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While continuing his very busy trip to Lithuania, Peter Kazickas dedicated time to visit few of the programs that KFF supports. “On Sunday, June 20^th we attended a mass in Mamyte's honor and presented a Literacy Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and his student Alexandra Kazickas to one of Lithuania's great linguists,” shared Peter using a sweet name that all the children and grandchildren of Alexandra Kazickas call her – Mamyte.

The pandemic postponed everyone's plans for some time, including Peter Kazickas'. However that didn't stop him to move forwards with his initiative Uncommon.lt. Finally, after some bumps along the way, Peter made it to Lithuania in June of 2021 and to put it in Peter's own words "in typical KFF fashion, we hit the ground running and were busy from start to finish."

For third year already Vytautas Zemkalnis High School held a ceremony presenting school's students and teacher with the special awards. The Kazickas Family Foundation established such awards to honor Alexandra Kalvenas-Kazickas (1920-2011) memory. School Lithuanian language and literatue teacher Rasa Majauskiene shares few highlights of the event:

"Youth Can" program, initiated and sponsored by the kazickas family Foundation, marked the end of the season with a fun day with the coaches in Rumsiskes, Lithuania.

On June 20th at St. Casimir Church in Vilnius, Vilnius University Siauliai Academy professor emeritus dr. habil. Kazimieras Romualdas Zuperka was awarded the Literacy Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and his student Alexandra Kazickas.

Bring Together Lithuania 2021 is officially open! The Lithuanian diaspora youth were welcomed by President Gitanas Nausėda and the First Lady Diana Nausėdienė.

Please join us this Sunday, June 20th at 12 pm (Vilnius time) / 5 am EST at St. Casimir church in Vilnius or virtually for Holy Mass and Sacred Music concert celebrating the memory of Alexandra Kazickas, a generous philanthropist and mother of five children.

We're excited to invite all Lithuanian readers to download the audio version of Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas's autobiography "Odyssey of Hope - the journey never ends."

June 17^th, 2021 marks the 101^st birthday of Alexandra Kazickas’s (06.17.1920-06.17.1920) birth. She was a generous philanthropist and the mother of five children. Alexandra was married for 70 years to Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas, a dedicated father, patriot and entrepreneur, intellectual and philanthropist, who founded the Kazickas Family Foundation. Together with their family, they cared for Lithuania, its freedom and its people for their entire lives.

This year the Literacy Award in Memory of Petras Butenas and his student Alexandra Kazickas is presented to dr. KAZIMIERAS ROMUALDAS ZUPERKA, well known language stylistics specialist, Vilnius University Siauliai Academy professor emeritus, honorary member of the Lithuanian Language Association, longtime member of the "Baltic Center" association.