German Community: FORMER RETIREMENT HOME GETTING NEW LIFE AS TOWN'S NATURE CENTER
Walk up the wide steps at the former Moeller Home and there is an aura that suggests the town's German community, the late Eleanor Buck Wolf and chinchillas Miko and Frodo will approve of what's in store for the longtime retirement home.Beginning Saturday, the handsome landmark that for more than 50 years served as an old-age home for the town's German community will become the Eleanor Buck Wolf Nature Center. ``We are so...
FOR TRIAD GERMAN COMMUNITY, HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
Germans love to hoist those big foamy steins in toast. Now they've really got something to celebrate.Tuesday, Germans from Greensboro to Garmisch Partenkirchen celebrated and said a prayer: Germany was one nation again for the first time in more than four decades.The German community in the Piedmont Triad is well organized, proud and astonished by the unbelievable turn of events in the once-fractured fatherland.``If you had talked to me a year ago about unity, I...
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Korean-German Community Joining Hands for Successful World Cup
About 500 members of the Korean-German community in public, business and academic sectors and their families gathered yesterday to build friendship and discuss further exchanges between two nations.In the general assembly meeting of the Korea-Germany Association (KGA) for this year held at the headquarters of the local pharmaceuticals company Green Cross in the Kyonggi Province, the KGA, led by Green Cross President Huh Young-sup, discussed ways to extend private-level exchanges between...
German community agrees to partnership with Capital City
"Just call me the burgermeister," Mayor John Landwehr said when the Jefferson City Council first agreed to pursue a partnership with the German community of Munchberg.Although it took a spirited debate, the German city's council finally agreed to the cross-Atlantic partnership.Cast on Dec. 14, the decision will allow the flow of culture, ideas and people between two areas of the world with a common interest: their ancestors.Munchberg, pronounced...