Meg makes a difference
By Tasha Beauchamp and Laura Hagar Rush laura@sonomawest.com | Aug 30, 2018 Sebastopol’s civic award program honors one of the town’s indefatigable volunteers On August 7, the Sebastopol City Council selected Meg Mizutani as the second in its series of “Locals Who...
Welcome the new Japanese Counsel General Tomochika Uyama
Picture from a luncheon with the new Japanese Counsel General Tomochika Uyama. The volunteers at Luther Burbank Experimental Farm hosted a lovely lunch for the Sebastopol mayor, Patrick Slayter and City counsel members to meet new Japanese counsel and his deputy. At...
Reflections on the recent Takeo visit
I was pleased and honored to be invited to visit Japan as a member of the SWF adult delegation. Japan is a modern industrial and commercial success. We experienced and saw the private lives of the Japanese middle classes. Lives that reflect ancient traditions, ancient...
Sebastopol’s Sister City Raises Money for the City’s Firefighting Efforts
People in Japan who had been touched by the citizen-to-citizen diplomacy of Sebastopol World Friends (SWF) were devastated to learn about the October 2017 fires in Sonoma County. They took an action. SWF’s counterpart Takeo World Friends, along with Takeo Lions Club...
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