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July 27th, 2010 | 
Author: Bellingham is happy to welcome twenty children and their two chaperones who will be attending a specially created English program during their three-week stay. Many of the children who have traveled from South Korea for this program are Pen Pals with students at Wade King Elementary School.
Welcoming events and special activities will be happening between July 26th and August 13th. Please contact the BSCA intern, Lindsey Evans for more information: evans120@students.wwu.edu.
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Update from South Korea
First of all, the BSCA advisory board would like to pass on a wonderful note of thank-you sent to board member, Ross Grier (who spear-headed the organization of the visit from our friends from Cheongju, South Korea last monht).
Our friends from Cheongju with Bellingham citizens
Dear Ross Grier,
We’re so curious about how you are doing after we have left.
It has only been about a week since we have left Bellingham, but we already miss your wonderful smile.
Do you miss us too?
We will never forget what you have done for us! If it wasn’t for your help in this event we wouldn’t have felt as satisfied and successful as we do now. Also we wouldn’t have even thought about gaining so much experience and pleasure from the Ski to Sea festival, if it wasn’t for your help and consideration. We would really like to thank you again for such an amazing experience.
We would also like to thank the BSCA and its members. Especially the interns, Leslie Barber and Rachel Palmer, and the home-stay hosts, Denis and Tim Binderup, Craig Ambrose, Jim Rich and Rick Bluman, and Mrs. Lee. We appreciate everyone for helping us during our stay in Bellingham. Also we would like to thank Jesse Kase and Bryce Barber for helping out and leading the athletes before the big game. In addition, we would like to thank Andrew Harvilla and Linda Polverari for sailing with us. Once again we thank everyone who has helped us go through the event have made us feel at home.
With our unforgettable memories, we are hoping to let people all around Cheongju know about the Ski to Sea festival in Bellingham.
Like you have helped us in Bellingham, Cheongju will try everything to help Bellingham as much as possible. That way we believe Cheongju and Bellingham will maintain a firm cooperative relationship.
If Bellingham invites us again next year, we would be delighted to see everyone again and feel the comfort you have given us.
Until we meet again, we hope that everything goes well in Bellingham
We will never forget you, Ross Grier.
The athletes and members from Cheongju.
Bellingham citizens visit Nakhodka Russia
A small group of Bellingham citizens recently visited our Russian sister city, Nakhodka. See the before and after story as reported in the Bellingham Herald.
A note from our WWU-BSCA interns:
Hello all!
What an amazing Memorial weekend Bellingham had while hosting our friends from Cheongju, South Korea. We hope that many of you were able to somehow be a part of the weekend. Life-long friendships were truly formed and we look forward to hopefully seeing our new friends again in thefuture! We are so thankful for everyone's help and participation in any way, shape, or form you took part. This weekend could have not happened without such helpful people like yourselves.
Also, thank you to all our friends from South Korea for making the long flight over to be a part of Ski to Sea and experience Bellingham. We can say we are so amazed by each and every person we met from Cheongju, South Korea, and will not forget the friendships we made this weekend. We genuinely hope some of us from Bellingham can make our way over to Cheongju someday soon. And you know we will always welcome you anytime in the future!
-Leslie and Rachel
PacRim Races starting soon!
Meet Your PacRim 2010 Team
The Pacific Rim Challenge 2010 is being held in Victoria, BC, Canada this year. Your selection committee proudly announces your “Team Bellingham” members. Racing for the Bellingham Yacht Club, Bellingham Sister Cities and the USA are: Joe Bartlett, Brian Lawernce, Terry Tavelli, Alex Marr, Jonathan Knowles, Vance Edwards, and Steve Racich. Ambassadors include: Ken and Char Malseed, Dick and MaryJane Vetter, Dawn Durand and Al and Karen Callery.
The event spans June 5th – 13th and participants are hosted in local homes and presented with a delightful, friendship forming experiences. Check out “PacRim” at byc.org for more information. Bellingham will host this event again in 2014.
Bellingham, Washington Choengju, South Korea
Bellingham Sister Cities Association
Annual Meeting
Please Join Us!
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Location: Squalicum Boathouse
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Sister Cities themed Gift Basket Raffle
Come meet our Sister Cities Ski to Sea Team from
Choengju, South Korea
Punta Arenas, Chile Port Stephens, Australia Nakhodka, Russia
Tateyama, Japan Vaasa, Finland
Welcome to the new Bellingham Sister Cities Association website. This site is under construction at the moment. Please be patient with us as we get it up and running. If you need information you don’t find here, please contact our board president, Barbara Sanchez at snabblady@msn.com.
In the meantime, we have a number of reminders and upcoming events we’d like everyone to be aware of.
Visitors coming from Cheongju, South Korea to participate in Ski to Sea!
Yes, we have eight (8) people joining us from our sister city in South Korea for the Ski to Sea race this year. Four of our visitors will participate as atheletes, and the others will be joining us in helping the teams they are on with cheering and moral support. We are excited to host these friends and to show them a good time while they are here.
We are in need HOST FAMILIES for our visitors.
We are also still looking for teams for one or two of our Cheongju athletes.
If you are interested in hosting one or more individuals, or if you know of a Ski to Sea team who is looking for members, please contact Ross Grier at sistercityross@comcast.net or Leslie and Rachel (our interns!) at bscainterns@gmail.com.
Reminder: Renew your BSCA membership!
Every year, the BSCA membership needs to be renewed. Follow the link under “Membership” on this website to find the form you can fill out. Soon we will have PayPal and you will have the opportunity to renew membership right online. Until then, contact Sheri Emerson (burgleremerson@comcast.net), our membership representative, to make a payment.
Annual Bellingham Sister Cities Association Membership Meeting/Party!
Each year we have a membership meeting and celebration. This year will be especially fun! There will be a raffle for baskets from all of Bellingham Sister Cities as well as good food and a welcoming ceremony for our 8 visitors from Cheongju. Come meet our South Korean athletes and get updates on Sister Cities activities. Bring a friend.
Save the date: Friday, May 28.
Location: Squalicum Boathouse
Time and program to be announced.
Language Learning Opportunities
Japanese Conversation: Check out this article from the Bellingham Herald regarding a terrific opportunity to practice your Japanese!
Korean Language Class: Instructor Yong-Taek Kim will be teaching Elementary Korean beginning June 22 through July 20, from 1pm to 2:50pm (Monday – Friday. If you are interested, call WWU for details: 360.650.3918
Welcome to the new Bellingham Sister Cities Association website. This site is under construction at the moment. Please be patient with us as we get it up and running. In the meantime, if you need information please contact our board president, Barbara Sanchez at snabblady@msn.com. Thank you.