{"id":25343,"date":"2012-09-05T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T01:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=25343"},"modified":"2012-09-05T21:49:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T01:49:41","slug":"from-pain-to-purpose-in-memory-of-george-glynatsis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/from-pain-to-purpose-in-memory-of-george-glynatsis","title":{"rendered":"From Pain to Purpose: In Memory of George Glynatsis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The late George Glynatsis with wife Evelyn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When faced with pain and tragedy you find yourself with two choices; either you allow it to get the best of you or you turn it into something positive and beautiful in order to touch and inspire others.<\/p>\n

On August 21st, 2012 my father George Glynatsis\u00a0 passed away and before my family and I had an opportunity to begin our grieving process, we were forced to deal with our pain in a very distasteful and public manner.<\/p>\n

However in efforts to keep my father’s memory and name alive, my mother and I decided to continue to follow in his footsteps.\u00a0 The day before my father passed away the organization my family and I founded “Project Smile Bahamas” hosted a back 2 school fundraiser for the Bahamas Children Emergency Hostel.\u00a0 Each child received school bags, books and supplies. My mother and father played a vital role with the assistance of my father’s best friend TC ( owner of John’s Shoe Store )\u00a0 in making sure that every little boy and girl received a new pair of school shoes that day.<\/p>\n

The last conversation I had with my daddy was about how proud he was of me and the charity work, and how excited he was to be a part of more fundraisers to come.\u00a0 What better way to honour my father than to continue his wishes.\u00a0 About 6 months ago my father was diagnosed with diabetes and throughout the months to come, I witnessed major changes in his life because of it.<\/p>\n

My father was always very giving and generous.\u00a0 He would give a stranger the shirt off his back, expecting nothing in return.\u00a0 My mother and I decided to keep my father’s memory alive by asking person to make donations to the Bahamas Diabetic Association in lieu\u00a0 of flowers and wreaths.\u00a0 I truly believe that is something that my father would have wanted, he was never a materialistic person or moved by worldy things.\u00a0 Very family oriented and driven.<\/p>\n

Our family organization “Project Smile Bahamas” has decided to take on the Bahamas Diabetic Association as one of our ongoing projects.\u00a0 We would like to assist them by any means possible, first by utilizing our marketing company eSounds to give the organization a face lift\u00a0 in order to properly brand the cause and reach out to persons.\u00a0 We will also be teaming up with other interested persons and organizations in hosting functions and events to raise much needed funds in order to get supplies for patients, promotional material and to assist in the daily operation of the establishment.<\/p>\n

For any persons who want to be a sponsor or volunteer they can email us at projectsmilebahamas at gmail.com or reach out directly to the Bahamas Diabetes Association.<\/p>\n

By Margaret Glynatsis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 21 my father George Glynatsis passed away and before my family and I had an opportunity to begin our grieving process, we were forced to deal with our pain in a very distasteful and public manner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[61,133,311],"class_list":["post-25343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-charity","tag-community","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}