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It is hard to believe that We are already in the month °f October. But yes, it is October and all signs and activities alert us to the fact. Our days now will be shorter and colder. Time for winter sports, football, skiing, skating. But, oh yes, we still have a short span of exciting baseball with us; first the Yankees and our Indians series, and then the finale, the World Series.
Will the chilling cold,
damp rain and possible snow and ice hold off until the World Series games are finished? Let’s hope so. I cannot visualize baseball being played in the snow. But whatever comes; let us hope the Indians win it all. Right?
As I write this, my thoughts drift to tomorrow, October 6th, the day that our group heads for the Amish Country. The Amish tours are always the best of tours, (Continued on page 3)
David Stolle weds Ashley Zlatoper
Ashley Dawn Zlatoper and Steven David Stolle Were married at the Uni Verity of Virginia Chapel in Charlottesville, VA., March 21, 1998.
The bride is the daughter °f Admiral and Mrs. Ronald Joseph Zlatoper of Wayne, a. The groom is the son of ^r. and Mrs. Steven Daniel Stolle of Sudbury.
The maid of honor was 'Kristin Manton of Atlanta.
The bridesmaids were £e,li Greer of Lexington, pY; Kelly Petriccione of ^oronado, Calif.; Mary yltch*e of Charlottesville,
, a,> Karen Seminara of Mahwah, NJ; Mathilde Tis-p0t of Charlottesville, Va.; Pristine Wade of Atlanta. Greg Stolle of Sudbury
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Groomsmen were Doug °novan of New York City; orrey Hawkins of Atlanta; b ris Henderson of Atlanta; ^rad Pulver of Washington,
■> formerly of Sudbury;
David Weiss of New York City, formerly of Sudbury;
■ and Michael Zlatoper of Wayne, Pa., brother of the bride.
Alex Chen, a long-time friend of the groom, played the violin.
A reception followed at the Farmington Country Club. After a wedding trip to Aruba, the couple is residing in Atlanta and Charlottesville.
The bride graduated from the University of Virginia in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. She is currently a third-year medical student at the University of Virginia.
The groom graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1991 and the University of Virginia in 1995 with a degree in psychology. He is the owner of the Chattahoochee Plantation Tennis Club and the Universal Tennis Academy in Atlanta.
Ashley and David Stolle
Wickliffe’s good neighbor Maria Frank takes some time out of her busy day to visit with her grandchildren, left to right, Frankie Blaise Fulir, age 3 years (Frank and Anita (Frank) Fulir, parents), Jacob Albert Fulir, age 1 year, and Abigail Claire Koerwitz, age 10 months (parents Paul and Margaret (Frank) Koerwitz.
A Good Neighbor And A Good Friend
By Larece Galer
The News Herald
Maria Grcar Frank never expected to be rewarded for something she has done all of her life.
In Wickliffe’s close-knit neighborhood of Rockefeller Road where residents have lived a long time, they watch out for each other’s homes.
But Frank has taken this dedication for neighbors a bit further over the past 29 years.
She recently was awarded the Good Neighbor Award by the city’s Recreation Department. Nominated by a letter written by her neighbor, Shirley Dodaro, she was described as being, “a kind and thoughtful person, very concerned for her neighbors.”
The community has been selecting a resident for the award since 1980.
The winner is selected through nominations made by other residents.
Dodaro, a mother of three small girls, said Frank is always there to lend a hand.
“If we need anything at all she’s there,” she said. “My girls think the world of her.”
Dodaro said when her last child was born Frank prepared a dinner for the family.
Frank, a retired General Motors employee, said she enjoys helping her neighbors and caring for her grandchildren.
But she really didn’t think she was doing anything special until the city presented her with the award.
“I was shocked beyond words; I was so touched,” Frank said. “I can’t believe that Shirley took the time to write the letter when she is so busy with her own small children.”,
Frank admits she feels a little guilty since her neighbor Shirley and her husband, David, help her out, too.
“He helps with snow removal in the winter and helps cut the grass in the summer,” she said. “We have a large lot, and it would take two hours to cut it without David and his tractor.
“It’s easy to be good to people when they are good" to you,” she said. “It just seems natural to me; I was raised to be kind to others.”
- Art Guild Election Results; Gets Ready for Fall Showing -
The Slovenian National Art Guild held their annual elections last month with the result everyone was reelected with the exception of Recording Secretary Cheryl Pittard who resigned. We are still in need of a recording secretary.
The annual Pot Luck Dinner was well attended and a great success.
The Fall Arts and Crafts Show will be on Sunday, Nov. 22 at the Slovenian Society Home in Euclid, Ohio. Exhibition space is open to both members and
non-members. Show hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with setups starting about 10 a.m. Most displays will have items for sale, but we also encourage those who wish to only display or demonstrate. Refreshments will be served and entertainment is planned.
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By John Mercina
DO YOU WANT TO BE A SAINT ?
A story was told in last Sunday’s sermon about a grouchy elderly nun in her 80’s, who prayed in front of St.Theresa’s statue on daily basis. One morning this nun was overheard saying to the statue of the 20 some years old saint: “If you were my age you would not be a saint either”. What makes one a saint? It is not age or race or color of your skin. It is not individual’s job or job title. It does not matter if you are married or single; good-looking or having a face that only your mother would love.
Webster defines a saint as “one of God’s chosen”. That makes all of us at least candidates for sainthood. If you decide to treat others as you wish to be treated and you decide to do something good for those less fortunate than you, then you have made the initial steps to qualify as a saint. All of us receive daily opportunities to act in a saintly manner. It is too bad that some of us apparently do not care to become saints. Think about it: If YOU were to become a saint, many more people would call upon you and ask you to help them.
Slovenians could use a saint IT COULD BE YOU !
2 Jim’s Journal
By Jim Debevec
Now that I’m getting older I started reading ‘health’ articles. The other day I was reading about the importance of a functioning sense of smell.
I must be in good shape; my sense of smell is terrific, especially when I’m in a crowd and an old-timer has eaten a garlic for breakfast.
Even if I couldn’t smell, I can tell by the reaction of others. People start looking around, trying to discover the source of the irritant. Usually the culprit tries to throw everyone off the scent by looking angelic.
The article says the “Sense of smell accounts for 90 percent of your ability to detect flavors, and that’s important when it comes to eating well.” I must be getting a better sense of smell because as I grow older I tend to eat more than previously. When I was younger, my father used to call me “quick silver,” not because I looked like the Lone Ranger’s horse, but because I was always running around and didn’t feel like eating much.
When it was dinner time, he had to send out scouts to find me. Now they don’t have to look at all; at 7 a.m., noon and 7 p.m. I’m sitting at the dinner table with a knife and fork in hand. I was fortunate to have married a good cook. Everything Madeline makes, tastes wonderful. She’s the one who taught Emeril Lagasse
how to prepare a festive meal.
To top it all; we attend as many benefit banquets as we can, which in the Cleveland Slovenian community means once or twice a week. All the cooks - they’re sensational. The food is so good, everyone raves about it. Then the
waitresses come around and offer you more, until you can’t eat any more. You’re lucky if you can get out of your chair.
My sniffer is all right.
But I read the health articles, anyhow. I keep hoping that something worthwhile and new and healthy comes along that tastes good, too, like salt. I go to the doctor and he says, “Don’t eat any salt.” How can you not eat salt. Everything has salt. The soup has salt, the salad has salt, the potatoes have salt, * the vegetables have salt, the meat has salt, the dessert has salt. Everything has salt.
In olden days they said, “You’re the salt of the earth.” It meant you were someone extraordinary. Horses eat salt, cows eat salt, they leave salt for deer and bison (buffalo). What’s wrong with salt? Most of the folks I know are living twice as long as they used to. I asked Stan Erzen, (he’s over 90), what’s the secret to your longevity. He says, “I drink a pint of wine every day, and eat everything that tastes good, and chase the girls.” My doctor says I can’t do two of them and my wife forbids the other.
Another article says not to eat sugar. Everything good has sugar, for example: pies, strudels, ice cream, cookies, marshmallows. When I took a flat-bottom boat tour of the Everglades a few years ago, the guide fed the alligators marshmallows. In Iowa, they feed the bears marshmallows; but we humans aren’t supposed to eat the tasty morsel.
The teen-agers. They’re smart. I see them in the malls. They’re all drinking bottled water. They are health conscious. They’re going to live forever. And their teeth - they’re beautiful like movie stars. All flouride and no sugar.
Now they have a new fad: you look on the grocery shelf and half the items are non-fat or low fat. A year ago I started eating all the non-fat and low fat food I could find. What happened? .
I gained 10 pounds. All the fat was gone but instead they loaded it with sugar so you could taste it.
They tell me to eat ginkgo biloba to improve my memory. Guess what? After six months I ate all the pills then forgot to buy some more.
The article said if you have a good sense of smell you’ll eat more fruits and vegetables. I don’t know.
My smeller must have kicked into a higher gear. Now I eat just about everything I didn’t eat as a kid. I
now love broccoli, asparagus stalks, pasta with vegetables, pizza, mushrooms, green and black olives. They say when you get older, you don’t need to eat as much because you don’t move around like you once did. I have news for you. The doctors thought of that. Now they tell me to exercise.
The doctor says, “What do you do?” I said, “I walk.” He says, “run.”
He says, “How far?”
I said, “A mile.”
He says, “Two miles.”
He says, “How long”
I say, “A half-hour.”
He says, “Fifteen minutes.”
He’s a man of few words. I’m a patient of a tormentor.
I said I do 25 push-ups every other day. He says,
“Do 30.” What happens? I do all those things and I get hungry.
You can’t win. I’m waiting around for a new fad that says you can eat all the ice cream, salt,, sugar, potato chips, then sit on the couch and watch the ball game all night long.
Whatever happened to the snowballs? They were really great. They contained marshmallows, sugar, cream, vegetable oil, shortening, coconut flakes and cake. In the winter they were white, on St. Patrick’s Day they were green, at Christmas they were red, for Sweetest Day they’re pink, and for Halloween they were orange. I loved them. But you don’t see them too much. Maybe they sell out fast or don’t make them any more. I don’t
know. Everybody should live a little and have the privilege of enjoying snowballs again.
Rudy Flis writes about hot dogs, growing potatoes, making pancakes, yet he’s skinny as a rail.
When I was a kid I used to play ball all day, then go sit on the porch with our neighbor Grandpa Vouman. We’d sit and rock back and forth and talk about things.
A few weeks ago I had to call up 15 Senior Citizens. Guess what? Nobody's home. They’re all running around somewhere. All I get is an answering machine. I leave a message to call my answering machine. What a world, the machines are having a good time talking to each other!
It’s great to go to church on Sundays. You get to see somebody. Whatever happened to all the Grandpa Vouman’s? Today, everybody’s riding around somewhere. Going from city to city, state to state,, visiting their kids, taking tours to Las Vegas, and Branson, spending their money.
The next generation.
They’re beautiful; they’re going to live to be 200.1 can hear them now at 150 -complaining because they can’t find a decent job. And you won’t have to leave a message on an answering machine. You’ll be able to talk with them anywhere in the universe with the personal tele-communicator.
This past weekend there were so many dinners in the Slovenian community of Cleveland that none of them really did well. Clubs should send in the dates of their activities 6 months to a year early so we can publish them and not have groups stepping on each other’s toes.
A few years ago we heard Dr. Jonas Salk speak at the Salk Institute in Carlsbad, California. They’re doing research to determine which foods are beneficial for preventing disease. Science is finally learning that the food we eat plays an impor-tant part in the health of our bodies.
It’s a wonderful life; I can smell the snowballs now, if only I could find them.
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How Do You Say ‘No’ To a Nun?
By Rudy Flis
Boy, have I had a busy Weekend this Saturday and Sunday. Not exciting, but just busy. And do you know why? This busy weekend was caused by a nun; you know, a religious nun.
Have you ever lived next to a nun? I do. Now I you, how do you say n°” to a nun? Maybe you can, but I can’t.
.This weekend Corpus Christi parish had a pancake and sausage breakfast. Sister bralen, rhy neighbor, was 'n charge.
Now, when Sister bralen looks at me, she not °n*y sees a neighbor, she sees a dishwasher, a pancake dipper and a coffee maker, ^ster is able to do this with ltlany other of my fellow Positioners, also. Then she groups us together, as you '''euld a puzzle, and we are er staff, the success or ailure of her breakfast.
Because of many dedicated people, Sister’s . reakfast was a success, ^eluding her bake sale, held "dth the breakfast.
Returning home from 0rpus Christi’s kitchen yesterday afternoon, I found derese, my wife, preparing 0 dlake kolachky’s for the
bake sale. I mixed the dough, and helped pinch the kulachky before baking. There went our Saturday.
Before 6 a.m. Sunday morning, we were in Corpus Christi’s kitchen making ready for a busy morning. Breakfast was served from 8 a.m. until noon. All proceeds were for the home bound of our parish. For all involved, it was a work of love, for our parish, for our home bound, and for Sister Geralen.
If you sit and eat with us after our Polka Mass on Saturday evening, January 30, 1999, celebrated by Fr. George Balasko, the Polka Priest, you will see Sister Geralen with her beautiful baskets, stuffed with all sorts of goodies. Again, the proceeds from the beautiful baskets will be for the home bound.
We of Corpus Christi parish, not just the home bound, who include Sister Geralen’s mother, are blessed to have the likes of Sister among us.
Tonight, all involved in the breakfast weekend, I should sleep well. We stopped the hands of time in our busy schedule to help our own, and isn’t that what life is really all about?
'KOLINE' Are Back Again
K Slovenska Pristava Saturday Schools of St. J'bsioners Club (SPPC) Mary's and St. Vitus 6*N hold its annual fall parishes, and many other QVcnt 'Koline', on Sunday, numerous causes and , ctober 11. It is a community projects.
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Serving will begin at 1 and continue until 4 j^tn. The dinner will Hfi}* one big rice or »sausaye and one link
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which is for the person who will be taking care of the grounds and maintenance of Pristava. All the work on the house was done by volunteer members of Pristava.
So come and enjoy a delicious homemade meal in a beautiful autumn
proceeds will go atmosphere at Slovenska uucards the financial Pristava. „	. ,T
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Left to right, Phil Ribarich, Frank Kapla, Tony Baznik, Joe Zgonc, and Stanley Frank
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so our members say. And it is never a problem to fill the bus to capacity. The Amish trip will end the touring season for this year for our club.
Back in August, member Mary Primožič successfully underwent quadruple bypass surgery. After a period of convalescence, at her daughter’s home, she is now back at home and we are happy to report that she is doing well. We hope to see her back at our meetings very soon. Mary was a
regular and very seldom • missed a meeting.
Our “Picnic in the Park” was an enjoyable event again this year. Valerie Baznik was asked to handle all of the necessary arrangements and did a splendid job. We thank her and aU who assisted her. There was plenty of everything. Thanks to our musicians Joe Zgonc, Tony Baznik, and Frank Rich for their entertainment.
As planned, we arranged to have Mike Vidmar with us. Since Mike’s birthday was just a few days away, we just had to have an Ann Tomsick cake to celebrate his 102nd. Yes, that’s right, 102! Mike is a resident at the Slovene Home for the Aged on Neff Road and truly enjoys his stay there. May he continue in the same spirit for the rest of his days. God bless him.
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At the Picnic in the Park, left to right, are: Stanley Frank, Mike Vidmar (102nd birthday), Jean Legan (Mike’s daughter), and Ed Kamak (President of St. Clair Pensioners).
member Jewel Karpinski to our picnic. Jewel, too, is a resident at the Neff Road Home. She was happy to be with us on that day. It was a pleasure to see her enjoying the picnic and I believe the day ended too soon for her. To be there with us as a group, was a special treat for her.
Our meeting is on Thursday, Oct. 15 beginning at 1 p.m. We have had nice attendance to date this year. Let’s keep it up.
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4 Holy Land Tour
April 27 - May 11, 1999
We will spend two weeks together in the land of the Bible, the place of eternal hope where Heaven touched Earth in the ultimate miracle of mankind’s redemption.
This is a Spiritual Journey where we experience the truth of the Bible, as we follow the life of our Lord from His birth in the small town of Bethlehem until his Ascension to His Heavenly Father from the top of the Mount of Olives. Spend an overnight next to the Mt. Sinai, where God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses.
Rev. Jože Cerne will be accompanying. This will be his ninth visit to the Holy Land.
If interested in a brochure call TravelMax or Mrs. Til-lie Špehar (216) 531-0375.
DAILY ITINERARY Day 1: Tuesday, April 27
Tour members are welcomed at Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, departing on April 27, arriving in Tel Aviv next day.
Overnight Tiberias
Day 2: Wednesday, April 28
Arrival in Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport. Immediate transfer to Tibe-
ria, center of Galilee. Time for rest and acclimatization. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Overnight Tiberias
Day 3: Thursday, April 29
After breakfast we enjoy a relaxing boat ride across the lovely Sea of Galilee to Capernaum, site of an an-
cient synagogue from the 4th century and the house of the apostle Peter. We continue to Tabgha, traditional site of the multiplication of loaves and fishes miracle, and celebrate Mass on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. We proceed to the Mount of Beatitudes, visit the Jordan River, and take a taxi ride to Mt. Tabor. Next we travel to Megiddo on the Plain of Jezrael to visit the excavations of more than 20 different civilizations. We proceed to Nazareth, boyhood home of Jesus, and visit the Basilica of the Annunciation and Mary’s well. After a brief stop at Cana in Galilee, site of Jesus’ first miracle, we return to Tiberia for dinner and overnight.
Overnight Tiberias
Day 4: Friday, April 30
This morning we leave for Banjas, the source of the river Jordan, stopping on the way to Dan, Tel-el-Hazor, and Cesarea Phi lipi. We continue to Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights. Following a stop at the local winery with wine tasting (optional), we drive back to Tiberia for dinner and overnight.
Overnight Tiberias
Day 5: Saturday, May 1
After breakfast we depart for the Mediterranean coast, visiting Akka, last stronghold of the Crusaders in the Holy Land. We visit the port and Jazar’s mosque, then continue toward Haifa, stopping at Mt. Carmel, and celebrate Mass at Elijah’s cave. On the way to Jerusalem, we stop at Cesarea Maritima to view the old Roman Theater, port, and aqueduct. We continue to
Jerusalem for dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Overnight Jerusalem
Day 6: Sunday, May 2 After breakfast we visit Old Jerusalem:	Fortress
Antonia; crusaders’ church of St. Ann, mother of Mary; pool of Bethesda; and Flagellation convent. From there we follow the Way of the Cross, which ends at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. In the afternoon we visit yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, Chagall’s windows in the hospital, Abu Gosh and Ein Karem, the hometown of John the Baptist, before returning to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
Overnight Jerusalem
Day 7 Monday, May 3 After breakfast we visit the Mount of Olives: Church of Our Father, Church of Dominus Flevit, Garden of Gethsemani, and Church of the Nations. After a quick stop at the Orthodox Church of Mary’s Tomb, the bus takes us to Mt. Zion. We visit the Church of St. Peter in Galicantu, Abby Dorin itio, and the hall of the Last Supper. We then take a walk through the Jewish quarter, to the Wailing Wall, and the mosques of Omar and El Aksa. There will be free time for individual exploration of Jerusalem. Dinner and overnight in the hotel.
Overnight Jerusalem
Day 8: Tuesday, May 4 After breakfast we drive to Jericho to visit the oldest city in the world, with the Mount of Temptations and Hisham’s Palace with its beautiful mosaics. We continue on to Qumran, Mas-sada, and swimming in the Dead Sea. On the way back we visit Bethany, home village of Martha and Mary, and the tomb of Lazarus. Dinner and overnight in the hotel.
Overnight Jerusalem
Day 9: Wednesday, May 5 After breakfast we drive to Bethlehem, where we visit the Church of the Nativity and the Shepherds’ Fields. We return to Jerusalem, where we have free time on
our own. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Overnight Jerusalem
Day 10: Thursday, May 6 After breakfast we drive through Taba to Mt. Sinai in the Egyptian Desert. Dinner and overnight at the Morgen Land hotel.
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Overnight Eilat
Day 12: Saturday, May 8 After breakfast we visit the underwater observatory. The rest of the day is free, a time to relax and enjoy the famous resort overlooking the Red Sea. Dinner and overnight.
Overnight Eilat
Day 13: Sunday, May 9 Free time at Eilat. Breakfast, dinner, and overnight.
Overnight Eilat
Day 14: Monday, May 10 After breakfast we drive back to Jerusalem. There we are free for the day, with a final opportunity to explore the city. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Overnight Jerusalem
Day 15: Tuesday, May 11 Early transfer from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion International Airport. Flight back to the United States via connecting city. Arrival home Jate in the afternoon.
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Edward and Alyce Debenjak Celebrate 50 Years
On September 4, Edward and Alyce Debenjak celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
They met while s'nging in the Adria Singing Group at Slovenian Hall on Recher Avenue in Euclid, Ohio. Father Brennan married them at St. Paul’s Church in Euclid,
Ohio.
Edward attended Case School of Applied Science. His education was inter-rupted by World ^ur II when he
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hiavy, after which he gradu-ated from Fenn College with a degree in Electrical Engi-teering. Then he took the Ohio State Board Exam and was certified as a Licensed Professional Engineer.
Mr. Debenjak was active ln the Slovenian Society Ei°me on Recher Avenue in Euclid, where he served as Secretary and Board Member for years. He was also an active member of the Euclid ets Club since its founding. After their marriage Ed-Ward and Alyce lived in Cleveland for about 7 years, ta$t Cleveland for one year, then they bought a house in Willowick where they lived r 23 years. They eventu-
ally moved to Hudson, Ohio where they lived for 16 years.
In 1996 the couple moved to Fairfield Glade, TN (combination resort and retirement community) where they stay busy playing golf, bridge, and being active in their church and the Knights of Columbus. He is a Past President of the Professional Engineering Society and Past Chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Mr. Debenjak worked for the Oliver Corporation, General Motors at the Cleveland Tank Plant, then White Motor Corp., in Cleveland, and Volvo Truck Corp. He retired in 1983.
They have four daughters and seven grandchildren.
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Edward and Alyce celebrated their Golden Anniversary a little early, on August 1st, since this was the best time for all of their children to be with them. Father Philip Thoni of St. Francis of Assissi in Fairfield Glade, celebrated a special Mass for them, at which they renewed their vows.
Their four daughters, three sons-in-law, and seven grandchildren who came from Ohio, Arizona, Chattanooga, and the United Kingdom, attended the Mass. Also there were Alyce’s sister . and brother-in-law, Anne and George Moizuk of Euclid, Ohio, sister Frances Simone, and nephew John Simone with his wife Den-nyce from Georgia, and Edward’s sister and brother-in-law, Faye and Charles Star-man from Newbury, Ohio.
After Mass they all had breakfast together at a local restaurant, then spent the afternoon visiting together at_ the Debenjak residence.
In the evening they had dinner together at the Druid Hills Country Club in Fair-field Glade, TN.
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Death Notices
|	LA VERNE D. HLEBAK
"	Laveme	D. Hlebak (nee
00 Cichon), 69, passed away in ti Lake Hospital West Hospital q on Friday, October 2ncf ^	Laverne	was a Cleveland
O resident. She was employed
<	at Freda’s Beauty Salon as a
S	beautician.
O	Laverne	was a member of
5	the Loyal ites lodge of the q SNPJ.
<r She was the wife of Frank
6	E.; the mother of Patricia 5 (Mrs. Joseph) Miskulin ^ (TN), and Jerry (wife Jean);
<	grandmother of John, Mike and Katie Miskulin and Nathan and Abby Hlebak; sister of Betty Veneskya and Eileen Ivancic.
Mass of Christian Burial was held on Monday, Oct. 5 at St. Jerome Church. Burial was in All Souls Cemetery. Arrangements by Zele Funeral Home.
LEON TONEJC
Leon Tonejc, 77, a longtime resident of Bliss Avenue, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 3rd in the Wayside Farm Nursing Home in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Leon was retired from the Brodnik Bros. Furniture and Appliance Store, where he was employed as a delivery man.
He was the son of Andrew and Jennie (both deceased).
Mass was held at St. Vitus Church on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1998. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery.
Zele Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
FRANCES AZMAN ORGEL
Frances Ažman Orgel, 89, of Euclid, Ohio, entered into rest on Tuesday, Sept. 29,1998.
She was the mother of Diane Frances and the late Arthur Williams; wife of Arthur Howard (deceased); loving daughter of Frank and Anna Azman (both deceased); sister of Edward, William and Frank, brother Louis and sister Ann Petkovšek (deceased); aunt to many.
Entombment Knollwood Mausoleum.
CARST-NAGY Memorials 15425 Waterloo Rd. 481-2237 “Serving the Slovenian Community.”
In Memory
Frank Šega of Willoughby Hills, Oh renewed his subscription plus enclosed a donation of $50.00 in memory of his wonderful wife, Antonija.
In Memory
Please find enclosed a check for $35.00 which is for one year subscription plus $5.00 in memory of my parents, Anthony and Amelia Mihelčič. - From Marie Mako of Willoughby Hills, Ohio.
In Memory
Mary Ster of Wickliffe, Ohio donated $20.00 to the Ameriška Domovina in memory of her husband,
Peter Ster.
In Memory
Mrs. Justine Prhne of Euclid, Ohio donated $10.00 to the American Home newspaper in loving memory of her sister Steffy M. Zorman.
In Memory
Dorothy (Sever) and Bernard Kraft of Harrison Twp., Mich., renewed their subscription plus enclosed an additional $20.00 in memory of Louise and Jennie Sever.
In Memory
William A. Sterling of Willoughby Hills, Ohio renewed his subscription plus enclosed an additional $10.00 in memory of John and Jennie Dolenc.
In Memory
Joe and Frances Klemenčič of Euclid, Ohio renewed their subscription, plus enclosed an additional $20.00 in memory of Our Parents.
Generous Donation
Thanks to the Slovenski Group from New York who sent in a $100.00 donation to the Ameriška Domovina.
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St. Vitus Parish Mission
St. Vitus Parish will host the Mission which will be a special time of spiritual renewal. The Mission will be held on five consecutive evenings beginning on Sunday, October 25 through Thursday, October 29 from 7:00 - 9:00 each evening. Following the Thursday evening program, a social will be held in the auditorium.
Father Wally Hyclak, from the St. Joseph Christian Life Center, will conduct the Mission. Each evening will be different from the other evenings and will include a variety of activities: prayer, music, Scripture and a message of love and hope from Father Wally.
We invite members of surrounding Catholic parishes, members of all other churches in the area and all people of good will to attend. Adults and students who are junior.high age and older are invited to attend. Everyone is welcome.
Potatoes were first discovered as a food source by the Indians of Peru.
In Loving Memory of Our Dearly Beloved Sister
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Frances Ambrosic
who was called to her eternal home on October 8, 1993
Silent thoughts, of years together
Hold treasured memories that last forever.
Unseen, unheard, you are always near.
Still loved, still missed and ever dear.
Sadly missed by:
Sisters: Angela and Josephine Brother: Frank (Olga, deceased, nee Simonič) Brother: Joseph, (Josephine, nee Orazem) Nephews and Nieces Euclid, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1998.
Introduces Baraga
To all of you who labor at the printing plant of the Ameriška Domovina, thank you for publishing such an informative journal. Naturally I read the English section first. Then go to the Slovenian section which takes me longer since I have a little trouble with some of the Slovenian words. But I read each article and am getting quite proficient at understanding all of it.
The articles on Bishop Baraga were very informative. I’ve told my Catholic and non-Catholic friends about him. Needless to say, they had never heard of him and his deeds.
—Olga Pokorski Madison, Ohio
In Memory
Please accept the $15.00 donation in memory of our parents John and Jennie Žnidaršič. From: daughters: Jennie Marolt and Josephine Sadar of Cleveland, Ohio.
Meeting
AMLA Lodge No. 12 will hold its fall membership meeting on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 2 p.m. in the home of President Louis Silc, 30417 Oakdale Rd. (off E. 305 St.) in Willowick, Ohio.
There will be a social after the business session. Vince Ilacqua, captain of the Lake Catholic Cougars football team, will be available to share highlights of the high school season.
—Carole Czeck* Secretary
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In Loving Memory of
EDWARD KAIFESH
Sixth Anniversary of the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather who died October 9, 1992
Nothing can ever take away,
The love a heart holds dear.
Fond memories linger every day, Remembrance keeps him near.
Sadly missed by:
Jo Ann, wife
Kevin, Larry, Jimmy, Ken and Kim Ann, sons and daughter
Maureen, Marien and Jennifer, daughters-in-law Jessica, Andrea, and Michael - grandchildren
Kirtland, Ohio,
Card Party
Progressive Slovene Women’s Circle #7 is holding a Fall Card Party on Wednesday, Oct. 14 in the Slovenian	Workmen’s
Home, 15335 Waterloo Rd > Cleveland. Time of the party is from 1 to 4 p.m.
Door prizes and refreshments. Donation is $3.00.
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Recalling the exciting life ; of painter Damjan Kreže
Most of you know that °ur beloved father Damjan foeze has passed away. During our greatest devastation, many wonderful fellow Slovenians came to comfort us and we would like to thank them and share some of his fascinating life.
Damjan was born in tenges, Slovenia on February 15, 1931 to Franc and Stefania Kreze. He was child number 8 of 16 and they lived throughout the Dhimcenik area. As a child ala worked in the mountains as a shepherd and it started I'is interest in art. Often he said he would, while lying down, marvel at the clouds drifting by as he took a reak with his co-worker Ivan. With a twinkle in his eye he said he would often jjse his favorite baby lamb T'gra” as his pillow.
, During that time he fell nt° a frozen river and nearly l£d from exposure to the c°ld. Later, while attending church he said that many 'mes stari ata would smack ■ut on the back of the head constantly looking up at . murals on the ceiling lnstead of listening to the Sermon. But he still learned
?!°f the good lessons. At 15 ^ lost his mother to Fphoid Fever and yet ^Sairj, narrowly escaped death himself.
^ When communism came, escaped and studied a|hedral restoration and Toting in Bleiburg, oUstria. His talents took eri he served his
pPrenticeship an<d became a
^aster. In an attempt to have keep his talents in Ustria he was offered sta'2enship rather than ying as a mere resident of ^dstria. All the while he still
i)a|nteC* Pa'nt'n6s an<d made
v*IV'^ sets- After a few rears
an - he decided to leave travel to America.
Am day he set foot in old Cr*Ca	turned 25 years
He	was originally
schM was or|g|nal|y
u. doled to begin work in
1 hvaukee,
% **ulvee’ hut it was ^.ed, so he asked the %;ms official where the Oft; Slovenians live. The
aH(jC.?r Sa'd to try Cleveland I q at *s what he did. $ett|jnce working and Aru n.^ 'n’ he set out to see dj(je^Ca- And, oh how he of e drove throughout all OrjSs 0rth America. He ; \ Cr°Ssed the United
over 30 times. On
fr0 °T those trips he went Alio Cleveland to Los e*es in three days non-
stop just for fun.
He often spoke happily of the Studebaker Hawk he bought and how a friend told him, “Oh you bought the ugliest car in America. He replied, “Maybe to you, but I like it and it goes like....!” Ata was a speed demon but an excellent driver.
Few people know that he lived in various cities. He even worked in a private California Catholic prep school (St. John Bosco). He was the head cook for 3004-students and staff. He received that position by accident after he was asked to decorate a cake for some function - little did they know frosting to him was as much fun as acrylics and oils.
After two years he traveled to Mexico going on long somewhat dangerous adventures into territories that were still not developed. All during his travels he perfected yet another talent. Only a small handful of people know what an avid photographer he was. He
literally took hundreds of pictures from all over North America and Europe and made them into slides. (We are planning a future show of these).
In 1966 marriage came. While visiting some German friends in Cleveland Damjan was asked for his help to speak and entertain some visiting guests from Mexico. One of the guests turned out to be his future wife. They obviously liked each other because after only three days, he proposed. Three months later they were married in Mexico City.
Interestingly, on his way to the wedding, he had wanted a Slovenian friend from Canada to be his best man and accompany him down. On the day he and his best man were to start the trip, his friend had an accident and could not go. It was fortunate, because while driving down a rural country road in Mexico, in his Volkswagen Beetle, he struck and killed a cow that came out of the night onto the road. Had his friend been with him he would have been killed because the cow crushed the passenger side of the car. Ata was yet again spared, but not uninjured.
He said he knew what was about to happen and in anticipation gripped his steering wheel so strongly that with the impact, bent it like an airplane steering
wheel. The little car was crushed, his nose broken, his face and hands very badly
cut and his body was immensely sore. Just then a Mexican airline pilot in a French convertible came on the scene and offered to take him into the capital for help.
After a few minutes ata realized the driver is falling asleep at the wheel. Ata shouts, “Stop, one accident a night is enough for me; let me drive.” So, although hurt and spitting out blood, he drove both of then) through the night.
On a refueling stop, the pilot was awake enough to warn him, “Hey, why do you want to marry this Mexican girl; don’t you know they are extremely jealous?”
Ata laughed and said, “Don’t you think that is expected when you have a woman in every city you fly?” At their reception the pilot came and gave him a chocolate cow with a card that read, “You can kill this one.”
From then, he often traveled with his wife, Carmen. A year and a half later came Stefania; a year and a half after her came Franc. Then we all traveled together. He took his role as husband and father 100% seriously. He gave us immeasurable love and life’s needs, plus he took us to Slovenia to see our roots. A year later, stari ata passed away. He, too, had traveled to the United States and Canada.
In 1986 he wanted a place to display and sell his art, so
he opened the Mural Art Gallery. A major accomplishment because his health started to bother him. Just three months before the opening he suffered his first heart attack and survived.
In fact, while working on the storefront, he felt ill and drove himself cross-town to Southwest General Hospital; he lived in Berea at the time.
In 1989 another attack resulted in another survival. Both times doctors upon knowing he wanted no invasive treatment, walked away. So by his courage and will, together with God, he continued.
In 1991 his wife and daughter were hit in an auto accident causing constant therapy and the need to have the gallery open at strange hours.
From 1992 on we had art shows and worked on
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Damjan Kreze works on St. Vitus restoration project
restoration	projects
including the Slovenian National Home’s Gaspari stage curtain, the St. Vitus church altar background and statues, and the Kobe estate murals in Bratenahl to name a few.
In 1994 he suffered yet another attack, this ,time he met another headstrong Slovenian. A lady doctor who took him up on the challenge to treat him with medications. They were really a team, both dedicated to doing each other’s share. However, ata warned her he will never totally give up his Slovenian foods and he did
honor his diet by eating it only on special occasions.
Winters were especially hard on ata; cold wind brought on angina. He had to take a nitroglycerin pill just to go outside, but he pushed on. Many for whom he worked, probably didn’t even know all the pain he was often in. Despite hard work and health problems, he continued his paintings. He also taught Franc, who began at the age of nine, painting and restoration. He taught Stefania decorative painting as well.
In May, medications were no longer working as effectively and they decided it was time to take a chance; he would do it for us, his family, and have surgery. Despite him just getting over a cold, the surgeon prepared for a quadruple by-pass operation, but he actually performed six. Ata survived and fought on. He went home twice and did all his exercises. Fluid was his only problem, but they finally got it under control.
On June 26th, for third time, Damjan went
home and we all felt he was going to be free from danger. To give an idea of his strength and determination, on July 5th he walked from our home off Chardon Road in Euclid to the McDonald’s Restaurant on Bishop Road in Willoughby Hills. He improved daily, and on July 14th the surgeon congratulated him on his progress. The next day he drove, but on the morning of July 16th, he went to heaven.
Although he is no longer able to paint a mural for you, your home, restore an ornate ceiling or antique chair; but ata and his paintings live on. His paintings depict many wonderful scenes from nature and Slovenia. Everyone is welcome to come and see his works. We are located at 6424 St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland, across from the Slovenian National Home. Our hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hvala Lepa!
Donation
Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Frank and Eleanor Zernic
of Highland Heights, Ohio who donated $20.00 to the American Home newspaper.
Meeting
Slovenian Women’s Union, Branch #25 will have their meeting this Sunday, Oct. 11 at 1:30 p.m.
Discussion will be on branch elections and delegates for the national convention. Any questions, please call Fran Gazvoda at 431-2043 after 6 p.m.
AMERIŠKA DOMOVINA, OCTOBER 8, 1998
On a recent one day tour with Kollander, are, left to right: Lovro Milos, Joey Tomsick (host), Frank Sadar, Steve Valencie, and John Copic. Tour visited Niagara Falls Casino, Marineland, and the Happy Wanderer Restaurant.
Kollander Loves to Travel With Groups...
By Tony Petkovšek
Kollander World Travel in its 75th anniversary year is proud of a record number of group departures this fall season that are currently in progress or are still being promoted.
It’s Betty Rotar’s “Greece and Turkey Cruise” recently completed and Joey Tomsick Orchestra with 90 folks to California and on a Mexican cruise. Later in November Frank Moravcik and John Pastirik are going to the Caribbean.
For Las Vegas, Fritz and Ruth Hribar are doing their thing once again and in October Dorothy Smick hosts Vegas while the fourth annual “Polka Vegas” took place in September with a variety of hosts including
Walter Ostanek, Gary Seibert and the Joe Fedorchak Orchestra.
Alpine Europe with Slovenia and the original Oktoberfest in Munich are being covered by Adam Barthalt’s Band and 130 New Yorkers plus Joe and Nancy Novak’s 40 greater Clevelanders. And it’s not only foreign destinations since Kollander has been the leading Cleveland promoter of tours to America’s new music center - Branson, Missouri, with Hank and Mary-anne Haller hosting in October and Penn-Ohio’s Gene Fedorchak and Merle Kurnik at the end of November for the Christmas season.
After several years I’ll be returning to Nashville, Tennessee to join up with the Button Box Queen, Lynn
Marie Rink, on a sold-out departure in mid-November. And speaking of November, it’ll be another Polka Party Festival weekend in downtown Cleveland with some 20 bands at the Marriott this Thanksgiving conducted by Kollander’s Polka Tour headquarters.
Kollander Travel since 1923 has been more than group travel with our individual vacation department and also the second floor corporate division, too.
In behalf of Kollander we express appreciation to the many group participants as well as all of our regular clients who are making 1998 truly a banner 75* anniversary year for our agency located at 971 East 185* Street in Cleveland.
Donation
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Coming Events
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Friday, Oct. 9 Dance at West Park Slovenian Home, 4583 W. 130 St. from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Music by Casuals.
Sunday, Oct. 11 “Kolina” (homemade rice and blood sausage) plus sauerkraut, fried potatoes, strudel and coffee sponsored by Slovenska Pristava Pensioners Club from 1 to 4 at Slovenska Pristava.
Wednesday, Oct. 14 P.S.W.A. Circle #7 Fall Card Party, Slovenian Workmen’s Home, 15335 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland 1 to 4 p.m. Donation $3.
Sunday, Oct. 25 St. Vitus Alumni Annual “Hall of Fame” day with 12 noon Mass in St. Vitus church; dinner following in the auditorium.
Sunday, Oct. 25 St. Mary’s (Collinwood) Alumni Banquet in school cafeteria following 12 noon
Šuster Fund-Raiser
Ohio Supreme Court candidate Judge Ron Šuster will have a fund-raising dinner at Steve Bencic’s Hofbrau Haus on Monday, Oct. 19. The dinner is sponsored by the Šuster for Justice Committee and will be buffet style.
Tickets can be purchased by calling Steve Salvi at
440-891-0736.
Judge Šuster is currently a judge with the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.
Mass. Tickets $15. Check to St. Mary’s School Alumni 15519 Holmes Ave., Cleveland, OH 44119.
Sunday, Oct. 25 Clambake and Steak Dinner, Slovenian National Home, 3563 E. 80* St. fro« 2 to 4 p.m. Wayne Tomsk Orchestra 4 to 7 p.m. Donation $19. Tickets call 64i 9664, 341-6136 or 1-440-243-4062.
Saturday, Nov. 14 Jadran Concert, Waterloo Hall. F. Ziwich Orchestra. Friday, Nov. 20 Turkey dinner (5:30 to p.m.) with all trimmings and dessert at Newburgh Slove' nian National Home, 3563 £ 80 St., Cleveland. Donatio” $7.00
Saturday, Nov. 21 Collinwood Sloveni811 Home, Night at the Races. | Sunday, Nov. 22 25* Anniversary Slove nian National Art Gu£ Show, Slovenian Sod6*) Home, Euclid, Ohio. Sh°" hours 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 26 Tony*	Petkovšek5
Thanksgiving Day P°*^ Party, beginning at 4 p.®; Marriott Hotel at Key C60 ter, 127 Public Squ^ Cleveland. Donation $12-Friday, Nov. 27 Tony’s Friday Party, 4 p.m., until ■ Mariott Hotel at Key Ced6’ 127 Public Square, Cl*v I land. Donation $12.
Saturday, Nov. 28 National Cleveland Sty Polka Hall of Fame Cry5 Awards Show XI
Join Fantje Trip to Chicago
Join the Fantje na Vasi and the Stan Mejac Orchestra fd a bus trip from Cleveland to Chicago October 17* and , for the Slovenian American Radio Club’s annual Sloven5 Dan (Slovenian Day).
For further information, contact Tom Srsen at (4 352-7455.
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AMERIŠKA DOMOVINA (USPS 024100) Thursday, October 8, 1998
Vesti iz Slovenije
Iz Clevelanda in okolice
Milan Kučan slišal ugodna stališča držav članic Nata ob obisku sedeža tega zavezništva v Bruslju
Predsednik Slovenije Milan Kučan je v intervjuju, ki ga je imel v Bruslju po srečanju z generalnim sekretarjem Nata Javierjem Solano in veleposlaniki 16 članic tega zavezništva, dejal, da nobena od teh članic ne bo nasprotovala sprejemu Slovenije. Kar je še odprto, je pripomnil Kučan, je to, kdaj naj bi do tega sprejema prišlo.
Aprila 1999 bo srečanje na vrhu Natovih držav v Washingtonu, kar bo obenem 50. obletnica dejanske ustanovitve te vojaško-politične organizacije. Pozna-vlaci razmer sicer menijo, da ni govora o tem, da bi bile takrat povabljene k članstvu zopet nove države, Kučan je pa dejal, da si Slovenija prizadeva za to, da bi bila med povabljenci takrat, ko bo res prišlo do druge kroga širitve Nata.
V torkovem poročilu v Delu je Kučan v intervjuju trdil, da Slovenija ne želi v Nato zato, ker nima druge alternative, temveč zato, ker hoče enakopravno sodelovati pri oblikovanju varnostno-obram-bne strukture v Evropi. Pri tem je Kučan omenil, da enote slovenske vojske že udeležujejo mirovnih operacij v Bosni in Hercegovini, Albaniji in na Cipru, tudi bi bile pripravljene na vključitev v humanitarno poslanstvo na Kosovu.
Dalje je Kučan menil, da Slovenija v zavezništvo ne bi prinesla varnostnih ali finančnih problemov, lahko pa bi pripomogla h krepitvi stabilnosti na jugovzhodnih mejah Nata.
Obilne padavine prizadele Slovenijo
Včerajšnje Delo poroča o posledicah obilnih padavin v zadnjih dneh. Največ težav škode so padavine povzročile na Goriškem in v Soški" dolini. Most čez Nadižo v Podbeli v Breginjskem kotu se je zaradi vodovja dobesedno prelomil, saj je narasla voda spodnesla njegov srednji
steber. Zaradi desetkrat povečanega pretoka Soče so razmere zelo napete pri doblarski hidroelektrarni. Neurje je močno prizadelo gorsko vas Krn, kjer se je odtrgalo več kot 50 metrov brega nad cesto, ki pelje do treh krnskih domačij, že močno poškodovanih od velikonočnega potresa. O človeških žrtvah ni vesti.
Krajše vesti -
Slovenija malce zdrsnila - Na najnovejši lestvici poslovnega tveganja, ki ga pripravlja britanski mesečnik Euromoney, je Slovenija na 38. mestu, kar je za eno mesto nižje, kot je bila decembra lani.
Umrla igralka Vida Juvanova - 4.
oktobra je v 94. letu starosti umrla najstarejša slovenska gledališka, radijska, televizijska in filmska igralka Vida Jan Juvan. V več kot 60-letni karieri je prejela številna priznanja, med njimi tudi Prešernovo za leto 1970.
Slovenski tolar se je okrepil - Po
srednjem deviznem tečaju Banke Slovenije za 6. oktober prinaša ameriški dolar 154,76 SIT, kanadski pa 100,05. Tolar se je v zadnjih tednih okrepil napram US dolarju za več kot deset odstotkov,, kar je sicer storila tudi nemška marka.
Papežev vnovičen obisk? - Slovenski škofje so se dobili s predsednikom Milanom Kučanom in ga zaprosili, naj bi tudi on uradno povabil papeža Janeza Pavla II. v Slovenijo prihodnje leto ob razglasitvi škofa A. M. Slomška za blaženega. Kučan je odgovoril, da je že ob papeževem prvem obisku Slovenije z njim govoril o vlogi in pomenu Slomška za slovenski narod. Odgovor, ali bo papež res zopet obiskal Slovenijo, baje bo znan šele zgodaj prihodnjega leta. Pretekli teden je bil papež na vnovičnem obisku Hrvaške, kjer je razglasil kardinala Alojzija Stepinca za blaženega. Skoraj tridnevne prireditve ob obisku so privabile blizu 1,3 milijona romarjev.
PREMIER JANEZ DRNOVŠEK V NEW YORKU - Pretekli teden je bil predsednik s*°venske vlade dr. Janez Drnovšek v New Yorku, kjer se je udeležil zasedanja ge-”eralne skupščine Združenih narodov. Med obiskom je imel pogovore z raznimi Ravniki, med drugimi tudi z generalnim sekretarjem OZN Kofijem Ananom (na s*'Li), ki je izrazil zadovoljstvo s slovensko vlogo v tej organizaciji. Drnovšek je Nadaljeval pot v Mehiko, državo, ki jo je prvič uradno obiskal. Spremljal ga je v®leposlanik Slovenije v ZDA dr. Dimitrij Rupel, ki je hkrati slovenski veleposlanik v Mehiki, s sedežem, seveda, v Washingtonu.	(Foto: Delo, 10.1.1998)
Koline to nedeljo—
Pristavski upokojenci lepo vabijo to nedeljo na vsakoletne Koline. Na Pristavi jih bodo servirali od ene do četrte ure popoldan. Vsi dobrodošli!
Prodaja krofov—
Oltarno društvo fare sv. Vida vabi to soboto dopoldne ob običajnem času na prodajo krofov in rezancev, kot vedno v Društveni sobi.
Martinovanje—
Štajerski in prekmurski klub vabi na martinovanje v soboto, 24. oktobra, v SND na St. Clairju. Za vstopnice in več informacij, pokličite 731-5826 ali pa 261-5370.
Očetovski klub vabi—
Očetovski klub pri Sv. Vidu vabi na svoje letno prireditev, ki bo v petek, 23. oktobra. Za več informacij, pokličite Tim Slogarja na 449-3575.
Novi grobovi
Elizabeth Yanchar Umrla je 84 let stara Elizabeth Yanchar z Geneve, O., prej živeča v Eucli-du in na Willoughby Hillsu, rojena Urbančič, vdova po Johnu, mati Betty Daugert, Johna in Leonarda, 7-krat stara mati, 5-krat prastara mati, sestra Ann Mainer, Louise Brezec, Ralpha ter že pok. Berthe Jochum in Kennetha. Pogreb bo v petek v oskrbi Brunnerjevega zavoda v Mentorju s sv. mašo ob 10. dop. v cerkevi St. Mary of the Assumption v Mentorju in pokopom na Vernih duš pokopališču. Ure kropljenja so danes pop. od 2. do 4. in zv. od 7. do 9.
Vera J. Žigon Dne 5. oktobra je umrla Vera J. Žigon, rojena Florjančič, vdova po Jacku, mati Done Zupančič, Sandy in Terese Tye, 5-krat stara mati, sestra Johna. Pogreb bo danes dop. ob 9.30 s sv. mašo v cerkvi v cerkvi St. Francis DeSales in pokopom na Sv. Križa pokopališču.
Leon Tonejc
Dne 3. oktobra je v Wayside Farm negovališču v Cuyahoga Fallsu umrl 77 let stari Leon Tonejc, ki je mnoga leta živel na Bliss Ave. in bil do upokojitve zaposlen pri Brodnik Bros. Pogreb je bil 6. oktobra v oskrbi Zeletovega zavoda s sv. mašo v cerkvi sv. Vida in pokopom na Kalvarije pokopališču.
(dalje na sir. 16)
P. Fortunat Zorman umrl—
V sredo, 30. septembra, je umrl p. Fortunat Zorman OFM, v starosti 83 let. P. Fortunat je bil dolgoletni urednik revije Ave Maria, in izdal več bogoslovnih in premišljevalnih knjig. Vodil je misijone in romanja v Lemont. Pogreb je bil v ponedeljek, 5. okt., iz cerkve Marije Pomagaj na le-montsko frančiškansko pokopališče. Naj počiva v miru.
Zaključni sestanek—
Clevelandski škof Baraga ad hoc odbor bo imel zadnji, torej zaključni sestanek v četrtek, 22. oktobra, v farni šoli pri Mariji Vnebo-vzeti, začenši ob 7.30 zv. Vsi, ki so v odboru sodelovali, lepo vabljeni.
Uspešne prireditve—
Pretekli konec konec je bil eden živahnejših v naši skupnosti. V soboto zvečer so imeli Fantje na vasi v SND na St. Clairju lepo uspeli koncert, v nedeljo pa je imelo svoje letno kosilo Oltarno društvo fare Marije Vnebovzete, v dvorani pri Sv. Vidu pa je bilo dobrodelno kosilo v pomoč od potresa prizadetim rojakom v Posočju, to slednje pod organizacijo KSKJ društev št. 226 in 172.
Slov. pristava: občni zbor—
Upravni odbor Slovenske pristave sporoča vsem članom, da se bo vršil občni zbor v nedeljo, 18. okt., pop. ob 3h, na SP. Udeležite se ga in izkoristite pravico sodelovanja na volitvah novega odbora!
Balinarjem Slov. pristave—
Balincarski klub SP ima občni zbor v nedeljo, 25. oktobra, ob 2h pop. Članstvo prav lepo vabljeno. Belokranjci vabijo—
Belokranjski klub vabi na svoje tradicionalno martinovanje, ki bo v soboto, 14. novembra, v SND na St. Clair Ave. Za vstopnice in več informacij, pokličite ali 216-481-3308 ali 440-449-1843.
Spominski dar—
Iz Gorice pošilja g. Vinko Levstik: “Namesto cvetja na grob nedavno umrlega prijatelja Lojzeta Bajca poklanjam v tiskovni sklad Ameriške Domovine $40, družini pa izrekam moje občuteno sožalje.”
V tiskovni sklad—
G.ga. John Kozina, Richmond Hts., O., sta darovala $20 v podporo našemu listu. Najlepša hvala.
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No. 39	Thursday, October 8, 1998
“Odprite oči” (A. M. Slomšek)
V pričakovanju slovesne razglasitve škofa Slomška za blaženega je morda prav, da se vprašamo, kaj nam bo pravzaprav to pomenilo. Mnogi vidijo v svetnikih zlasti pri-prošnjike pri Bogu. V resnici pa so nam dani za vzornike, ne da bi jih posnemali - saj živimo v drugačnih okoliščinah in času -, marveč, da bi ob njihovem zgledu živeli bolj krščansko, bolj zvesto Bogu in bolj zavzeto izpolnjevali vsak svojo življenjsko nalogo.
Škof Slomšek nam je prav tak vzornik. Čeprav je v eni svojih pesmi zapisal, da je v nebesih doma, je goreče ljubil tudi zemeljsko domovino, kakor dokazujejo v njegovih spisih opomini rojakom. V času državnozborskih volitev 1861, torej samo leto pred smrtjo, je rotil, kakor bi tudi nas, zlasti zdaj pred jesenskimi volitvami.
Pri mnogih se je prvotno navdučenje nad samostojno Slovenijo sprevrglo v razočaranje, malodušje in brezbrižnost, umikajo se v zasebnost in se izogibajo odgovornostim, češ da ni kaj narediti, ko pa “stara garnitura" vztraja še naprej na oblasti. Pa vendar imamo v samostojni Sloveniji na vseh volitvah možnost izbrati nasprotne kandidate. Imamo celo možnost vlkjučiti se v tško stranko, ki se nam zdi zaupanja vredna, in kot poslanec ali poslanka sodelovati pri vodenju države. Seveda je laže, bolj komodno ostati ob volitvah doma, pustiti, da so izvoljeni drugi in potem godrnjati, zabavljati in jadikovati.
Slomšek pa je svaril in njegove besede še kako veljajo danes nam: “Vsak državljan je dolžan po meri svojega stanu in premoženja pomagati k občim potrebam svoje domovine. Zoper dolžnosti do domovine se pregreši, kdor je pri vseh prigodkih svoje domovine neobčutljiv. Greši, kdor o naredbah in napravah domovine zaničljivo govori, jih graja, jih noče podpirati. Greši tudi, kdor se dolžnim davkom odteguje ali manj plača, kakor je plačati dolžan. Kdor vsako postavo pretresa in je nad vsakim davkom nejevoljen, občinski sreči para suknjo in plašč. - Delati postave ni lahko delo. Za prave nove postave je treba modrih in pravičnih mož. Slabi možje so slabi delavci novih pravic. Kdo je vse-ga tega kriv? Vi volivci, ki ste take mojstre-skaze zbrali.”
Kakor bi za današnji trenutek pisal, zvenijo njegove besede:	“Prosim vas, ne držite nemarno križem svojih rok!
Odprite oči, pomislite, koga boste volili. Ne izbirajte po sladkih obljubah, zakaj kdor preveliko obeta, malo izpolni. Še enkrat vam rečem: Volite modro, izberite dobro! Kakor si boste postlali, tako boste ležali. ”
Zatorej ne tožimo, ne godrnjajmo in ne imejmo se za žrtve, ker smo nemalo sami krivi. Kakršne poslance smo volili, tško vlado imamo in za prihodnje velja enako. Če nismo (ali ne bomo) šli na volišče, smo (ali bomo) krivi, ker
Pristavski upokojenci še enkrat vabijo na “Koline” to nedeljo
CLEVELAND, O. - Hladne noči, čez dan pa še lepo sončno vreme, je ravno pripravno za pristavske upokojence, da pripravijo svoje letne koline. S kolinami je ogrmno dela in le požrtvovalnosti nekaterih naših članov in članic se imamo zahvaliti, da jih bomo letos še imeli; in to ravno to nedeljo, 11. oktobra, na Slovenski pristavi. Krvavice, riževe klobase in pečenice bomo servirali s kislim zeljem, praženim krompirjem, kavo in jabolčnim zavitkom. Napravili bomo tudi nekaj več klobas, da jih boste lahko kupili za domov, a jih vedno hitro prodamo in bo verjetno tako tudi letos.
To je za to leto zadnja prireditev na Slovenski pristavi. Pridite in se še enkrat naužite lepe jesenske narave, saj je Pristava vsa v rožnatih barvah. Nova hiša za pristavskega oskrbnika bo na ogled ta dan in ob 4. uri jo bo č.g. Janez Kumše blagoslovil. Hišo so zgradili pristavski člani, podjetniki, in to vse s prostovojnim delom ter nič niso računali. Vas čast Vam, ki ste pri tem sodelovali. Bog nam daj ta dan lepo vreme, da se bomo še enkrat v prijateljski družbi poveselili. Pridite, ne bo vam žal.
Za odbor:	U.F.
Romanje in izlet
CLEVELAND, O. - Vsakdo, katerega že od nekdaj mika Sveta dežela, je prisrčno vabljen, da se pridruži skupini romarjev, ki bo potovala v Izrael prihodnjega aprila. Fr. Jože Černe bo vodil romanje v majhno, vendar zelo zanimjvo in pomembno deželo na Srednjem vzhodu. Romarji bodo odpotovali iz Clevelanda 27. aprila in se vrnili v Cleveland 11. maja 1999. Poleg vseh pomembnih svetopisem skih krajev (Jeruzalem, Nazaret, Betlehem, pastirske poljane, Kafarnaum, Jeriha, gora Tabor, Jordan) bodo pluli po Galilejskem morju, po želji plavali v Mrtvem morju ter se odpočili v Ei-latu, letovišču ob Rdečem morju, kjer si bodo ogledali čudoviti podvodni svet Rdečega moija.
Vse bo pritegnil Jeruzalem s svojimi številnimi cerkvami in mošejami, častitlji-
v Sveto deželo
va cerkev božjega groba in starodavna tempeljska ploščad, nad katero se danes blešči zlata kupola Omarjeve mošeje.
Romarji bodo v štirinajstih dneh videli kar štiri različna morja (Mrtvo, Galilejsko, Rdeče in Sredozemsko), reko Jordan in tiste kraje, o katerih beremo v Sv. pismu. Na Sinaju bodo videli enega najstarejših samostanov na svetu - samostan Sv. Katarine. Povzpeli se bomo na goro Sinaj, kjer je Bog izročil Mojzesu deset zapovedi, in z vrha zgodaj zjutraj občudovali veličasten sončni vzhod.
V romanje je vključen letalski prevoz iz Clevelanda do Tel Aviva, vodenje in organizacija potovanja, bivanje z zajtrkom in večerjo v tkim. “first class” hotelih, brezplačna fotografija za vizum in potni list, dnevna maša. Vse to in še več po
ceni $2235. Če se zanimate za romanje, prosim, pokličite Travelmax (216) 692-1700 ali 1-800-677-1313. Informacije lahko dobite tudi pri ge. Tillie Špehar (216) 531-0375, ali pri Fr. Jožetu Černetu. Pridružite se nepozabnemu romanju po Jezusovih stopinjah v Sv. deželi.
Pišite rojakom v domovini!
CLEVELAND, O. - Letošnjo jesen, 22. novembra, se bodo v Sloveniji vršile lokalne in občinske volitve. Od izida bo v precejšnji meri zavisel bodoči ravoj v Sloveniji.
Pišite torej svojim sorodnikom in znancem v Sloveniji, naj ne sedijo doma, temveč gredo na volišča in s svojimi glasovi pomagajo odločati o prihodnosti naše Slovenije.
Ljudje, ki bodo te volitve prezrli, ne bodo koristili ne sebi, ne Sloveniji-Resnično bistvo demokracije je v svobodno izraženi volji naroda. Milan Zajec Dušan MaršiČ (Pripomnil bi le, da te besede veljajo tudi za prihajajoče - 3. novembra - volitve tudi v ZDA. Marsikateremu bralcu bo gotovo s tem v zvezi zanimiv tudi članek, sposojen iz Družine, ki je na današnjem uvodni-škem mestu.	Ur. AD)
Narodnozabavna prireditev v pomoč Radiu Ognjišče
Ljubljana - Radio Ognji' šče je 28. septembra pripri'
vil večer narodnozabavne
glasbe z naslovom 200 glasbenikov v pozdrav 200. oddaji Prijatelji radia Ognjišča-Gre za prvo tovrstno prireditev v Sloveniji, saj je v dvorani Tivoli zaigralo, zapelo in zaplesalo 200 ljud'-Dokazala je, da slovensko ljudstvo rado prisluhne p0*' kam in valčkom, saj je v dvorano Tivoli prišlo kaf štiri tisoč ljudi, vse vstopni' ce pa so bile prodane ze predprodaji. Z glasbeno-pl6' sno prireditvijo so bili zado voljni vsi: občinstvo, nasto pajoči in 'prireditelj. Slednj^ predvsem zato, ker mu J uspelo napolniti tivolsko dvorano, kar je pričakova le malokdo.	*
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smo (ali bomo) s tem drugim dali oblast v roke. Motimo se, če v svoji “pravičnosti” mislimo, da je politika grda reč, ki se kristjanom ne spodobi in si z njo ne bomo mazali rok, ampak bomo molili. Politika je po svojem bistvu prizadevanje za splošni blagor. Ljudski izrek pravi: Pomagaj si sam in Bog ti bo pomagal! Šele po dobro opravljeni dolžnosti je molitev nekaj vredna. Jezus nam je tudi v tem dal zgled: ljubil je svoj narod, opravljal vse, kar je bilo v njegovem času dolžnost odraslega Juda, saj je plačal celo tempeljski davek, čeprav kot Sin Božji ni bil dolžan.
“Pritoževati se čez slabe čase in hudobne ljudi je lahko, a popraviti jih je težko," pravi Slomšek in pribije: “Pravi kristjani malo tožijo, drugih celo ne dolžijo, ampak veliko dobrega storijo in tako boljšajo svet." Ne iščimo torej napake samo pri drugih, pri oblasti, pri državi, ne sprašujmo se, “kako dolgo bomo še čakali demokratičnih navad in postopkov . Zavihajmo rokave, živimo in delajmo skrajno pošteno ter sprejemajmo odgovornosti, sodelujmo pri vodenju naše mlade, tako težko pridobljene in tako malo ljubljene države, naredimo ob volitvah svojo državljansko in krščansko dolžnost, pa bodo časi boljši. “Po boljših ljudeh skrbimo za boljše čase. S tožbami ne bomo poboljšali sveta. Vsak naj stori, kolikor premore in hitro bo boljši svet," pravi Slomšek. Poslušajmo in ubogajmo ga vendar! Potem šele ga bomo smeli imeti za priprošnjika!	Zmaga Kumer
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Prvo srečanje zdravnikov, ki delajo v Sloveniji in po svetu
Minister za znanost dr. Lojze Marinček in državna sekretarka, pristojna za Slovence po svetu, Mihaela Logar sta z lastnoročnim podpisom in žigom ministrstva podprla idejo lanskega skupnega kandidata SKD in SDS z predsednika države in predsednika dr. Jožeta Bernika, da je letos organiziral (ob strani sta mu stala dr. Boris Pleskovič, podpredsednik SSK in direktor raziskovalnega centra Svetovne banke v Wa-shingtonu, in Franci Feltrin iz SLS) prvo srečanje slovenskih zdravnikov, ki delajo doma in po svetu. Na fotografiji so nekateri udeleženci, ki so sredi septembra sodelovali na srečanju: dr. Jurij Bajuk (njegov brat Andrej je bil kot finančni strokovnjak Marjan Podobnikov (SLS) kandidat za finančnega ministra v sedanji koalicijski vladi, imenovan je pa bil Mitja Gaspari) je kirurg in pedagog v Mendozi v Argentini, dr. Marija Bernik, žena dr. Jožeta, je profesorica medicine v Chicagu, dr. Silvester Lango je sopredstojnik ortopedske kirurgije v osrednji bolničnici v New Yorku, dr. Veronika Ravnikar deluje kot profesorica porodništva in ginekologije v Massachusettsu, dr. Jože Bernik, pravnik po poklicu, dr. Jožica Paddle Ledinek v Mel-bornu v Avstraliji pobira priznanja za svojo novost v medicini - gojenje kože za ponesrečence z opeklinami, dr. Mladen Šolar pa je kot kardiolog v Ameriki zaslovel z inovacijami, od katerih je najbolj občudovana naprava za podporo delovanja srca.
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Newyorški metro je počasi drdral proti Downtownu. Prazen vagon je zgovorno govoril, da je nedelja zgodaj zjutraj. Res, že ob devetih sem bil na postaji, saj nisem znal preceniti, ali je slovenska cerkev v East Villageu na osmi cesti blizu ali daleč od Columbia University, kjer sem vzel metro.
V prejšnjih dneh, ko sem se potikal po knjigarnah, sem že ugotovil, da razdalje v New Yorku niso primerljive s Parizom in Londonom, ki sta mi domača. Zato sem se tudi tako zgodaj odpravil k sv. Cirilu, kjer je slovenska maša ob pol enajstih.
In prav sem storil. Vlaki so bolj poredki, na Times Squareu je treba prestopiti in hodniki so vijugavi z za-četko, a. brez konca. In ko sem se končno pripeljal do Osme, sem zavil proti zahodu namesto proti vzhodu. In spet je bilo zgubljenih deset minut. Končno sem tik pred mašo nekako pritaval do sv. Cirila.
Že pri vhodu me je presenetila čistoča. Ne da bi bil trg sv. Marka, tako se
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Ostrmel pa sem, ko sem stopil v cerkev. Dolgo tega je, kar sem bral, da je nadškof Rode blagoslovil obnovljeno svetišče in da je pater Krizolog, tako je ime župniku, storil pravi čudež.
Krizologa se spominjam še iz pariških let zaradi njegove izredne pronicljivosti in živahnosti, ki sta dajala našim študentskim debatam posebno sočnost. A vsi ti spomini so zbledeli pred lepoto skromnega svetišča po dimenzijah, a velikega po duhu, ki ga je izžarevala arhitektura, slike, celotna prostorska ureditev. Krizolog je zadel v polno: bolje ni bilo mogoče urediti tega prostora. No, kasneje sem zvedel, da je arhitekt prejel nagrado za to obnovo od revije Faith and Form in Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture.
Pater Krizolog mi je prišel naproti in me povabil v zakristijo. Tam so bili že pripravljeni trije nadebudni ministrantje. Andrej, Matej in Sergej, v mašniški opravi pa je bil starejši gospod. “Lojze Jenko”, se mi je predstavil. Gospod Lojze jih šteje že sedeminosemdeset, a mu jih ne bi nihče prisodil, tako živahen in domiseln, načitan in obveščen je. Pristopili smo k oltarju, oglasile so se orgle in slovenska pesem; v cerkvi je bilo kakih sedemdeset ljudi. Pred koncem maše me je Krizolog predstavil ljudem
Romanje v Frank, Ohio zelo lepo uspelo
CLEVELAND, O. - Kakor vsako leto smo tudi letos romali k Žalostni Materi božji v Frank, Ohio. Vremenski napovedovalci so nas nekaj strašili z dežjem, toda napovedi se niso uresničile. Imeli smo krasen dan, večinoma sončen in s prijetno temperaturo.
Vremenu primerno je bilo tudi razpoloženje romarjev, ki so prišli s tremi avtobusi in mnogimi osebnimi avtomobili. Poln avtobus s 55 sedeži iz Clevelanda, eden iz Parme in tretji iz Wind-sorja, Ontario.
Že vožnja sama je bila res lepa. Občudovali smo jesensko naravo različnih barv, polja polnih zrelih pridelkov. V Clevelandskem avtobusu smo odmolili rožni venec, gledali “video” Božja pota v Sloveniji, in kar hitro smo dospeli do cilja, kjer je bilo prijetno srečanje z vsakoletnimi romarji iz Windsorja.
Prišli smo dovolj zgodaj, da smo lahko imeli še kratko okrepčilo v romarskem domu in razgovore z znanci in prijatelji. Nato je bila opoldne, v odprtem svetišču, sv. maša, darovana za vse pobite domobrance in druge žrtve brezbožnega komunizma ter za vse umrle, ki so se skozi vsa leta udeleževali tega romanja, in za vse bolnike in trpeče, ki letos niso mogli biti z nami.
Posebno smo se spomnili Lojzeta Bajca, našega člana, ki je dolga leta pomagal voditi ta romanja. Dragi Lojze, Bog naj ti bo obilen plačnik za vse tvoje delo. Zelo pogrešamo tvojega nasmeha in toplo besedo.
Jože Likozar, ki si bil dolga leta lektor pri naših romarskih mašah, te je Bog nenadoma poklical k sebi. Prepričani smo, da za tvojo globoko vernost in predanost Bogu že uživaš večno veselje. Pa smo tudi mi veseli, da si nam zapustil del sebe v tvoji hčerki Kati, ki te je letos nadomeščala. Hvala ti, Kati.
Tončka, tudi tebe letos ni bilo več med nami. Naša zvesta romarica, ki si vedno „ rada pomagala pri društvenih potrebah. Hvala , ti, hvala vsem, ki ste se že pridružili mnogim romarjem, ki se veselijo v Bogu.
Iskrena hvala g. Krajniku za darovano sv. mašo in tako v srce segajočo pridigo ter za popoldansko vodenje Križevega pota za Slovence, ki smo ga letos prvič rabili na tem romanju. Odbor DSPB se zahvaljuje tudi g. Rudiju Knezu za vodenje petja, in vsem pevcem. Petje je bilo nebeško.
Hvala za pete litanije Matere božje, ki so vedno zaključek romanja. Končno, prav lepa hvala tudi vsem romaricam in romarjem za tako lepo udeležbo in 'sodelovanje. Udeležba prav vsakega izmed nas je pripomogla k lepšemu in globljemu doživetju romanja. Če Bog da, se bomo prihodnje leto zopet videli v Frank, Ohio.
Za tako lep uspeh letošnjega romanja smo dolžni zahvalo Ameriški domovini za objavljanje naših člankov in vabil, kakor tudi slovenskima radio oddajama, ki ju vodita Edi Mejač in Tone Ovsenik. Hvala lepa!
Viktor in Nežka
in potem vse povabil v dvorano pod cerkvijo.
“Vsako tretjo nedeljo v mesecu,” mi je razlagal Krizolog na poti v dvorano, “pripravijo ljudje kulturno uro. Današnja bo prva v tem šolskem letu in niti ne vem, kaj so utegnili pripraviti, saj so se šele vrnili s počitnic. Nekaj bo že in tudi za želodec dobro poskrbijo,” je še pribil in že smo bili v dvorani.
Tudi ta je lepo obnovljena in jo je mogoče uporabljati v različne namene: med drugim služi kot likovna galerija. Tokrat so na steni visele slike amaterja iz Slovenije, ki očitno posnema modernega angleškega slikarja Francisa Bacona. V dvorani je bilo več pogrnje-
nih in okrašenih miz, okrog katerih smo se posedli.
Besedo je vzel Tone Brane in napovedal, da bo tokratna kulturna ura nekoliko drugačna od drugih. Posvečena bo namreč njihovemu župniku, ki letos obhaja petindvajsetletnico maš-ništva. Krizolog je debelo pogledal in hotel protestirati, a se Tone ni dal zmotiti. Povedal je, da je Krizolog skupaj s sobratoma že obhajal srebrno mašo na Viču v Ljubljani, kjer je preživel večino svojega duhovništva, nedeljo kasneje pa še v svoji rojstni fari na Ježici. Njegovi župljani na Osmi pa so mu pripravili to majhno presenečenje, da bi mu izrazili svoje spo-
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Srebrna slovesnost
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štovanje in hvaležnost, ljubezen in prijateljstvo.
Tone je povabil k besedi Toneta Babnika, enega od stebrov te fare, ki je župniku voščil v imenu vseh in mu zaželel še dolga, blagoslovljena in leta leta med malo čredo newyorških Slovencev. Od srca smo se nasmejali Miji Brane, ki je kar pesniško - malo za šalo, malo zares - orisala župnikovo duhovniško pot.
Župnik se kar ni mogel načuditi, kaj vse je vedela o njegovem delu v Sloveniji, Jolietu in Parizu. V smehu jo je primerjal s preiskovalcem Kennethom Starrom, ki obrača in prevrača vsak trenutek Clintonovega življenja. No, Mija nam je kasneje ob kozarčku povedala, da je za podatke zaprosila Krizo-lovega sošolca in prijatelja Matija, ki se je spomnil marsikatere vragolije iz študentskih let in zanimivih dogodkov iz kaplanskih.
Za Mijo je stopil na oder še Karl Klezin, ki je pri triinosemdesetih gladko in zabavno zapel Kedi sam ja mali bla.
Na koncu so župniku podarili čudovit rdeč mašni plašč. Ta barva v Krizologo-vem primeru zagotovo ne pomeni le trpljenja, čeprav vem, da brez težav in skrbi tudi on ni. Mislim, da je zanj, ki je izjemno komunikativen človek, največji križ samota. Rdeča pri Krizologu pomeni predvsem moč in razsodnost, predanost in ljubezen Svetega Duha. Le s tako podporo in takimi lastnostmi je bilo mogoče sploh začeti temeljito obnovo -vse je bilo treba porušiti, razen zunanjih zidov - sv. Cirila in samostana in jo tudi v rekordnem času u-spešno končati.
Po župnikovi zahvali je na mizo prišla nepogrešljiva kranjska klobasa s kislim zeljem. Teklo je tudi belo iz Goriških Brd, da smo lahko nazdravili in ob spremljavi Klezinove “frajtoner-ce” zapeli Kol’kor kapljic, tol’ko let.
Ko je metro brzel proti Columbia University, sem se v mislih zadovoljen in vesel vračal k sv. Cirilu, k mali čredi, ki je s tako ljubeznijo in pozornostjo podprla svojega pastirja. Čeprav jih je malo, tako da ni mogoča nobena številčna primerjava s Clevelandom, pa so ti ljudje z enakim veseljem in ponosom Slovenci kot oni v Ohiu, in to potrjujejo s svojo prizadevnostjo in sodelovanjem, požrtvovalnostjo (nekateri se vozijo tudi dve in več ur do svoje cerkve!) in delom.
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(Op. ur AD: Ta članek je ponatisnil v svojih “Pogledi” dr. Janez Arnež, ki v Ljubljani vodi Raziskovalni inštitut Studia Slovenica. Gre za štev. 26-27, november 1998. Pogledi so glasilo inštituta in izhajajo občasno. Naj dodam še to, da je ta teden izšel članek o dr. Arnežu oziroma o njegovi novi razstavi slovenskega tiska v ZDA in Kanadi, 1940-1977 in sicer v Delu izpod peresa Alenke Puhar. Ta članek bo ponatisnjen v prihodnji AD.)
“Dne 29. avgusta se je v Knavsovi dvorani zbralo precejšnje število rodoljubov, katere je sklical skupaj sedanji urednik Nove Domovine g. Rajko Feigel, da se posvetujejo, o ustanovitvi “Čitalnice”. Vsi so se nav-
dušeno izrazili za ustanovitev in sklenili, da se imenuje Slovenska Narodna Čitalnica.
Prvim predsednikom je bil izvoljen g. Franjo Černe, podpredsednikom g. Peter Pikš, glavnim tajnikom, ustanovnik čitalnice g. Rajko Feigel, blagajnikom pa g. Ivan Pirnat.
Ker čitalnica sprva brez denarnih sredstev ni mogla dobiti, oziroma najeti pripravnih prostorov, je g. G. Travnikar brezplačno prepustil del svojih prostorov Čitalnici. S skromnimi močmi se je pričelo. Pisalo se je najprvo na slovenske ameriške časopise, ki so velikodušno začeli pošiljati brezplačno- svoje liste na Čitalnico.
Iz malega raste veliko; zanimanje za čitalnico je za-
čelo prihajati vedno večje in kmalu je štela Čitalnica okoli 100 članov. Z majhno mesečnino 25 centov na mesec, se je kmalu toliko nabralo, da se je moglo naročiti precej slovenskih časopisov iz starega kraja.
Dne 28. novembra je Čitalnica priredila svojo prvo veselico v Knavsovi dvorani, ki je nad vse pričakovanje ugodno izpadla. Dohodki veselice so bili toliki, da si je Čitalnica lahko takoj naročila 250 knjig, večino vse krasno' vezane. Ob tej veselici je tudi prvič nastopilo več društev, kakor “Triglav”, ki je pospešil sijaj veselice s svojim pevskim zborom, ter tedaj obstoječe pevsko društvo “Sava”.
Dne 9. januarja so se vršile prve glavne volitve od-
bora; izvoljeni so bili z veliko večino:	predsednik g.
Franjo Černe, podpredsednik g. Peter Pikš, prvim tajnikom Louis Pirc (g. Feigel je radi preobilih poslov odstopil že med letom), blagajnik Anton Grdina, in knjižničarjem Louis Pirc.
Medtem se je Čitalnica iz svojih začasnih prostorov pri g. Travnikarju preselila v svoje prostore na 1365 E. 55. St., kjer se je kmalu udomačila. Preskrbela si je lepo omaro za knjige, naročila držala iz starega kraja za časopise ter precej oprave. Čitalnica ima sedaj za svoje člane na razpolago sledeče časopise:
Iz Amerike: a) slovenske: Nova Domovina, Glas Naroda, Amerikanski Slovenec, Glasnik, Slovenski narod, Glas Svobode, Proletarec, Jugoslovanski Gospodar in Komar;
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Sprava kot izhodišče za civilno rast Slovencev iz naroda v državo
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Pojem sprave ali narodne sprave se v slovenski javnosti intenzivno uporablja približno deset let. Neodvisno od namena in konteksta, v katerem se je ta pojem prvič Pojavil, se je kmalu pokazalo, da ga ljudje uporabljajo v najrazličnejih pomenih in za najrazličnejše namene. Vzrok za to je bil najprej v samem dejstvu, da je bil Pojem premalo razložen in pomanjkljivo defiiniran. Ker je zadeval boleče obdobje revolucije in državljanske vojne na Slovenskem, so se ga polastile različne skupine ■n organizacije, da bi z njegovo pomočjo uveljavljale sv°jo razlago zgodovine in svoje parcialne interese.
Ponarejanje pojma sprave
Najbolj ponarejajo pojem sPrave tisti, ki menijo, da Je sprava predvsem simbol-n° dejanje, pri katerem si najvišji predstavniki nekate-r'h ustanov, ki so bile vple-tene v državljansko vojno, Sežejo v roko in tako urbi et orbi razglasijo spravo. S iakim simbolnim dejanjem,
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dez in slepilo, da se urejajo realna razmerja med ljudmi in da se rešujejo njihovi resnični problemi, ki so posledica revolucije in totalitarnega režima, ki ga je revolucija uveljavila.
Ta videz je fantazma in slepilo. Simboli in protokolarne geste ne spreminjajo posledic revolucije in ne lajšajo bolečine za izgubljenimi življenji. Za življenji desetti-sočev mladih ljudi na obeh straneh državljanske vojne.
Trdim, da niti tolažilnega učinka nimajo. Trdim, da stiskanje rok visokih dostojanstvenikov ob množičnem grobišču pod Krenom ni zmanjšalo bolečine preživelih bratov, sester in drugih sorodnikov. Trdim, da stiskanje rok visokih dostojanstvenikov ni zmanjšalo domotožja tisočev Slovencev v Argentini ali v Avstraliji ali kjerkoli drugje, kamor so morali pobegniti, da so si rešili življenje. Trdim, da protokolarne vljudnosti med dostojanstveniki Komunistične partije in Katoliške cerkve morda pomagajo urejati razmerje med obema ustanovama in morda celo omogočajo nekakšno spravo med obema.
Morda. Samo, lepo vas prosim, ne razglašajte tega za spravo slovenskega naroda!... Ostaja namreč skoraj vse, kakor je bilo: mrtvi še vedno niso pokopani, množična grobišča še vedno niso označena, država še vedno ni preštela svojih mrtvih, da, niti tistih ne, ki jih je sama načrtovano in hladnokrvno pobila.
Žongliranje z ljudmi in žongliranje z resnico
Zato trdim, da je razu-
mevanje sprave kot nekakšnega rituala gest in simbolov predvsem oblika manipulacije z realnostjo dogajanja med vojno in z desetletji po njej. Je žongliranje z ljudmi in žongliranje z resnico. Je spreminjanje revolucije v opereto in povojnega totalitarizma v Partljičevo (partljičevsko) veseloigro (komedijo). Kajti tako revolucija kakor tudi povojni socializem z baje človeškim o-brazom in baje po meri človeka sta globoko zasekala v tisoče družin, jim s surovo silo spreminjala način preživljanja in gospodarjenja, jim “nacionalizirala” premoženje in dušo ter diktirala smisel- življenja.
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pojmom sprave lahko mislimo samo odnos do realnega zgodovinskega dogajanja, ki je krotovičilo konkretne ljudi iz mesa in krvi in hkrati spreminjalo obliko in vsebino vseh institucij. Zato sprave ni mogoče opraviti s protokolarnimi gestami in simboli, temveč predvsem s konkretnimi ukrepi in dejanji, ki - kolikor je sploh še mogoče - popravijo krivice državljanom in normalizirajo državne institucije in življenje v državi. Zato ne -more biti sprave zgolj na simbolni ravni. Če hočemo govoriti o spravi, potem moramo govoriti o konkretnih ukrepih, ne pa zgolj o simbolih.
Da ne bo nesporazuma: ničesar nimam proti simbolnim dejanjem, vendar ne la-žimo sami sebi, da lahko s (z njimi) protokolarnimi gestami in simboli odpravljamo krivice, ki so jih utrpeli konkretni ljudje. Prav tako ne moremo niti z retoriko niti s simboliko odstraniti navlake v naših glavah, ki jo je načrtno proizvajal totalitarni sistem s “človeškim obrazom”. Če tega ne uvidimo, potem ne delujemo za spravo, temveč nadaljujemo z manipuliranjem ljudi po znanih receptih.
Druga razširjena anomalija slovenskih razprav o spravi (slovenskega spravlja-štva) je trditev, da je bilo že vse povedano, da je treba “neljubo” preteklost po-(daljc na sir. 14)
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Cleveland, Ohio, 8. oktobra 1998.
Poročila iz slovenskega tiska
Po povezavi z Good-yearom Sava močnejša
KRANJ - V zadnjem letu je Sava, ena najstarejših in naj večjih tovarn v Sloveniji, doživela velike spremembe, ki so posledica ločitve od dolgoletnega poslovnega partnerja, nemškega Continentala, in povezave z ameriškim Goodyearom, e-nim največjih gumarskih koncernov na svetu.
Ob praznovanju 78. obletnice tovarne je predsednik uprave delniške družbe Janez Bohorič povedal, da je “po sklenitvi zavezništva z Goodyearom Sava sposobna ne le preživeti, ampak tudi zmagovati v globalni konkurenčni tekmi. V zadnjem času smo povečali obseg, kakovost in produktivnost ter znižali stroške poslovanja. Na lestvici 300 največjih gospodarskih sistemov v državi, kjer smo že vrsto let med prvimi desetimi, smo v enem letu poskočili kar za 82 mest po dobičku.”
Na slovesnosti so podelili tradicionalne nagrade najpri-zadevnejšim delavcem. Prvič so izročili zlato plaketo Helmuta Turzanskega v spomin na prvega inženirja Save, ki je v preteklosti učil generacije savskih strokovnjakov in je bil največja o-pora številnim povojnim savskim direktorjem. Prvi jo je prejel upokojeni član kolektiva Drago Smodiš, in sicer za življenjsko delo, ki ga je v celoti posvetil Savi in z njim veliko prispeval k njeni rasti.
Največje letošnje vaje Nata bodo v Sloveniji
BRUSELJ - Pred dvema tednoma so središče Nata obiskali župani 12 slovenskih kozjanskih, dolenjskih in posavskih občin. Z njimi so bili tudi vodilni ljudje območnih uprav za obrambo.
Delo .28. sept.: “Na tem območju bo namreč od 14. novembra do 2. deembra vaja mednarodnih sil Nato, letos največja v Evropi. Na njej bo sodelovalo blizu 6000 vojakov Nata in Partnerstva za mir, med njimi tudi slovenska enota ter nosilci civilne obrambe Republike Slovenije. Osnovni cilj vaje je preveriti delovanje sil Nato in partnerskih sil v okviru mirovne operacije v namišljenem ozemlju, pri čemer bo sedež “ogrožene” države v Sevnici. Enote in njihove poveljstva se bodo vaje udeležila tudi sama, vaja pa se bo začela in končala s premiki enot in poveljstev. Slovenska stran mora zanje zagotoviti vso oskrbo.”
Poročilo navaja dalje: “Podobno kot z najvišjimi vojaškimi strokovnjaki Nata je
tudi v pogovorih s predstavniki zelo dejavne slovenske misije prevladalo mnenje, da je Slovenija že zdaj pripravljena na vključitev v Nato. Ali se bo to zgodilo ob novi priložnosti aprila 1999 v Washingtonu, bo odvisno od politične volje sedanjih 16 članic oziroma tudi od tega, kako jih bomo znali prepričati.”
Srednjeveška Bela krajina zaživela
ČRNOMELJ - Pred nedavnim so se Črnomaljci s prireditvami v sklopu dne-vov evropske kulturne dediščine preselili v srednjeveško Belo krajino. V Ulici na u-trdbah je arheolog dr. Phil Mason predstavil najnovejša izkopavanja v starem mestnem jedru, ki kažejo, da je bil Črnomelj poseljen že v antiki in še prej. Pred 770 leti pa je dobil svojo župnijo, katere obletnice so tudi proslavili v teh dneh.
V	Špeličevi hiši so odprli razstavo likovnih del mladih Belokranjcev, ki so ustvarjali na temo Črnomelj in njegovi ljudje, zveza kulturnih društev je natisnila sedem zloženk o gradu, mestnem pečatu, listini o ustanovitvi črnomaljske župnije, cerkvi sv. Duha, gospodih Črnomaljskih, legendi o imenu mesta in o arheoloških najdbah pod pastoralnim centrom. Na trgu pred cerkvico sv. Duha so postavili tržnico iz starih časlov.
O nasledstvu spet konec oktobra
BRUSELJ - Naslednji krog nasledstvenih pogajanj v Bruslju je prestavljen na konec oktobra; trajal naj bi od 19. do 30. oktobra.
Mednarodni posrednik sir Arthur Watts se je namreč odločil, da bo pred tem na turneji od 28. septembra do 9. oktobra vnovič. preveril stališča držav naslednic. S slovensko delegacijo se je v Ljubljani pogovarjal 29. septembra, nato pa je obiskal oz. obiskuje še Skopje, Beograd, Zagreb in Sarajevo.
V	skladu z junijskimi sklepi nadzornega odbora sveta za uresničevanje day-tonskega mirovnega sporazuma naj bi sestanek prinesel dogovor o nadaljevanju pogajanj, “če bodo za to obstajali ustrezni pogoji”, sicer pa bo nadzorni odbor znova razmislil o nasledstvenem vprašanju, tudi o možnosti, da bi bila ključna vprašanja rešena z arbitražo.
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Predavanje dr. Jožeta Pučnika na letošnji Dragi
(nadaljevanje s str. 13)
zabiti in se končno lotiti problemov jutrišnjega dne, problemov prihodnosti. To trditev utemeljujejo s celo vrsto prepričljivih argumentov, kot je npr. socialni položaj ljudi, brezposelnost, modernizacija podjetij, infrastrukture in uprave, reševanje ekoloških problemov in tako naprej. Vse to v okviru sintagme, “da moramo skrbeti za mladino” in sc “vključevati v Evropo”, da bi vse skupaj zvenelo dovolj moderno in aktualno.
Ker ti argumenti zadevajo konkretne težave mnogih ljudi v Sloveniji, so zelo razširjeni in zvenijo prepričljivo. Kljub temu je očitno, da zahteva o pozabi preteklih krivic nima nič skupnega z narodno spravo, ki pomeni konkretno odpravljanje deformacij v institucijah države in odpravo individualnih krivic v smeri normaliziranja razmer.
Zahteva po pozabi ima lahko samo en učinek in verjetno ima samo en namen: namesto da bi odpravljali vsa tista nesorazmerja v življenju ljudi, ki so nastala z revolucijo in v desetletjih totalitarizma, naj bi vse le pozabili in pustili vsa materialna in pravna razmerja tako, kakor pač so.
Torej: “Bodimo uvidevni, človeški in usmiljeni, pozabimo preteklost in sprejmimo sadove socializma”... Temu je mogoče odvrniti samo z “ne in desetkrat ne”! To ni sprava slovenskega naroda, to ni odpravljanje konkretnih posledic revolucije in totalitarizma. To je žongliranje z besedami in manipula-
cija z ljudmi kakor v dobrih starih “tovariških” časih!...
Vprašanje resnice
Tretja anomalija sprava-štva zadeva vprašanje resnice. Ne bom se skušal lotevati tega osrednjega filozofskega pojma strokovno, temveč zgolj v pojavnih oblikah, kakor se pojavlja v javni razpravi o komunistični preteklosti.
Jedro tega problema je v utemeljeni zahtevi, da se obdobje revolucije in obdobje povojnega totalitarizma strokovno razišče. Seveda ne tako, kakor je to desetletja delala večina zgodovinarjev pod nadzorom komunistične partije. V tem obdobju je nastala cela vrsta del, ki pomenijo ponarejanje resničnih dejstev, načrtno izpuščanje neljubih podatkov in dogodkov ter poveličevanje takratne vodilne politične e-lite.
To ne pomeni, da v teh knjigah ni nobenih koristnih dognanj. Seveda so, vsaj v nekaterih. Bistvenega pomena pa je, da so v povojnem zgodovinopisju bili uveljavljeni selektivni programi dojemanja faktov in njihovo splošno vrednotenje po naročilu ali pričakovanju od zgoraj.
Ne poznam nobenega slovenskega zgodovinarja, ki bi bil toliko značajsko in strokovno ozaveščen, da bi javno in kritično presodil svoje delo iz tega obdobja. Vsi so bodisi preprosto tiho in upajo, da njihovih nekdanjih znanstvenih umotvorov nihče več ne bere, ali pa so še danes prepričani, da je bilo
vse v najlepšem redu in da so vedno pisali samo resnico po vseh pravilih strokovne metodologije. Tretja vrsta zgodovinarjev se s svojo lastno preteklostjo sploh ne ukvarja in pišejo danes preprosto nekoliko drugače, kakor so pisali nekoč.
Mi, ki smo samo uporabniki zgodovinarskih ugotovitev, se znajdemo tako v težavi, da ne vemo, kateremu delu in kateremu avtorju lahko zaupamo. Tako postanejo izsledki celotne stroke neuporabni, ker sami strokovnjaki niso pripravljeni ali niso zmožni upoštevati pravil lastne poklicne etike in strokovno razčistiti anomalij znotraj stroke.
Pluralizem resnic
Domnevam, da se je iz teh nerešenih vprašanj rodila teza o “mnogih resnicah”, o “pluralizmu resnic”. Ta teza je iz znanosti prodrla v politiko in prek nje v javne razprave o revoluciji in o komunističnem totalitarnem režimu v Sloveniji. Ta teza pravi, da je o tem obdobju zgodovine nesmiselno iskati objektivno znanstveno podobo, ker da je več mogočih resnic in da pač ni
ČITALNICA
(nadaljevanje s str. 12)
b)	nemški: Waechter und Anzeiger;
c)	angleški:	Cleveland
Leader, Cleveland Citizen;
d)	hrvatski: Narodni list, Osa, Napredek.
Iz starega kraja: a) slovenski:	Slovenec, Slovenski
narod, Edinost, Soča, Primorski List, ■ Domoljub, Domovina, Narodni list, Slovenski Gospodar, Naš Dom, Rdeči Prapor, Gorenjec, Notranjec, Naš list, Kamničan, Slovenska Gospodinja, Mir, Gorica, Dom in Svet, Ljubljanski Zvon, Slovan, Vrtec, Angeljček, Zvonček, Štajerc;
b) nemški:	Fliegende
Blaetter, Das interessante Blatt, Neues Wiener Journal,
skupno 44 listov, kar je lepo število za Čitalnico v tuji Ameriki.
Nadalje šteje sedaj čital-niška knjižnica 315 knjig, ki so večinoma vse krasno vezane. Vsak član je opravičen do sposojevanja knjig in si lahko izposodi naenkrat dve knjigi domov za štirinajst dni, katere mora po preteku tega roka vrniti ali pa si sprositi nadaljnega roka za knjige.
Dne 1. oktobra 1907, je bilo vseh čitalniških udov skupaj 159, kar je pač častno število, posebno, ker Čitalnica obstoji komaj dobro leto... V kratkem prične Čitalnica tudi s podučnimi predavanji, ki bodo gotovo zopet nova privlačna moč za clevelandske Slovence.”
mogoče ugotoviti, katera je prava. Zato moramo biti strpni oziroma “liberalni” in dopustiti, da vse te različne resnice o tem zgodovinskem obdobju živijo druga ob drugi, po možnosti “enakopravno in enakovredno”.
O teoretičnih zapletih in absurdih, do katerih vodi ta teza, tukaj ne bi razpravljal. Ostajam le pri učinku, ki ga ima ta teza na zahtevo po vsestranski in strokovno uravnovešeni predstavitvi revolucije in totalitarizma v Sloveniji. Ta učinek je v načrtni zlorabi nejasnosti in nedefiniranosti same teze, saj se moralna zahteva po svobodi v mišljenju in delovanju ljudi samovoljno prenaša na možnost racionalne analize nekega predmeta znanosti.
To seveda spoznavno-teo-retsko ni dopustno. Prav s to logično nekonsistentnostjo pa odpira možnost poljubnega in prikritega poigravanja s pojmi, saj je v teoriji znanosti bilo že davno ugotovljeno, da logično nekonsi-tentne premise omogočajo poljubno “utemeljevanje” česarkoli.
V konkretni razpravi o revoluciji in o obdobju tota-
litarizma se to zlorablja tako, da avtorji branijo komunistično podobo revolucije' in socializma s tem, da se sklicujejo na morano človekovo pravico imeti o stvareh svoje lastno in osebno resnico. Torej po vzorcu, češ, mi smo humani in liberalni in dopuščamo, da ima vsakdo svoje lastne nazore.. Kdor pa s tem ne strinja, ni niti human niti liberalen.
Tukaj bi lahko postregel s citati Spomenke in Tineta Hribarja, predsednika Milana Kučana in še mnogih drugih, med njimi na moje nedavno presenečenje tudi predsednika DZ Janeza Podobnika. Ta je namreč načrtovano javno razpravo o odnosu do preteklosti, ki bo predvidoma 21. septembra (je tudi bil, op. ur. AD), zakoličil s tezo, ki se glasi: “...priznanje različnih pogledov kot dejanje za prihodnost Republike Slovenijč”; tako vsaj piše na vabilu, ki ga je podpisal 31. julija letos.
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Anton Martin Slomšek - apostol slovenskega naroda
V nedeljo, 27. septembra, je blizu pet tisoč ljudi kljub močnemu deževju prišlo na Slom pri Ponikvi, kjer so z otvoritvijo obnovljene Slomškove domačije in z zahvalno molitvijo zaradi gotovosti skorajšnje razglasitve Antona Martina Slomška za blaženega obhajali Slomškovo nedeljo. Na slovesnosti, ki so se je udeležili domala vsi slovenski škofije, je urednik Mohorjeve družbe dr. Janez Dular govoril o narodnokulturnem pomenu Slomškovega dela, mariborski škof dr. Franc Kramberger, ki je na Slomu maševal, pa je blagoslovil nad 300 let staro in temeljito obnovljeno rojstno hišo škofa Slomška. Nadškof dr. Franc Rode je v svoji pridigi postavil Slomška za zgled kristjana in Slovenca in ga imenoval za apostola slovenskega naroda, očeta slovenske Cerkve in škofa, ki je Cerkvi na Slovenskem dal slovenski obraz in ki je vse Slovence združil v duhovno zedinjeno Slovenijo.	Delo, 28. 9. 1998
štva, pa čaka sicer prazna, a pripravljena na čas, ko bo Anton Martin Slomšek tudi uradno razglašen za blaženega.
V sobi Slomškovega otroštva je nekaj predmetov (predalnik, ura, rožni venec), ki so pripadali prav družini Antona Slomška, v sobi duhovništva pa so predstavljene knjige, ki jih je spisal.
Med drugim je v tej spominski sobi prikazano tudi Slomškovo pismo Matiji Čopu, v katerem ga sprašuje, “Kaj dela naš blagoslovljeni pesnik dr. Prešeren?”
Soba, ki prikazuje Slomškovo delo v obdobju škofovske službe, pa med drugim prikazuje zemljevid novih meja lavantinske škofije s preseljenim sedežem v Maribor, kar je bilo ne le z verskega, temveč tudi z narodnostnega in kulturnega vidika izjemno dejanje.
Damjana Stamejčič Delo, 24. septembra 1998
Dr. JOŽE PUČNIK
(nadaljevanje s str. 14)
Pražnja nedelja na Slomu
V njej so urejene tri spominske sobe Antona Martina Slomška, četrta, ki bo soba njegovega svetništva, čaka pripravljena
°m Pri Ponikvi - Na Slo-l*10 Pri Ponikvi ^tribra
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^e6ovi U,P‘*. Vso zemljo v 0 °lici in postal na pastil J1111 gospodar, je Pteilhenn mek Novak in se Va* v Slomška.
26. novembra leta 1800 se je Marku Slomšku in s Črešnjic in njegovi ženi Mariji Zorko rodil prvorojenec, ki je pri krstu dobil ime Anton. Slomški so imeli tedaj okoli 55 hektarov dobre zemlje, mlin in žago, zato je oče Marko videl v prvem sinu Antonu dobrega naslednika.
A vse se je obrnilo drugače. Anton oziroma Tonček, kot so mu tedaj rekli domači, je raje jemal v roko knjigo kot motiko in ob spodbujanju kaplana Jakoba Prašnikarja in zavzemanju matere je začel obiskovati šole.
Za Slomškovo domačijo je bil njegov odhod na šolanje v Celje začetek konca. Po porodu osmega otroka je namreč umrla mati, oče se je pozneje v drugo poročil z žensko, ki je bila o-trokom prava mačeha, po
očetovi smrti pa je posestvo prevzel drugi sin Jožef, ki pa je veliko pil in kmalu umrl.
Poznejši gospodarji Sloma niso ohranili nekdanjega slovesa in delavnosti. V začetku tega stoletja so Slomški domačijo prodali in se naselili v Razkrižju pri Ljutomeru. Novi lastniki Sloma pa so se hitro menjavali: dr. Josip Karlovšek, Celjska hranilnica in po. drugi svetovni vojni Kmetijski kombinat Šentjur.
Po letu 1991 je postala lastnica Slomškove rojstne hiše mariborska škofija, na zemlji okoli dvorca na Slomu pa z nasadi jablan in lešnikov ter obrati kmetijske pridelave gospodari podjetje Meja iz Šentjurja.
V Slomškovi rojstni hiši so za zdaj uredili tri spominske sobe, četrta, ki so jo imenovali za sobo svetni-
ljubnemu razlaganju in zlorabam teze o svobodi posameznikove osebnosti in o pravici do svoje lastne osebne resnice, potem moramo vnaprej sprejeti nekatera temeljna pravila igre, ki se jim zavežemo, če želimo živeti z drugimi. Ne bom navajal raznih mednarodnih konvencij, ki jih je ratificirala tudi Slovenija. Poenostavljeno trdim: kdor govori o različnih resnicah in o priznanju različnih pogledov, ta mora najprej brez zadržkov sprejeti na primer pravilo,
-	da je človekovo življenje nedotakljivo in da ga mora država varovati,
-	da so zunaj sodni poboji vojnih ujetnikov in civilistov zločin proti človeštvu;
-	da je organizatorje takih zločinov treba nemudoma postaviti pred sodišče,
-	da je treba množična grobišča pobitih dostojno o-značiti,
-	da je država dolžna sestaviti natančen seznam vseh pobitih državljanov, še posebej tistih, ki jih je sama dala pobiti,
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V Slomškovi rojstni hiši so tri spominske sobe - Četrta, soba svetništva, je pripravljena za čas, ko bo Anton Martin Slomšek tudi uradno razglašen za blaženega.
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do prostosti in osebne varnosti,
-	da je prisilno delo prepovedano,
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do obrambe pred sodiščem,
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do zasebnega in družinskega življenja,
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do svobode misli, vesti in veroizpovedi,
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do svobodnega izražanja,
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do političnega in sindikalnega ždruževanja,
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do spoštovanja lastnega premoženja,
-	da se nikomur ne sme odvzeti pravica do izobraževanja,
-	da	ima	vsakdo	pravico
do svobode gibanja in da sme zapustiti tudi lastno državo,
-	da država ne sme izganjati lastnih državljanov,
-	da	država ne sme do-
voljevati tajnih preiskav v stanovanjih,
-	da država ne sme izseljevati lastnih državljanov iz obmejnega pasu
in tako naprej in tako naprej. To so pravila igre, ki med demokrati ne morejo biti sporna. Tudi ne smejo biti sporna, kadar jih uporabimo za presojo nekdanjega režima v Sloveniji. Kdor ta pravila krši, izvršuje zločine.
Po teh kriterijih je očitno, da je komunistični režim v Sloveniji bil totalitaren. Niti ene od prej naštetih temeljnih človekovih pravic ni, ki je komunisti v Sloveniji ne bi bil prekršili. Naj omenim še dejstvo, da so vse do volitev leta 1990 uporabljali npr. tajne preiskave stanovanja, prisluh telefonov in druge ukrepe tajne politične policije, in to vedno po navodilu najvišjih funkcionarjev	slovenske
partije.
Zato moramo vse tiste, ki javno razglašajo pluralnost resnic in pogledov, razločno vprašati, ali s temi kriteriji temeljnih človekovih pravic soglašajo in ali so jih pripravljeni dosledno uporabiti tudi pri presoji revolucije in komunističnega režima v Sloveniji do leta 1990. Ko gre za temeljne kriterije, ni prostora za pluralnost resnic, seveda le, če gre za demokrate po srcu in ne samo po lepih besedah...
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Toliko o pojmu sprave in o spravaštvu na Slovenskem, (nadaljevanje prihodnjič)
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1250. Predsednici MZA odseka v Clevelandu
ge. Marici Lavriša moja iskrena zahvala za lepe in koristne misijonske članke v AD v času moje odsotnosti. Obisk misijonarjev z Madagaskarja je bil izredno zanimiv in prinesel je med slovenske misijonske dobrotnike veliko koristnega. Čisto drugače se doživlja živa beseda in prisotnost misijonarja, kot pa poročila iz pisem.
Tako na primer je misijonar Lojze Letonja napisal v enem izmed pisem, ko je bila njegova cerkev pozidana, sledeče:
“Ko je bila božja hiša pozidana in sem stal kot majhna stvar ob njej, od veselja so mi drsele solze iz oči in z močnim glasom sem klical, z željo, da bi me slišal ves svet: “Hvalite Boga, ki je dober. Slavite ga vsi narodi, Ti si mogočen, mogočen, poslužil si se malih ljudi, da so napravili velika dela. Cerkev, dom živih, dom občestva. - Živi, ki verujejo v večno življenje in se hranijo s kruhom življenja, se zbirajo v tej božji hiši. Hiša - dom živih, ki se zbirajo v tej božji hiši. V tej božji hiši je prvo srečanje z Bogom v sv. krstu. Življenjska zaveza dekleta in mladeniča. Zavetje bolnikov, prebežališče grešnikov in vseh onih, ki iščejo tolažbo v preizkušnjah in zadnje slovo od živih. Cerkev -božja hiša, da bo sprejemala žive in da bodo v njej oznanjali resnico o življenju in da bi tudi naša imena bila zapisana v knjigi življenja. Amen! Zahvaljen bodi Ti Mogočni! Spev misijonarja, ko je bila cerkev pozidana!”
Vrnili so se za stalno domov sledeči laiški misijonarji:	Kristina	Leskovec,
Ana Rožac, Ivo Čerček, Andrej Otto, Uroš Glavač, Zvonka Kopina. Poročilo iz
Misijonske pisarne v Ljubljani.
V avgustu so se oglasili sledeči dobrotniki:	Stana
Oven daruje del bogoslovske vzdrževalnine $200, za Petra Koko tea. Družina Helen Oven Hiserman iz Muncy, Pa., $200: “Žal mi je, ker nisem mogla poslati dar že preje, zgubila sem službo in sedaj iščem novo delo. Se vas bomo še spomnili z darom, čim bo mogoče. Trenutno pa tudi naša farna cerkev potrebuje za kritje večjih stroškov.”
Neimenovana iz Wisconsi-na za vzdrževanje bogoslovca Romana Lebana, ki je v 6. letniku, $400, da bi res postal dober duhovnik, saj dobrih duhovnikov potrebujemo.
Iskrena zahvala za darove v imenu vseh tistih, ki jih bodo deležni, ter tudi v imenu MZA, ki jih bo z veseljem razposlala.
Za prvo obletnico smrti ustanovitelju MZA za pomoč slovenskih misijonarjev, je napisal misijonar Vladimir Kos SJ v nadaljnjem citatu sledeči esej in ga posvetil pok. g. Karlu Wol-bangu CM:
Ko se bova srečala v Nebesih...
Upam, da vsak član MZA in jaz. Posebno pa se že veselim srečanja s preč.g. Karlom Wolbangom! S pomočjo Sv. Duha je zamislil MZA, sprva v obliki skromnega zbiranja znamk, ki toliko pomenijo posebno za določene misijonske pokrajine, tudi če znamk ne spremenimo v dolarje. In isti Sv. Duh - Drugi vat. zbor Ga imenuje “Božjo roso”, ki omogoča rast božje besede, kjerkoli pade kot seme v dobro zemljo (prim. odst. 22. mis. odloka Ad gentes)
- mu je blagoslovil začetno delo, tako da je zraslo v ti-
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sto mogočno drevo, ki še zmeraj nosi sadove. In teh sadov - v modernem svetu spremenjenih v dolarje -smo deležni mi, ki delujemo v misijonih, se pravi v deželah, ki jih še ne preveva krščansko-katoliško ozračje.
Ti dolarji niso nekaj, kar avtomatično proizvaja neka določena pošta v neki določeni državi, kar tako. Brez truda. Brez žrtev. Nekaj, kar potem pošta pošlje prav na naš naslov. Avtomatično. Kot da drugod po svetu ni podobnih ali morda še hujših misijonskih potreb.
Nekateri izmed nas, ki delamo - včasih dobesedno
-	na misijonskem polju, smo tako zaposleni, da ob prejemu misijonskega 1 daru ne zmoremo drugega kot nasmešek. Hvaležen nasmešek. A prav bi bilo, da vsaj enkrat na leto sedemo k mizi
-	ali k čemur služi za miso
-	in se s kartico zahvalimo misijonskim dobrotnikom v MZA. Tudi naši japonski pogani poznajo tovrstno hvaležnost vsaj enkrat na leto...
Spominjam se, kako mi je pok. preč. g. Karel včasih zaupal, da ni zavrgel upanja, da se bodo zahvalili dobrotnikom v MZA - ne njemu, ki mu ni za osebno hvalo - nekateri, ki ob prejemu misijonskih dobrot vzbujajo vtis, da so te darove morali prejeti...
Dejstvo, da je g. Karel kljub ^takšnemu mišljenju nadaljeval s pošiljanjem darov, razkriva njegovo veličino misijonskega garača.
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CENE NIZKE PO VASI ŽELJI!
Spominjam se tudi, da je tu in tam- omenil človeške težave - katero plemenito delo jih ne pozna? -, ki pa so v njem še večale zaupanje v božjo Previdnost, ki je MZA tako čudovito uvedla v misijonski svet in ga v njem ohranjala." Vedno znova se je zatekal v svetišče Marijinega Srca. Za moč, za pomoč, za luč, za vztrajnost.
Vem, da smo ljudje polni nepopolnosti prav do trenutka odhoda v večnost. Brez nepopolnosti bi ne bili ljudje! Prepričan sem, da se jih je g. Karel z božjo milostjo skušal otresti, jih zmanjšati, jih spremeniti v kreposti. Včasih sem to bral med vrsticami njegovih pisem na daljno Japonsko. V Ameriki najbrž vsi poznate katekizem “Kristusov nauk” (The Teaching of Christ), ki je leta 1978 doživel že 6. izdajo pri “Our Sunday Visitor” v Huntington, Indiana. Takole uči na str. 502:
“Šele smrt izravna kristjanu vse, kar je bil v življenju izgubil” in pri tem navaja evangelij sv. Mateja 19:29. G. Karel je bil - posebno po svoji ljubezni do Nebeškega Misijonarja in Njegovega misijonskega sveta - kristjan do dna srca. Če učenje katekizma drži, potem je smrt g. Karla pripravila za Nebesa. Zato menim, da nisem pretiraval, ko sem v začetku tega spominskega eseja zapisal, da se že zdaj veselim srečanja z g. Karlom. Se razume, da bom najbrž sam moral najprej v Vice. Zanje, prosim Gospoda, da bi bile čim krajše.
Zgoraj navedeni katekizem tudi uči, da smrt ne pretrga vezi med kristjani (prim. str. 527). To je zapisano že v katekizmu, ki ga je s svojimi pismi sestavljal sv. Pavel: “Prepričan sem, da nas ne smrt ne življenje...ne kakršnakoli druga stvar ne bo mogla ločiti od ljubezni, s katero nas ljubi Bog v Jezusu Kristusu, našem Gospodu.” (Rim 8:38-39) Torej smo še zmeraj lahko v zvezi z g. Karlom! Torej se lahko še zmeraj
obračamo nanj. Da nas svojo priprošnjo podpre, živi duh pri živem Gospodu. MZA je namreč še zmeraj Gospodovo delo.
Prisrčen pozdrav!
V Gospodu vdani
Vladimir Kos 8. 9. 1998 :
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