S o C V th ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 10 0 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GREEk-AmERicAn PUblicAtion 1915-2015 VOL. 19, ISSUE 947 December 5-11, 2015 c v $1.50 Diana Doukas1 Bridges Public, Private Sectors For President Obama White House Business Council Director Talks To TNH about U.S. Economy, Hellenic Roots By Constantine S. Sirigos Small Business Administration. TNH Staff Writer Before joining the administra - tion, Diana was Director of De - NEW YORK – For nine months, velopment for Business For - Diana Doukas has been one of ward. President Barack Obama’s prin - During a conversation with cipal bridges between the White The National Herald, Doukas House and the private sector. shined a spotlight on the eco - She is Director of the White nomic progress of the past seven House Business Council years. “We were losing thou - (WHBC), “which serves as the sands and thousands of jobs a key convening mechanism for day when he took office and the Obama Administration's en - now we’re gaining jobs at a gagement with top business record rate, so we are incredibly leaders, entrepreneurs and in - proud of the work the president novators, small business own - has done from day one,” she ers, and private-sector subject said. matter experts,” according to Doukas is pleased to be able Doukas’ official White House bi - to share the story of the presi - ography. dent’s private sector initiatives. She has also served as the White House Liaison at the U.S. Continued on page 6 AP Photo/GiAnnis PAPAnikos Migrant Electrocuted at Greece-FYROM Border WITH THIS ISSUE Stranded migrants show the body of a man believed to be from trocuted after touching overhead railway cables when he Mouyiaris Morocco, at the Greek-FYROM border on Dec.3 . He was elec - climbed on top of a train carriage. Built Empire A Taste of Coffee and Pastry Shops in Astoria From $6K By Flavia Sgoifo operates as a cafeteria, pastry pastries and sweets. Beyond the enjoy frappe, freddo cappuc - TNH Staff shop, restaurant and bar with a quality and variety of Greek del - cino, and any other coffee typi - ASTORIA – For those yearning Greek atmosphere. Once there icacies and drinks, Omonia is fa - cally found in Greece, along Nikos Mouyiaris is a name to have a nice “Greek style” cof - you can order any type of coffee mous for their My Big Fat Greek with homemade Greek pies and well-respected in the beauty in - fee and combine it with some you desire: from a “heavy” Wedding cakes. sweets made fresh daily. It is a dustry. In 1975, he founded of type of traditional pita or pie Greek coffee to the shaken For those who prefer a qui - great place to relax, read, or Mana Products, Inc., which has or some type of pastry from frappe, to the American latte, eter place to enjoy coffee and a play board games. since become a leading cos - home, Astoria can offer a num - while the main dessert specialty tiropita, there is Agnanti Café at On a nice day, patrons can metic-manufacturing company. ber of interesting choices. of the store is the Baklava 19-23 Ditmars Blvd. Maria take their orders to go, and en - Over the years, Mouyiaris For starters, Omonia Café is Cheesecake, a fusion of tradi - Stavropoulou, who is also the joy them in Astoria Park. has achieved success in a num - the first Greek cafe that opened tional baklava with cheesecake. owner of the restaurant across At the Agora Plaza shopping SPECIAL SECTION: ber of ventures, both in and out in Astoria in 1977 and is located Right next door is, appropri - the street, started operating this center at 23-18 31st Street is RFK Justice & Human Rights of the beauty industry, earning at 32-20 Broadway. ately enough, Omonia Next boutique style café in 2012. It the Artopolis café, famous for Center to Honor UNESCO awards and recognition for both The owner, Ioannis Arvanitis, Door. A bakery offering a huge is a small but pleasant space Goodwill Ambassador Mari - his skills as a leader and his has created a pleasant area that variety of Greek and foreign near Astoria Park where one can Continued on page 7 anna V. Vardinoyannis. countless efforts to give back. Mouyiaris turned to a new project, the We See Beauty Foundation a nonprofit that benefits women’s coopera - Doctor George Alexiades is tives—businesses owned, man - aged, and used collectively by the people who work there. A Restorer of Lost Hearing Why cooperatives? From first - hand experience, Mouyiaris ob - By Constantine S. Sirigos the third physician in his family Continued on page 7 TNH Staff Writer – and his wife, Gari, is an audi - ologist. NEW YORK – Dr. George Alexi - He was born in Queens, join - ades is at the cutting edge of ing three older siblings, Michael the treatment of hearing loss. an orthopedic surgeon, Constan - Patriarchate When age and other factors tine, whose experience is in the cause people to lose sensory airline industry, and an older sis - powers, social and professional ter, Macrene Alexiades-Arme - Defrocks life – and thus overall well-being nakas , a dermatologist. – is endangered, but as technol - Both his parents were born Father Passias ogy progresses, doctors’ ability in Northern Greece – his father to have dramatic quality of life Gregory in Halkidiki and his By Theodore Kalmoukos impact grows. mother Sophie in Kilkis with The field has professional roots in Asia Minor. Gregory be - The Holy and Sacred Synod and emotional bottom lines for came an electrical engineer and of the Ecumenical Patriarchate the empathic physician: “the pa - provided the math and science voted unanimously to defrock tients are ecstatic to be able to example. “My mother’s job was Protopresbyter George Passias hear again.” raising four kids,” Alexiades said at its regular monthly meeting Assistant Professor of the De - with reverence. in Constantinople on November partment of Otolaryngology and It was a traditional Greek- 28. Passias was returned to the the Director of the Cochlear Im - American family, with his aunt status of layman due to the sex plant Center at the Weill Cornell living above them in a two-fam - scandal involving his close as - Medical College, Alexiades is ily house and his uncle across sociate and goddaughter Ethel the street. Bouzalas. Growing up in Jamaica, In essence, the Sacred Synod “sports was my big thing. I validated the unanimous deci - For subscription: played St. Demetrios basketball, sion made by the Holy and 718.784.5255 but we would always lose to St. Eparchial Synod of the Greek [email protected] Demetrios, Astoria,” he said Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - with a touch of lingering com - EURokinissi ica in early October. petitiveness. He added, with Greeks with Disabilities Take to Streets of Athens to Protest Austerity The National Herald broke more community pride, “my fa - the Passias news on October 2. As Parliament works on pension reform, Greeks with disabilities took their anger to the streets Continued on page 6 and demanded that there be no further cuts to pensions and social insurance payments. 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Equal Opportunity Lender 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, DECEMBER 5-11, 2015 Field Museum and NHM Launch Partnership, Present New Exhibits By Anthe Mitrakos Mycenaean rulers and priest - reason that constellation came group,” Parkinson said. esses, aristocratic warriors and together in Ancient Greece and From NHM’s Alexander the Great CHICAGO, IL – In collaboration ladies of Archaic Greece, athletes it worked in ways it didn’t work side, the partner - with the National Hellenic Mu - of classical Athens, and Philip II. elsewhere,” he said. ship marks a seum (NHM), Chicago’s “Most traveling exhibits give In addition to “The Greeks” significant ac - The exhibition is developed renowned Field Museum has a glimpse of the objects and fo - at the Field Museum, NHM will complishment by the Hellenic Republic – Min - just launched the largest, in the cus on the history of the indi - host related cultural programs, further con - istry of Culture and Sports – Di - last 25 years, North American vidual pieces, but this story is including a new exhibition in its necting the rectorate General of Antiquities exhibition commemorating an - about people. It’s about learning Greektown home. “We are host - 1893-built and Cultural Heritage (Athens), cient Greeks. about Greek culture through in - ing the “Aegean: Creation of an Field Mu - The Field Museum (Chicago), “The Greeks: From Agamem - dividuals,” Parkinson noted. Archipelago” exhibition, and this seum with the Canadian Museum of His - non to Alexander the Great” ex - Among notable featured explores the actual environment the Greek- tory (Gatineau, Canada), the Na - hibition features select artifacts relics and finds are a burial de - of the Aegean,” said NHM Exec - American tional Geographic Museum drawn from the collections of 21 picting the ritual of burial and utive Director Elizabeth Martin. community. (Washington, DC) and Pointe-à- Greek museums, presenting sacrifice in a funeral pyre de - “We’re looking at how the is - “It’s a new Callière, Montréal Archeology more than 5000 years of Greek scribed in Homer’s Iliad, artifacts lands were formed and how the model for cul - and History Complex (Montréal, culture.