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The President of the Republic of Finland awarded Taavi Kaups with the First Class Medal of the Order of the White Rose of Finland on April 27, 2021. Taavi Kaups (pictured, with his wife Ester) fought in the Finnish Continuation War in the ranks of the Finnish Infantry Regiment 200...

The Siblings Day Foundation is excited to announce that we are making healgrief.org’s AMF (Actively Moving Forward) website available to grieving siblings. Please click https://tinyurl.com/4bx6n9mto check it out. Right now, the AMF website supports grieving adults. In the future, their website might have a specific group for bereaved siblings. This s a...

Saint Mary's guard Leemet Böckler was named the West Coast Conference Freshman of the Week for December 7, after helping the St. Mary's Gaels go 2-0 at home. Böckler had a perfect shooting night against Nicholls in the Gaels' first game of the week going 2-for-2 from 3-point range, as...

Health coach, cookbook author, and retreat facilitator Marika Blossfeldt spends winters in Beacon, upstate New York, and summers at her farm Polli Talu in Rame küla, Estonia. Her most recent book, “COOKING WITH MARIKA: Clean Cuisine from an Estonian Farm” was published in May 2020. It has won the 2020...

Kristjan Järvi, an internationally well known charismatic Estonian musician and conductor (familiar to Estonians in the USA as he, his brother Paavo and their father Neeme Järvi have guest conducted several USA symphony orchestras, and Kristjan co-founded the New York based classical hip-hop-jazz group Absolute Ensemble),  is featured in a...

The Road to BERRICHI Berit Joosep December 3, 2020 An accountant by day, and a herbal alchemist by night, Berit Joosep was living the  normal life of a working mom of two.  She had no prior experience in the world of cosmetics. She did not set out to create an...

  As we celebrate International Education Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week, we'd like to introduce to  you an exchange alumni and entrepreneur, Triin!   She studied in the U.S. in 2015 in the Digital Communication Network program. While in the U.S., Triin wanted to understand how to utilize digital tools...

August 6, 1961-October 7, 2020     On October 8, tearful phone calls and heartbreaking messages conveyed unimaginable news – Jyri Erik Kork had died from coronavirus at the mere age of 59.   For more than four decades, Jyri Erik was such an essential part of the Estonian cultural...

The Estonian community in Los Angeles is built upon the work of the generations that came before us, those whose work was dedicated to preserving our language and culture in this place far from our homeland. On September 2, we lost Boris Auksmann, whose hand was in practically everything Estonians...