Roseburg
Sister Cities, Inc.
P.O. Box 1643
Roseburg, Oregon 97470
Email:
info@roseburg-sister-cities.org
Website:
www.roseburg-sister-cities.org
Officers:
President : H.D. Honscheid
672-6513
V.P.
: Larry Shipley 673-0258
Treas.:
Bill
Roberts 672-4480
Sec.: Lois
Soulia
673-4197
Member At Large : Jon
Burpee
672-2536
Board of Directors – 2006
Nancy Andrich , Jon Burpee, Elizabeth
Clawson, HD Honscheid, Dick Morehead, Bill Roberts,
Thelma
Sayers,
Kellene Soder, Lois Soulia, Art
&
Marline Swanson, Bernis Wagner.
Committee Chairs
Newsletter: Jonna Wagner
Oct. Japan Visit: Nancy Andrich
Garden: Jean Burpee/Judy Emmett
Publicity: Kellene Soder
Message from The President – by
HD Honscheid
I want to express our gratitude to
the outgoing President Jon Burpee for his wonderful job of leading the
organization through the year of 2005. Jon did a fabulous job. Please
make sure to thank Jon in person next time you see him.
I am delighted and honored to be the new President
of the Roseburg Sister Cities Association for the year 2006. We
have an exiting year ahead of us, and I would like to share three goals
of mine with you.
Firstly, I want to do all I can to make the June
visit of our friends from Japan a memorable success. This year it looks
like the delegation from Shobu will arrive on June 15th and will stay
through June 22 (dates are not confirmed yet). This time the delegation
will stay longer than in the past few years, so we are thinking of
arranging a bus trip to Southern Oregon and to the Redwoods in Northern
California with them.
Secondly, I would like to complete the update and
expansion of our membership data base. We need to have email addresses
for as many members and interested non-members as possible so that we
can use mass emails effectively. We also should continue to review the
member base to make sure the information is current.
Thirdly, I feel we should again create some type of
Fund Raiser / Outreach Program Activity during the coming year. It is
important that we continue to let the community know what we are all
about, namely promoting "Friendship and Understanding" between the
cities of Shobu, Japan and Roseburg.
I hope you will support me in trying to reach these
goals. If you have the time and the talent to help, please
volunteer. Any help by the members is always very much appreciated. ~
H.D.
<> ENJOY
A LIFETIME MEMORY
by being a Host Family when
the Shobu Delegation visits Roseburg this June 2006!
I’m getting ready to
send out Hosting applications soon, so we can have families available
to assign to our Delegates, once we know who and how many are coming in
June. I would be happy to discuss the Hosting responsibilities and
rewards with you - just give me a call!
This year the Delegation will be spending their entire trip in Oregon
June 15-22, and we will be providing an Oregon Tour for them during
part of their visit. We expect that the hosting will be for 3 to 4
nights and may include a weeknight.
I can guarantee you’ll find hosting an enjoyable & lasting
memory! Many times it’s the start of lasting friendships, as you
open your home to our friends in Japan.
For more details or an application, please contact
Janet Johnston at 430-2885.
Journeys, 2005 Shobu Delegation
On
October 18, 2005, 17 Roseburg delegates rendezvoused at PDX for an
afternoon takeoff. Many of us had spent the night at the airport
Hampton Inn and had dinner together at the Rheinlander Restaurant. We
had an uneventful but long plane ride to Narita Airport, where we were
greeted by some of our hosts and Jeannie Burpee, who had been helping
as Grammy to new arrival Aya. The group traveled by "Hato-bus" (the
driver's name is Mr. Hato) to Kenkatsu Conference Center, where we ate
dinner, bathed, and bedded down for the night.
Refreshed the next morning after
breakfast, we traveled to the Chiyouryuuji Kindergarten and Temple. We
were given a Tyko Drum concert by the children, and a tour of the
kindergarten and temple. There were no dry eyes as we departed the
kindergarten in the "Hato-bus." That afternoon we visited an
agricultural co-op and the Shobu City Library. Each delegate
presented a book brought from Roseburg. In the evening we had a welcome
reception dinner and gift exchange between the Sister Cities. The next
day we went by bus to Nagatoro and took boats down the rapids. We also
got to visit a sake winery and make Japanese paper at Higashichichibu
Village.
Monday, our out-of-town
three-day tour to the Mt. Fuji area commenced. Accompanied by our
Japanese friends, our first day we visited the huge Kamakura Buddha
statue and Odawara castle. Then we spent a relaxing night
in a spa hotel, where we enjoyed
the spa, a large dinner, and karaoke. The next day we went to Lake
Ashino-ko in the Hakone area, where we rode an aerial tram and a tour
boat and visited an art museum. We again stayed in a spa hotel where we
took in the spa, a multi course meal, and karaoke.
Although we had a very busy
schedule, we got to know our wonderful, generous host families, and we
look forward to seeing them again, either in Shobu or in Roseburg. I
urge all of you to experience the trip or to be a host family here in
Roseburg, to get to know these wonderful people.
~ Story submitted by Jon
Burpee. Buddha & Delegation photo submitted by Jon Burpee.
RSC Community Outreach Activity
Brainstorming
“Please Help ~ We Need Some Ideas!”
As you all know, we cancelled the Obon
festival last year because of the huge amount of volunteer labor it
took to make a festival like that a reality. For this year we are
looking for some good ideas to have a smaller event that will remind
the community of our presence, and of our goal to foster friendship and
understanding through a cultural exchange program.
Some ideas for such an event
are "Japanese Film Showing" or a "Sushi Night". If you have some great
ideas, or if you would like to volunteer your skills and time for such
an event, please let us know by sending an email to:
info@roseburg-sister-cities.org
or drop us a note through the post mail.
New
Restaurant in Roseburg!
“Sushi & Roll, Teriyaki” Take-Out 4671 Carnes Rd.,
Green. Formally “Scooters” (Kelly’s Corner).
Serving Sushi Rolls, Teriyaki Dishes & Sashimi. Their hours are
Monday thru Thursday 11:00-9:00p; Friday & Saturday 11:00-10:00p.
Stop by, & email/mail the ‘News Gal’ what you think!
Friendship Garden Notes:
Japanese/Oregon Garden
“Looking
Ahead to June!”
This
garden, which is behind the Douglas County Library,
is a combination of Japanese and Oregon plants, and garden styles. I
find it very enjoyable and relaxing to visit it. We try to keep it nice through several "Garden
Parties" during the year.
We had a nice Garden Party of our
Sister City members in November. This party included about fifteen
members and their families, as well as a transient fellow who apparently likes
gardens, as he not only talked with us while we worked, but also helped
pick up debris.
We are planning to have the Job
Corps help us in February and the Jr. High kids help us in April. We
will be planning a Garden Party for Sister City members again in June,
before the delegates come from Shobu. Please plan to help us probably
the first or second Saturday in June.
~ Judy Emmett and Jeannie Burpee, Shobu Garden Chairmen
Introduction to Conversational Japanese at
UCC!
New RSC
Member, Jackie Fujikawa, Teaching Class
This course is designed to familiarize the students with the Japanese
language (conversational) as well as the Japanese culture. The course
offers an interactive method to communicate and understand the depth of
the Japanese language and its nature. The class deals with the basics
of Japanese and is useful to anyone planning a trip to Japan, anyone
who wants to host a Japanese student or delegates, or who is just
interested in the language.
Start Date: Every Tues., 6-8:00 pm, April 4 - May 9.
Location: UCC, Wayne Crooch Hall, Room 15
Tuition fee: $39.00
Dept: Comm. Ed Dept. (Michele Harris, 677-3211)
Instructor: J. Fujikawa
Notes
from the ‘News Gal’…
This is a great new experience! I
appreciate all the help I’ve received! This is my first newsletter, so
if something is amiss, please let me know, so I may correct it for the
next issue.
We’ll be running a series on “Journeys, 2005 Shobu Delegation”. We
would love folks that went, to submit their stories and photos, which
we’ll run throughout the newsletter year.
Contact Jonna at 430-2325 or
jonna@wagnerteam.net, or send mail to PO Box 1643, Roseburg, 97470.
First Citizen’s Banquet
“Growing Better Together”
The 2006 First Citizen’s
Banquet held at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in January was a
wonderful evening. The Roseburg Sister Cities table looked wonderful,
as well as the members who attended!
L to R, back row: Art & Marliene Swanson, Scott Gandy, H.D.
Honscheid, & Terrie Klein. Front row: Kim Gandy, Thelma Sayers,
Jeannie & Jon Burpee, & Una Honscheid.
~ Photo submitted by H.D. Honscheid
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next newsletter is scheduled to be publish in April or May of 2006
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