Plan to join us this year on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 16 through 18, 2009, as we celebrate our Hellenic heritage and food with the Weirton Community and surrounding areas.

New This Year

We're adding to our facility, building a new permanent booth which will house our Loukoumathes during the festival, and remain as additional storage throughout the rest of the year. Over the past few festivals the popularity of both the Loukoumathes (Greek-style donuts with honey and cinnamon) and the Gyros has increased tremendously. With both of them in the same area it was difficult to distinguish the lines which easily became congested. We're hoping this new plan will help decrease the confusion as well as allow us to provide ample quantities of both Gyros and Loukoumathes for our hungry guests. The Loukoumathes will now be available to the left of the stage and band.

We hope you enjoy these pictures from last year's festival.

Setup

It takes a lot of hands and a great deal of space to get ready for our festival.

The Church

The Tent

The Taverna

The Gyro Booth

The Social Hall

 

Food Preparations

Of course, you cannot have a "food" festival without food...

A big seller, the Holiday Bread

Pastries are also a big hit.

Work continues in the Kitchen

And of course, Loukoumathes...

 

And there are a lot of faces behind those hands...

 

Now, add some Entertainment...

Start with some Music from "The Greek Company"

Add exhibition dancing, featuring... The Cretan Dancers from Pittsburgh

The Olympic Dancers from Ypapanti, East Pittsburgh

Our own Patriotakia Dancers

Our Aegean Dance Group

With a special "Thank You" to

Dina and Helen Tsiftis

 

Oops!

We can't forget our guests...

 

Even motorcycles love the smell of Gyros in the afternoon...

 

Thank you to everyone who helped make our 2008 Festival a Success. We hope you will join us again next year.