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Register for this exciting event—it only takes a few seconds. More information, menu selection, and reservations can be obtained at the Alliance Française Website.

Many of you have donated to OSCA during the Omaha Gives Campaigns and you made a difference. Thank You! This year, Omaha Gives has been replaced by SHARE Omaha’s Do Good Week. Any donations you make to us during Do Good Week will be directed to our Sue Mehaffey Scholarship Fund.

Members of the Omaha Sister Cities Association (OSCA) were saddened late last week to learn of the death of Dr. Joseph Stothert, husband of Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert. Mayor Stothert serves as honorary chair of OSCA. All OSCA members joined OSCA President Judith Schweikart in offering the mayor and her family their deepest condolences.

Exciting news — OSCA is actively exploring the potential for another partnership. We are proceeding to work with representatives from Carlentini, Sicily, the Omaha Italian community, and the City of Omaha to establish a Friendship City agreement.

Take a look at Omaha Sister Cities Association’s accomplishments over the past year!

For the first time in 76 years, towns along the Normandy coast will not host public ceremonies to commemorate the 1944 D-Day landings, due to restrictions imposed by the global pandemic COVID-19. This year, a different kind of public ceremony will occur.

The chair of the Yantai sister city committee, Betty Chin, visited Jinan and Yantai in October. She filed this article below. I was introduced to Omaha Sister Cities Association (OSCA) by Maorong Jiang, an OSCA Board Member.

Fellow OSCA Members and Friends, I regret to advise you that this year’s Global Gala and Annual Meeting, scheduled to take place on April 5th at Creighton’s Harper Center, has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Coming of Age Celebration In Japan, there is a tradition of celebrating people who turn 20 between April 2nd of the previous year and April 1st of the current year. This is to help them realize that they have become adults and to extend best wishes for their bright future.

The Omaha Sister Cities Association and Lauritzen Gardens held the annual Japanese Ambience Festival on October 5th and 6th. The festival is a celebration of Japanese culture and in honor of Shizuoka’s gift of the Sunpu Castle Gate to Lauritzen Gardens.