Government Roma initiative finds fertile ground in Sakarya - Today's Zaman
25 May 2012, 9:45 am
This step represents a significant improvement for one of the most troubling issues romas face in Sakarya today, namely long-term unemployment. For 52-year-old Hatice Okyay, who was employed as a gardener a few months ago, "the initiative has changed our lives."

Tomato Time - Daytona Beach News-Journal
22 May 2012, 11:32 pm
"We carry cherry, grape, romas and then your regular table-slicing tomatoes, green tomatoes for frying" and yellow, low-acid tomatoes "when we can get them." Nine of the 13 varieties of tomatoes being sold now at Publix stores in Volusia and ...

Zach Hull to join Engineers' baseball program - Brazil Times
22 May 2012, 7:00 pm
On hand for the event included (front, from left) Lisa Hull, Zach Hull, Ashley Hull, (back) NHS Principal Lynn romas, NHS baseball coach Scott McDonald, Coleman Craig, Jon Hull and NHS athletic director Charley Jackson. After a stellar four-year career ...

Residents evacuated after walkway collapse; apartments deemed unsafe - Austin American-Statesman
18 May 2012, 9:20 pm
"Management came up about an hour ago and said if we don't get out, we'll go to jail," resident Anabell romas said about 6:30 p.m. Residents who didn't evacuate would be in violation of a property maintenance code, a Class C misdemeanor, Potts said.

Lithuania Marks 1972 Dissident Self-Immolation - RIA Novosti
15 May 2012, 9:14 am
A special ceremony took place in the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday to mark 40 years since 19-year-old dissident romas Kalanta publicly set fire to himself in protest against Soviet rule. On May 14, 1972, Kalanta burned himself in the garden of the Music ...

Lithuania honours anti-Soviet self-immolation hero - France 24
14 May 2012, 1:47 pm
"Freedom is more valuable than a life. This message by romas Kalanta has now been alive in our memories for four decades," President Dalia Grybauskaite said in a statement. Lithuania declared independence in March 1990 after almost five decades ...

MOTHER’S DAY: Walking in a race against cancer - Tribune-Star
13 May 2012, 3:54 am
Her own survival was notches down the list. Rachel romas, herself a 23-year survivor of childhood cancer, can understand. And so, Saturday’s Clay County Relay for Life carried special meaning to romas, as it falls on Mother’s Day weekend.

The medieval fairy-tale town of Cesky Krumlov - San Francisco Gate
12 May 2012, 6:57 pm
One of the liveliest places in town is the Gypsy Pub. Unlike other cities in Eastern Europe, where romas (Gypsies) tend to live in segregated ghettos, Cesky Krumlov boasts a proud community of about 1,000. The easiest way for a traveler to ...

Kerkeslager and Tukey join HomeTowne Television - NJ.com
12 May 2012, 10:50 am
Henry Ogden (Vice President for Community), Janet Parmelee (Vice President for Planning), Marybeth Robb (Vice President of News Professionalism), Kassandra romas, Hill Rose, Bill Rosen, John Serruto (Executive Vice President for Programs ...

'Lest we forget:' Community members help remember Wiesbaden's Holocaust victims - United States Army
8 May 2012, 6:55 pm
The "Stumbling Stones" or "Stolpersteine" as they are called in German, were initiated by Artist Gunter Demnig in the early 1990s, 50 years after the Nazi regime's decision to deport Jews, Sintis, romas and other citizens to the death chambers ...