On Saturday night November 29th the Anthony Athanas Award for Distinguished Community Service will be presented to Jane and Van Christo at the Annual Flag Day Dinner.  On behalf of the entire Albanian Community we all congratulate Jane and Van on this award.

The biographies of Jane and Van Christo are below.

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/murrow/about/director.html -- scroll down a bit on the page for Jane Christo's biography
http://www.frosina.org/about/aboutvan.asp

The Committee which selected this year's recipients consisted of representatives of the Albanian American National Organization (AANO), the Massachusetts Albanian American Society (MAAS/BESA), and the National Albanian American Council (NAAC).

Previous recipients include:

2004 -- John Joseph
2005 -- Paul Nasson
2006 -- Gloria Hill
2007 -- Sejfi Protopapa

The following people were nominated this year so there is still a large pool of deserving candidates for future awards.

Bill Anastas
John Athanas
Bashkim Braho
Jane Christo
Van Christo
Bill Johns
Leonard Keka
David Kosta
Peter Lucas
Ron Nasson
Enkela Pance
Demetre Steffon
Rozi Theohari