PITTSBURGH – The Ukrainian American community of the Pittsburgh area celebrated at a benefit Malanka on Saturday evening, January 11. The crowd was the largest ever in this Malanka’s 25 year history at the Ukrainian American Citizens’ Club in Carnegie.
A sumptuous buffet and Svitlana Honchar’s tasty (and beautiful) Ukrainian pastries complemented Paul Hladio’s Orkestar Zabava band, providing the best in Ukrainian dance music. The huge contingent of young people made for a 20-minute long Kolomyika to entertain the older “watchers” in the circle surrounding the “Ukrainian gymnastics.”