THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM (04/29/01)

THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FORUM

UUARC's Kyiv rep visits UNA

PARSIPPANY, N.J. - Vira Prynko, the Kyiv representative of the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, recently visited the UNA Corporate Headquarters. Ms. Prynko, who was in the United States to report to the executive committee of the UUARC which was meeting to review its work and plan future activity, was accompanied on her visit to the UNA by UNA Auditor Stefan Hawrysz, who also is executive director of the UUARC.

The purpose of Ms. Prynko's visit was to meet with UNA officers inasmuch as the Ukrainian National Association and the UUARC had collaborated on delivering aid to the families of the 81 miners killed on March 11, 2000, in a tragic accident at the Barakova coal mine near Krasnodon, Ukraine.

On September 29 of last year three organizations - the Ukrainian National Association, the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America - sent a total of $27,205 in cash to the families of the dead miners, money gathered from individual donations by Ukrainian Americans. The UNA and its members donated $9,405 through the Ukrainian National Foundation and that aid was delivered to Krasnodon by representatives of the UUARC and the UNA (in the person of The Ukrainian Weekly Editor Roman Woronowycz of our Kyiv Press Bureau.)

While visiting the UNA Corporate Headquarters, Ms. Prynko also met briefly with editors at The Ukrainian Weekly and Svoboda, the UNA's two official publications.

She expressed her deep gratitude and respect to the entire Ukrainian American community for their support of relief efforts such as those aimed at helping the deceased miners' families. Noting that she is paraphrasing Goethe, she said: "I bow my head before a profound idea; I fall on my knees before a good heart."

Young UNA'ers

Victoria Regeski, daughter of Maria and Steve Regeski, is a new member of UNA Branch 234 in Elizabeth, N.J. She was enrolled by her grandparents Joan and Alexander Mrzyglocki.
Adrian Yuri Juzeniw, son of Marta and Roman Juzeniw, is a new member of UNA Branch 194 in New York. He was enrolled by his grandmother Alexandra Juzeniw.
Andrew Zenon Togan, son of Yaroslaw and Tatiana Togan, is a new member of UNA Branch 2l6 in Philadelphia. He was enrolled by his grandmother Dr. T. Cisyk.
Julianna Rose Shatynski, daughter of Maria and Joseph Shatynski of Whippany, N.J., is a new member of UNA Branch 490 in Union, N.J. She was enrolled by her grandparents John and Olga Shatynski. Julianna joins her 10 cousins who already are members of Branch 490.
Christia Bankston, seen here in the arms of her grandfather Bohdan Odezynskyj, is a new member of UNA Branch 216, of which Mr. Odezynskyj is branch secretary. Christia's parents are James P. and Olena M. Bankston. Her sister, Sofia, also is a young UNA'er.
Surf Finley Sadowey, son of John P. and Gail E. Sadowey, is a new member of UNA Branch 25 in Jersey City, N.J. He was enrolled by his grandfather, also John P. Sadowey.

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