contin - problems such as arthritis, mul - ued to survive, nay, thrive, while tiple sclerosis, gout, shingles, in contrast, in the United Sates, burns, and other maladies.” In bees since 2006 have buckled fact, history tells us that bee under the catastrophic colony venom therapy is hardly a collapse disorder commonly re - uniquely modern technique: his - ferred to as CCD. American bee - torians have described the uses keepers claim that the disease of bee venom therapy in Ancient since that time has stricken 40 Greece. As Greece does not suf - to 60% of commercial beekeep - fer from CCD, Professor Hariza - ers. Tentative news broke at the nis has not conducted in-depth end of January 2011 that, ac - studies of the phenomenon. cording to Professor Colin at the “Since the Greek government University of Montana, the AFS Beekeeper Babis Misirlis (C) shows U.S. teenagers on the has forbidden genetically modi - cause may be due to a lethal Greek Summer program the inner workings of one of the cam - fied produce, if genetically mod - combination of a parasite and a pus beehives. ified plants are indeed part of 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 23-29, 2011

The National Herald LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. Greece's Government Key to (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), Athens, Greece of Bazaars or Bizarre Minister selling anything of significant reporting the news and addressing the issues of paramount interest Solution got paid off for this one? I pulled value (pearls, fine jewelry ect.) to the Greek American community of the United States of America. Editor's note : The writer is out a video camera and began were attended to by Chinese, all To the Editor: a 14-year-old student at the taping the affair, when a African speaking Greek of course. The Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris Nowadays, in the beginning Tina Papaoikonomou School of private security guard (accom - Chinese influence over Greece’s of the 21st century, the economy Foreign Languages in Athens panied by 3 others) abruptly economy will be subtle, covert, Assistant to Publisher, Advertising Veta H. 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So are Chi - ticed between Greece and the The National Herald Inc. at 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 lem. The fact that people don't 11 Letters From Athens where nese running a “rent a security USA; Walmart is indoors over Tel: (718)784-5255, Fax: (718)472-0510, have money means that they Mr. Dabilis purports the prospec - guard police state” in Greece? All here. e-mail: [email protected] cannot buy the products that are tive sale of “Greece’s assets”. Well the stalls selling junk were Peter Misthos Democritou 1 and Academias Sts, Athens, 10671, Greece sold. As a result, businesses get it may be a little too late. I too manned by blacks. The few stalls San Francisco CA Tel: 011.30.210.3614.598, Fax: 011.30.210.3643.776, e-mail: into debt. In addition, it's typical have an experience to share: Af - [email protected] that some factories stop the pro - ter a 12 year hiatus, I returned cessing of products. Thus, a lack to Greece this year for vacation. Subscriptions by mail : 1 year $66.00, 6 months $33.00, 3 months $22.00, 1 month $11.00 of products cause problems to Below my apartment (Theotokis Home delivery NY, NJ, CT: 1 year $88.00, 6 months $48.00, a society. Furthermore, many St. in Piraeus) early one morn - fotograffiti 3 months $33.00, 1 month $14.00 people have to deal with the ing, I was roused by the barking Home delivery New England States, Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland : 1 year $109.00, 6 months $57.00, 3 months $41.00, 1 month $18.00 problems of unemployment. of peddling solicitors. To my as - On line subscription : Subscribers to the print edition: 1 year $34.95, 6 months $23.95, Most of them are homeless. tonishment, the whole 14 block 3 months $14.95; Non subscribers : 1 year $45.95, 6 months $29.95, 3 months $18.95 That means that they sleep out - stretch had been converted side, for example, in the parks. overnight to a retail bazaar (hav - Periodical postage paid at L.I.C., N.Y. and additional mailing offices. And if they have children, they ing cleared away all the cars). Postmaster send change of address to: don't have even some food to The wife and I strolled the THE NATIONAL HERALD, 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 give them. This problem is one length, trying to decide if there of the main problems in Greece, was anything worth purchasing. as there are a lot of organiza - The street was filled with all the tions that protect the people junk that end up at garage sales who live under inhumane cir - and land fills (or maybe the Profiting from Bingo cumstances. Moreover, many of Mediterranean), cheap umbrel - them try to live by committing las, pens, watches, household ap - This is a scary piece of news: The Archdiocese has partnered crimes. As a result, the crime pliances and knock off designer with businessmen involved in the game of... Bingo. And when they rate has risen in many cities. On clothes, all made in China. In - were cheated in dividing the profits, the Queens DA forced the balance, there is a series of terestingly there were those little businessmen to pay the Archdiocese restitution in the amount of problems and each one has neg - peel-off religious calendars de - AP PHOTO/THANASSIS STAVRAKIS) $830,000 for the period 2007-2010. ative effects on society. The most picting all the Saints Days, Real Jeopardy As strange as this may seem, the matter may run much deeper serious though are the econom - printed in China. I know - maybe than what we are presently aware of. We know this much: A hall ical crisis and the unemploy - the church is apostatizing Chi - Despite the clues behind him, Greek Finance Minister in Jackson Heights, Queens was used for a Bingo operation under ment. However, measures must nese printers? Why aren’t the lo - George Papaconstantinou was stumped when he appeared a license issued to a Romanian Church under the Archdiocese's ju - be taken by governments if they cal retailers (many on the same on a TV quiz show and was asked: “What will Greece run risdiction. It was run by two Greek Americans and a woman of an - want to find a solution. street) screaming? What about out of first: time or money?” other ethnicity. The space was rented out 20 years ago, but it ap - Dimitra Theodorou Greece’s printers? What Minister pears that problems between the partners began to cloud their relationship recently. However, much remains to be answered: For instance, if the Archdiocese collected $830,000 for four years from the proceeds ΛΟΓΟΣ of the bingo operation, how much did it collect for the prior 16 years and where did this money go? Also, who approved this agree - ment on behalf of the Archdiocese? No evidence has appeared that high-level officials were involved, and it is possible a rogue priest Lights, Camera, Action! The Spirit of I πποκράτης Lives was behind it. But there is a more important issue: Shouldn't the Archdiocese adhere to a higher standard than New York state law that permits I’m a film buff. Besides enjoy - tentions pale in change, still need moreover, are deeply embedded them to make deals with Bingo operators? ing movies of various genres for comparison to the steadfast advo - in our homeland—Greece. The We tried repeatedly to get answers to these questions from their entertainment value, I love Troy-like walls that cates. And it is the Hippocrates (I πποκράτης ) Inter - Church officials to no avail. watching insightful and probing surround and guard linchpin between national Health Film Festival documentaries, which offer ed - the gates of the film movies and mean - will take place in Athens on Sep - ucational value and explore the industry and com - ing that most often tember 6-11, 2011. The Golden Rule nature of human existence. I am munity, a culture manifests itself first This will be the third year attracted by the intrinsic value and business/com - within an indepen - running for this particular festi - and deeper meaning that films mercial enterprise dent filmmaking val and the lineup of film screen - The real story of these past few days is not the negative outlook and movies provide as slices of driven more by context. ings, over 70 in all, will be on the American economy given by the Standard’s and Poor rating life and story arcs. This applies power, greed, and Readers who announced soon. Among this agency - a humiliating act if nothing else - or the imminent re - to dramatic works and comedies money than cre - have attended a outstanding line-up, there will be structuring of Greece's debt important as they are. across the full spectrum of cre - ative expression by Dr. ALEX film festival, not a record participation of 11 films These pale in significance compared with the real story: the ative expression by filmmakers. and the will to PATTAKOS necessarily one of from the USA (in the spirit of full life, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection of Christ, which we relive Film is a powerful medium that meaning. It is not the most well- disclosure, I must report that my during Holy Week, and what these mind-boggling events mean for knows no bounds and can influ - easy being an inde - Special to known or large business, The OPA! Way, is an of - humanity, today and for all eternity. ence, positively or not, the psy - pendent filmmaker The National Herald venues, know full ficial sponsor of the film festival, One does not have to be a theologian, a priest to be absorbed che and human condition in even under the best well to what I’m re - which, among other things, re - by these issues. One only needs to be a Christian. ways we are only now begin - of times. Put so-called indepen - ferring. The film festival envi - flects part of our investment to Let’s consider for a minute what it means to be a Christian. For ning to fully appreciate. Movies dent filmmaking in tough eco - ronment represents just one support Greece in her time of us, a Christian is someone who strives to lead his or her life by fol - are one of the central artistic nomic times like we’re opportunity, albeit an important need.) Underscoring the festival’s lowing in Christ's footsteps. We know it is impossible for anyone forms of our time, playing a role experiencing today and the diffi - one, to view films with meaning meaning focus, its founder and to reach the heights that the Son of God did. Even the monks on analogous to theater in ancient culty of the situation escalates that may not get to see the light artistic director, Lucia Rikaki, ex - Mt. Athos who dedicate their entire lives to reaching this goal in Athens. As Socrates proclaimed: exponentially. Not only are ob - of day in a theater near you. plains: “We created the Health an almost perfect environment cannot reach this goal. “The unexamined life is not stacles within the private sector They may never make it to DVD Film Festival in a time of crisis ... But we just must try a little bit harder than them. And so for us, worth living.” If he were alive more difficult to overcome but or be available in downloadable to show values beyond that of the essence of Christ's teachings lie in the following: today Socrates would be open to also support from the public and format either. So take notice. amassing wealth; only in this 1. To love one’s enemies. using the medium of film as a nonprofit sectors is more likely I’ve had the good fortune of way can a person live with body 2. To fight one’s ego with all the strength in ones soul. Nothing conceptual and practical tool for to wane. Perhaps not even the partaking in a number of excel - and spirit in balance—thus, in can be more harmful than a warped ego. examining life. wise Socrates could solve this lent film festivals over the years. health.” Documentaries about 3. To be humble. "Whoever humbles himself will be glorified." I suspect he would want to dilemma, no matter how valu - I’ve learned a great deal from health-related issues, with topics 4. And the golden rule of a Christian life: "do unto others as produce films that advanced the able and meaningful its pro - this experience from the films ranging from Alzheimer’s Dis - you would have them do unto you." All the commandments and human quest for meaning by posed solution happens to be. and filmmakers. I’ve not only ease, Anorexia, and organ dona - the prophets rest upon this rule, Christ tells us. probing deeply into the nature of Our popular culture must ac - learned through this immersion tion to the history of birth our very existence and advanc - knowledge and support inde - process but also have grown in control, preventative medicine ing the human condition. pendent films, particularly those many ways from it. I’ve also re - and surrogate motherhood, are The Revenge of the System Today’s filmmakers would bene - that seek seriously to examine ferred to my experience with screened and followed by public fit from pursuing such a lofty life and offer insights as well as film and filmmaking in my own discussions between filmgoers goal, in order to make a differ - potential solutions to our writing, speaking, teaching, and and filmmakers. For more infor - Christ's path to the Cross was predestined. Without the Cross, ence in an increasingly uncertain world’s most pressing issues, consulting work. In more ways mation about the Hippocrates there would be no Resurrection. And without the Resurrection, and unstable world. Film pro - problems, and challenges. Hol - than I can describe, film has pro - (I πποκράτης ) International there would be no Christianity. vides a needed mirror to remind lywood is no longer able and vided a platform and launching Health Film Festival, a global first The event that suddenly turned Christ into a public national us who we are, why we exist, willing to take on such a respon - pad for my personal and profes - and unique film event, visit: figure, was his decision to throw out the money changers from the and even how we can live better, sibility (if it ever really was so sional growth. It has become in - www.healthfilmfestival.gr. temple. St. Mark writes: "And he entered the temple and began to more fulfilled lives. Producing inclined.) Movies as entertain - dispensable as a Dr. Pattakos, author of Prisoners drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and films along these meaning-fo - ment still have their voice and transformational resource. Most of Our Thoughts, is co-founder he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of cused lines is easier said than can only be silenced by what recently, I was introduced to a of The OPA! Way, an initiative those who sold pigeons." In fact, St. John notes that Christ even done, especially for independent takes place at the box office. On film festival that is unique in its based on Greek culture. Readers used a whip against them. That's how aggravated he was. filmmakers who must address fi - the other hand, movies as a focus and roots. The festival’s may contact him at: What led Christ to this action was the misuse of money by the nancing and distribution chal - source of deep meaning, from theme was focused explicitly on [email protected] and are rich; in other words, the economic abuse of the faithful, Christ's lenges that appear to be the personal to societal levels the complex issues surrounding invited to visit his web site: love for the poor and the sick. It was then that his fame spread insurmountable. The best of in - and as instruments for positive health and wellness. Its roots, www.theopaway.com. throughout the land. Everyone began to talk about Him. Local au - thorities could no longer afford to overlook Him. St. John also describes an amazing conspiracy scene in which ANTILOGOS Caiafas the Archpriest invites the Scribes and Pharisees and says to them: "Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not." The Battle of St. George’s vs. Metropolis From that moment on, Christ no longer walked in the open among the Jews. He was a wanted man. The Cross awaited Him. The time was fast aproaching. Nothing like religion to get πιο έξυπνοι και φόρεσαν ράσα’’ increase in dues must be ex - parish of Lynn, Salt Lake, and folks stoked up, and The Na - SALT LAKE CITY is suffering plained as gone are the days, all the other parishes that are tional Herald’s website readers from the priests and Isaiah! even in the autocratic Church, having financial problems. Let - The Cathedral had plenty of hot opinions about http://takeourchurchback.blogs and the days of ‘ αποφασιζομεν ters from the Archbishop and the rebellion of St. George’s pot.com/ - Yannis Armaou και διατασωμεν” are long gone. the financial committee on the Church in Lynn against the So, how about getting together website of the Boston Metropoli We were frankly impressed by how many young people were Archdiocese and the Parish • Taxation without represen - and talk about the issue, in a are in favor of the arrogant named to the new Council, as it is now called, of the Holy Trinity Council’s refusal to pay a tation? The church needs money true Christin spirit. - Nicholas Methodios. Do you know why Cathedral in New York. More power to them. $20,000 increase in its annual to function, but arbitrarily rais - Papadopoulos the Patriarch hasn't stepped in, It has seemed to us to be the case that over the past twenty allocation. ing annual dues to the tune of because of all the lawsuits of the years or so the older generations have been clinging to their posi - $20,000 without explanation, • Friends: this is what Mr pedophiles over the years and tions of prestige for too long. Although there are exceptions – • Metropolitan Methodios review or agreement is aston - Webster says about extortion. now the newest in Astoria. AHEPA has renewed itself by pursuing younger members and lead - needs to step down from all du - ishing. The Archdiocese needs Extort 1. To wrest from an un - Synod and financial committee ers - there are many reports in the community of younger people ties and go to confession! He to do what other entities are willing person by physical force, threaten the Patriarch with, we being passed over, or ignored. There certainly seems to be a lack should be lowering the dues for forced to do and that is to menace, duress, torture, or any will not help pay for the suits. of active recruiting of young professionals. As unwise as such be - the church not raising them! His tighten its budget in these hard undue or illegal exercise of So you see they go to the havior is, we must note that the younger generations might not be office should be audited as well. times, not shift the financial bur - power or ingenuity; to wrench parishes and charge large entirely victims here. Perhaps they were too quick to give up on He should be ashamed of him - den to the parishes. All good away (from); to tear away; to amounts for stewardship so they their leadership aspirations when they were rebuffed, thinking, “I self. Bravo to the parish priest things in moderation. - Dionys - wring (from); to exact; as, to can pay the lawsuits. Guess have better things to do with my time” and shifted their focus to for sticking with the council on ios Markopoulos extort contributions from the what people, it's the almighty family, rest or more moneymaking. Fine and good, but the call of this. All the New England vanquished; to extort confes - dollar, nothing to do with can - leadership is not just an appeal to ambition, it is a responsibility. parishes should withhold all • I see that the “ ΔΕΝ ΠΛΗ - sions of guilt; to extort a nons of the church. Only in the At some point, the current leadership will disappear, but then so funds until Methodios steps ΡΩΝΩ ” movement has come to promise; to extort payment of a times of the inquisition did bish - will the things we depend on as a community and individuals, the down and crawls in hole some - the USA. Not knowing all the debt. [imp. & p. p. Extorted; p. ops and priests do things such organizations and institutions that will shrivel up and die not just where. - Niko Seretis details it is very difficult to crit - pr. & vb. n. Extorting.] This is as those done by Methodios. It from a lack of leaders, but a dearth of vision and new ideas, and icize either party. The fact re - good old fashion extortion. - is time for a new “Tea Party” to they will not be there for us and for our heirs. • PAY-PRAY-AND OBEY mains that these things are dis - Joseph Kalodimos take place, and let any hierarch, So on this weekend of resurrection and renewal that is promised Methodios will never be cussed and no ultimatums are who thinks he is the Lord, let to individuals, let’s think about how to extend them to the important ashamed,because he and the extended. Maybe less publicity METHODIOS BARS such a person know that we, the groups in our lives also. Let’s pray that the new Council is a har - rest of them they have forgotten and more serious discussions SACRAMENTS AT ST. people, are not going to take binger of healing, renewal and progress, and becomes a shining what humility means!’’ Ο Χρι - are appropriate. Such matters GEORGE’S any longer their decisions as if example throughout the Archdiocese and Greek America. στός έδιωξε τους έμπορους από should be resolved before they • It is evident the hierarchy they were emanating from KALO PASCHA KAI KALI ANASTASI τον ναό. Οι έμποροι όμως έγιναν are in the news. Obviously, any will do nothing to assist the Christ. – Susan Long THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 23-29, 2011 VIEWPOINTS 13 LETTER FROM ATHENS Check the Record: Turkey is America’s Adversary

Easter Card to Greeks: Is Turkey an ally or adversary U.S. interests in the collaborated with Turkey refused to allow the of the United States and the region. Also during the Soviet Union United States refueling and re - West? Since the Erdogan regime this period, Erdogan militarily during the connaissance facilities during the You’re On Your Own took office in Turkey in 2003, the has praised the Su - Cold War, which American airlift to Israel.” Karaos - evidence is sufficient to state that danese President ended in 1991, to manoglu, Turkey’s Security and Turkey has been since 2003 an Omar al-Bashir who the detriment of the the Middle East, 52 Foreign Af - There’s a truce to kiss their rear adversary of the United States had been indicted West. fairs 157, 163 (Fall 1983) this Easter week be - ends. They eat and the West. From the refusal by the International As long ago as 2. In the 1977-1978 conflict tween the govern - meat and oil and in 2003 to allow the United Criminal Court for 1974, Edward in Ethiopia, Turkey granted the ment and its serfs dairy products be - States to open a second front war crimes, crimes Luttwak, a noted Soviets military overflight rights who’ve decided in cause God’s on against Saddam Hussein’s dicta - against humanity strategic analyst, in to supply the pro-Soviet the name of God their side. On Holy torship in Iraq by asking for $6 and genocide in his book The Politi - Ethiopian communists under Col. and the European Tuesday, a day of billion more than the $26 billion Darfur. Erdogan by EUGENE T. cal Uses of Sea Mengistu, who eventually pre - Union and Interna - mourning, they irresponsibly offered by the then praised him and ac - ROSSIDES Power (1974) vailed. C. Meyer, Facing Reality- tional Monetary didn’t know what Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul tually stated that wrote that Turkey From World Federalism To The Fund (IMF) to pre - to do because they Wolfowitz to Turkey - an alleged the Sudanese presi - Special to had made its deals CIA 276-80 (1980) tend nothing is don’t know grief. ally - to support the United dent was a fellow The National Herald with the U.S.S.R., 3. Over NATO objections, wrong and no one On Holy Wednes - States. The U.S, Treasury repre - Muslim and a Mus - allowing the Soviets Turkey has allowed three Soviet is suffering. So on by ANDY day they are sentative in those negotiations lim does not commit genocide. strategic transit through and over aircraft carriers, the Kiev on July this Easter Sunday, DABILIS blessed with oil, was quoted in the New York BEFORE 2003 Turkey they included the “over - 18, 1976, the Minsk on Feb. 25, many Greeks will but for them it’s Times as calling Turkey’s actions United States officials have land traffic agreement (unim - 1979 and the Novorosiisk on May sit down to a tradi - Special to Lambda, the Cretan “extortion in the name of al - routinely stated before 2003 that peded Russian transit to Iraq and 16, 1983, passage rights through tional Easter dinner The National Herald olive oil that is the liance.” Turkey’s actions in 2003 Turkey was a loyal ally of the Syria by road), the generous the Bosporus and Dardanelles of lamb with all the world’s most ex - made efforts against Saddam United States. That assertion was Turkish interpretation of the straits into the Mediterranean in fixings, roast potatoes and good pensive at $182 a bottle. It’s Hussein more difficult and more and is an absolute falsehood. Any Montreux Convention, which violation of the Montreux Con - wine, perhaps even say a prayer, known as the Ferrari of olive costly in U.S. lives according to time a U.S. official so states, the regulates ship movements in the vention of 1936. The Soviet Ships cross themselves a lot and pre - oils, which is a nice fit for them Defense Department officials. community should react and Straits, and above all, the over posed a formidable threat to the tend to be thankful they’ve got since it matches their cars. The Turkey then embarked on a pro- protest it. Let’s look at the record flight permissions accorded to United States Sixth Fleet In 1979 plenty to eat, although they priests don’t mind giving them Iran policy in direct opposition of Turkey’s actions and inactions Russian civilian and military air - Turkey refused to allow the think it’s really their entitlement. special favors because the game to U.S. positions. Turkey’s pro- before 2003 and since the Tru - craft across Turkish air space.” United States U-2 intelligence These are the privileged – the is quid pro quo. This is also the Iran positions, including opposi - man Doctrine of aid to Greece Examples of Turkey’s unreliability flights (for Salt—II verification) rich and politicians. They believe day when all household chores tion to Iranian opponents of and Turkey in March 1947, the for United States strategic pur - over Turkish airspace “unless that God watches over them be - must be finished so they’ll have Iran’s religious dictatorship, con - initiation of the Marshall Plan in poses include: Moscow agreed.” N.Y. Times, cause they’ve just come back to take a belt to their Albanian tinue currently unabated. June 1947, and in 1952 when 1. A member of the Turkish May 15, 1979, at A1, col.3. from their annual visit to a cleaning ladies to finish on time Turkey’s Erdogan regime, in - Greece and Turkey became mem - Foreign Policy Institute in Ankara 4. The Turkish government re - church, where they spoke pious or they won’t get their weekly fluenced greatly by its Foreign bers of NATO. Turkey’s actions wrote: “During the Arab-Israeli fused repeated American re - words they don’t mean, shifted pittance. Holy Thursday is when Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, also and inactions over the decades war of 1973, Moscow overflights quests during the cold War for their feet a lot because they were churchgoers bow before Christ embarked on an anti-Israeli pol - before 2002 demonstrate that of Turkish airspace were toler - the installation of antennas in trying not to ogle the woman in on the cross, a confusing time icy. In 2004, at the Davos annual she was an unreliable ally. The ated. On the other hand, during Turkey concerning 11 transmit - the next pew or were thinking for politicians and the rich be - conference Turkey’s Prime Min - facts clearly show that Turkey the same Middle-East conflict, ters whose broadcasts would about the big football match cause that’s what they expect ister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pub - have been directed primarily to that’s coming up, or counting people to do to them every day licly attacked Israel’s President the Soviet Union and its eastern deals in their head. You know and they’re a little jealous Jesus Simon Perez for Israel’s Palestin - European satellites. the types: they drink good coffee is getting the attention, even for ian policy. Erdogan’s attacks on 5. Turkey further damaged and smoke big cigars, and are a day. Israel continued since then and NATO by vetoing NATO’s effort honored by the Church because Good Friday is a name they Turkey initiated the flotilla that to put military bases on various they give money to assuage their can’t understand because they tried to break the Israeli blockade Greek islands in the Aegean for conscience, not because it’s a tax have Good Days every day and which resulted in Israel ships at - defensive purposes against the deduction, because they don’t it’s hard to sleep late when all tacking the Turkish flotilla ship. Soviet navy. pay taxes. They will pride them - those church bells are ringing. One important result of Erdo - Any time an American official, selves on being smarter and clev - While girls decorate the Epitafio, gan’s anti-Israel actions was the or anyone else, states Turkey is a erer than their fellow Greeks and they’ll fret that today men are demise of the Turkey-Israel mili - loyal ally of the U.S., Greek speak ill of them behind their forbidden to play cards, al - tary cooperation agreement Americans should respond with back. They are the ones who though no one’s found a record arranged in 1996 by an initiative, the facts that demonstrate Turkey give speeches urging Greeks to yet of God playing poker, even of Leon Fuerth, National Security has been a disloyal ally to the sacrifice for the good of their on his day off. At dusk, the Advisor to then Vice President Al detriment of the U.S., in effect, country but won’t themselves, Epitafio will be escorted through Gore. That agreement, in my an adversary. who roll out the litany of Ancient the village or town streets with view, was harmful to U.S. inter - AP PHOTO/bURHAN OZbIlICI Greek values: honor, duty, arête, a quiet procession in tow and it ests in the area. Its ending has Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) listens to Gene Rossides is founder of the provided for the development of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu before he addresses a news American Hellenic Institute and a strengthened Greece-Israel re - conference in Ankara, April 7, 2011. They are no friends of the former Assistant Secretary of the lationship which is beneficial to United States when it counts. Treasury. Alexander the Great’s Globalization Model Can Work

By Evaggelos Vallianatos launched its career with Hel - Barack Obama’s deal with the ferent than Americans tempted lenism, becoming the center for Republicans to give generous tax and urged to borrow beyond Globalization, the spread of Greek studies for centuries. The cuts to the country’s richest peo - their means. In the case of the an idea or product throughout Hellenization of Islam even ben - ple, also criticized the greed of deceived American borrowers, the world affected humans for efited Western Europe because those rich Americans who toy they lose their homes. But the first time following the con - Muslim al-Andalus (Spain) be - with tyranny as a preferable Greece and Ireland lose their in - quest of the world by Alexander came the gateway to Greek form of political control of the dependence and slide violently the Great in late Fourth Century learning for eager Christian Eu - world. Here you have a tiny into poverty and humiliation. B.C. For several centuries, ropeans. number of super-rich who are no The role of the bank appropriat - AP PHOTO/THANASSIS STAVRAKIS Alexander and his successors THE NEW CRUSADES longer patriots, taking hostages ing the house of the deliquent Even the citizens of Keratea, a town south of Athens, who are spread Hellenic culture all over Now in the 21st Century, both the vast majority of Americans borrower is taken over by the In - trying to stop a landfill from being placed there and have been the Mediterranean. Alexandria Christianity and Islam have shed in order to force the government ternational Monetary Fund fighting police for months, ceased fire on Holy Week leading in Egypt became a major center their Greek trappings for a the - to give them more money. The (IMF,) the American financial po - up to Easter. Wait til the holiday’s over though. for advanced studies, science ology and practice befitting their Republicans in Congress, who liceman of corporate capitalism. and world history and literature, Jewish origins. Once again, these are in the same class with the The IMF, expert in institutional - integrity, decency, but only after was hard for them not to jump the repository of all that the one-god religions fight for terri - superrich, ignore the revolution - izing poverty among nations, in - they look up the words to see in front, as they usually do at Greeks and other people had tory and souls. Their global con - ary implications of the class war sists on austere economic poli - what they mean. parades, and smile and wave at written since antiquity. Alexan - flict is mostly proxy wars fought they foster on the country. cies that impoverish the majority On Easter, they will skip the the people who know that every dria made available to all a mod - in places like Nigeria, Egypt, Su - DOWN WITH THE RICH of the population, thus assuming hard parts: the fasting especially, other politician except theirs is ern-like and science-based Greek dan, Somalia, Palestine, Turkey, On December 13, 2010, Sen - the leadership of the country in because God made lambs, didn’t crooked. Holy Saturday is their civilization. The Antikythera Russia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iraq ator Sanders said the super-rich a manner taken from the text - he? Easter for them was just an - favorite day because that’s when Mechanism, the world’s first sci - and Afghanistan. Americans are are fighting with religious feroc - book of colonialism. The money other day because all their days the men slaughter lambs, and entific computer, came out of the heading the Christian party of ity for more wealth, knowing Greece and Ireland received are filled with people waiting on they’ve had 364 days of practice. technological ferment of the this war, which former President fully well that such federal give - from the EU and IMF went to them, saluting them like military The Cretans, typically, know bet - Alexandrian age. Greek scientists George W. Bush dubbed the War aways to them mean less food pay the private lenders, transfer - officers when they walk into the ter, and on this day the make an such as Euclid, Aristarchos of on Terror. In the societies of for America’s hungry children. ring the Greek and Irish debt to Parliament to cut the people’s effigy of Judas to burn, so this Samos, Archimedes, Hipparchos, Christianity and Islam, however, These super-rich and their Re - government institutions. In con - pay and raise their taxes. All makes the politicians sweat and Apollonios and Ptolemy set the this crusading war is largely ig - publican allies know that their trast to the Alexandrian global - their breakfasts, lunches and hide until after midnight. That’s foundations of Western science. nored, the better to pursue busi - policies are converting the ization that spread the benefits dinners are sumptuous, but it their favorite time, because they The next time globalization en - ness as usual, that is, exploit peo - United States into a Banana Re - of Greek culture to the world hasn’t stopped them from steal - get to gorge themselves on a tered human affairs in a big way two millennia ago, the global - ing bread from the mouths of feast, although a bit redundant was under the auspices of reli - ization of our time impoverishes decadence and feeding on the because that’s their daily bread. gions, especially the monotheis - the many for the luxury of the powerless although their cups They jump though with all the tic religions of Christianity and few. It is a Mafia-like affair are already overfilled. As Temple fireworks that are set off, even Islam. These one-god faiths be - among the chiefs of corporations of The Dog sang in Hunger though they’ve seen plenty in the came so enamored with their backed by government, religious, Strike, “The fire is cooking and last year right outside the Par - “revealed” theologies that they and academic elites. they’re farming babies, while the liament, the Molotov Cocktails spread their message by the What we need is a globaliza - slaves are working. The blood is tossed at the building by work - sword. Neither Christianity nor tion modeled from the eras of on the table and their mouths ers and pensioners and the poor. Islam ignored the polytheistic Alexander the Great and Me - are choking.” It’s not the blood They won’t deign to eat a tradi - Greeks. Christianity came to dieval Islam where things of the of Christ, or that on the red eggs tional meal of Mageiritsa, the power in the 4th Century when mind mattered more than petro - that symbolize life, but of the meat soup made with offal, the the Roman Emperor Constantine leum and bombs. We need to people whose lives know no entrails of an animal, because made it a state religion. Greek globalize the best things of our Easter because they’ll be eating they prefer prime cuts and leave was the language of globaliza - Western culture that have their gruel this day – like every day. the waste to the hoi polloi. tion. If Jews and Romans wanted roots in Greece: democracy, The workers had their Easter This year, the people who to be read, for example, they books, libraries, science and tech - bonus – really just a pay supple - aren’t so privileged got a special wrote their books in Greek. So nology, universities and love for ment because their salaries are Easter Card from Prime Minister Christianity disseminated its the natural world. Put people to so low – cut by as much as 85%, George Papandreou, who was teachings in Greek. But Chris - work to clean up the mess of un - so they can’t buy lamb that is set to announce more wage cuts tianity saw Greek polytheism as regulated capitalism. Reforest the curiously overpriced in a country and pain for the poor on April a mortal enemy. With the sup - logged forests; free the rivers famous for it. You can’t take a 15 but decided to let them sweat port of the state, Christianity or - To Greeks, Alexander the Great was the ultimate hero, spread - from dams; stop factory fishing; step in the countryside without until after Easter, a day when he dered the Greeks to accept its ing the country’s renown across the world. To his critics, he replace industrialized farming stepping on a lamb, so why it’s will feel no weight, nor will the dogmas on the pain of death. It was the ultimate imperialist, but he sure knew how to globalize. and its pesticide infrastructure so expensive is known only to members of his Cabinet, nor the also wrecked Greek temples, with small family farmers; ex - politicians and the rich and God. 300 Members of Parliament, nor statues, altars, theaters, libraries, ple and the earth for profits. Rich public, a Third World nation. pand public transportation every - But the week leading up to the rich and super rich, nor the and other public buildings. How - Muslims in the Middle East sell Americans losing their jobs to where; end toxic industries and Easter is so big in Greece that priests whose salary is paid by ever, Christianity used Greek oil to the West and Western pe - workers in China is not causing nuclear power plants, replacing TV stations break out every the government and never have learning selectively to legitimize troleum companies and other any anxiety among the boosters them with solar and wind power; movie with Jesus in it they can to know of the sacrifice they itself, making philosophy a hand - corporations sell machines and of globalized plutocracy. After dismantle all nuclear bombs in find, and people lay down their urge others to make. This Easter, maiden of theology. Islam came technological culture to the all, replacing millions of Ameri - the world, prohibiting their man - arms. There will be a break in a time of rejoicing for its real into being in the 7Th Century. It Moslems. Globalization makes can workers with Chinese and ufacture and possession. Tax the the action of constant protests meaning, will quickly give way immediately clashed with the good of this profitable business. other workers in the tropics very rich for this work of recon - and riots against the govern - to what neither the government Christian empire of the Romans Its dogma of “free markets” com - makes huge profits for American struction. Cut down military ment which sold its soul to the nor God can prevent: the coming and Greeks, conquering Egypt petes with the Bible and the Ko - corporations. There’s another in - spending and end the wars in EU and IMF because every ad - fire. A general strike of public and Syria. But relatively quickly, ran. It assumes perfection among sidious effect from the business Iraq and Afghanistan. Remind ministration – the fake Socialists and private workers is set for Islam Hellenized itself in a mas - thieves, ready and willing to homogenization of the world. the Muslim Arabs to return to the of PASOK and the craven cow - May 11 – six days after the first sive experiment unprecedented gamble with everybody’s wealth The victims of corporations spill Hellenic-inspired periods of their ards of the New Democracy Con - anniversary of the death of three in history. Throughout the 8th to but their own. The free market over the border of many coun - history and restart their houses servatives who knew the country bank workers killed by anar - the 10th centuries Islam bor - advocates come from academia, tries, including the border of of wisdom. Now that would be a was headed for an economic dis - chist-thrown firebombs last year rowed ancient Greek scientific corporations, the government America. They are running away globalization that would change aster but hid the figures – con - when Papandreou bowed to the and philosophical thought in the and Wall Street. These desperate from the destruction of their cul - today’s fear to campaigns for sav - spired with the public workers EU and IMF and enslaved his building of its culture. That way men and women, minted MBAs ture and societies. They are the ing our civilization – and the packed onto the payrolls to give own people to the debt they all Islam became a superpower of from the country’s business refugees of globalization. But earth. Aristotle was right: the themselves jobs of no heavy lift - created. Of course, the govern - enlightenment where Aristotle schools, are ravenous for profits now entire countries are joining Earth is alive. Our fate is inextri - ing and cradle-to-grave protec - ment is ready for them because and Greek science held sway. In - at any cost, including the de - the ranks of these refugees. The cably tied to the wellbeing of our tion – until their bubble burst. after you’ve cracked some red deed, Islamic scholars consid - struction of the middle class and financial meltdown of Greece Mother Earth. On Holy Monday, when peo - eggs, what’s cracking a few more ered Aristotle “The Philosopher.” democracy. U.S. Sen. Bernie and Ireland, for example, was ple go to church and kiss the heads? And in contrast to Christianity Sanders of Vermont, an Indepen - not accidental or solely the result Evaggelos Vallianatos is the au - icon of Christ, the powerful kiss that remained schizophrenic dent and one of the few politi - of Greek and Irish kleptocrats. thor of This Land is Their Land their wallets and expect people [email protected] about Greek thought, Islam cians who denounced President Greece and Ireland were no dif - and The Passion of the Greeks. 14 THE NATIONAL HERALD, APRIL 23-29, 2011

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