Cherry Blossoms at the Los Angeles Convention Center Councilman LaBonge this week dedicated a mini Friendship Grove of Flowering Cherry Trees that were a gift to the City from the Los Angeles Nagoya Sister Cities Affiliation. LANSCA got the trees from the Huntington Library and the Japanese Consulate as part of the 100th anniversary of […]

from left: Ernest Hida of the Los Angeles Nagoya Sister Cities Affiliation, Dan Berry, nursery manager from the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Leon from Rec and Parks Forestry Division and Tom LaBonge http://www.los-angeles-metropolitan-area.com/tomlabongecom/news/story/739

THE SUNFLOWER ART EXCHANGE PROJECT The Sunflower Art Exchange Project has completed its 7th year of sending depictions of sunflowers to the Nagoya Sunflower Painting Exhibition at Hisaya Odori Park in Nagoya. http://www.artangels.org/events/sunflower-art-project

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Councilmember Tom LaBonge and officials of the Los Angeles Nagoya Sister City Affiliation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the relationship between the two cities with a ceremony on the lawn of City Hall South today. “The Los Angeles Sister City relationship with Nagoya has enriched both cities during good times and brought us help and […]

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