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an incoming tour operator based in Greece with 34 years experience in both, tours and holidays
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 Dear Paul: Thank you for the 18-year uninterrupted service in publishing the Hellenic News of America. As a subscriber from day one, I am grateful for its availability and always look forward to receiving it and reading it each month. More importantly, however, is the paper's significance to the Greek American community. The Hellenic News of America is the communication medium for Greek Americans not only in the greater Delaware Valley but for most of the North Atlantic region of the United States, from lower New England to mid-Virginia. The value of the Hellenic News of America is manyfold. Without any order of importance, the paper serves the Greek American community in a variety of ways. It covers social events, family occasions, religious festivities, organizational activities, youth jamborees, educational practices, travel arrangements, political processes, news from Greece, and provides opportunities for readers to present their views on any topic of interest to them and to the community. In short, the paper is a form of language, for it expresses thoughts and ideas relevant to the Greek American community and, therefore, a means of communication, for language is the key to communication and communication key to understanding. As the Greek American community is rapidly becoming a Hellenic American society, with more-and more of our offspring America-born, I believe it would be a huge advantage if a page-or-two were devoted to our youth to be written by our youth. May I suggest that one advertising entity each month be requested to "draft" a high school/college student to write a relevant article, to be printed under the sponsorship of the advertising entity. Interaction among individuals and groups through a central medium of communication is a powerful force in providing and continuing enthusiasm of our culture, heritage and religion. In this day and age in which materialism has become the order of the day, the Hellenic idea of "arete" is more important than ever to put the ship of life back in its proper course. The Hellenic ideal of "quality of life" is a noble concept and objective that must not be allowed -- especially by ourselves -- to be disengaged and become irrelevant. Keep us the good work Kotrotsios family and staff, and you will always know -- as you and others well know -- that your "labor of love" is deeply appreciated.
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