Tempe Sister Cities hosted a reception to honor President Gjorge Ivanov of the Republic of Macedonia on April 25, 2013. This was the first time Tempe Sister Cities has hosted a reception for a president of a country. It was a beautiful event held at the Hackett House.

President Ivanov was impressed with the different displays in each room of Hackett House, representing the many cities that have twinned with Tempe. Later President Ivanov was presented with a cowboy hat by Dick Neuheisel who promised him a horse on his next visit.

TSC Student Delegate Car Wash

Saturday, April 27^th

8:30am – 3:30pm

Location –Low’s Gas and Auto

SW corner of Elliott and McClintock

Benefiting Tempe Sister Cities Student Exchange Programs for Summer 2013

Please join us for Lunch at Tempe Sister Cities Hackett House during the week of April 15-19 as lunch will be presented by the Wildflower Bread Company and Hackett House. Each day during the fund raiser from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m Lunch will include soup served in a bread bowl plus salad, beverage and a delectable cookie.

Daily Soup Menu:

“Our Soup For You…School Supplies For Timbuktu” Fundraiser proceeds will be used to supply desperately needed school supplies for our sister city Timbuktu, Mali, Africa. The cost is a $10 minimal donation. Hackett House is located at 95 W. 4^th Street in downtown Tempe. “1 FREE hour parking at Hayden Square Garage”

March 1st was a day for thirty-two young adults to remember as they were selected to travel this coming summer to one of Tempe’s sister cities. The selection process was a rigorous set of group and individual interviews that students were able to demonstrate their aptitude for being successful delegates and exceptional

representatives of Tempe. These students are part of a group of 777 students that have been exchanged through Tempe Sister Cities since the first exchange in 1972. The first exchange was to our sister city, Skopje, Yugoslavia, now Macedonia. The four students, David Wynn, Cathy Givins, Carolyn Shumway, and Jan Alexander were invited as special guests to all of this past year’s Oktoberfest celebrations. This reunion has prompted interest in another exchange to Macedonia for the original four delegates.

(Above)New French Delegate, Olivia Van Vleet dons her beret as Coordinators, Olivia Valdez and Dennis Ederer congratulate her on her selection.

To Read all of the Articles contained in the TSC Monthly Newsletter go to our website www.tempesistercities.org and select Publications/Newsletters.

than you think: Hackett House brings the New Orleans spirit to Tempe for the jazziest jamboree in town Friday February 8, 2013, from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m.

The brass will be blowing, the drinks will be flowing, the food will be steaming, and the costumes will be sizzling at the fourth annual Mardi Gras celebration benefiting the Tempe Sister Cities. You’ll love the excitement of the Bourbon Street experience in our very own backyard, including:

• Live music, blasting the New Orleans sound
• International Cuisine
• No Host Full Bar
• Prize for the Best Costume
• Raffle
• Door Prizes

What’s not to love about enticing appetizers, liberal libations, and an all-around rollicking good time?

Snack on Louisiana style street food straight out of the French Quarter. You can enjoy:

• New Orleans’ Muffalettas
• Causa
• Bayou Gumbo
• Southern Style Bread Pudding
• Hackett House Hurricanes

In true Mardi Gras fashion, raise a glass and toast! One wine, beer or soda included with your ticket.

Get all dolled up and drop by

The glitzier, the flashier, and the snazzier, the better: This is one time not to be shy! Break out the feathers, sequins, and Mardi Gras beads. Don a mask, a jester’s outfit or any apparel fit for a night of joyous revelry. After all, you could win a prize for best costume!

Mardi Gras is calling, won’t you join the jamboree?

Reserve your spot at the fourth annual Hackett House Mardi Gras bash today for just $25 prepaid reservation or $30 at the door.

Your Big Easy evening will also benefit Tempe Sister Cities  so you can feel good about lavishing in life’s pleasures for a night.

Book your spot by registering online.

So what are you waiting for?

Come on down to the Bourbon Street festival (inside Hackett House) Friday, February 8, 2013, 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. and join the best Mardi Gras celebration outside of New Orleans!

President Dick Neuheisel announced at the November board meeting that he has received the official word from the Mayor of Cusco that documents are being extricated by Cusco creating a new sister city relationship with Tempe. This will be Tempe’s ninth sister city. Additionally, Cusco and Tempe already have sister city relationships with Cuenca, Ecuador. This is the first trilateral agreement with the US and South America.

Exchanges between the three countries have many unique opportunities including

educators’ exchanges. It is hopeful that there will be an inaugural group of students travelling to Cusco this summer in the student exchange program.

It will be exciting to have conferences to promote business, tourism and education between the three cities. Project Cure is currently putting together a container filled with medical supplies for Cuenca, Ecuador. The next goal for Tempe Sister Cities is to send a similar container to address the needs of Cusco, Peru as well.

The 2012 honorees this year are:

• Derreck Kayongo who founded the Global Soap Project which distributes reprocessed bars of soap to vulnerable populations in some 23 countries.
  
• Dr. Raul Osorio and Medical Missions to Peru has been leading medical missions since the 1980′s.
  
• Edgar Rodas and Cinterandes- inspired Mobile Medicine in Ecuador through his dreams of Mobile Surgical Units (MSU’s) which travel throughout the Ecuadorian Amazon.

To register for this special event, please call us at 480-350-8181 or register online.

Meet and Greet begins at 6pm with Dinner beginning at 7pm.

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