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Niles Sister Cities

Monday, April 15, 2013

Niles Sister Cities Revamps With New Leaders

Five new people will lead the committees for Niles' sister cities in Poland, Ireland, Greece and Italy.

  Student exchanges, art exchanges, travel, foreign visitors and Skying overseas may all be on the horizon as Niles' Sister Cities program continues to revamp. George Alpogianis, who was elected earlier this year to head Sister Cities' board, has announced that five people have agreed to lead the Niles Sister Cities'program committees to Italy, Greece, Ireland and Poland. Earlier: Niles Sister Cities brims with ideas They are:  1. Jolanta Walaszek, heading the committee to Limanowa, Poland. Limanowa is not far from the town where Walaszek, vice president and branch manager of Niles' PNA Bank, was born.  Having come here at age 21, she still remembers many traditions in Poland, like the blessing of Easter baskets on the day before Easter. "…

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Niles Sister Cities Brims With Ideas, Energy

The new board is fired up with ideas to re-energize, branch out and possibly develop relationships with new Sister Cities in Germany and Korea. It also wants to become separate from the village, president says.

  The recently-elected Niles Sister Cities board is brimming with ideas and fired up about taking the organization in new directions, said George Alpogianis, who was elected as president recently. The board also wants to make Sister Cities a non-profit organization separate from the village, and possibly add new Sister Cities in Germany and Korea. "We want to get the community involved," Alpogianis said, before ticking off a list of ideas for exchanges with Niles' four existing Sister Cities: Leixlip, Ireland; Nafplion, Greece; Limanowa, Poland and Pisa, Italy. Some of the ideas include: Earlier: Niles Sister Cities elects new board He expressed dismay that the organization had been somewhat disorganized for a few years, even though a few …

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