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improvement. Our goal has been achieved. We are In a related announcement, the Municipality of
proud to hand over to our children, who are our Oinousses stated: “The Municipality of Oinousses
country’s future, these jewels– modernised and gratefully thanks Mr Pateras for his generous
significantly improved schools. There is no better gesture and his continuous patriotic interest in
feeling than the smiles painted on the faces of the everything the Municipal Authority plans and
children today. And I wish from the bottom of my implements in Aignousa. His support for the
heart that our children will be happy learning in needs of our island, our schools, and young fam-
them”. ilies has been long-standing and unwavering. We
wholeheartedly wish him health and happiness,
NIKOLAS D. PATERAS CONTINUES HIS business success, and the realisation of his noble
SUPPORT OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF humanitarian goals and actions”.
OINOUSSES
Nikolas D. Pateras has made another contribution AIKATERINI LASKARIDIS FOUNDATION:
to Oinousses with a new donation to the island’s DIGITISATION AND PUBLICATION OF
Municipality. THE GREEK SECTION OF THE ARCHIVE
On Tuesday, 10 September 2024, the Mayor of OF LORD THOMAS COCHRANE
Oinousses, Mr Georgios Daniil, received a state- The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, in collab-
of-the-art SUZUKI New Vitara from the Chairman oration with the descendant of Lord Thomas
of the Board of Directors and CEO of Contships Cochrane (Thomas Alexander Cochrane, Earl of
Management Inc. The vehicle will be added to the Dundonald, 1775-1860), Lord Douglas Dundon-
Municipality’s existing fleet of vehicles to serve ald, and the National Records of Scotland in Edin-
the increased needs of the island’s administrative burgh, undertook the digitisation and publication
department. of the Greek part of Cohrane’s Archive, which had
The handover ceremony took place in the cen- remained sealed since his death up until the begin-
tre of Athens, next to the historic church of St. ning of the project.
Nicholas, which was recently restored thanks to Lord Cochrane was a British naval officer, who
a donation by Mr Pateras. fought during the Greek War of Independence. After

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