Apply to serve city as a board member or commissioner
January 12, 2010
Help shape the way Issaquah develops, advise officials about growth and even increase public art throughout the city. Read more
Apply to serve city as a board member or commissioner
January 9, 2010
NEW — 6 a.m. Jan. 9, 2010
Help shape the way Issaquah develops, advise officials about growth and even increase public art throughout the city.
City leaders seek members for 12 city boards and commissions. Not all applicants must be Issaquah residents. Officials need regular and alternate members. Alternate members serve in the absence of regular members.
Pick up application forms at the City Clerk’s Office on the second floor at City Hall, 130 E. Sunset Way. Find the form here.
Issaquah traveler hopes to thaw Sunndal sister city relationship
November 10, 2009
Joan Probala
The dormant relationship between Issaquah and Sunndal, Norway — the first sister city partnership forged by Issaquah leaders — could be rekindled next week when longtime Issaquah resident Joan Probala travels to the far-flung corner of Scandinavia.
Issaquah and Sunndal became sister cities in 1991, but the relationship faded and the pact failed to produce more than a handful of visits between the cities’ residents. In the meantime, Issaquah established a second sister city relationship with Chefchaouen, Morocco, in early 2007.
Probala, a member of the Issaquah Sister Cities Commission, hopes her trip to Norway can reinvigorate the partnership with Sunndal. She departed Nov. 9 for Norway and the distant sister city. She plans to spend three weeks in Norway, where her daughter lives. The trip to Sunndal will be a high-profile side trip. Read more
Gambling on Charity
September 1, 2009
The nine remaining participants get ready to shuffle up and deal at the final table in the Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Fundraiser Aug. 26 at the Lake Sammamish Elks Lodge. The event, hosted by the Issaquah Sister Cities Commission and the American Moroccan International Exchange, raised $1,100 to bring two artists from Issaquah’s sister city Chefchaouen, Morocco, to Issaquah during Salmon Days. Christopher Wright won, Joe Podersek came in second, Dallas Cross in third, Sharyn Solum in fourth and Dave Neiderkrome in fifth. By Tina Eggers
Play poker, help get sister city artists here
August 18, 2009
Play poker for a good cause at the Texas Hold ‘em Poker fundraiser Aug. 26 at the Lake Sammamish Elks Lodge, 765 Rainier Blvd. N. Read more
Moroccan exchange students get firsthand look at America
August 11, 2009
Meryem Riane (left) and Loubna Gourari visit the Blue Door at City Hall. The door was donated by their hometown, Issaquah’s sister city, Chefchaouen, Morocco. The girls visited as part of an exchange program.By Erin Kim
On their first visit to America, students Meryem Riane, 19, and Loubna Gourari, 18, traveled to Issaquah from its Moroccan sister city, Chefchaouen.
Long before the students made a two-week trip to Issaquah, Issaquah residents and officials took steps to cement the relationship between the city and Chefchaouen.
In 2006, 12-year-old Iman Belali wanted to create a better understanding between America and Morocco, her home country. Iman convinced her parents to start the nonprofit organization, the American Moroccan International Exchange program.
Issaquah residents then traveled to Morocco through AMIE.
After the trip’s success, the City Council established a sister-city relationship with Chefchaouen as an outgrowth of Iman’s request. Read more
Match wits, raise money at Trivia Night on Monday
July 26, 2009
NEW — 6 a.m. July 26, 2009
Issaquah officials will host a second popular Trivia Night to help bring two artists from Chefchaouen, Morocco, during the Salmon Days Festival.
Chefchaouen is a sister city of Issaquah. Trivia Night will be hosted at the Issaquah Brewhouse by the city Sister Cities Commission and the American Moroccan International Exchange. The event will begin at 7 p.m. July 27 at the brewhouse, 35 W. Sunset Way.
Proceeds will be used to help the artists travel to Issaquah for the festival, Oct. 3-4. There is no preregistration for the event, and the brewhouse will remain open during Trivia Night.
Trivia event Monday to raise money for Moroccan visit during Salmon Days
June 7, 2009
NEW — 6 a.m. June 7, 2009
Trivia Night, sponsored by the Issaquah Sister Cities Commission, will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at the Issaquah Brewhouse, 35 W. Sunset Way.
Proceeds from Trivia Night will be used to help bring two artists from Issaquah’s sister city, Chefchaouen, Morocco, to share their art and culture with the community during Issaquah Salmon Days on Oct. 3-4.
There is no preregistration for the event. Participants are urged to come early to ensure that they can secure a table. The brewhouse will be open during its normal operating hours.
See Moroccan art on display at community center
May 18, 2009
NEW — 6 a.m. May 18, 2009
Fifth-graders at Clark Elementary School received a welcomed surprise last month: special gifts from students in Issaquah’s sister city of Chefchaouen, Morocco.
In March, the Clark students created friendship journals that were delivered to a group of Chefchaouen students. In return, the Chefchaouen students created their own artwork to send back to Issaquah as a surprise.
The artistic gifts, which include paintings, drawings and even a weaving, are on display through the end of the month in the main lobby of the Issaquah Community Center, 301 Rainer Blvd. S.
Journals to Chefchaouen
April 6, 2009
Clark Elementary School teacher Julia Landa (right) and a group of her fifth-graders show off the journals they made for students in Chefchaouen, Morocco, one of Issaquah’s sister cities. By Warren Kagarise
