SISTER CITIES: USA - RUSSIA
OUR MISSION: GRANTS PASS, OREGON &
RUBTSOVSK, RUSSIA - TWO SISTER CITIES ENRICHING LIVES, EXPANDING HORIZONS,
MAKING A
DIFFERENCE AND BUILDING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS WORLDWIDE.
OUR
BOARD MEETS 5:30, SECOND THURSDAY
EACH MONTH,
Community Outreach Room at OHMS (Oregon Health Management)
Bldg. You are welcome. Parking is available
in lot
at corner of 5th and H Streets, across the street from Sunshine Health Foods.
We celebrated the beginning
of the 21st year of our Grants Pass Sister City at our annual
Winterfest Celebration, Thursday,
February 10th at
Countryside Village, 1700 Kellenbeck Ave. This is where we held our fabulous 20th Anniversary Celebration
this past
October. There were current photos from Rubtsovsk and our 20th
Celebration exchange, awards, entertainment,
and of course food!
If you would like a color copy of our recent newsletter, please send email
to webmaster and request
Winterfest 2011
Newsletter.
It will be sent to you as a pdf file. If you would like all your
newsletters via email, click here.
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2006 JAN 2006
SEPT 2005
APR
2005
JAN
2005 July
2004
MAR 2004
2010
OVERVIEW:
2010 WAS GRANTS PASS-RUBTSOVSK SISTER CITIES'
20th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.
PICTURES & INFO ABOUT ANNIVERSARY EVENTS.
AMERICANS TO RUBTSOVSK:
THE 20th ANNIVERSARY GRANTS PASS
DELEGATION TO RUBTSOVSK
returned from Rubtsovsk (May
2010). SC Pres. Kitty Waud,
her granddaughter Sarah,
Barbara Southerland-Muir, and
Nancy Hitchcock made up the group. Click link to see photos.
RUSSIANS
TO GRANTS PASS: 20th
ANNIVERSARY FALL 2010 RUBTSOVSK DELEGATION TO GRANTS PASS
SHOWCASE:
THANKS to Barbara Paulsen and others for maintaining
and refreshing our SHOWCASE at the GP Council
Chambers.
BOOKMARKS accompanied the Delegation to Rubtsovsk. Three different designs.
CLICK HERE TO SEE.
Посмотреть сайт на русском языке
English-Russian
translation by Dominic McIntyre
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ABOVE: Our TWO RIVERS...Rogue River, Oregon (USA) and Alei River, Russia |
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Rubtsovsk 51°30'N 81°10'E |
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Grants Pass 42° 26' 21" N 123° 19' 38" W |
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This website is maintained by the Grants Pass
Sister City Committee, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
Webmaster Judy Gosnell
Web hosting originally provided by Mark Kellenbeck,
now provided by Grants Pass company VISP, with
many thanks to Mark for making this happen.Photos above from Rubtsovsk web site
Background map © Defense Mapping Agency
Evening Bells
MUSIC (VECHERNIY ZVON) Works well with WINDOWS MEDIA
PLAYER.
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L-R SISTER CITY'S 2009 and 2010 WINTERFEST TREES AT BEAR HOTEL
Have you read
THE ENDLESS STEPPE: GROWING UP IN SIBERIA by Esther Hautzig? It's
about Rubtsovsk.
Also, did you know that Raisa Gorbachev was born in
Rubtsovsk?
BELOW: GRANTS PASS SISTER CITY ANNIVERSARY BOOKMARK
DAILY COURIER NEWSPAPER
GRANTS PASS ROGUE RIVER WEBCAM!!
GOOGLE has constructed a virtual TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILROAD adventure. Authentic and fun. Check it out!
For full function use INTERNET EXPLORER to view this site. PLEASE REPORT PROBLEMS TO WEBMASTER.
