Armenian church celebrates

Monday, September 05, 2005
By PATRICIA NORRIS
pnorris@repub.com

SPRINGFIELD - St. Mark Armenian Church's Festival was a little taste of home for Irina Tumasyan.

Tumasyan, her husband and their children spent the day at the church festival on Wilbraham Road, visiting, eating and dancing. She and her family came to the area from Armenia six years ago, she said.

"We enjoy it. We meet other Armenians here," she said as she watched a group of women perform an ethnic dance called kochary.
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At all food and drink tables, large glass jars were set up to collect donations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Money raised went to the National Council of Churches Humanitarian Relief Effort.

People tossed change into the jars as they bought traditional breads, sweets and foods like kufta - stuffed meatballs.
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