Hi, friends-- We hope that many of you will join us on Monday evening, October 17, at 7:30 P.M., at the Firehouse Center for Visual Arts (Lorraine B. Good Room, 2nd Floor, 135 Church Street) in Burlington for an informal public forum with the Mayor of Bethlehem, Dr. Victor Batarseh. Dr. Batarseh will discuss conditions in Bethlehem.
The event is being sponsored by the Mayor's Office. Burlington is a Sister City of Bethlehem; Burlington is also a Sister City of Arad, Israel. For those of you who heard about this event at our meeting last Monday: Please note there has been a change of venue to the Firehouse Center. The press release from the Mayor's Office with additional details follows below. Best, Kris ---Press Release Follows--- Peter Clavelle Office of the Mayor Burlington, VT 05401 802-865-7272 Press Release October 14, 2005 MAYOR OF BETHLEHEM TO VISIT BURLINGTON AND TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Victor Batarseh of the City of Bethlehem, one of Burlingtons sister cities, will visit Burlington October 17-18. Dr. Batarseh will discuss conditions in Bethlehem at an informal public gathering on Monday, October 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lorraine B. Good Room, second floor of the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, 135 Church Street in Burlington. During his stay, Mayor Batarseh and his wife Marcelle will meet with Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle, Sister City Committee President Mousa Ishaq, and other members of the Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Committee, as well as representatives of local nonprofit organizations working in the West Bank and Gaza. On the afternoon of Tuesday, October 18, Mayor Batarseh will visit Made in Palestine, an exhibition of art by Palestinian artists at the T.W. Wood Gallery at Vermont College in Montpelier. The exhibit opens Tuesday at noon. The show will run through November 20, Tuesdays-Sundays, 12:00-4:00 p.m. Dr. Victor Batarsehan ear, nose and throat surgeonwas elected Mayor of Bethlehem on May 20, 2005. Mayor Batarseh has held dual U.S. citizenship for 18 years, once living in Sacramento, California. Burlington first developed sister city relationships with the Palestinian city of Bethlehem and the Israeli city of Arad in 1991. In 1996, representatives of the three cities signed cooperative agreements-the first-ever sister-city pacts among American, Palestinian, and Israeli communities. Over the years, the Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Program has sponsored numerous dialogues, exchanges, and projects aimed at developing mutual understanding, building people-to-people relationships, and providing humanitarian assistance. 30 ---End of Press Release--- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpgUKB/pzNLAA/cUmLAA/MknplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VTJP/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
