Moses Lake Mayor Don Myers formally cuts the ribbon during a ceremony at the Moses Lake Civic Center to mark the 40th anniversary of the sister city relationship with Yonezawa, Japan. The ceremony was livestreamed to and from Yonezawa, where Mayor Masaru Nakagawa also cut a ribbon to mark the occasion.
October 5, 2022
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Yonezawa, Moses Lake mark 40 years of sister city ties
MOSES LAKE — Residents of both Moses Lake and its Japanese sister city Yonezawa were finally able to formally commemorate the 40th anniversary of the sister-city relationship during a short ceremony held on Tuesday and live streamed to and from both cities. Current and former elected officials gathered in the Moses Lake Civic Center auditorium Tuesday afternoon to mark the 40-year relationship — officially established in May 1981 — a year late after delays imposed by COVID-19 restrictions forced a halt to person-to-person exchanges between Japan and the United States and the cancelation of a long-planned joint celebration.