Let Not The Light Of Freedom Be Extinguished! American Home over 100 years of serving American- Slovenians Americ Z.£S2-I0ZZZ VA NOIONITHV jw nH gsnoHiunoo alLl lz vrNVAVa>i NVHW Ameriška Domovina1 USPS 024100 Vol. 103, No. 3 Serving over 200,000 American Slovenians AMERIŠKA DOMOVINA, AUGUST 16, 2001 ISSN Number 0164-68X 60< Cimperman Won’t Run for Mayor of Cleveland Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman ended months of speculation by announcing he will not enter the crowded race for mayor. Cimperman, whose $150,000 war chest would have made him a strong contender, said he decided instead to seek a second four-year term as councilman for the downtown Ward 13. “I feel there is still so much for me to do here in this ward, the largest geographic ward in the city,” he said at an afternoon news conference outside his St. Clair Ave. ward office. Two dozen supporters, wearing blue and yellow ‘Cimperman’ T-shirts, cheered his decision. One fan, Avis V. Sanchez, said she doesn’t want to lose the support that Cimperman lends to her Hijos De Borin-quen Spanish-American Center. Also pleased by Cimper-man’s decision are the people already in the race for mayor and those still considering bids. Cimperman said he will eventually throw his support to the candidate whose positions mirror his own. Those positions, he said, include studying the closing of Burke Lakefront Airport for housing and park development, and giving police officers and firefighters better wages. This picture is taken during their hike up to Velika Planina. This was a two-day hike. They spent the night in a little herding village then returned down the mountain the next jgy. Sara is on the left, Betsy Fon on the right. Pope Accept Bishop Pevec’s Resignation Summer School in Ljubljana -__by BETSY FON [’he idea of summer school always made ■A me sick to my stom-j^h. But not this summer. sister Sara and I just re-hirned from 4 weeks in lovenia taking a language ^°urse at the University of jubljana. It was the oppor-of a lifetime, learned about the Pr°gram from a friend of ^ who lives in Ljubljana. e went straight to the avel agent and booked our •ghts. The school was gazing. Every day we went 0 class from 9 a.m. to 12:30 earning basic Slovene. In e afternoons we had the °Ption of taking an elective Course which focused on c°nversation skills and/or Creative writing. aft^ara anc* * tak® the ernoon course so we were J"ee every day until about 6. ufing that time we headed tQr the shot center of Ljubljana to go to museums, visit k Castle, and enjoy some L even enjoyed eating horse-burgers at the famous HOT HORSE restaurant. It sounds unappetizing, but it was actually pretty good. Anyway, in the late afternoons the school offered extra curricular activities for the students to participate in. One night we listened to traditional folk music by 'a live band from Australia. We learned how to cook štruklji, an infamous Slovene food. Other nights we went to art museums, on tours of the architecture in Ljubljana, and even watched a Slovene film. Each night was something new and exciting for Sara and I to experience. On the weekends we were even busier. Each Saturday we were offered the opportunity to go on “excursions.” These were like big all day field trips that took us out of Ljubljana and into the rest of Slovenia. We visited a Roman burial site, the Rogaška Glass Factory, a venison farm, and a chocolate factory. Another weekend we went rafting down the Soca River, to the second largest mercury mine in the world, and mountain climbing. I did things that I never would have done here in Indiana. If you have never been to Indiana, it is pretty flat so mountain climbing is out of the question. We have a creek that runs through our neighborhood, but I don’t think that it is ideal for rafting. Plus all the museums and sights to see were so numerous, we were there a month and still didn’t get to see everything! Sundays were our free days to do whatever we wanted. On these days Sara and I went to the seaside to visit Piran, Trieste, which is actually in Italy, but is still a Slovenian speaking town. It is also on the coast. We also got to visit our family in Mozirje for the second time which was very nice. This time we could actually speak to them a little bit which was exciting for us both. We also visited family from my grandfather’s side that we had lost touch with (Continued on page 6) Pope John Paul II appointed two auxiliary bishops for the Diocese of Cleveland, while also accepting the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop A. Edward Pevec. The new auxiliary bishops are Father Martin J. Amos, pastor of St. Dominic Church, Shaker Heights, appointed Titular Bishop of Meta, and Right Reverend Roger W. Gries, OSB, Abbot of St. Andrew Abbey, Cleveland, who was named Titular Bishop of Presidio. Bishop Pevec, 75, has been Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland since 1982. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, made the announcements. Bishop Pevec was bom on April 16, 1925 in the St. Vitus neighborhood of Cleveland. He studied at John Carroll University, Western Reserve University, and St. Mary’s Seminary, and was ordained a priest on April 29, 1950. He was appointed Titular Bishop of Mercia and Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland on April 18, 1982. He was ordained on July 2, 1982. However, at the present time Bishop A. Edward Pevec is still active and maintaining a full schedule. Petkovšek Airs 3-Hour Special Polka Show Cleveland radio personality Tony Petkovšek will present a special 3-hour “40th Radio Anniversary Program” on Saturday, August. 18,h from noon until 3 p.m. on WELW 1330 AM locally, and worldwide on the Internet at WELW.com. This commemorative broadcast with the top 40 polka radio hits will be available in a limited edition double CD recording. A sold-out celebration takes place at the Slovenian National Home on St. Clair Avenue on Saturday evening following a 5 p.m. Polka Mass at St. Vitus. OVIN. 2 H.O.L.L.A.N.D. is Forever H (A P O P < S o o 2 m by RUDY FLIS Tt began at 9:30 a.m., at I 3545 W. 54 Street, -1-Cleveland, Ohio. God blessed our union at Mass in St. Boniface Church. The year was 1955. The date was August 20th. It was a perfect time in my life. I was marrying the girl of my dreams, and my mom and all my sisters and brothers were at Mass looking on. Could it get any better? The answer is yes. As our marriage gained years, our family gained children, and I gained knowledge. Knowledge of what a special partner God had blessed me with. You have learned from my past thoughts what my wife, Therese, means to me and our children. A few days away is another anniversary. Yes, the anniversaries are better each year, for we are still together also speaking to each other. As I enjoy the blessings of a wonderful marriage, my spirit is forever happy. Yet one part of my wedding Mass sometimes haunts me as I recall our special day. My mom is gone, as are my sisters Aggie, Fran and Mary. My brothers Mickey and Matt have also died. I do miss each of them. Each was a part of my life. If only my mom could have seen just one of our children from this blessed union. I guess I could go on and on and just feel sorry for myself. Our reception was at J.D.N. Hall and there was one special picture taken. The picture was of Therese and I with my mom between us, and we are surrounded by all my brothers and sisters. I had it all, and for three months more, until my mom died. But really, today I have it all, the past, the present and the future. As my mom watched Therese and I marry, so I have watched my children marry. And just maybe I will watch my grandchildren marry. On August 20th, as we celebrate our anniversary by eating a good meal, and my tummy is pleased to all heck with the good food, I will remember that Therese wrote me every day I was in the Army. On the back of her envelopes was the word “H.O.L.L.A.N.D.” Holland is a country, but our H.O.L.L.A.N.D. was an abbreviation for “How Our Love Lasts And Never Dies.” Therese was very young, very pretty and she liked me when she printed that on the backside of the envelope she sent to me. Now I tell Therese what a handsome woman she is and how happy I am that she still loves me. Thank you Lord for H.O.L.L.A.N.D. Dr. Zenon A. Klos E. 185th Area 531-7700 — Emergencies -Dental Insurance Accepted Laboratory on Premises - Same Day Denture Repair COMPLETE DENTAL CARE FACILITY 848 E. 185 St (between Shore Carpet & Fun Services) Call the CondoCentre If you prefer warm to cold CondoCentre featmes just for you!! ♦Wider price range to fit your budget ♦ New selection of outstanding properties •Friendly, well-trained agents to help vou 22078 Lakeshore Blvd. Euclid, Ohio 44123 1-216-261-1050 euclidtravel@aol.com mr\m CondoCentre .( DimmoiioI I t < I II) IK\\I I. . t Mlakar’s Walk Down Memory Lane 1M By RAY MLAKAR Well, for one thing, the warmer weather is here and for a while I guess we all thought that it would never get here. With the warm weather comes one of Ray’s jokes. It seems that a city slicker’s car broke down in the country. While he was under the hood ofxthe car trying to fix the problem, he heard a low voice say, “It’s the fuel pump.” The fellow looked around and only saw an old horse in a nearby pasture. As he put his head under the hood, he again heard the voice, “I said it’s the fuel pump.” He turned to the horse and asked, “Was that you?” “Yes,” the horse answered, “I told you to check the fuel pump.” Stunned, the man ran to the nearby farm house and asked the farmer if that was his horse. When the farmer answered yes, the In Australia, Labor Day is called Eight Hour Day and commemorates the successful struggle for a shorter working day. city slicker said, “That horse could be worth a fortune.” When the fellow related how the horse told him 4o check the fuel pump, the farmer said, “Don’t pay any attention to him. He doesn’t know the first thing about fixing cars.” Well, the school days are over, sorry to say, and now just a pleasant memory. To get off my general track of writing, it boils my butt to think what has become of the schools today. It seems that not a day goes by that we do not pick up the paper and read of some shooting, killing going on in some school. Just recently it stated they were looking for teachers to come from India to teach schools here. “That will be the day.” It seems time and time again all one hears is, “This is a different world today.” You bet it is and “we” let it become a different world today. When we senior citizens went to school, there was no such thing as “metal detectors” at the entrance to the schools. There were no hidden cameras monitoring the activity in the hallways. There were no police stationed in and around the school. There were no teacher’s aides. The teacher or the nun was the one and only who held the class together. From the very start, they let it be known that no misbehavior would be tolerated, period. If a teacher or the nun in high school whacked a kid for a misbehavior or talking back, she or he did not fear that she would hear from the parents saying, “You hit my kid.” In a lot of cases, if we went home and told our parents that the teacher whacked us, the parents would whack us again. To begin with, when we went to school, our parents dressed us for the part. Blue jeans, overhauls, swear shirts with dirty sayings on it, would not even be thought of to wear to school. Each kid looked like they were dressed for college and now even college kids are dressed like they are going to the playground. (To Be Continued) Fr. Gallagher Celebrates 40th Rev. Gallagher will celebrate his 40th Jubilee at a Mass in St. Philip Neri Church, 82nd and St. Clair Ave., Cleveland at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26th. A reception will follow. For more information call the church - Sister Wilma at (216) 431-2583. The American Home, the newspaper the elite seek to read. 100 WORDS MORE OR LESS by John Mercina SUMMER FUN Find the eleven (11) words associated with summer fun in the below printed word-finder. Send the results to the editor of American Home. First ten correct entries will be sent a “fun prize” to remember the Summer of 2001. Good Luck ! R D K P B K K T E Q D C B r| e T A W B E B O A T X P K E Z K R J L F N D S V M Q D A Y C W P s H B 0 A 'Z N G Z V K M F M X V R W s F C c K Q B E O K T V U S H P Z B F Y R p E H Z Z L X M S R S I s A Z J W F A L K L L M J O K C c L 3 J T R z I N J P M K I c K P N A E F B B G R U T K Y R V A E R I D B A C K L A J E M F D I B J V C O A L S V A J R D R I Q M P H r D L L O Y 0 A A M A D D L 3 C D P z E L R X K U E V T P J S B X U A J D Y W G W M R N D S I H U u u A C V n R K T M 1 J W S D 1 N U Q M U R N s J Z L T C G H N H S R G D Y K X K A R D R I T F N K A K U P J H I A T R A V E L P L T M T X 0 V Z W J R ll S E c K F | Q F L C 1 H X H C A t B Escape from Communism by ANTON ŽAKELJ, translated and edited by JOHN ŽAKELJ (2001) "T X Te are deeply grate-\/\/ fill to the Ameri-▼ t can Home for publishing the story of our first years in America. Some of our readers have asked, “Why did you leave Slovenia? How did you come to America? How did you go from being a business man-ager in Slovenia to a manual laborer in America?’ In 1995, American Home published “The Liberation of Ziri,” which presented my diary from January to Octo-fior, 1943. It describes life in my hometown of Ziri, Slovenia under German occupation and my experience as a German hostage when ^ Germans left Ziri on October 23, 1943. We now Pick up where that article ended: Sunday, Oct. 24,1943 Yesterday, the German army left Ziri, but they took me and seven other men from our village with them -as hostages. They made sure that all the villagers understood that, if a single shot was fired at the retreating Oermans, they would imme-diately shoot me and the other hostages. When the Oermans took me at gunpoint early yesterday, my fiancee Cilka, cried. She thought she would never see me again. The Germans kej Machine guns pointe< ^d the other hosta ay as they prepared Parture. They mobili J^sport vehicles fr htire Poljansko J°Ve to our shoei °rkshops and filled lcles wfrh about ^lrs of shoes and hantity 0f g00(j vin r' (Shoemaking a8o’s main industr m At 6:30 p.m., w arched into a bus ^;ftrartofa( fa As we pas; fa£ * home> 1 hei nie Cr Paying the ro: Conv0t ^ar fr°m town, the that °y ^rove Past a ravine for Cou^ h® a good location •mCnr stea Sn The sweat started thermin^ ^own my face. But Cone Was no ambush and the Sot fi°y COntinued on. As we w- her away from Ziri, I that1CC* ^at the partisans in 0 area had not heard the dot If511 Warning ancI might tages °w that we were hos- aSain *n t*le conv°y- Sot 4ro„’ not a shot was fired. hian^r 10 P•m•, the Ger" foun. tlnaiiy let us go. We $leep . a family that let us I'hg 'n ^fr ham overnight. next morning (today), we found someone who gave us a ride back to Ziri. We arrived just as people were leaving the church. We were warmly welcomed today, but attention soon shifted to our new reality. Ziri is now under the control of the local communist partisans. There really is no government in Jugoslavia, so our town is now its own republic. Will Ziri become the workers’ paradise promised by the communists? A few months ago, Milan Žakelj, the local partisan polit-komisar, talked with me for hours about how wonderful everything would be when they take over. “When we win, we will plant pine trees all over Zirovski hill... When we win, we will plant potatoes on the field by the Sora, and they will be the best potatoes in the world... When we win, we’ll move all the peasants into factories, that is, in their vicinity... In the beginning, they will be mad at us, but when they realize that they can earn in eight hours in the factory more than in 16 on the farm, they’ll be grateful.” I didn’t believe him. I knew what communism was - a Utopia which had already claimed millions of lives in Russia. In our own area, the communists have killed innocent people. (To Be Continued) Maple-Newburgh Meetings The August picnic meeting is at Stanton Park, off Libby Road at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 22. Attendance prize is $50. The September meeting will be at the Slovenian National Home, 3563 E. 80th Street, off Union Avenue at noon on the 26tb. This is our home village of Žri, Slovenia, located in a beautiful valley surrounded by the spruce-covered foothills of the Julian Alps, midway between the Italian border and Ljubljana. In 1943, Žri was home to about 3,500 people. This picture is from a postcard which was sent to America in 1953. Who is a Nazi Collaborator? The following letter was sent to His Excellency Davorin Kračun, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia, in Washington, D.C.: Excellency: During the interview which the U.S. Ambassador Designate, Johnny Young, gave to Slovenian journalists and TV on August 8, Delo’s current correspondent in New York, Ervin Hladnik Milharčič insinuated that American citizens who claim property restitution under the Denationalization Act of 1991 might be Nazi collaborators. This insinuation was then widely reported in the Slovenian press (Delo, Dnevnik, and Večer of Aug. 9). Since similar representations were made on Dec. 17, 1999 by the then Slovenian ambassador Dimitrij Rupel to Christopher Hill, Senior Director for European Affairs, National Security Council, and probably on other occasions, we have reason to believe that these slanders are inspired by the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MZZ). Would you please provide us with a list showing which U-S. citizens claiming property restitution in Slovenia were, in the opinion of your government, Nazi collaborators. Unless I hear from you, it will be my understanding that there are no Nazi collaborators among the U.S. citizens whose property was expropriated by the former Slovenian communist regime. Very truly yours, Vladislav Bevc, Ph.D. American Owners of Property in Slovenia Pristava Campers Dinner Slovenska Pristava Campers invite everyone to attend their annual dinner on Saturday, Sept. 15. Children’s games begin at 4 p.m., followed by dinner at 6 p.m. Dinner choices include steak ($15) or chicken ($12). Live and recorded entertainment. Tickets from members or by calling Terry Vogel at 216-529-0579. Come and enjoy the company of family and friends at beautiful Slovenska Pristava. Slovenian Money Exchange As of Aug. 11, one United States dollar is about 245 Slovenian tolars. 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AMERIŠKA DOMOVINA AUGUST 16, 2001 SKA DUMUV1NA, AUGUST lb, 2001 Slovenia: Unheralded Gem on the Adriatic by FRANK BRUNI New York Times landing in the turret of a hilltop castle, leaning k»-Jwith a sigh of bliss against a stone parapet, I took in the old part of the city: curving cobblestone alleys and avenues; a dark river that traced a slender crease between centuries-old buildings; handsome plazas with statues and fountains; a S patchwork of red-tiled roofs. < I could have been in Italy, or maybe even France. Looking into the distance, toward the horizon, I saw verdant hills rise into the continent’s most majestic mountains: the stony, vertiginous Alps. I could have been in Austria, or maybe even Switzerland. But there was something wrong with this picture; something different, something missing. Only two other tourists stood beside me, there were precious few below me, and I was not feeling nervous about the money I was spending, because everything was relatively cheap: the restaurants, the hotels, the taxis, the trinkets. These were the welcome, telltale signs that I was in another, less traveled country, an arguably more hospitable place. I had come to Slovenia; yes, Slovenia. If you do not really know where it is or what it is or why someone might linger there, you may be comforted somewhat (although not, I would bet, all that much) to learn that president Bush, until recently, was in the same boat. During the presidential campaign, he rather famously confused Slovenia with Slo-' vakia, an altogether different place. And yet Slovenia ended up being the fifth and last country Bush visited on his first overseas trip as president in June. I arrived with him; and then, my curiosity piqued, stayed after he left. What I discovered over the next six days was nearly the full bounty of Europe packed into a succinct swath of mountains, lakes and Adriatic coastline, topped off by-trie gorgeous and entirely cosmopolitan capital of Ljubljana, where that river and those plazas mingle. It was the best of Europe without the worst of Europe; the hassle, the crush, the sinking feeling of watching something grand and authentic turned into a gaudy, unruly, costly theme park. Even in June, locals handily outnumbered visitors, and I walked the streets and drove the roads with the giddy, beaming sensation that I had stumbled onto a secret. I was not at all sure that I wanted to tell. Slovenia was once a republic in the federation of Yugoslavia, and it occupied the northwest comer of that former country, sharing a border with Austria to the north and Italy to the west. When Yugoslavia shattered more than a decade ago, it was other shards that drew notice, and not for happy reasons. Americans read plenty about Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia, and what they learned hardly recommended travel to those places. But wealthier Slovenia, now an independent country, went its less turbu-. lent way; its profile humble, its gentle rhythms undisturbed, its attractions largely unheralded beyond neigh-boring countries. What an oversight. There is little you might seek in Europe that Slovenia, which has only about two million people and covers an area roughly comparable in size to Wflles or Ireland, could not provide, and that it could not provide a more pleasant, peaceful fashion. You want castles? Slovenia has hundreds of them, including Predjama Castle, near Postojna, less than an hour’s drive from Ljubljana. Predjama is as dramatically situated as any castle you have ever seen; a white 16th-century fortress literally clinging to the side of a perfectly vertical cliff high in the mountains. Some friends and I found our way there along pristine roads so well marked, and so barren of traffic, that it would have taken a concerted effort to get lost. And we arrived to find most of the merely two dozen or so parking spaces empty and not a tour bus in sight. We sat alone at a picnic table that afforded the perfect viewpoint in silence broken only by wind and birdsong. You want hills tumbling to a royal blue sea? Slovenia can do that, too, even though the stretch of the Adriatic that belongs to it is only about 30 miles long. There are no truly wide, respectable beaches here, but there are old, labyrinthine cities like Piran, which has Venetian Gothic architecture and nestles close against the water. Because you are at the apex of the Adriatic, on the narrow curve where Italy becomes Slovenia and Slovenia then becomes Croatia, you can see across a carpet of blue distant hills and, on a clear day like the one when I was there, one can see even more distant mountains, sometimes dusted with snow. You want open-air cafes? Ljubljana has scores of them. The local residents fill them in the morning to drink cappuccino, in the evening to drink respectable (and cheap) Slovenian wine and UMOM PS “KITE SUPERMARKET 12503 ndDISON dVL LAKEWOOD. OHIO 44107 216 521 4619 ATTENTION WEST SIDE RESIDENT: WE HAVE A LARGE SELECTION OF A VARIETY OF EUROPEAN COUNTRY (SLOVENIA, SERBIA, CROATIA, ROMANIA, HUNGARY, BULGARIA, MACEDONIA, BOSNIA, HOLLAND, SWITZERLAND... ’ ETC....) GROCERIES, LUNCH MEAT, 7 VARIETIES OF SARDINES, FETA CHEESE, TEA, COFFEE, GREEN COFFEE BEANS, MINERAL WATER (RADENSKA, BORSEL, ST. ANDREW), SOFT DRINKS, COOKIES, CANDY, CHOCOLATE, JUICE, NOODLES, BEER, AND LARGE SELECTION OF WINE AND MUCH, MUCH MORE... - WE SELL EUROPEAN TELEPHONE CARDS. - MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 8 AM- 8PM • SUNAY 9 AM TO 6 PM tasty (and cheap) Slovenian beer, and at various points in between to eat their beloved gelato (ice cream). You cannot walk more than 25 yards through the center of Ljubljana without running into yet another gelato stand, and late into the night the lines are a dozen people long. You want shopping? Ljubljana again obliges, not with the high style of Paris or Rome, but With its own delights, like mid-range Italian shoes at low-range prices. There are no statistics to back this up, but I would wager that Ljubljana has more shoe stores per capita than any other city, and I admit that my friend Anne and I sampled a good many of them. A fun and funky pair of men’s shoes runs between $40 and $75; easily half the price that a similar pair would cost in the United States; and women’s shoes run from $20 to $60. Yes, I snapped up one or two; O.K., four pairs, allowing me to interact fully with local shop-keepers and take an accurate measure of the courtesy of Slovenians. They are as friendly and helpful as any people I have met. One of the benefits of traveling through a country that would like to have more tourists than it does is the warmth of your reception, and I was constantly startled and moved by the politeness I encountered. One night Anne, another friend and I were running late and called a restaurant on Lake Bled to see if it would keep its kitchen, which usually closed at 10 p.m., open just a bit longer than that. By the time we arrived, at 10:10 p.m., we were the only people there. No matter: they made and served us our meals at a leisurely pace, and when they overheard us say that the lighting was awfully bright, the chandeliers were instantly turned off. We dined in the softer light of the small fixtures along the walls and drank until after 1 a.m. When Anne and I asked the reception clerk at the hotel housing the restaurant if he could call a taxi to take us to our own hotel, which was about two miles away, we learned that it was too late. He promptly and eagerly went to fetch his own car, gave us a ride and accepted a tip only after we threatened to bludgeon him with recently purchased Italian footwear if he did not. In Ljubljana I left the indoor light in my rented t Volkswagen Passant on and awoke one morning to find the battery dead. An Avis representative came to my rescue in less than a half hour and graciously said nothing about my culpability in the unfortunate turn of events until the moment we were parting company. Even then, he seemed pained. “Not to blame you,” he said in halting English. “Not to say anything bad. The lights; you must turn them off.” The friendliness Slovenians, many of whom speak at least a modicum of (Continued on page 5) Independent and Catered Living A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY • Private garden apartments • Housekeeping • Planned activities • Transportation • 24 hr. Emergency Pull Cord • Free Laundry Facilities • Nutritious Meals • No endowment or entrance fee Call us today far a lunch andlour 25900 Euclid Avenue Euclid, Ohio 44132 261-8383 Unheralded Gem on the Adriatic (Continued from page 4) English, and the lack of tourists are only two of the reasons it is so pleasant to navigate Slovenia. It is one of the cleanest, most orderly, most efficient countries I have visited, the result, perhaps, of its Bavarian lineage. Slovenia was, for much of its history, ruled by the Hapsburg dynasty. The highways are immaculate, and they even have their own version of E-ZPass to speed Slovenes through the tolls. The grasses beside the roadways and the landscaping outside buildings are impeccably maintained; I never heard and saw more lawn mowers and week wackers in my life. Well organized, nicely stocked grocery stores are fairly easy to find, and no-body troubles himself too much with demanding that a v'sitor have Slovenian money at the ready. Taxi drivers were happy to accept American dollars and to fig-nre out a reasonable ex-change rate on the spot. Automated teller machines w*th reliable links to Ameri-Can banks are everywhere. Although there are pleasant destinations throughout Slovenia, including a wine region in the northeast, I confined myself to the west-ern band of the country, '''hich is the most tnountain-®Us and prettiest, using jnbljana as a base. From ere, neither the highest Al-Pme peaks nor any of the °wns on the coast, Piran ^dh its labyrinth-like alleys, hJs the most Old World f arm; is more than a two->°Ur drive. Staying in Jnbljana and taking day Ps was a perfect way to eeP from constantly pack-8 and unpacking. You °uld easily do this for a ^eek or longer without get-^ng bored, but a stay of two th^u S buck up against e bounds of things to do. Only one of my jaunts t, Ved disappointing, and hj3! Was a trip to the cele- Where tCaVeS in Post°jna’ •nt C tounsts are corralled 0 a nearly two-hour ad- nture by train and on foot. ^8 Past one ice-like ntion of limestone after another, I realized that while a creepy, craggy cave is almost always a good thing, you can indeed get too much of it. You are also not going to be wowed by the food you eat in Slovenia. Some of the local dishes: Karst ham, fried cheese with tartar sauce, more trout than you can shake a fishing pole at; are not about to appear on Manhattan menus, but you can, thanks to the country’s proximity to Italy, almost always find decent pizza and passable pasta. I had a delicious spaghetti carbonara in a restaurant in Ljubljana named Prima Donna, which also captured the local tendency to get a bit carried away with the names of dishes. The theme there was divas, broadly interpreted. Appetizers included the Bette Davis and Brigitte Bardot salads and the Golda Meir vegetable soup, while entrees included the Maria Callas fusilli, the Gertrude Stein spaghetti, the Evita Peron risotto and the Frida Kahlo duck breasts. I kept looking for the Sharon Stone tenderloin. But do not let that tendency cast Ljubljana as provincial. A lively arts scene includes a local opera company, an orchestra and a music festival that runs all summer long and fills the streets with all manner of song. Walking to dinner one night, I passed a stage where Miriam Makeba was giving a free performance to no more than 100 people in a city park not unlike Washington Square in Greenwich Village. Walking back to my hotel two nights later, I had to push my way through thousands of Slovenes gathered to hear a local pop band in the same place. I did a lot of walking, and in Ljubljana, as in most European capitals, that was the most fun of all. Although not all of this relatively compact metropolis of about: 330,000 people holds interest, the old part of the city, which lies at the center, does, and its most picturesque streets lie along the Ljubljanica River, which is latticed with stone bridges and hemmed by weeping international program 1560 on Your A.M. Dial on WATJ Your Host Mario Kaucic American and International Selections Saturdays at Noon ... 156° WATJ • Box 776 • Chardon, Ohio 44024 y- j 1-440-286-1560 ® 1-800-946-1560 ® Fax: 1-440-286-2727 willows. The buildings here include Renaissance, Secessionist and Art Nouveau masterpieces. If the interiors of the churches are not as grand and ornate as those elsewhere in Europe, the exteriors are sublime, and the palette of the old city: mustard yellow, pale green and terra-cotta red, is exceedingly easy on the eyes. Right near the nucleus of all this beauty is a raucous open-air market in Vodnikov Trg (or square) And Stari Trg, which is more of a street than a square, offers the pleasure of stepping back centuries in time only to discover up-to-the-minute shopping, including L’Occitane and Fossil stores, and sleek, minimalist bars that might have been designed by Ian Schrager. If you walk from Stari Trg up Gornji Trg and hang a left just before the Church of St. Florian, you will find a narrow, steep pathway up to Ljubljana Castle that offers a superb view of the city. The bad news is that you cannot fly direct to Ljubljana from any American city; you have to connect. But once you land, any inconveniences will be forgotten, because there are no more in store. Imagine a modem airport so compact and user-friendly that the rental car counter is just a few steps from the gate and your car is brought to the curb. And imagine a setting for the airport so picturesque that you find yourself tempted to sit for a few minutes at the sidewalk cafe out front, because there is so little bustle and it provides a sumptuous view of the foothills of the Alps. Slovenia is that charmed. Because it remains, for now, unspoiled, it guarantees that you will be de-lighted.____________________ Frank Bruni is a White House correspondent for The Times. St. Jude Parish Festival On Sunday, Sept. 2 St. Jude Parish, 590 Poplar Street, Elyria, Ohio will be having their annual Festival and Chicken BBQ dinner on the parish grounds from 12 noon until 9 p.m. There are activities for all ages and plenty of food. The pastor is the Rev. Frank P. Kosem. Help Wanted Part Time General Office Work Flexible Hours Computer Literate (216) 486-0800 Visiting Slovenia T ...... ^he prettiest regions of Slovenia have distinct seasons, so visitors should time their trips according to their tastes. In winter there is plenty of snow and a number of good ski runs in the Alps. Spring and fall are pleasant, while July and August are Slovenia’s most crowded months (though the crush of tourists is never like that encountered in Florence or Barcelona). United States citizens need a valid passport but not a visa. The Lonely Planet series of travel books publishes a particularly good guide to Slovenia. For further information contact one of the travel agencies who advertise in this newspaper. Getting There There are no direct commercial flights from the United States to Slovenia. Travelers are most likely to be routed through London, Munich or Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris or Vienna. The second leg of the flight, from another European capital to Ljubljana, is most likely to be on Adria Airways. Ljubljana is only about 180 miles from Vienna and 115 miles from Venice. Getting Around By far the fastest and most. efficient way to get around Slovenia is by car. Major American car rental agencies including Hertz, Avis and National have counters both at the airport outside Ljubljana and in the city, and reservations can be made through the companies American offices. Where to Stay So much of what a visitor would want to do or see in Slovenia is accessible, in just a drive of an hour or two from Ljubljana, that it makes sense to stay there. Perhaps at one of these hotels: Grand Hotel Union There are about 230 rooms in this gorgeous Art Nouveau building built in 1905. And the location, amid a cluster of similar architectural masterpieces in the older part of the city, is unbeatable. Rates: about $135 a night, prices can fluctuate, dropping in winter. Hotel Sion Best Western This 171 room hotel also has a terrific location, on a busy, modem block along the periphery of the old city and near dozens of stores. It is several grades above the typical American Best Western, with very comfortable, modem rooms, and as a bonus, a row of parking spaces that are often available free. Rates: $103 to $118 a night in summer; including breakfast. Lev Inter-Continental, With 173 rooms, this is probably the most contemporary and upscale of Ljubljana’s hotels, but it is situated a few blocks farther from the old city, in a more nondescript patch of the city’s business center. Rooms are about $175 in summer, less with special summer rates and in other seasons._____________________ Thanks to Stan Osenar and John Vidmar for faxing this information. When You Want to Travel... Then Contact Travel Experts at Hansa Travel Service C.S.C. Travel Group Travel Max 911 E. 185 St, Cleveland, Ohio 216-692-1700 ask for Boris or Suzie If you are interested in buying imported food items or musical cassettes, videos from Slovenia, then visit Patria Imports at 794 E. 185 St. Cleveland, OH 44119 phone: 216 531-6720 On the West Side visit Hansa Import Store and Travel Agency 2717 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113 631-6585 American Home on Internet You can e-mail notices articles, information directly to the American Home newspaper at ah@buckeyev ki jih računa pošta za vsak povrnjen oziroma ne dostavljen izvod lista. Uporabljajte ta obrazec za posredo-vanje potrebnih informacij. Nov naslov lihe ^asloc 1Vlesto, Država, Zip Star naslov ^tar naslov ________ Mcsto, država, zip Drive in - or Walk In BRONKOS Drive-in Beverage 510 East 200th St. DMH Corp. Euclid, Ohio 44119 531-8844 Imported and Domestic Beer and Wine Soft Drinks - Milk - Ice - Snacks Imported Slovenian Wines Radenska Mineral Water -=> We have all Ohio Lottery Games 4= Open Mon. - Sat. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday (No wine sold) 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Owner - David Heuer 7. avgusta je po težki bolezni izteklo mlado življenje Mateja Širclja. Pri Mariji Pomagaj smo z njegovo mamo Anico večkrat molili zanj. V tem času je končal zemsko poslanstvo Leon Kossar, torontski novinar, ki je z ženo Ženo ustanovil in vodil Metro International Caravan od 1. 1969 naprej, ko je s Paviljonom Ljubljana postavil slovensko ime na torontski zemljevid. Naj mu Stvarnik povrne z ljubeznijo, ki jo je s svojim življenjem izkazoval številnim naseljencem v Kanadi. NOVI GROBOVI (nada(jevaqje s str. 9) Eleanor Karpinski Dne 11. avgusta je na domu svoje hčerke Tine Girod v Painesville Twp. u-mrla 86 let stara Eleanor Karpinski, rojena Gasiewski v Clevelandu, mati Antoi-nettt ‘ ur,d (mož Sutton), Therese Karpinski in Mary Abt, stara mati, sestra Julije Cwiklinski in že pok. Albina, od 1. 1951 do 1970 lastovala in vodila Karpin-ski’s Tavern na E. 79 St., v letih 1978-1982 j? Bila zaposlena pri Nosane« pokami, v letih 1982-1990 (ca pri The Country GiMR na E. 40 St. Pogreb bo v soboto, 18. avgusta, v oskrbi Želetovega zavoda, kjer bodo pogrebni obredi ob 11. dop. s pokopom na pokopališču Riverside v Paines-villu. Ure kropljenja bodo jutri, v petek od 2. do 9. zvečer. Helen T. Marinič Dne 10. avgusta je umrla Helen T. Marinič, rojena Janša, vdova po Edwar-du, mati Thomasa, Mary Ann Herrmann, Donne Marinič in že pok. Edwar-da, 10-krat stara mati, 3-krat prastara mati, sestra Dorothy Dever. Pogreb bo to soboto, 18. avg., dop. ob 10.30 v cerkvi St. Mary of the Assumption v Mentorju. Martin J. Yankovich Umrl je 75 let stari Martin J. Yankovich, brat Anne Fiala ter že pok. Mary Loss, Helen Harvey in Josepha, veteran 2. svetovne vojne, v kateri je služil v ameriški vojski v Evropi. Pogreb je bil 14. avgusta v oskrbi Zak zavoda na St. Clair Ave., kjer so bili pogrebni obredi, sledil je pokop na pokopališču Sv. Križa. Misijonska srečanja in pomenki 1390. Spomladi je misijonar Jože Šomen, ki deluje v državi Zaire, Afrika, prosil za pomoč mizarski šoli pri nabavi stroja. Oglasilo se je več dobrotnikov in Ani Tushar je poslala nabrano vsoto, za kar se g. Šotne zahvaljuje v naslednjem pismu: “Spoštovana! Bogu hvala in Vam osebno, pa prav tako vsem dobrotnikom. Včeraj sem prejel Vaše pismo, napisano na velikonočni ponedeljek, kjer mi sporočate, da ste poslali tri čeke v skupni vrednosti $3300, za potrebe naše šole. Z isto pošto sem prejel sporočilo od g. Devetiz iz Belgije, da je čeke prejel in jih dal na banko. Menda je bilo naslovljeno na moje ime, kar lahko malo otežkoči izplačilo, toda upam, da bo urejeno. Vsekakor hvala za pomoč, za skrbi in za molitve, saj sem prepričan, da jih veliko darujete. Te slednje so bistveno pomembne, saj “... če Gospod ne zida hiše, se zaman trudijo zidarji..." opominja Božja Beseda. Kot vidite, smo s prejemanjem pošte zelo v zaostanku. Tukaj namreč pošta sploh ne dela. Vso pošto dobivam preko Belgije, torej, kar je poslano na našo prokuro in potem kdo, ki potuje, vse to prinese. Seveda pa je prva stopnja, da pride do Kinshase, potem pa je treba čakati drugo priložnost za pot od Kinshase do Mbandaka, za kar je potrebno spet letalskega potnika (saj ceste med Kinsha-so in Mbadako ni - problem je velikih močvirjih), potem še teh dobrih 100 km do naše postaje, kjer pa terensko vozilo sosednjega misijona (ali včasih našega, ki potuje na dva tedna ali še bolj poredko). Tu smo res v gozdu in čas je na razpolago. Da, čas je na razpolago, toda meni zelo napolnjen z obveznostmi. Misijon, ki šteje okrog 27.000 ljudi in ima 26 vasi, se razteza v dolžino okrog 45 km in v širino kakih 30 km. Od tega je 7 vasi ob jezeru in rekah, kamor lahko pridem peš ali s čolnom. Druge vasi obiskujem večinoma z motorjem, ki je sicer dotrajan, toda slovenska MIVA mi je že odobrila novi motor. Običajno obisk vasi traja en dan in tam prespim, če je pa tam kaka gradnja ali drugo opravilo, ostanem tudi več časa. Posebna skrb v pastoralnem in socialnem pogledu so nam Pigmejci. Teh je skoraj 40% prebivalstva. V zadnjih treh letih smo organizirali več tečajev za “prebuditev” Pig-mejcev, za njihovo vzgojo, skrb za poljedelstvo itd. Neki zunanji znak napredka je menda v tem, da imamo v štirih vaseh cerkvene pevske zbore iz vrst Pigmejcev, lani pa smo poslali na enoletni pastoralni tečaj za katehiste dva Pigmejca, ki sta se na tečaju zelo dobro obnesla. Tako se to silno revno pa tudi zapostavljeno ljudstvo le začenja zavedati svojega človeškega dostojanstva, božjega otroštva in se vključuje v Božje življenje. Ob vseh teh skrbeh še skrb in veselje mizarske šole. Skrb, saj veste, kaj pomeni držati celo šolo, ko država za to ne migne s prstom. Učenci so iz revnih družin, nekateri zapustijo šolo zgolj zaradi revščine. Učenci prihajajo tudi iz vasi, oddaljenih do 150 km ali več, in starši jim le redkokdaj kaj pošljejo,- misijon pa tudi ne zmore prevzeti vse njihove oskrbe. Nekaj že pomagamo, toda potrebe so prevelike. Tisti pa, ki zmorejo breme, tudi pridno napredujejo. Izdelki so priča njihove tehniške vzgoje. Oprema, za katero ste Vi zdaj prispevali, bo zelo izboljšala njihovo šolanje. Ob pogedu na resnost in hvaležnost mnogih učencev, je vsa ta skrb spremenjena v veselje. Iskreni Bog plačaj vsem dobrotnikom! Prisrčno Vas pozdravljam: Jože Šomen.” Priložen je še listič, kjer piše: “Vsem dobrotnikom, ki ste vedno pozorni na delo v misijonih, ki redno pomagate in ste se še posebej odzvali na klic za pomoč naši šoli: iskreni Bog plačaj! V Mooto 7-6-2001, Jože Šomen. Gospa, prosim, če lahko posredujete to zahvalo dobrotnikom, ker mi je nemogoče se zahvaliti osebno vsem, ki ste jih omenili v pismu.” Priloženi sta tudi dve fotografiji, ki ju vidite na tej strani. V vsakega misijonarja je Bog položil veliko ljubezni, saj drugače ne bi mogel zdržati v takih težkih razmerah, kot je opisano v gornjem pismu. Zares drži: da je veliko poklicanih, a malo izvoljenih. Vključimo tudi tega misijo-narja v naših molitvah, da bo zdržal na tej postojanki in pripeljal tudi te ovčice k Jezusu. 'Jt Zgoraj: Misijon Mooto, Kongo, 1999. Cerkvica, zgrajena s pomočjo učencev. Spodaj: Hišica v vasi Nkumba, kjer g. Šomen tudi prespi. Vas je tudi del misijona Mooto, posnetek je bil napravljen februarja 2000, na desni je seveda misijonar Jože Šomen sam. Z Madagaskarja se je oglasil misijonar Tone Kerin in piše: “Najlepša in iskrena zahvala za dar, ki ste mi ga poslali v Pariz. Bog Vam povrni za trud in skrb, ki jo imate za nas v misijonih. Prav tako in najlepša zahvala ge. Pretnar za dar. Verjetno ste brali v Misijonskih Obzorjih o moji gradnji novih cerkva. Trenutno gradim kar dve cerkvi in, če Bog da, bosta gotovi to leto. Vaša pomoč gre vsa v to gradnjo. Z gotovostjo Vam lahko povem, da je za Madagaskar edina rešitev in upanje pravo in močno krščansko občestvo, šele na to lahko mislimo o drugačni pomoči. Vera namreč človeka notranje spremeni in mu da odprtost za vse dobro in plemenitejše. Želim Vam veliko uspeha in sreče ter božjega blagoslova pri Vašem delu. Lep pozdrav vsem in iskrena HVALA, Bog povrni, Tone Kerin.” Ta misijonar ima veliko razgledanost o življenju Malga-šev. Hodil je obiskovati jetnike in se marsikaj naučil, kako delati z ljudmi na teh obiskih. Pred dvema letoma je bil tudi v našem mestu na kratkem obisku. Tudi za tega misijonarja ne pozabimo moliti, da bo vzdržal pri svojem delu, ko gradi poslopje cerkve, gradi tudi na duhovnem polju. Lep misijonski pozdrav tudi od vseh sodelujočih! Marica Lavriša 1004 Dillewood Rd. Cleveland, OH 44119 Vnebovzeta Na stolčku sedi sredi raja pa verne dušice napaja. Taka je bila nekdanja kateheza o Božji Materi. Priznajmo, da ljubka in mila. Vsa mariologija in teološka učenost ne premore skromne modrosti, kakršno je iz naivne predstave iztisnila verna pamet. Kakšen prestol! Navaden stolček, mogoče pručica. Nobenih soban, le tedensko okolje, kjer skoraj gotovo Šumija potok in tudi senčnega zelenja ne manjka. Nič dvorjanov, same potrpežljive žejne duše. Marija Vnebovzeta jih vztrajna in nikoli utrujena krepča z nebeško studenčnico. Vnebovzeta, ne vneboho-dna. Zemeljskega kroga ni prešla, ampak je bila dvignjena nadenj. Odnos Sin-Mati se je vzajemno izrazil v vzgonski breztežnosti. Oba se dvigata, toda vsak v svoji biti. Sin iz lastne moči, Mati kot dvignjena, vzeta navzgor. Sociolog bo povedal, da po patriarhalnem načelu. Marija je namreč ženska in pritiče j‘ podrejena vloga. Vse Sveto pismo da jo izkazuje. Nikoli izpeta pesem: kdo je prvi, kdo drugi, kdo več in kdo manj? Pod obokom neba je vse napeto na tetivo tekmovalnosti. Nad lokom neba, kjer duše ne potrebujejo ne hladilnika ne tekstila, je bolj preprosto. Za večnost-ne usluge zadošča le vstopnica, tako imenovani sanc-tokard. Eurocard in podobne vzorce minljive vrednosti pa tam božji biljeter gladko zavrne. Dogma o vnebovzetju ■ Nad lebdenjem nihče več ne zavija z očmi. Izpričano je. Vnebovzetje je res nekaj več kot pridvignjenost-A počakajmo. Nemara Pa znanost kdaj dobiti vero? 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