This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Portugal mayor Diamantino Sabina celebrate a sister city agreement at Mineola Village Hall last month From a yellow castle atop a mountain nearly 1,500 feet in the air Michaela Palumbo could see various corners of Portugal: Buildings the then-Mineola High School junior tapped into a part of her identity that had been latent but I didn’t really know what it was like to be Portuguese,” she said “I didn’t realize how beautiful that country was.” and Palumbo was among 21 Mineola students on a foreign exchange trip to Portugal organized by Mineola Mayor Paul Pereira a Portuguese immigrant and a history teacher at Mineola High School has spearheaded several exchange programs between his native country and the village Mineola is home to about 1,300 residents of Portuguese descent The exchange program has seen students and firefighters from Mineola and Portugal experience each other's cultures for short periods of time the exchange will continue when 18 students from Murtosa The program has helped members of the Portuguese diaspora build relationships with people from their ancestral home Pereira hopes the exchanges will help break down barriers between people from the two areas the Portuguese city where Pereira was born to Mineola Village Hall for the unveiling of a signed “sister city” agreement between the two municipalities “I think many of us in this room are grateful that we have a foot in each of these cultures,” Pereira said The Portuguese influence in Mineola is strong There are nearly a dozen Portuguese restaurants in Mineola as well as a folklore dance group and a soccer team a Portuguese language school on Jackson Avenue run by Palumbo’s mother But there is no substitute for experiencing real-life as part of an exchange with the United Lisbon International School Palumbo recalled Santos was awestruck from the moment she walked into Palumbo’s house where she geeked out over the box of Lucky Charms in the kitchen which resembled what she’d seen of American teens' rooms on social media I’m in a TikTok room!’ over and over,” Palumbo said The students spent the first day shadowing Mineola students through a regular school day The group then spent the rest of the week touring the area including a trip to New York City to see a Broadway show Palumbo and her classmates traveled to Lisbon where she stayed with Santos’ family in nearby Almada She said she was struck by the “relaxed” pace of life there everything was moving so much slower that I was much more nervous we’re going to be late.’ But it wasn’t like that at all four members of the Estarreja fire department — known as the Bombeiros Voluntários de Estarreja — flew to New York where they embedded with the Mineola Fire Department for about 10 days The Mineola firefighters showed their guests around their firehouse and brought them to the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan the Estarreja firefighters participated in Mineola’s weekly training at the Nassau County Fire Service Academy in Old Bethpage They ate at Portuguese restaurants every day but it was a meal at Memories 2 Bar & Grill in Williston Park that Joaquim Rebelo “I really enjoyed eating traditional American food like burgers and chicken wings,” Rebelo said through a translator Rebelo said the two departments had formed a “brotherhood.” Domingos Magalhaes He wore a red jacket inscribed with Bombeiros Estarreja — which translates to Estarreja Firefighters — in white lettering at the sister city ceremony some of Magalhaes’ department visited Estarreja earned a new nickname — Super Bock — for his favorite choice of Portuguese beer “We were out together having dinner and relaxing sitting around and joking around,” McCann said “It got emotional for a couple of our other guys those bonds might pass over to the next generation the hamlet in Estarreja where Pereira’s family is from said Mass at Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church in Mineola Many in the congregation were familiar with Gonçalves: They are originally from Estarreja and still spend time there “I could notice in him it was a real privilege to see these Portuguese immigrants in their community in the United States where they’ve lived for decades and decades,” Pereira said “It’s great for him to see how they still keep up with their faith and how they take a little bit of Portugal with them everywhere they go.” Joshua Needelman covers the Town of North Hempstead for Newsday A Long Island native and University of Maryland graduate his work has appeared in 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Get the latest news and more great videos at NewsdayTV Get more on these and other NewsdayTV stories The Newsday app makes it easier to access content without having to log in Unlimited Digital AccessOnly 25¢for 6 months Read today's Portuguese stories delivered to your email Intermarché has invested six million euros in the new store in Murtosa The new Intermarché store has an area of more than 1,500 square meters (m2) is the largest unit in the distribution chain with a presence in this municipality and will have 50 jobs stated that “the opening of this point of sale marks a new chapter in the growth strategy of Grupo Os Mosqueteiros and Intermarché (…) and also of Murtosa where there was no supermarket of this size yet” Intermarché has been operating for more than 50 years throughout Europe We appreciate that not everyone can afford to pay for our services but if you are able to we ask you to support The Portugal News by making a contribution – no matter how small You can change how much you give or cancel your contributions at any time Send us your comments or opinion on this article Reaching over 400,000 people a week with news about Portugal 2020 at 9:18 am ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Balbina Fernandes Nunes ( Buckmiller Thurston Mengacci Funeral Home) Buckmiller Thurston Mengacci Funeral Home was reunited in heaven with her beloved husband Antonio on Sunday April 19 "Bina" as she was known to everyone was born October 24 she was the daughter of the late Artur and Domingas Fernandes She came to this country in 1952 with her husband Antonio and lived in Naugatuck all these years raising her three sons and being active in many things especially her beloved Our Lady of Fatima Church She was instrumental in helping raise funds to build the church to better serve the Naugatuck and Waterbury Portuguese communities She also was part of a group that started a "Portuguese Folkloric" dance group with the children of the church that many of the members to this day still remember so fondly The group traveled to many states to perform One of the most memorable was at the World’s Fair in New York in 1965 She was a member of the "Senoras do Rosario" at our Lady of Fatima Church and also a member of the Ladies of Auxiliary at the Naugatuck Portuguese Club “Bina” also enjoyed singing and dancing and being the life of the party at both the church and club functions She was well known for her wit and sense of humor which will be missed but never forgotten She will also always be remembered for her strong singing voice in church every Sunday morning Also her great grandchildren Alyson and Ashley She will also be missed by her many nieces and nephews who all loved their Ti Bina Balbina was predeceased by her husband Antonio We would also like to thank her caregivers Debbie Marcelina and Victoria who took such good care of her these last 3 1/2 years We will never forget how much help you were to her and us All services will be private and a Memorial Mass will be announced at a later date There are no calling hours and arrangements have been entrusted to the Buckmiller Thurston Mengacci Funeral Home contributions can be made in memory of Balbina Nunes to Our Lady of Fatima Church ###a class="readless">Read LessTo plant a memorial tree in honor of Balbina Fernandes Nunes Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. 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The new public transport service for passengers in the Aveiro area, which is now the responsibility of Israeli conglomerate Afifi’s Busway company will begin operating on August 1st with 125 drivers and 100 buses The service is the result of the first concession in Portugal to the group whose origin is in a family transport business in Nazareth but that nowadays is also involved in the tourism was said to be “excited” with the opportunity that he’s been given in Portugal assuring the promise of providing “a high-quality service,” which meets mobility demands and brings more people to use public transport Busway will be taking up the space that at the moment is being explored in the councils of the Intermunicipal Community of Aveiro Region (CIRA) by transport companies under the Transdev group Auto Viação Feirense and the Carvalhos Transport Union Aveiro municipality is the only member of the intermunicipal community which is outside of this new concession since Aveiro council is bound by a recent concession contract with Transdev through Aveirobus Busway brings its collective transport into operation with a team of 125 drivers for a hundred buses five of which are electric and half of which are brand new a passenger counting system is the highlight which allows to better adapt bus lines to demand as well as a support system for use of the network which shows the live location of each bus and provides a predicted waiting time for each stop “Afifi won the public contest on full merit,” the president of CIRA Ribau Esteves told of the “long journey” made since CIRA took command as the regional transport authority in a reform that was considered “one of the most important on the matter of decentralisation” at the end of Passos Coelho’s term in the government “It was a responsibility that was thrown at us taking into consideration how nothing was prepared for the transition which forced local governments and the CIRA to get hard to work “It was one of the most complex challenges placed onto the Intermunicipal Community up to today,” he claimed The corollary was the concession granted to Busway in a public contest over for five years which consists of 107 lines serving 10 of 11 municipalities in the CIRA Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.