25 years of Sister City Relationship with Chyhyryn
Sebastopol, CA – When Leaf Roberts, founding member of Sebastopol World Friends (SWF), visited the hospital in Sebastopol’s sister city in Ukraine in 1994, she was deeply moved by the bleak conditions she saw there. “They were still using wooden IV poles; it looked...
Visit by Representatives of Sebastopol’s Sister City Derailed by Politics
Source: ABC 7 News | abc7news.com/politics By Wayne Freedman Thursday, November 01, 2018 05:45PM World politics derail small Sonoma County city’s visit by sister city representatives If you visit City Hall, Slayter will proudly show off the gifts and exchanges...
Ukrainians denied visas for Sebastopol sister city celebration
This year’s Sebastopol World Friends’ Friendship Dinner, which is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 3, was supposed to be a 25th anniversary celebration of Sebastopol’s sister city relationship with Chyhyryn, a small town in eastern Ukraine. Unfortunately, most of the...
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...
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