AHEPA e-News!

AHEPA e-News! - Vol. 13 Issue 23 - Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Make Plans Today! | 2019 Supreme Convention Chicago will play host to the 97th AHEPA Family Supreme Convention, July 1 to 6, 2019. The Palmer House Hilton Hotel will be the venue.  Details, including hotel accommodations, can be found here. Secure the $159 plus tax per night room rate by making your reservation today! Room rate expires June 15. Online registration is open until June 16: (AHEPA) (DOP) Got a team that can ball? There's no "bubble" to play in the 2019 AHEPA National Basketball Tournament. | Details here Sons & Maids Reunion Weekend, July 5-7 | Details here Chairman Karacostas with his U.S representative, Grace Meng, a senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. AHEPA Supports Annual PSEKA Conference AHEPA was a proud supporter of the 35th Annual International Coordinating Committee - Justice for Cyprus (PSEKA) Conference as one of the event's co-sponsors. Chairman of the Board Nicholas Karacostas, PSP; Supreme Secretary George Horiates, Past Supreme Treasurer Nick Vamvakias, and Executive Director Basil Mossaidis represented AHEPA on behalf of Supreme President George E. Loucas. The conference was held June 4 to 6 in Washington. | Conference coverage via GreekNews Online AHEPA Works Quietly for Good  Check out this letter to the editor written by Past District 7 Governor Gregory Simones and published June 10 by The Day, an award-winning, local daily newspaper based in New London, Connecticut. Greece as a Geostrategic Ally The Atlantic Council's Future Europe Initiative and the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the Athens Exchange Group, hosted a conversation on "Greece as a Geostrategic Ally," yesterday in Washington. Panelists included: U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt; Alternate Greek Minister of Finance George Chouliarakis; and Simos Anastasopoulos, president,  AmCham Greece. Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow and News Correspondent Katerina Sokou moderated. | Watch Notice of Funding Availability for New Construction of HUD 202 Affordable Elderly Housing    Has your chapter been interested to provide dignified, affordable housing to our nation's low-income elderly through the AHEPA National Housing program? Then now might be a good time. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a round of funding availability (NOFA) for the construction of new Section 202 affordable housing for the elderly--the first such announcement in several years. If interested, AHEPA Management Company has outlined what your chapter needs to know about how to proceed, including who to contact. The deadline to apply is August 28, 2019. Learn More: NOFA Fact Sheet from AHEPA Management Company  Don't forget to follow AHEPA on social media:                                    Join AHEPA Today! In Our Own Words. What AHEPA means to us. Join AHEPA Now Upcoming Events & Deadlines   June 13 | AHEPA's Sixth "Milk for Flint" Drive 15 | Deadline: Supreme Convention room reservations 16 | Deadline: Online Supreme Convention registration (AHEPA) (DOP) July 1 - 6 | 97th Annual AHEPA Family Supreme Convention, Chicago 5 - 6 | AHEPA National Basketball Tournament, Chicago 5 - 7 | Sons & Maids Reunion Weekend, Chicago Greek American News Digest   Editor's Note: Editorials, commentaries, opinion pieces, and articles are shared for information purposes only and do not necessarily reflect the views or policy positions of the Order of AHEPA, its affiliated organizations, and members.   Greek, U.S. Defense Leaders Meet at Pentagon U.S. Department of Defense  (June 7)   Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan met with Greek Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis today at the Pentagon to reaffirm the defense relationship between the two nations.  read more Greece to hold snap election in July after presidential approval Euronews (June 11) Greeks will go to the polls in July, after the country's president approved a request to hold a snap election. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for the vote on Monday, just four months before the end of his term, and it was accepted by Greek president Prokopis Pavlopoulos. The snap election is expected to take place on July 7.  read more Turkey Slams Alleged Cypriot Arrest Warrants Against CrewU.S. News & World Report via Associated Press (June 10) Turkey is warning that it would give "the necessary response" to Cyprus following reports that Greek Cypriot authorities have issued international arrest warrants against the crew of a Turkish drillship and others assisting a bid to search for gas off the ethnically divided island nation.  read more US cautions Turkey over Cyprus Ekathimerini (June 9)   The United States has reiterated its call to Turkey not to proceed with offshore drilling operations within Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and repeated its support of the Mediterranean island's right to exploit and develop its oil and gas resources.  read more Acropolis Museum turns 10 Ekathimerini (June 10) The Acropolis Museum, considered among the world's best, is celebrating 10 years since it opened its doors to the public, living up to a phrase used by its president, Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis, at a press conference for the occasion this week - that "the whole point is giving as much as you can to your visitors." And what a decade it's been too, with some 14.5 million visitors crossing its threshold.  read more Getty Museum Acquires Engraved Greek, Minoan Gems The Pappas Post (June 7)   The Los Angeles-based J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a collection of 17 ancient engraved gems that include Greek gems of the Minoan, Archaic and Classical periods. The collection also includes Etruscan and Roman gems, some of which are in their original gold rings.  read more Moses Elisaf, First Jewish Mayor Elected in Greece, Talks to TNH The National Herald (June 11) The new Mayor of Ioannina, Moses Elisaf called the Greeks living abroad, "a great strength," and invited them all to become ambassadors of Ioannina and Epirus to the United States in his interview with The National Herald. read more Former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus officially joins Navy The Hill (June 11) Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Monday officially joined the U.S. Navy following a commissioning ceremony led by Vice President Pence.  read more