EXCHANGE
NEWS 2012 Lima,
Peru
Members of the Friendship Force Club of Winnipeg welcomed
twenty-two ambassadors from
Lima
Peru
on September 12,2012. During the following seven
days we made new friends, practiced our Spanish,
and toured our beautiful city and
province
of
Manitoba
. We visited Portage La Prairie, had lunch at a
local church there, stood in the middle of
farmers’ fields and watched as huge machines
harvested carrots and cauliflowers .We visited the
Mennonite
Heritage
Museum
in Steinbach and feasted on Mennonite food at the
Livery Barn Restaurant. We toured the Ukrainian
Catholic Cathedral and Grotto at Cooks Creek, then
travelled north to Lower Fort Gary. We ate dinner
at Eddy’s on
Selkirk Avenue
in
Winnipeg
and introduced our friends to holubskis and
perogies. Our own Voyageur, Dolores Hebert,
brought to life French Canadian culture on the
steps of St Boniface Cathedral. We toured the
Legislative building and the Forks. We sang songs,
played music and danced with our Peruvian friends.
Then, on September 19th we waved farewell to our
friends and made promises to keep in touch, and
perhaps meet them again next year in
Peru
.
2013
Piracicaba,
Brazil
Friendship Force
Winnipeg and Manitoba welcomed 23 ambassadors from
Piracicaba, Brazil on July 4th, 2013.
The exchange took in many of Manitoba's sights and
activities. There were visits to the
Manitoba Museum, The Forks, Fort Gibraltar,
Schutzenfest (a traditional German marksmen
shooting event held in Little Britain), Manitoba
Legislature, the Mint, a bus tour through Southern
Manitoba with stops at Neubergthal, Plum Coulee,
Morden and Winkler.
Go to Exchanges,
Piracicaba 2013 to view 42 photos.
The ambassadors
were interviewed by two reporters in Winkler which
resulted in the following articles appearing in
the local papers.
Please click on
the following references to view:
http://www.pembinatoday.ca/2013/07/15/brazilian-friendship-force-invades-region
The
Winkler Times, July 18th
The
Winkler Morden Times, July 18th
To
come
Inbound:
September 18 - 24 Northern
Illinois, USA
EDs: Jim Kubas
Carol Frederickson
Outbound:
October
Trujillo and Tarapoto, Peru
ED: Paul Havixbeck
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