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THE STATUE AT BUFFALO PLATZ, a gift from the people of
Buffalo. From left, Fabian Zeuch, Kate Hilliman, Paul Jones, Lynn DORTMUND'S SISTER CITY GUESTS from all over the world.
Engle, Greg Engle, John Kleinmann, Bettina Sauerwald, and Ayan photo by Roland Gorecki
Huseynova. photo courtesy of the Buffalo Dortmund Sister City Committee.
Delegation represents

Buffalo in Dortmund

From page 1
mund. Near the desk, a large
port of their sports teams. He started terracotta warrior stood guard, a gift
with some words about how the many years ago from Dortmund’s
BVB soccer team holds a special sister city of Xi’an, China. The sign-
place in all their fans’ hearts, similar ers each gave a short speech about
to the great fans of the Buffalo Bills. their city’s experience as one of
We learned that Dortmund once had Dortmund’s sister cities. The week-
a large coal and steel producing end concluded with a short prayer
economy, but after those industries service, and then visits to all the
disappeared, the city had to reinvent wonderful vendor exhibits through
itself. It is now known for education the city center.
and technology, which is very simi- For more information about the
lar to how history has unfolded in Buffalo-Dortmund Sister City com-
Buffalo since the late 1980s. mittee, as well as the student ex-
Sunday was a special day, as all change program, send an email to
the delegations gathered at city hall buffalo.dortmund@gmail.com.
for a reception hosted by Oberbürg-
ermeister Kalouti. He invited the For more information on the
head of each delegation to sign Dortmund twin cities read “Dort-
Dortmund's Golden Book. The mund's twin cities sign up in the city
Golden Book of Dortmund hall's Golden Book” on Nordstadt-
(Goldenes Buch der Stadt Dort- blogger: https://www.nordstadt
mund) is a historic guest book re- blogger.de/dortmunds-partner
served for highly distinguished staedte-tragen-sich-im-rathaus-in-
guests, royalty, and championship- das-goldene-buch-der-stadt-ein/ The
winning athletes. Initiated in 1899 article is in German but most inter-
with an entry from Kaiser Wilhelm net browsers will translate into Eng-
II, it remains a revered civic tradi- lish.
tion for guests of the city of Dort-

On May 8 inside the stadium before the BVB (Dortmund Borussia) match the
video board visible in the far corner of the stadium displayed "AUF GEHT'S
DORTMUND!" – "LET'S GO DORTMUND!"
photo courtesy of the Buffalo Dortmund Sister City Committee

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