Ya'ssoo Starts Friday

Ya’ssoo Starts Friday

Food and the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church dancers will be featured at Ya’ssoo, the annual Greek Festival, Friday through Sunday at 414 N. Main.

A bake sale will be held from 9 a.m. to midnight with luncheons and dinners from 11 a.m. to midnight and a Bouzouki Band playing 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday.

More than 40,000 pieces of Greek pastries will be featured in the bake sale, including spinach pie, cheese triangles, kourambiethes, paximathea, koulouria, baklava and theples.

Food to be served at the luncheons and dinners includes souvlakia, which is Greek-style shish-kabob; Zorba, chopped steak with tomato sauce, rice pilaff, green beans yahni and the cheese and spinach pies.

Special business luncheons will be available Friday and Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. for $2.

Regular dinner prices are $3 but there will be a special $1 luncheon for elementary through eighth grade students attending in class groups.

Greek folk dancers in Greek costumes and instrumental music solos will be presented by the St. Nicholas children at 1, 2 and 5 p.m. daily.

Medleys of Greek dances will be presented by the St. George professional dance group at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4:30, 7 and 10 p.m. Sunday. A portable elevated stage will be used this year.

Dino and the Continentals will present live bouzouki music, dancing and professional ethnic entertainment during the evening festivities. An admission fee of $1 will be charged after 6 p.m.

A film travelogue on Greece and the Aegean Islands will be shown at noon daily with a demonstration and lessons in Greek dancing at 11 a.m. Saturday. A demonstration of Greek baking will be given at 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

Hellenic artifacts, including worry beads, Grecian vases and jewelry, embroidered purses, Greek cook books, Greek records and tapes, dolls, etc., will be on display and for sale from 9 a.m. to midnight.

More than 20,000 attended the annual Greek Festival last year. A canopy will.be stretched for one block and all festivities will be under the canopy if it rains.

Kickoff

Greek dancers (from left) Terry and John Karimatis and Perry Kollias will appear at festival.