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You don't need to look far to help. Beverly Kazickas, a Long Island local and long time environment protection advocate is passionately involved with the Nature Conservancy that works to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. This time New York’s diamondback terrapins that get trapped in crab traps and drown need help.

The Kazickas Family is cordially inviting everyone who is lucky to be in Vilnius, Lithuania on August 15th 7pm to St. Casimir's Church where Sacred Music concert dedicated to Alexandra and Joseph Kazickas will be held. 

For the first time Lithuanian Museum of Art in Chicago offered children art camp at the studio "Siela" (Soul). Over the course of two weeks more that 60 Lithuanian children ages 5 to 16 had a chance to spend quality summer time learning various art techniques.

Lithuanian Christian magazine "Ateitis"(Future) shares prof. Vaidotas Vaicaiitis' experience at Yale University where he spent six months thanks to dr. Joseph Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

On March 25, 2017, one hundred sixty-eight Lithuanian Heritage Schools students from the US and Europe took a Lithuanian Language Proficiency Test. The test and its creation serves as one good example of the benefit of the Global Lithuania initiative: a collaboration between Lithuanians in the diaspora and in Lithuania.

Summer camp is a bunch of children laughing and giggling, cartwheels while running through the fields and never ending smiles on their faces. That was exact atmosphere at the camp where for the first time children who lost their hair due to Alopecia and those who lost it fighting cancer were invited to spend time together. That's the camp where children are simply children - without any stereotypes, insecurities or labels.

For the second year in a row bell music sounds at the Pazaislis Music Festival. "The Sounding Stories of the Bells," initiated by the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Lithuania Bert van der Lingen and sponsored by the Kazickas Family Foundation and the Netherlands Embassy in Vilnius can be heard during nine different concerts in five different towns in Lithuania.

Three years ago Joseph Peter Kazickas was laid to eternal rest. A devoted family man, a statesman, a generous philanthropist, he led a wonderfully full, productive and exciting life.

During the Kazickas family visit to Lithuania in June, they visited Santariskes Hospital Pediatric Oncology patients. Pediatric cancer and children affected by it are very close to Marcie Kazickas' heart who suggested an idea of bringing some canine love to young patients. 

"Freedom can not be bestowed, it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt"

While there are many ways to celebrate the Independence Day, here in the Kazickas Family Foundation, let us celebrate it together with the present recipients of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, while remembering the former ones also!