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Alei River and bridge in Rubtsovsk |
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ANNUAL MEETING
SEPT 11, 2008 5:30 at RIVERSIDE PARK.
FALL 2008 NEWSLETTER
LIST
OF OUR HISTORICAL EXCHANGES!
2008 BOARD MEMBERS
SISTER CITY
QUILT
RECIPES, OR,
ALSO: ABOUT RUSSIAN ZAKUSKI
SCENES
AROUND GRANTS PASS
RUBTSOVSK UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
MAY 2007 DELEGATION:
CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS.
RUBTSOVSK MAR 07
Youth Delegation
2006
Sister City Delegations
OCT. 2006: Open World Program
OCTOBER 07 CLICK LINK FOR PHOTOS
>> OPEN WORLD DELEGATION
WINTER SCENES
IN RUBTSOVSK (Brian Pike)
2007:
GWEN'S AMAZING RED SQUARE ENCOUNTER!!
2007:
SHARING A YURT IN GRANTS PASS...Brian
Robinson
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items on this website. -JGosnell
WinterFest Celebrations:
FEB 2007
Past
WF Celebrations:
2003
2004
2005
2006
2006 DELEGATIONS TO RUBTSOVSK
Medical Delegations:
2005 2004
The Young Artists Competition 2005:
YAC 2005
Books for Rubtsovsk Library
(South Middle School Builders' Club-2005)
(See photos)
More Books for
Rubtsovsk: 2005 Evergreen Federal Bank
Community Book Sale
Sister Cities Annual
Conference - July 27-31, 2005 - in Spokane:
Connecting Global Villages
The
Sister City Bear in Grants Pass.
Photo by Ruth Pepple.
The Grants Pass Bear Project
was sponsored by Evergreen Bank and other local
businesses and organizations. Many artists decorated the bears which were then
auctioned off to the highest bidders to raise funds for various charitable
organizations.
Janet Higgins was the Rubtsovsk bear artist.
Vera Quimby was the successful bidder
for the Grants Pass Sister City Bear and
it
now sits in a place of honor at the Chamber
of Commerce. It was previously located at Grants
Pass City Hall on "A" Street
(shown here). Hopefully,
this delightful bear
will continue to promote Grants Pass-
Rubtsovsk Sister City projects. To see more Sister City Bear Photos and
a related news
article, Click here.
Update Spring 2008: The Bear was Restored and reFURbished
at the Bear Hotel.
Then it is established in its permanent home at the WELCOME CENTER.
Посмотреть сайт на русском языке
English-Russian translation by Dominic McIntyre
GRANTS PASS-RUBTSOVSK ARE MEMBERS OF
SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL:
In 1956, President Eisenhower proposed a people-to-people program at a White House
conference.
Originally
a part of the National League of Cities,
Sister Cities International (SCI)
became a
separate,
nonprofit corporation
in 1967.
The Grants
Pass Sister City Committee was formed in 1990, after white-water rafters
from
the
two
cities
met at
an international competition during the late
years of the Cold War.
Candace
Bartow
and
Lev Korshunov, then
respectively
the mayors of Grants Pass
and Rubtsovsk,
signed
the
agreement in
1990,
"to
develop friendship
between people
of the
Soviet Union
and
the United
States
and to stimulate
economic
and cultural cooperation..."
Since then,
the sister city committees in Rubtsovsk and in Grants Pass have
facilitated
visits
of
over 200
citizens
between our cities. Pen and email
pals correspond; books
have been donated
to each other's
libraries;
special
sewing machines for the blind
and medical
supplies were
donated
and delivered, and
videotapes and gifts
have
been exchanged.
GRANTS PASS
SISTER CITY COMMITTEE MISSION:
To foster goodwill and
understanding between the cities of Rubtsovsk, Russia
and Grants Pass,
Oregon,
and to provide
a conduit for citizen exchange.
The Grants Pass Sister City Committee: a non-profit membership organization affiliated with Sister Cities International.
Our sister
city is Rubtsovsk, Russia, located in south central Siberia, three times
zones east
of
Moscow,
near
the
point where the borders of Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan and Russia meet.
It
has a population
of about
170,000
people. Founded in
the 1880s, it was built on the Siberian
steppe (plains), where rich
black
soil produces
wheat,
sunflowers (for cooking oil), and grazing
for dairy
cattle. Not far from
the
rugged Altai Mountains to the
south where
rich
mineral ores are
found, it became
a manufacturing
center in the mid-20th
century.
After WWII,
a large tractor factory became the major industry in Rubtsovsk. In the
1980's,
it
employed
about
22,000
people and provided housing, health
services, and cultural activities, for
its employees and
their families.
Rubtsovsk,
like other former Soviet cities, has experienced unbelievable changes over
the past
decade.
The people
active in sister city activities tell their
Grants Pass friends
that their sister city
connection has
many times
sustained their hope.
http://www.visitgrantspass.org/
Grants Pass Sister City Bear p.1
p.2
Contact Information
PHOTOS OF RUBTSOVSK:
This website is maintained by the Grants Pass
Sister City Committee, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
Webmaster Judy Gosnell
Web hosting provided by Mark Kellenbeck.Photos above from Rubtsovsk web site
Background map © Defense Mapping Agency
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