Welcome to the 16 young Lithuanian baseball players who are currently visiting Cleveland prior to the upcoming Continental Cup Tournament next weekend here at John Carroll University.
The 11 to 15 year-olds and their coaches are getting a great look at northeast Ohio, including a tour of the Q arranged by Jennifer and Zydrunas Ilgauskas, and a fishing trip on Lake Erie courtesy of Marlene, Vytas and Paulius Kijauskas.
Many thanks to host families Algis and Loretta Gudenas, Giedre and Donatas Jesmantas, Danute Januskis-Tuljak, Lenny Kedys, and Shirley and Ed Kizys.
Sirvaitis and Associates, Taupa, Lithuanian Village and Jakubs Funeral Home also provided support for the team’s stay to Cleveland.
The next meeting of the Cleveland Pensininkiu Klubas will be held on Thursday, July 23rd at 12 noon in Gintaras at Lithuanian Village.
The Lithuanian Club will hold its annual picnic on Saturday, July 25th at the Italian-American Center in Wickliffe. There will be great food and drink, entertainment by Kolorado Vabalai and the Gottsheer Blaskapelle Band, as well as a Krupnikas contest.
During the month of July, Fr. Kijauskas will be on annual retreat in Quebec. Fr. Arturas Sedaravicius, a Lithuanian Jesuit studying at Loyola University in Chicago will be filling in at Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Looking ahead to some farewell activities at St. George, the final parish picnic at St. George will be Sunday August 9th, following 10:30 mass. And the farewell to St. George banquet will be Saturday evening, October 10th at Lithuanian Village.
You might have seen in yesterday’s Plain Dealer, that former Browns wide receiver Joe Jurevicius is suing his former team, claiming that he contracted staph at the Browns facility while rehabbing from knee surgery in 2008. Jurevicius was released by the Browns earlier this year, and at this point, has not been picked up by another NFL team. Check out the complete article on Cleveland.com.
This morning we have information about two more Cleveland Lithuanian members of the graduating classes of 2008 & 2009.
Neris Klimas graduated from Brush High School earlier this month, where she was president of the Environmental Club, and attended Tri-C during her senior year, earning one year of college credit.
Neris plans to attend Cleveland State University to study Psychology and Art, with the goal of eventually earning a master’s degree in Art Therapy Counseling.
Neris’ favorite Lithuanian memory is dancing with Svyturys at the Allen Theater in 2007. Neris is the daughter of Ed and Vilija Klimas.
Juliana Puskorius graduated from Parma High School in 2008, and is attending the University of Akron, majoring in Biology. Juliananjoys soccer, reading, cooking and traveling.
Her favorite Lithuanian memory is dancing in the pouring rain at the 2007 Sokiu Svente in Lithuania.
Juliana is the daughter of Audre Puskorius.
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Chris and Sharon Margevicius (of Ingleside Rd.) and their son Philip also hosted two of the boys from the baseball team for 5 nights last weekend. Though Tomas and Justinas speak little English and Philip speaks no Lithuanian - the three boys immediately connected in a common language - sports - on their first meeting last Saturday morning. Unfortunately for Philip, this took the form of two, extra inning defeats in video baseball.
ReplyDeleteThank you Chris and Sharon for your hospitality.
posted by Marius Juodisius