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and his son helped us to find gifts — books, jewelry, music, and other Ukrainian items. From Arka, we walked to the Future Bakery, bought breads and pastries, and had a coffee/tea break before boarding the bus again. By Michigan standards, traffic in Toronto is horrendous. We owe our succesfiil maneuverings through the streets of Toronto to our very capable and knowledgeable bus driver Andrij and owe him sincere thanks for his efforts. St. Vladimir Institute, located off Toronto's busy Spadina Avenue, is home away from home for fifty student boarders who attend nearby colleges and universities. It has an archival collection of books, documents, audio and visual tapes. This was our next stop and we were greeted by Mrs. Mykytiuk and the staff, who showed us the institute's latest exhibit of Ukrainian headdresses, mostly women's. Of particular interest were the pill box hats (ochipok) around which colorful fine wool or linen kerchiefs were draped. Many head-wrapping techniques were used, some distinctly characteristic of a particular village or region. Wedding headdress finery was very interesting and ornate: many had ribbons, flowers, herbs pompoms, gold and silver coins, elaborate beadwork, and artistic embroidery. Multicolor floral prints on large wool scarves and shawls were also on display, as were fine linen shawls, woven at homesteads. On the walls were framed plates of O. Kulchetsky's archival drawings of regional Ukrainian women of the 19th and 20th centuries, dressed according to the age and tradition of their respective localities. Based on these plates was a series of framed pastel drawings by artist Liudmyla (Temertey), depicting women wearing regional headdresses. After viewing these fine exhibits we were treated to a sumptuous dinner, cafeteria style, which included borshch, pyrohy (varenyky), holubtsi, chicken Kyiv, green and potato salads, dessert pastry and beverages. The cafeteria ladies made sure we had plenty to eat and that it was the best! After thanking them for their hospitality and dinner (and buying out their entire pyrohy/varenyky supply at $2.50 Canadian a dozen) we left for home. En route we were entertained with videotapes of bandura players who were trying out improvisations and new forms of sound innovation. We also viewed a videotape of the celebrations comemorating the eighth anniversary of democratic Ukraine in Kyiv (1999), which featured many regional singing and dancing ensembles, performers and soloists. Before entering the USA, we again stopped at the duty-free shop in Sarnia and bought gifts to take home. We crossed the border with no fuss and no delays, just as before. On behalf of all of us, Sonia Kushnir formally thanked Kathy Kizyma for her role in organizing our excursion and presented her with a token gift of wine and chocolates. We arrived at the St. Josephat Ukrainian Catholic Church parking lot at 8:30 p.m. Several ladies with cell phones had called ahead to say when they would be arriving, and husbands and friends were waiting there to take them home. Others had left their cars at the church lot and drove off. We all bid Andrij a fond goodbye, thanking him for a very enjoyable trip, hopefully, the first of many more. From Our Readers We recently received the following email from Slavko Pihut: Subject: Congratulations Message: I think that the idea of your notices being printed in Ukrainian, in Ukrainian transliteration, and in English is great. For some reason, we forget that there are thousands of our people that speak Ukrainian but do not read it — do not know the Ukrainian alphabet. Please do this more often. From the Editor We thank Mr. Pihut for his kind words and would like to encourage our other readers to send us their comments, observations, and suggestions. Please send your notes or letters to Our Life, English language editor, 108 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003 or email us at unwla@unwla.org. In recent issues of Our Life, we have published several articles contributed by UNWLA Branches about their activities and accomplishments. We hope other branches will send similar articles so that we can share news of their events with our readers. Authors are requested to provide telephone numbers in the event there is a question or information needs to be verified. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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