Labor Day Weekend celebration: there is no place like Soyuzivka! (09/17/00)

Labor Day Weekend celebration: there is no place like Soyuzivka!

Photos by Irene Jarosewich and Peter Steciuk

1. Sports moms Vira Popel (left) and Christine Stawnychy of New Brunswick, N.J., have watched their children compete at Soyuzivka over the years.

2. Young Syzokryli ensemble members (from left) Laryssa Wozniak of Manhattan, Dianna Shmerykowsky of Bayside, Queens, Danny Walchuk of Annandale, N.J., and Mary Widemeyer from Short Hills, N.J., give a tour of Soyuzivka to Karin Anderson of Manhattan, a first-time guest.

3. Andrij Baluch from Chicago and Xenya Kocylowsky of New Jersey keep their long-distance friendship going by meeting halfway, sort of, at Soyuzivka.

4. Danylo Bazarko of Manhattan and Tetiana Kihiczak of Short Hills, N.J., who met at Soyuzivka last year, are engaged to be married next summer.

5. A chance for the whole family to get together is one of the reasons that Mira Kyzyk (left) from New York City and her young daughter Deanna, and Deanna's cousin, Christina Popovich of Basking Ridge, N.J., come for the Labor Day weekend.

6. Republican Party activists Oksana Dudycz from Chicago and Andrew Futey of Cleveland plan strategy for George W. while at the UNA resort.

7. Close friends from New Jersey (from left) Pavlo Farmiga, Christina Baranetsky, Xenia Rybak, Alexa Milanytch, Daria Yacykewych, Peter Steciuk and Andrew Demidowich come to Soyuzivka every year for Labor Day weekend to hang out together on the patio by Veselka.

8. Alya Byskosh flew in from the University of Wisconsin to visit over the long weekend with her boyfriend, Roman Shapoval, who attends Rutgers.

9. A dramatic end to one of the Syzokryli Dance Ensemble's dynamic performances.

10. Friends Petro Lisowsky (left) and John Fedynsky from Detroit and Tanya Harasewych of Philadelphia spend one last weekend enjoying summer before heading off to school for the fall semester.

11. Obviously Yuri Kuzmycz from Hoboken, N.J., and Roma Klymkowycz of Chicago find Soyuzivka pretty amusing.

12. Acclaimed New York City Opera star Oksana Krovytska and renowned pianist Thomas Hrynkiw after their wonderful performance.

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