Sister Cities Program
Citizens Committee
Membership - membership application - contact information
Board Members - board meeting

Sister Cities Program
The Sister Cities Program allows the citizens of a community to participate in international relations.

It is an educational and cultural program with a partner city of your choice. Commerce, language, art, ideas, music, academic, youth programs, and dozens of other activities are only limited by one's own imagination.

It is an opportunity to understand another cultural and another people through firsthand experience. Through the Sister Cities Program, we can gain respect and understanding of all the peoples of the world and perhaps, even understand ourselves a little better.

The Sister Cities Program teaches us a lesson in economics of world trade as both consumers and suppliers of raw materials with our sister city.

Citizens Committee
A Citizens Committee, led by Mayor Lyle Watson and Chairman Tom Brown, working many months and representing many areas of endeavor and backgrounds, received word on October 18,1980 that their invitation to Yashiro, Japan, to affiliate had been approved by the Yashiro town Council.

Yashiro was chosen because it is an important city of our sister state, Hyogo Prefecture, and its population, industry, and educational features are not far removed from our own.

Membership
To further reinforce, sustain, and encourage this effort, a private, nonprofit 501C(3) corporation has been organized to serve as the host and program coordinator in the Olympia area. All interested persons are invited to join the sister cities committee.

Membership Application ( WORD DOCUMENT | ADOBE ACROBAT )

Contact, please write the Olympia-Yashiro Sister Cities Association, PO Box 11998, Olympia, WA 98508-1998. Or contact, Bob Nakamura, Treasurer at sgtmilehibob@att.net.

Board Meeting, held the fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM.
Location: TBD
Contact: Bob Nakamura, Treasurer at sgtmilehibob@att.net.