Magyar News, 2005. szeptember-december (16. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
2005-09-01 / 1. szám
Two years ago students at Fairfield Warde High School established a club to support the Smile Train, an organization that gives surgery to poor children bom with a cleft palette and cleft lip in countries all over the world. This 45 minute operation which costs $250.00 gives these children the possibility to smile like any other child does. The medical profession in Hungary always did this kind of surgery with the support of the government. Now it participates with the Smile Train Organization with post surgery corrections. The Smile Train Club at the high school organized a fund raising event this June which was quite successful. From the proceeds of the concert nine operations will occur. There was a special feature at the concert which had a Hungarian link. Emeric Viani, a graduate of Fairfield Warde High School and former member of the club who is now studying music at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, asked a school mate to participate in the concert. His schoolmate, Jeff LaDeur, a nineteen year old from Chicago is so talented that he has won several competitions, earned the most talented performer award at Eastman and already has made a CD. During the concert, he brought the crowd to a thundering applause and standing ovation with his performance of a Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt. Without a doubt, Jeff’s emotional presentation of the music was authentically Hungarian!!! The European Union with the help of the Hungarian government doesn’t like the Hungarian wine We have seen mounds of wheat rot in unsuitable storage. Also expecting the same to happen to the com crop. This is the present condition in a country that was called the breadbasket of Europe. This country, let us call it by name, Hungary, governed by people who let it happen while they on the side are busy earning 100 million Forint and who knows how much more. Now the government to please the Union is ready to dig up the roots of the grape and designate the land to some other crop, maybe to wheat and com??? To get the Hungarian wine off the market the Union is willing to pay anywhere from 400 thousand to 2 million Forint to destroy the vinery. And then What? Does the 245,000 acres of grapes in Hungary threaten the French wine market? Have the members of the Union ever heard of the Tokaj wine that was called: “The king of the wines, the wine of the kings”. Probably the Hungarian government sat down with the leaders of the Union in a French wine cellar and drowned their brains in wine from the French market. Well at least they put a dent into it. Day after day we leam many upsetting things going on with and about Hungary. The people who haven’t recuperated yet from the Communist and Soviet dictatorship are confused and do not take matters in their own hand. Page 8
