Rockville Sister City Delegation Visit A Success

>As Rockville Central readers know (as well as other people), Rockville’s sister city is Pinneberg, Germany — has been since 1957, when then-mayor Dickran Hovsepian and the city council established the relationship.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of this special relationship, and a delegation from Pinneberg has just finished a wonderful trip, hosted by local Rockville residents, and gone back home.

While the trip featured serious pursuits, including a trip to Annapolis and meetings in City Hall, the delegation did not leave before danicing the night away in a farewell gala held in Rockville’s new library in Town Square.

Brigitta Mullican, a Rockville Sister City Corporation board member, passed along this photo, of which she says: “The couples facing in the middle are George Albrecht (pointing finger) and Marika Brown, both RSCC members and [who] hosted Pinneberg guests.”

More important, though, are these words that she shared from Hans-Dietmar Bethke, one of the Pinneberg delegation members: “The Rockville-Pinneberg relationship renews our faith in the people of the United States of America.”

Well done, Rockville.

Now, finish that bridge.

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