Santa Barbara Sister Cities Celebrate 50 Years with Puerto Vallarta
By Bonnie Carroll
Irma Lorenza Perez Coultas, President Puerto Vallarta Sister City Committee was congratulated on Puerto Vallarta celebrating its 100th year in 2022, and 50 years as a Santa Barbara Sister City by Sebastian Aldana, President of Santa Barbara Sister City Committee at the PV/SB Sister City Welcome Garden Party, hosted by Gil and Marti Garcia.
The group of arriving Puerto Vallarta guests and dignitaries enjoyed a potluck dinner, introductions, and lively conversation.
The PVSC delegation will be attending special events from June 30 through July 6, including a meeting with Mayor Randy Rowse and City Council Members, attending Sunday Mass at Santa Barbara Old Mission. They will also meet with Mayor Wade Namura in Carpinteria and attend the Rod’s & Roses event.
The busy week of special event activity is hosted by Santa Barbara Sister City Committee members, who will be spending a special celebrations in Puerto Vallarta this November.
For information contact Gil Garcia 805-689-2588.
Gil Garcia, Treasurer and Past President Santa Barbara Sister City Committee chats with visiting guest Andres Famania, retired restaurant owner Puerto Vallarta Sister City Committee. (Photo: Bonnie Carroll)
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Jul 02, 2022 02:43 PMBRING BACK DINGLE, IRELAND!
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Jul 02, 2022 04:37 PMAgreed. To lose Dingle, seemingly for little reason, just hurts.
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Jul 02, 2022 08:18 PMI heard the berries there are amazing.
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Jul 03, 2022 01:22 PMDingle Berries. Hilarious.
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Jul 02, 2022 04:07 PMThe story that I found out is that a few years back, the SB Poet Laureate visited Dingle with a couple of other poets (one was a previous SB Poet Laureate) and they felt that were treated poorly. There was some sort of mixup as to the date/location of the poetry recital by our SB poets. Unfortunately, "our" poets" decided this was not going to go unpunished. As payback, the SB Board of Sister Cities (or whatever it is called), dissolved the sister-city relationship back in January of 2020. There is an article in an Irish news website entitled, "What did Dingle ever do to Santa Barbara?" Then goes on to say, "Santa Barbara and Dingle have been sister cities for 17 years. In January, the Californian side set about dissolving these links and hit out and its counterpart." Only subscribers can access the rest of the article....maybe someone here has access and can post "their" side of the story.
As a side note: IF you ever get the chance to visit Dingle....just do it! I was there in April of 1981 and had a great time. I know a lot can change in 40 years, but my guess is that the people are just as nice and accommodating now as they were when I visited so many years ago.
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Jul 03, 2022 11:45 PMDetails were always bizarre. Have to admit I still think about it occasionally. Definitely a loss for Santa Barbara.
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Jul 02, 2022 06:01 PMMaybe we can send our houseless there for a vacation so they can see how their activities fly in a foreign land….good luck.
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Jul 02, 2022 07:48 PMNever thought I'd hear you support illegal immigration
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Jul 03, 2022 01:24 PMAnd how does "vacation" equal "illegal immigration"?
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Jul 03, 2022 11:04 AMI am of Spanish/Mexican/Celtic/Moorish descent, and I say divi up Santa Barbara to the Spaniards, the Irish and to the Moors.
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Jul 03, 2022 11:20 AMTo lose Dingle as a Sister Cityhood is ungodly! Bring back the Spanish Inquisition back to punish those are responsible!
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Jul 03, 2022 01:28 PMIndy did a write up on it:
https://www.independent.com/2020/04/29/santa-barbara-city-council-unwittingly-declares-war-on-irish-seaport/
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Jul 03, 2022 01:33 PMI've been unsupportive of the SB Sister Cities committees since they treated Dingle so horribly. It makes us all look bad. If I ever go there, I'll be sure to not mention being from Santa Barbara.
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Jul 03, 2022 04:46 PMI finally got it…dingleberries!
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Jul 03, 2022 06:08 PMThe debaucle in dingle!!! someone needs to get to the bottom of what poems were actually read in Dingle by our sb delegates… as they apparently were historically bad!!!