A delegation from Two Rivers Sister City of Domazlice in the Czech Republic will be arriving this Saturday for a seven-day visit.
City Manager Greg Buckley told Seehafer News that local government leaders will be coming to the Cool City for the first time since 2018.
“There will also be about 10 students, who were high school students two years ago when they were supposed to come for a visit that was delayed by COVID,” he explained. “The students will be spending most of their time at Two Rivers Schools and with the students they were initially involved in the exchange with.”
Buckley says the historical ties with Two Rivers and Domazlice date back to World War II.
“LTC Matt Konop from Two Rivers led a group of American GIs that were basically chasing the remaining Germans out of Western Czechoslovakia near the end of WWII,” Buckley explained. “In May of 1945, he rolled into Domazlice, which he recognized to be the ancestral hometown of his grandparents.”
Activities planned include participating in the Memorial Day Parade and related activities, department, and local industry tours, a reception at City Hall, and visiting Maritime Museum and other area attractions.
Several of them will also be taking a charter fishing trip on Lake Michigan starting at 4:30 a.m. the morning of June 3rd and cooking some of the fish they caught at a fish boil held later that day at Coast Guard Park on the harbor, before departing for home the next day.
Buckley added, “We have a full week planned for them and are looking forward to welcoming them back.”
