Bohdan Shandor is a Ukrainian American who is very active in the community in the U.S. He is President of Shandor & Co., LLC, a management consulting firm. His father was Dr. Vincent Shandor, a Ukrainian activist in Zakarpattia and head of the Carpatho-Ukrainian Representation to the Prague (Czechoslovakia) Federal government preceeding and at the beginning of World War II. Bohdan himself was a witness to the events in 1991 that led to Ukraine declaring formal independence from the Soviet Union and confirming it in a referendum. This special edition episode of Krynytsya was produced for The Ukrainian Weekly, a newspaper serving the global Ukrainian community since 1933. www.ukrweekly.com