No. 3
01.08.2008
Apollonia Foundation
WOMEN’S JUNIOR HANDBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP From 21st till the 24th of July, Gevgelija was the host of Group - B of the woman’s junior handball world championship, which this year takes place in Macedonia. In the first preliminary round, the teams of Denmark, MonteNegro, Japan, Angola and Kazakhstan were playing. Apollonia Group was the sponsor and supporter of the Denmark team, who is the favorite in this Inside this issue: group. Nature Day activities
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Macedonian national water polo team
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Biography of Nice Vasilev
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About us
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Apollonia staff and also some of the children from the Nature Day were present at every game to give support to the Danish team while enjoying a good handball game.
Celebrating victory KAZ - DEN 22:33
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The arena filled with spectators
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For more information on the championship, match schedules, score results, news, and pictures we recommend you visit the following web pages: www.ihf.info www.worldhandballmkd2008.com and if you want to find out more about the Denmark team see www.dhf.dk.
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Nature Day activities Nature Day team was very active in July. The high temperatures and the vacations didn’t affect our project much. The reason is that we have so many children who have signed in this protecting human environment project. To date around 90 different children have participated in Nature Day and we have also 8 children with special needs from the Day Center who join us once a month.
River “Belica” (white river) in Sermenin has that name because of the clearness of the water that passes through “bigor” rocks which are specific to this area.
Sermenin, 20.07.2008, in front of the entry of one cave which is filled with” bigor” wet rocks.
We visited very beautiful hills and rivers in Gevgelija and Negorci surroundings, and we also went to Kovanec and Sermenin. We saw very beautiful rivers in both of these villages, but unfortunately the Kovanec river is turning into a junkyard. Plastic bottles, broken glass, food and all kinds of waste… very ugly picture, and a serious problem. Our group of children cleaned some of the plastic waste, and we deposited that garbage in the special containers for plastic that the local government has placed in many places in our town. But what we did is just a tiny bit of what really can be done for that magnificent part of nature. We hope that our acts will bring awareness to the people who visit there, and that they start caring for nature. With this garbage and recycling project of our municipality we have no more excuses for throwing away our waste wherever we want to.
Kovanec river
Sofia picking up the garbage from the river
News: Because of the high temperatures Nature Day departure time during the summer will be at 8 o'clock.
Playing Handball
Racing with one leg
Our planet is changing because of us. Let’s perceive it for the future generation.
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Macedonian national water polo team In the history of Macedonian sports a new chapter of success was written by the Macedonia national water polo team. They debuted on the 28th European championship in Malaga, Spain, and took Macedonia among the best 10 water polo nations in Europe. The 8th place is the highest that has ever been scored by a Macedonian national team on European or world championship.
Water polo team in Apollonia Hotel and their press conference
Gevgelija in June was the training base where this team was preparing and training together with the B selection of Monte Negro. Apollonia Foundation is very proud that we were able to help this team with their preparation by providing meals for their 10 day stay in Gevgelija. We hope that there will be more interest for this sport among young people and of course more sponsors who will provide good circumstances for the water polo sport.
Pictures from the match with the Monte Negro team in Gevgelija
*For more information on the water polo team visit this site: www.pfm.org.mk
Biography of Nice Vasilev Apollonia Foundation gives special honor to all the artist who has been part of its Art Commune by writing more about their life and work. One of the artist who participated in this year’s Apollonia Art Colony is Nice Vasilev. He was born in Dabile, near Strumica. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1978. In the class of Ludwig Macong in the academic year 1971/72 he studied at the National Arts Academy in Sofia, the department (Faculty) of Applied Arts. He had been a member of the Macedonian Association of Artists since 1980. His last exhibition in Gevgelija was on the 18th of May 2007, in the exhibitory parlor of Apollonia Hotel. Last year he celebrated 30 years of artistic work.
Picture from Apollonia Art Colony 2008
He has realized many individual exhibitions in Europe (Madrid, Warsaw, Athens, Ankara…), the Balkan and Macedonia. He also participated in 13 group exhibitions in France (Paris), Austria , Poland, Greece, Bulgaria, Slovenia… Nice Vasilev has won the following awards: 17th April Salon Award, Doboj 1973. Academy of Fine Arts Specila Awards, Warsaw 1977. Purchasee Award at the Yugoslavian Portraid exhibition, Tuzla 1987. Dimitar Pandilov Award, Association of the Artists of Macedonia Skopje, 2000.
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We believe that sports foster physical wellbeing, team spirit and social ethics. FUTURE EVENTS
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18-23 August 2008 Open Fun Football Scholl in Gevgelija 16 August 2008 Nature Day organizes picnic to “Smolarski” waterfalls
In the past in the field of sport we have done the following:
Gevgeliski Partizanski Odred 1 1480 Gevgelija
Sponsoring local teams in football, basketball, handball, and kick-boxing.
Phone: 034/ 213-222 Fax: 034/213-223 E-mail: snezana.dimitrova@apollonia.com.mk
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Funding activities of Sports Associations that focus on children’s sport education.
Nature Day organizes picnic to Ski Kozuf
Sponsoring Mountain Clubs and Alpinist expeditions.
August 5 children from Nature day will explore the caves in Macedonia with the Association of paleontologists Pioni and Association from France
“Sports does not build characters. They reveal it. “ Heywood Brown
Our future plans include: Investing in maintaining the sport fields. Buying necessary equipment and collaborating with coaches in order to develop sport. Sponsoring sport events and activities.
SEE OUR ECO CALENDAR ILINDEN National Day of Macedonia
Nature Day Organizes picnic to Ski-Kozuf
HOLIDAY Assumption of the Virgin Mary
SCHOLL STARTS TOMORROW.
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