[E-updates] Community invited to City of Hiratsuka student welcoming

[Lisa Patterson]

NEWS RELEASE

City of Lawrence, Kansas

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Thursday, July 20, 2006

 

CONTACT:  Michael Kennedy, exchange sponsor, (785) 766-6679

or

Lisa Patterson, communications manager, (785) 832-3406

 

Community invited to City of Hiratsuka student welcoming

 

(LAWRENCE, Ks) - The 2006 student delegation from Hiratsuka, Japan,
Lawrence's Sister City will be welcomed with a reception on Tuesday,
July 25 at 6p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire.

 

Past exchange participants, host families and individuals who have
visited or lived in Japan and Hiratsuka as well as citizens interested
in meeting the students are invited to attend the welcoming reception.
Arriving directly from the airport, the twenty students and their three
chaperons will have their first experience with the Lawrence community
at the reception.  

 

The welcome reception is the event where the delegation meets the
community and receives greeting from Lawrence citizens.  The support and
value of the Sister Cities relationship is demonstrated to the
delegation when a large group attends the welcoming reception to offer
greetings.  When Lawrence students visited the City of Hiratsuka last
month, they are welcomed at a reception filled with people.  

 

The delegation of junior high and high school students will spend nine
days with host families in Lawrence.  The exchange is part of the
on-going relationship in the sister cities program and will provide the
Japanese students with a sampling of American life.  Students will visit
landmarks, shop, eat and go to an amusement park as a group.  With host
families, the students will stay in groups of two and will participate
in recreational activities such as swimming, boating and visiting parks
as well as experiencing social events such as weddings and parties and
shopping.

 

-END-

 

 

 

_____________________________

Lisa K. Patterson

Communications Manager

City of Lawrence

PO Box 708

Lawrence, KS 66044

(785) 832-3406

fax (785) 832-3405

lpatterson at ci.lawrence.ks.us

http://www.lawrenceks.org

 

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