Bloomington Sister City Organization Highlights
Taste of Japan dinner, fund raiser will be held Sat March 24th Watch a video taken at last year's event courtesy of The Bloomington Crow Do you or your business have an interest in supporting Bloomington and the BSCO? BSCO is soliciting silent auction items for the Taste of Japan in March. Please let us know if you have items you would be interested in donating. Use the contact info on the left to reach us. Thank you to Overseas Brats for their donation The Overseas Brats organization convened their Silver Anniversary Gathering in Bloomington this October and graciously raised over $2,000 for the disaster relief in Japan. The funds raised were donated to the BSCO, who in turn, forwarded the donation on to the Japanese Red Cross. Overseas Brats is an organization of former students and educators who attended school abroad. Renewal efforts in Japan
From a Reuters News Service Article:
-- About 15,690 were killed, 4,740 are missing, and 5,710 were injured. -- Many of about 5.6 million residents of the three prefectures worst hit by the March disaster have lost their homes and the number of evacuees peaked at more than 475,000 on March 14. -- Some 9,900 still live in evacuation shelters while 34,100 are staying in hotels or with relatives or friends and about 40,000 live in temporary housing. Bloomington Student delegation have returned from visiting Izumi City
Follow this link to see the delegations photo album. A description of some of the groups' activities can be found here.   2011 Taste of Japan
BSCO's annual meeting was held Saturday March 19 at the Hilton Minneapolis/Bloomington. Read about award winners here.
Or visit Go To the Crow for a video summary of the event.
Mayor Gene Winstead has returned from the Official VIP Delegation to Bloomington's sister city, Izumi City, Japan which was October 7-19, 2010. Updates of the trip and a trip summary can be found here.
B30 Engage your City recently highlighted the Bloomington Sister City Organization. Visit the BSCO blog for details.
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Bloomington Sister City Organization shares its event and delegation photos through a picasa website. You can find these photos here. |
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