One more traditional Easter bazaar

   On Friday, the popular traditional Easter Bazaar of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church will be held from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Parish Center, 1076 N. Biscayne Drive at the corner of West Price Boulevard. Ukrainian arts and crafts, pysanky (artistically hand-decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs) and other gift items will be available for viewing and for sale. Food items, including “babkas” ( traditional Ukrainian Easter bread) and sausages will be available for purchase, and homebaked pastries will be available with coffee or tea, eat-in or takeout.

    The traditional and very popular Friday night Ukrainian American dinners with “varenyky” (pierogies), “holubtsi” (cabbage rolls) and other extras will be available from noon-6 p.m., eat-in or takeout as well. Large takeout orders should be reserved in advance by calling 941-423-2427 a day earlier.

    This year’s bazaar committee is co-chaired by active members of the parish Oksana Lew and Iwanna Holowaty, both of Venice. Slava Chomyk of Port Charlotte is the kitchen manager.

    There is no admission charge, and everybody is welcome.

    This is North Port’s second Easter bazaar; the first was held April 4 at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Center (known as the “Oseredok”).

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    Due to miscommunication, there was an error in my March 26 column regarding the membership of the Oseredok’s Auditing Committee. Elected for the year 2014-15 were Doris Horbachevsky of North Port, Ihor W. Hron of Osprey and Mykola Weremijenko of North Port.

    Daria Tomashosky, who chairs the Ukrainian American Club of Southwest Florida and the North Port Chapter of Ukrainian American Congress Committee, and is an active member of several other clubs and organizations (the North Port Art Center, Kiwanis, and “Hromadskyi Komitet,” to name some) chaired last week’s very successful Easter bazaar. She would like to express her appreciation for the hard and dedicated work of members of her committee, for the community’s support, and for the North Port Sun’s publicity with photographs. It all made this year’s bazaar another success.

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    This coming Monday, our Jewish friends and neighbors will commence celebrating one of the holiest holidays, Passover, which will last until April 22.

    My wife Katrusia and I wish all our Jewish friends and neighbors and their families here in Southwest Florida and in the greater New York City area the happiest, healthiest and most enjoyable holiday.

    This holiday takes my memory back to my childhood days when Sarah Samet of blessed memory, mother of my classroom friends Adele and Joseph, would present me a gift of matzo. Also, I can never forget attending seders with Jewish staff members and clients of the Staten Island Developmental Disabilities Services Center in New York while I was employed there. I still have my yarmulke.

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    The monthly membership meeting of Cpl. Roman G. Lazor Post 40 of the Ukrainian American Veterans will take place at 3 p.m. Friday at St. Andrew’s Ukrainian Religious and Cultural Center, 4100 S. Biscayne Drive, North Port. Attendance of post members is mandatory. Non-member veterans are always welcome.

    Atanas Kobryn covers the Ukrainian community for the North Port Sun. He can be emailed at atanask@aol. com. 

Our Neighbors — The Ukrainians

 by Atanas Kobryn