News for the Ramstein, Kaiserslautern, Landstuhl & Baumholder military communities in Germany 
The Easter holidays are just around the corner. In Germany, Easter week begins with Holy Thursday, which Germans call “Gründonnerstag,” or green Thursday. The word “green” is not associated with the color, but rather with the old German verb “grienen,” meaning to bemoan. Some people still recognize Holy Thursday traditions by eating green vegetables that day, preferably spinach.
Events on base in the Kaiserslautern Military Community
Event calendar for Kaiserslautern Military Community on base events, updated weekly, covering Ramstein, Kaiserslautern (Kleber Kaserne and Vogelweh), Landstuhl and Baumholder.
Right in time for Easter, more than 100 artisans from all over Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg will present their diversity of ceramic works from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the 17th annual Homburg Ceramics Market in the center of Homburg. Both Saarpfalz-Touristik and Homburg City Marketing organizers hope to lure thousands of visitors from the whole region.
The city of Sankt Wendel, located in the state of Saarland, will hold its annual Easter market today through Sunday.
The following is a list of performances and events happening in the KMC and nearby. Dates are subject to change.
On Saturday and Sunday, Kaiserslautern’s advertising association, Kaiser in Lautern, will offer a spring market combined with a car exhibition and Sunday shopping. The city of Kaiserslautern is co-sponsoring the event as a way to say goodbye to winter and promote local businesses.
The Association for the Advancement of German-French Partnership will sponsor its 21st annual Easter market from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Niederkirchen’s Westpfalzhalle. Volunteers helped to decorate the community hall with colorful flowers and Easter decorations to lure a lot of visitors from all over.
The Irish celebrate a national and religious holiday Monday — St. Patrick’s Day.
Easter markets with Easter egg displays, decoration items and special activities are scheduled to take place in the coming weeks.
| One Dollar buys: |
| Euro: € 0.9014 |
| Pound: £ 0.7575 |
Other currency rates, not available at the Community Bank:
| Czech Krone: | Kč 23.52 |
| Egyptian Pound: | E£ 48.40 |
| Hungarian Forint: | Hf 364.88 |
| Israeli Shekel: | ₪ 3.74 |
| Polish Zloty: | zł 3.96 |
| Turkish Lira: | ₵ 33.0905 |
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