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AHEPA e-News! - Vol. 09 Issue 50 - Wednesday, December 16, 2015
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REBUILD SAINT NICHOLAS SHRINE CAMPAIGN
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Ahepans tour the Saint Nicholas construction site.
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AHEPA is determined to meet its Saint Nicholas Capital Campaign fund raising goal. The administrative year is well underway and donations--large and small--are pouring in for AHEPA's #RebuildStNicholas capital campaign.
- Most recently, we sincerely thank Alexander the Great Chapter 29, Houston, for donating $10,000 to the campaign.
In addition, thank you to AHEPA Chapter 523, Hollywood, Fla., for its $1,000 donation to the campaign.
Our #RebuildStNicholas campaign webpage has been updated to reflect the many generous donations we received over the summer.
Has your district or chapter organized a fundraiser for the campaign to #RebuildStNicholas? Take action and support AHEPA's campaign today! Please tweet about your fundraising activity by using #RebuildStNicholas to share your work with the broader community!
PROJECT UPDATE
Thanks to a live webcam, you can watch progress being made with a first-hand look at the site where Saint Nicholas National Shrine will be build.
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WASHINGTON UPDATE
Hellenic Caucus Membership at 131. Help It Grow.
ACTION ITEM: Help Us Grow the Hellenic Caucus!
AHEPA asks that you help us to grow the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues. The Hellenic Caucus has been an active, bipartisan group in Congress since its founding in 1995. It is co-chaired by U.S. Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY).
Membership in the Hellenic Caucus stands at 131.
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The Ahepan
 The fall issue of The Ahepan is out! Share it with family and friends by forwarding along this electronic version. Recap the Supreme Convention and catch the latest on how AHEPA chapters give back to the community.
Click on the magazine icon to check it out!
Spring 2016 Deadline: February 1
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The Periclean
Sons of Pericles Member Delivers Christmas Cheer at Local Hospital
Sons of Pericles Member Kyriakos Mossaidis delivered Christmas gifts to patients at Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, on Dec. 12, spreading Christmas cheer and helping to make Christmas a bit brighter for those in need.
Keep up to date with AHEPA's Junior Order, the Sons of Pericles.
- Catch this month's issue of The Periclean HERE
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Greek American
News Digest
8 Greek innovators defying the odds CNBC (Dec. 10) Perhaps one of the only good things to come out of Greece's economic crisis is a slow but steady increase in the number of start-ups emerging in the high-tech sector. Since the crisis began in 2007, there have been about 600 start-ups created in a wide range of industries - from mobile apps and on-demand taxi travel to gaming and medical technology, according to Endeavor Greece...read more
Greek Educator Nominated for Best Teacher in the World
Greek Reporter (Dec. 10) Greek teacher Angeliki Pappa was included in the list of 50 nominees for the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Award 2016. The Teacher Prize Academy nominated Pappa for her work on dyslexia. The prize of one million US dollars will be awarded for the second time, and it is widely known as the Nobel Prize of teaching. The aim of the Global Teacher Award is to recognize the exceptional contribution of a teacher to the profession, and to highlight the important role of teachers in society...read more
Homeland Actor Mandy Patinkin Shares Greece Experiences
Pappas Post (Dec. 10) "How can people be frightened of people who've suffered so much?" Mandy Patinkin says as he lifts someone's child from a raft and safely to shore on the Greek island of Lesvos. The star of TV's Homeland traveled to Greece to lend a hand and bring some awareness to the refugee crisis that's been hitting this island particularly hard. The video was posted to the International Rescue Committee's Facebook page and YouTube accounts and has been viewed by millions of people and shared tens of thousands of times, making it yet another "viral" video from Greece.
REFILE-UPDATE 1-Greece signs major privatisation deal with Germany's Fraport Reuters (Dec. 10) Greece's leftist government on Monday signed its first big privatisation deal with German airport operator Fraport, awarding it a 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) contract to lease and manage 14 regional airports. Privatisations have been a key condition of Greece's international bailouts since 2010. But Athens has raised only about 3.5 billion euros from state asset sales so far versus an original target of 50 billion euros due to bureaucratic delays and lack of political will. "The signing of the contract ... is very important and a strong message to everyone that the Greek economy is gaining market confidence," said Stergios Pitsiorlas, the head of Greece's privatisation agency HRADF, in a statement...read more
Greece a gateway and scapegoat in EU's refugee crisis
MacroPolis (Dec. 10) Greece activated last Thursday the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, agreed to allow Frontex to operate on its border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and triggered the Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT) mechanism for help with Aegean patrols. But what should have been a moment of exemplary cooperation for the EU felt very tawdry. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras only gave the green light for these actions to be taken after multiple reports quoted unnamed European officials who claimed preparations were under way to exclude Greece from the border-free Schengen Area because of concerns about its patchy approach to the refugee crisis... read more 
Following agreement with creditors two Greek Ministers will test the waters at the Capital Link Investment Forum in NYC
Greek News (Dec. 13) Following the agreement reached late on Friday between the Greece and its lenders, the Greek government introduced in Parliament a bill containing a new set of prior actions that must be voted by Tuesday, for the country's creditors to unlock another 1 billion euros in loans before the Christmas holidays. The bill is expected to pass into law, partly because some of the thorniest reforms have been put off until early next year. It includes reforms relating to a new privatization fund, the privatization of Greece's electricity grid operator ADMIE, and rules governing the sale of nonperforming loans (NPLs) held by banks. The latter was the most prickly issue in talks between government officials and representatives of the country's creditors...read more
National Gallery of Art offers rare chance to see ancient Greek bronzes The Washington Post (Dec. 13) The ancient Athenians considered most everyone else barbarians, and that snobbery has trickled down to us through the eons. When we think of Greek civilization, we think of the Golden Age of Athens in the 5th century B.C., of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and statesmen such as Pericles, whose funeral oration would sound almost traitorous to many Americans today: "We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality."...read more
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