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About Our Cities
Our Sister City Relationship
The Bloomington-Izumi Sister City relationship began in 1993.
When Bloomington began to explore the idea of a Sister City, organizers looked for commonalities
often shared between Sister Cities. These included community goals, population size,
geographic conditions, key industries, infrastructure, local ethnic population, business,
and education.
Bloomington sought a Sister City located within a larger metropolitan area, had a college
or university within its boundaries, and shared a similar economic structure. Izumi was a great
match!
Since officially establishing
the Sister City relationship, numerous exchanges have helped the Sister Cities learn
about government structures, industries, community Services, art groups, art and culture
groups, fraternal organizations, schools, and colleges.
Members of the community, businesses, government, service groups, athletes, and K-12 students
participate in a variety of events. Parallels in our community lives make a remarkable and
thought-provoking difference.
More about us
About Izumi
About Bloomington
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| BSCO Mission |
| The Bloomington Sister City Organization, in support of the City of
Bloomington charter with Izumi City, Japan, works to promote understanding,
prosperity and goodwill through the exchange of education, commerce, and
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| Board Officers |
| Steve Hill |
Pres. |
| Lorinda Pearson |
V.P. |
| Shrin Murthy |
Treas. |
| Luminita Vollmer |
Sec. |
| Board Members |
Eric Berg
Adam Charbonneau - Student
Dick DeGonda
Peter Hage
Kodo Kawamura
Doug Langefels
Karen Nordstrom,
City Council Rep
Pat Peterson
Jon Quach - Student
Gloria Robinson - Normandale College
Dan Royer - Webmaster
Corinne Shepherd
Gary Van Cleve - Corporate Rep
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