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Away from home – Latvian Center Garezers celebrate its 50th anniversary

It all started 50 years ago: a group of very forward thinking gentleman led by Vilis Varsbergs had a dream of creating a place for American Latvians to meet. With hard work, dedication and help from the Latvian community in North America their dream became a reality

  Located in southwest Michigan right by the beautiful Long Lake, today Garezers is known through out the world among Latvians as…

The students and staff of Garezers Latvian Summer High School have announced a campaign to pressure NBC to change its long-standing policy of ignoring the teams from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during Olympic opening ceremonies.

Many Baltic-Americans remember the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Games and how sad and frustrated we were. NBC chose to ignore the Baltic States just one short year after regaining independence after over fifty years of Soviet occupation. Coverage in following years was equally discouraging. Therefore, the Garezers Latvian Summer High School community is encouraging Balts and their friends in the United States, Canada and throughout the world to contact the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and request complete opening ceremony coverage during the procession of national teams.

this is a latvian dance called Klabdancis, my grade and i danced it in the finale of our camp. in the begining i am in the front. the second one from the right.

i know our outfits are funny.