On Sunday the April 15th I attended the club meeting of our club in Big Canoe. It was a great turn out of folks who came from all over the North Georgia area to have dinner and hear what is going on in Friendship Force in the Atlanta office and around the world. Carolyn Smith, [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Friendship Force Mid-Atlantic Conference Underway
April 28, 2007I arrived yesterday at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, NC for the Friendship Force Mid-Atlantic conference. The drive from Atlanta took about four hours. The YMCA Assembly is a great place for this type of conference. I heard that the Blue Ridge Assembly accommodates 1000 people. It is a massive facility in [...]
Friendship Force Discovers Morocco
April 23, 2007The first Discover Morocco program returned to the US this past week.
It looks like the Ambassadors had a blast…
2007 Asia Pacific Festival
April 16, 2007The Friendship Force of Aichi
April 11, 2007 Dr. George T. Brown, Jr.
President and CEO
Friendship Force International
Dear Dr. Brown,
Under the attendance of Mr. Bernard (Mac) Mackenzie, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Friendship Force International, the 2007 Asia Pacific Festival (APF) started on Wednesday, April 4, 2007 and closed in [...]
Friendship Force of Mid-Willamette Valley Reports on WFD
April 6, 2007Oregon’s Mid-Willamette Valley Friendship Force club celebrated World Friendship Day on March 11, 2007, with a multiple- interest event in Albany, Oregon. The many flags from countries where our club has visited festooned the Albany Senior Center, along with tables decorated by members’ artifacts from around the world.
Members and guests were invited to this Sunday [...]
Other Bloggers are Talking About Friendship Force International
April 4, 2007Blogger Jacquielynn Floyd of the Dallas Morning News talks about her conversation with two FFI ambassadors, on an exchange from Brasov, Romania to Dallas, TX. The two Romanian ambassadors also happen to be journalists.
Read the full story here.
World Friendship Day in South Taranaki, New Zealand
April 3, 2007An inscribed granite rock was the project instigated to commemorate twenty years of Friendship Force in South Taranaki being engraved with the 34 Inward Exchanges welcomed by our Club during this period.
Mayor Mary Bourke honoured us by unveiling the rock, especially as she chaired the inaugural meeting held in Hawera in July 1996.
A social time [...]
Friendship Force of Southern New Jersey Celebrates World Friendship Day
April 3, 200745 members of the Friendship Force of Southern New Jersey weathered an ice storm to come together and celebrate World Friendship Day. Guest speaker, Mr. Ricardo Diaz Soto, led a discussion and answered questions regarding current events relevant to the Southern New Jersey club.
Afterward, the club shared a 30th anniversary Friendship Force cake.
