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In June, during Kazickas family visit in Lithuania, SolidEducation.lt founder Paulius Paskevicius invited guests to visit his office at the Kaunas Univeristy of Technology to learn about the program and meet few of its youngest members.

On June 16th Jurate Kazickas invited ASSIST alumni and following school year students to the reception at the Kazickas Family Residence in Vilnius. Honor guest President Valdas Adamkus and his wife Alma wished students the best of luck.

You are cordially invited to come and enjoy The Kazickas Family Sacred Music Hours, a series of ten concerts in St.Casimir Church Vilnius, Lithuania. This season you can hear performers from Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Israel and USA.

KFF was a proud sponsor of the XV Lithuanian National Folk Dance Festival held in Baltimore July 2-3, 2016. 1800 dancers, 46 dance groups, from 29 cities, 6 nations, ages 7 to 77!

July 9th at 5:30pm in St.Casimir Church (Didžioji g. 34, Vilnius 01128), a Holy Mass was celebrated by Father Antanas Saulaitis in memory of Dr. Joseph P. Kazickas (1918.04.16-2014.07.09).

He was a devoted family man, a statesman, a generous philanthropist, who led a wonderfully full, productive and exciting life.

In June, Presidential Valdas Adamakus Library-Museum had an honor to welcome Kazickas family members. On June 15th Jurate Kazickas, the President of Kazickas Family Foundation visited the library and on June 19th her brothers Joseph and John Kazickas and their families paid a visit.

Last wekend, during the "Basketball Power" second season closing event in Utena, Lithuania, campaign "Be Good," working to raise awareness of blood and bone marrow donation, explained to the young basketball players the importance of blood and bone marrow donation.

On June 18th, “Basketball Power” program, founded by Kazickas Family Foundation and carried out by Capital basketball school, finished its 2015-2016 year season, attracting over 200 children from 18 different towns to a day of fun in Utena arena.

On June 16th, Jurate Kazickas participated at the discussion on Human Trafficking/Modern Slavery with Ambassador Zygimantas Pavilionis, Member of LT Parliament Irena Degutiene, Judge Aurelijus Gutauskas, Father Algirdas Toliatas, Policeman from UK Aivaras Krochalev, Vytautas Landsbergis and others at the CLub Res Publica in Vilnius.

It's been five years since the world lost beloved Alexandra Kazickas on her 91st birthday, June 17th, 2011. Many people remember her as the most spirited, joyful and dedicated friend, while family members kindly share some of the most treasured memories of Mamyte.