SisterCity GrantsPass

Sister City Program in Grants Pass, Oregon 

The  Grants Pass Sister City Committee was formed in 1990, after white-water  rafters from the two cities met at an international competition during  the late years of the Cold War. Candace Bartow and Lev Korshunov, then  respectively the mayors of Grants Pass and Rubtsovsk, Russia, signed the  agreement in 1990, ”to develop friendship between people of the Soviet  Union and the United States and to stimulate economic and cultural  cooperation .. .”

Since  then, the sister city committees in Rubtsovsk and in Grants Pass have  facilitated visits of over 200 citizens between our cities. Pen and  email pals correspond; books have been donated to each other’s  libraries; special sewing machines for the blind and medical supplies  were donated and delivered, and videotapes and gifts have been  exchanged.

 Sister city is a long-term partnership between communities.