HONORING A HERITAGE,
LITTLE PORTUGAL COMMUNITY PREPARES FOR A CELEBRATION
On Saturday, crowds are expected to head to History Park to mark Portugal Day, an international occasion celebrating the country's cultural heritage.This is the second consecutive year the Portuguese Heritage Society of California will hold the event at the park, home to one of the country's few museums of Portuguese-American history. In the past, the gathering hopscotched from venue to venue. The society hopes giving the gathering a consistent home will boost...
Portugal Community Police eye on the ball - Violence alert as cup fever grips city
NSW police are ready to respond to an outbreak of violence as the World Cup tournament reaches the elimination stage and tensions rise overseas. The start of the third round today means competition extinction becomes a reality for fancied teams including France, heightening the emotions of local fans.In what has been described as Moscow's worst violence in a decade, two people were killed and 30 injured when rampaging fans torched cars, smashed shops and battled police...
Portugal Community City's big party, from ola to sayonara
The World Cup is a good excuse for a get-together, no matter a soccer fan's nationality, John Huxley reports. Caldeirada, cozido, chourico and bolinhos de balcalhau. No, not the back line of the national football team, but seafood soup, beef and vegetable stew, spicy pork sausage and salt-cod cakes, respectively.They were just some of the mouth-watering items on the menu as, win or lose in last night's crucial World Cup match, Sydney's Portuguese...
Envoy letter cites Hanna
THE Glebe has obtained copies of three letters of complaint against Councillor Morris Hanna through a Freedom of Information request, after Marrickville Council deemed the complaints confidential. Council received letters from the Madeiran Government's Australian representative Antonio Ferreira on September 25, Portugal-Madeira Club president Norm Andrade on September 26 and Portugal Community Club president Luis Coelho on October 19.The letters referred to the September 4...