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Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and travel restrictions between Japan and the US, we were forced to cancel this year's student exchange. We already chose three students to go to Ebetsu this summer. But we had to cancel because it would have been unsafe for them to...

Larisa During my stay in Ebetsu, my host sister, Koha, and our friends took me to another school festival. They really wanted to go into the haunted house that one class had made. I am not a person who enjoys haunted houses, but decided to give it a try. We went in...

2019-08-22 After sitting empty for more than a decade, the Guild Theatre finally has a new tenant.  Japanese bookstore Kinokuniya opened yesterday in the historic former movie theater, selling manga, comics, stationery and a whole section dedicated to Studio Ghibli...

Thank you to all for all you did - especially the host families! Ron Ture, Ebetsu exchange co-chair Gresham-Ebetsu Sister City Association As in years past, the GESCA high school student exchange began in the fall, when Barry Busse and Byerly Woodward collected host...

2019-02-11 message from Kathy Raymond We want to thank you for the wonderful opportunity of being able to participate in the Ebetsu Student Exchange program. You did a great job in matching the students up with the host families. We told Rin she was welcome back any...

Our three exchange students - Jose, Tania and Larisa - met the Mayor of Ebetsu (on the right) and the Chair of Ebetsu's Sister City Committee in early July 2018.