AHEPA Provides Aid to Thousands of Flint Residents

AHEPA Provides Aid to Thousands of Flint Residents Michigan's AHEPA family teamed-up with Flint's Catholic Charities to provide milk to a non-stop line of more than 470 cars of Flint residents during a rainy 2-1/2 hour period, June 13, 2019.  The cars represented households comprised of nearly 2,000 persons, including 857 children. Supreme President George E. Loucas attended the event, which was the sixth delivery of milk to Flint's residents by AHEPA since 2016. | news release Ahepans Deliver (Literally) Public Health Aid to AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki Ahepans from Nikolaus Dumba Chapter, Vienna, Austria, delivered medical and pharmaceutical supplies to the AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki, June 13. Ahepans worked in collaboration with Griechische Welle Wien and EXZO Transport, Ltd., to deliver the supplies to hospital administration officials. Our Vienna brothers even drove the 18-wheeler from Austria to the hospital themselves. Now that's dedication to community service! It's Almost Here! | 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.  The Pappas Post: AHEPA Preps for Supreme Convention; Thousands Expected in Chicago  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 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   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.   EU May Freeze Customs Union Talks With Turkey Over Drilling Bloomberg (June 17)   The European Union is set to threaten Turkey with retaliation over its drilling activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, adding to signs of deteriorating relations between Ankara and Brussels.  read more Cyprus threatens veto over Turkey Reuters (June 17) European Union states were at loggerheads on Monday over starting talks with Albania and North Macedonia to enter the bloc, while Cyprus threatened to veto any agreement on future enlargement unless the EU toughens its line on Turkish drilling.  read more Turkey should stop 'escalatory, provocative actions', US Ambassador Pyatt says ANA-MPA (June 18) US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt sent a clear message to Turkey to stop provocative actions in Cyprus and said that its time for dialogue, speaking at a ceremony at the Stefanovikeio air base in the region of Magnisia after the delivery of 70 Kiowa Warrior helicopters  and the last of 10 Chinook helicopters.  read more How Greece Became One of America's-and Israel's-Closest AlliesWashington Monthly (June 17) As longtime followers of foreign affairs know, the United States and Greece have not always enjoyed the easiest rapport.  read more 40% of relatives believe Cyprus' missing persons could be alive - report in-Cyprus (June 13)   A public report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has revealed interesting findings on the needs of the families of missing persons on the island, decades after the events of the 1963-64 and the Turkish invasion of 1974. This is the first time such a report is taking place.  read more Aging grand hotel highlights the ethnic division in Cyprus Associated Press (June 16) With Italian chandeliers still hanging in the lobby, the Ledra Palace Hotel in Cyprus still manages to hold onto a flicker of its old majesty despite the shell craters and bullet holes that scar its sandstone facade.  read more Ancient Greece: Underwater Archaeologists Discover Monumental Structure From Site of Pre-biblical Battle Newsweek (June 17)   The remains of a huge building from ancient Greece has been discovered by underwater archaeologists working at a site of an epic battle that took place 2,500 years ago.  read more The New Greek Americans (1960-2018), the History of Greek Immigrants in LA The National Herald (June 18) A standing-room-only audience from the Greek community in Los Angeles recently watched the third film in an ambitious trilogy dealing with the history of the Greek immigrants to this city. The screening took place at the Writers Guild Theatre in Beverly Hills.  read more