Dear Sonoma-Tokaj Sister City Association,
We are sadly watching the fires in California reaching and destructing Sonoma County and homes of Sonoma people. Here in Hungary, it is hard to even imagine a huge catastrophy like this. We feel solidar with the inhabitant, who lost their homes, grapes, farms, or even have to breathe the smoke […]
Good news! The SSCA annual Holiday Party will be on the evening of Friday, December 1st. Click here for all the details.
Effective immediately, the SSCA Board of Directors is seeking a candidate to fill the position of Board Secretary. The Secretary serves on the Board as a voting director and an an officer of SSCA. Duties include providing taking minutes at the monthly board meeting, distributing minutes and agendas to the other board members, and other […]
Our two wine interns from Tokaj, Peter Majoros and Kristof Peto, arrived the week of August 21 and were greeted by Tokaj Sister Cities Committee Co-Chairs Sylvia and Joan Toth. Fortunately the Committee found a perfect place for them to stay while they were here. Debra and Brian Eagle offered their cottage and home to […]
In 2014 the Sonoma Sister Cities Tokaj Committee sent two students from Santa Rosa Junior Collete to Tokaj for a five-week study tour of the wine regions of Hungary. Our Sister City members in Tokaj, especially Hajni Pracser (a winemaker herself in Tokaj) put together the program calling on her vintner friends throughout Hungary to […]
One of the primary goals of Sister Cities is to build relationships and foster understanding of different cultures. In August, five high school students from Tokaj, Hungary, along with their English teacher and another chaperone, spent two weeks based in Sonoma. Various members of the Tokaj Committee offered accomodations in their homes to the visitors, […]
When you walked into the back presentation room at Vintage House, you knew everyone was excited to hear what Alexandra Lawrence had to say about “Rethinking Women: A Look at Female Painters and Poets in Renaissance Italy “. This event, sponsored by the Sonoma Sister Cities Association Sonoma-Greve Committee drew eighty eager people on the […]
On Friday, August 11, Alexandra Lawrence made a guest appearance on the KSVY Morning Show. With Alexandra was Mike Short, representing the Sonoma-Greve Committee. The Morning Show hosts, Takeshi Lewis and Christa Granton gave them both a warm welcome and the discussion focused first on Alexandra’s upcoming lecture “Rethinking Women: A Look at Female Painters […]
