Sakellarios Vallas, a pizza shop owner fought off a would-be robber. The Greek American stopped a robbery attempt and restrained the suspect, a 20-year-old Stoughton man, until police arrived. The suspect was taken into custody and charged with the crime. See here how he did it:
Archive | September, 2009
PanHellenic Scholarship Awards Gala on November 20
The 2009 Awards Gala will be held on Friday, November 20, at the Union League Club of Chicago, located in the heart of Chicago’s downtown financial district. A number of guests from all over the country are expected to attend this Chicago Greek Community’s best social and philanthropic event. Dr. Thanasis Economou is the 2009 [...]
The new book of Beverley Billiris
Beverley Billiris can now add published author to a resume that includes mayor, educator, world traveler and businesswoman. She recently co-authored “Danger Beyond the Reef,” a romance novel in which arranged relationships and marriages within traditional Greek culture play a major role. Her co-author, Harvey Alexander Smith, who has written a book about life in [...]
2009 Greek-American Performing Arts Festival
The 2009 Greek-American Performing Arts Festival started on the 24th of September. The four-day festival, celebrates the rich history of Hellenic culture and the contributions of its many contemporary and traditional talented artists, writers, and performers September 24 through 27, 2009. The festival is held at Queens Theatre in the Park at Flushing Meadows Park [...]
ALMA Bank opens 2nd branch in Astoria
The ‘Bank founded by expatriates for expatriates” ALMA BANK, inaugurated its second branch in Astoria, Queens on 29th Street and Ditmars Blvd in the presence of the bank’s board of directors, bank customers and friends. The is ALMA Bank’s fourth branch in New York since its founding two years ago, while by year’s end, a [...]
Int’l Group Lobbies for Hagia Sophia Liturgy
The head of an international effort to restore the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul as a Christian place of worship on Thursday said affiliated groups want to hold a liturgy on Sept. 17, 2010 in the venerable Byzantine-era basilica, a pre-eminent museum today in the Bosporus metropolis. Chris Spyrou, a noted Greek-American political leader from New [...]
Greek airline signs code-share deal with Delta
Greek airline Olympic Air said it had signed a deal with US carrier Delta Airlines on Thursday allowing code sharing on the Athens-New York route from October 1 in a bid to boost its global reach. Olympic Air chief Antonis Simigdalas said the airline would also sign agreements with Air France-KLM, Cyprus Airways and Etihad [...]
Culture Shock: Where is a person’s home?
Home is a key word in the whole “culture shock” pavillion. Where is a person’s home? What defines it? Level of comfort? Professional/financial opportunities? Quality of life? Living amongst the people who mean the most to us? Considering the phrase “Home is where you are understood” helps us both close in on and complicate the [...]
Aris Melissaratos: Industrialist of the Year
The Baltimore Museum of Industry has named Aris Melissaratos, Senior Advisor to the President for Enterprise Development at Johns Hopkins University, the 2009 William Donald Schaefer Industrialist of the Year. Mr. Melissaratos was selected because of his extraordinary commitment to Baltimore businesses and his efforts in promoting technology throughout the region. In accepting the honor, [...]
Exclusive Interview: Ecumenical Patriarch on Environment, Turkey, and the US
His All Holiness, The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew proves one more time that his recognition as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people was well deserved. At the end of October he will visit the United States to lead the 8th International Inter-religious Ecological Symposium co-organized by the Patriarchate to help the Mississippi River. After [...]
Remembering the Americans and Greek-Americans of 9/11
Nearly 3,000 people died when terrorists flew two hijacked airplanes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Among the victims were also 33 Greek – Americans. Archbishop Demetrios will preside a Memorial Service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, attended by relatives of the victims, as well as many others. Later in the day, [...]
Irene Kacandes Relives Her Father’s Story
When she was very young, Irene Kacandes knew things about her father that had no plot, no narrator, and no audience. To her childhood self these things resembled beings who resided with her family, like the ancestresses who’d thrown themselves off cliffs rather than be taken by the Turks, or the forefathers who’d fought the [...]
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02 / 08 “Smith and Nephew” Medical Device Company Fined for Bribing Greek Public Doctors
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02 / 08 Greek-American Foundation to Support Vulnerable Groups in Greece
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02 / 08 Greek NGO Gains Consultative Status With the UN Economic and Social Council
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02 / 08 Greek Violinist and Pianist to Perform at the Morgan Library and Museum in NY
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02 / 06 Greek Theater Declared Best Outdoor Venue in the USA
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07 / 23 St. Nicholas of Manhattan in Ruins while Mosque Rises
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08 / 03 George Demos Tells Fox News We Must Rebuild St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero
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11 / 27 Greek American Pihakis Busted by Feds for $5.8 Million
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12 / 27 Greek Orthodox Community of America Renounced Anti-Semitic Statements by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus
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02 / 09 St. George Community of Lynn, Massachusetts, Refuses to Pay its Contribution to the Archdiocese
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