Mayor Suzanne Atwell


Mayor Suzanne Atwell was voted by the city commission to serve another year as mayor and Willie Shaw is the new Vice Mayor. The mayoral selection was preceded by the annual State of the City address.

For those who would like to pass on congratulations, you can contact her at atwells@aol.com 

Visit Sarasota County



The Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau has changed its name to Visit Sarasota County. Officials said the new corporate name would make it easier to find visitor information and would reduce confusion about the organizations purpose, as well as the fact the organization serves all of Sarasota County. The change should improve presence in online searches and social networking.





Host Families for exchange students

Summer 2012
Host Families for exchange students

Spanish Legacy invites you and your family to
host an exchange student age 12-16
from June 30-to July28.

They need room and board in a loving home and should be treated as a member of the family. Having children of the same age is not a requirement. Exchange students come with their own spending money and insurance.
They are with Spanish Legacy 2 days per week plus trips.

Exchange students living with host families learn the language and culture while the host family benefits from also learning the language and culture of the student.

Anyone that is hosting a student will receive
One week of free summer camp


For more information please contact:
Spanish Legacy (941) 925-8510

Social Marketing

Sarasota Sister Cities Social Marketing

Blog:         sarasotasistercities.blogspot.com

Web:         sarasotasistercities.org



Email         sarasotasistercities@gmail.com


We will use the Blog and Facebook to get out the word. Anyone can post to Facebook - You just join facebook.com and post photos and text to our facebook.com/SarasotaSisterCities page.  You can also send an email to sarasotasistercities@gmail.com with photos or text and we will post. If you would like to post a lot let us know and we can get you set up to post directly.

 

Flight to Key West




One of the items auctioned at the Sister City Gala was a flight to Key West. The photo above is of Tom Halbert, Gayle Maxey, and Beth and Craig Hullinger in front of the Airplane. They flew down on May 4, 2012




 Lido Beach View From the Plane





Beth and Gayle in the Plane


Tom Halbert and Craig Hullinger



Craig, Tom, and Bob the Pilot in Key West


Bird in Key West




Sunset on the Flight Home

Great Photos by Gayle Maxey



International Photo Contest - Vladimir, Russia

International Photo Contest
A Day Together
July 13, 2012

Photographers in Sarasota and the Cultural Coast have been invited to take part in our Sister City of the Vladimir, Russia International Photo Contest, calledA Day Together.

Vladimir has 20 sister cities in 12 countries all over the world.  “Unfortunately, often our cooperation remains largely on paper.  But we want to be real friends.  So let us start small, and tell each other about ourselves using photographs.  We are sure that this project will become a serious step forward in a new period of our cooperation.  As we say in Russia:  “It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.”  Well, let us show each other how we look.”

Everyone is welcome to this project:  amateurs and professional photographers.  Just take a camera, shoot something special and send the photos to us.  And you'll have just one day for doing itJuly 13, 2012. To keep to the natural rhythm of this day, we are going to suggest that every sister city (from East to West) use the exact hours (about 2-3 hours) for photographing.

Requirements:
  • There should be images of people in the photos;
  • Photos have to express the rhythm of the city, to show some scenes of daily living in the city and of its citizens;
  • You should submit your photographs in raw image format;
  • Please submit not less than 5 photos;
  • Each photo artist will please attach a one-page document, including the name of your city, the time of photographing, the name of the photographer, and write some words about the image.

All photos chosen by the contest committee will be published in a special edition of the city magazine,The Mirror,this August. Each artist will receive this edition as a gift. In September, within ourCity Dayscelebration, all submitted photographs will be exhibited.