Aug
05
Former Aspen city council member and Mayor Pro Tem, Pat Fallin, has been honored with the highest award given by Sister Cities International. Fallin, who lived in Aspen from 1970 to 2011, was an active participant in the formation of the Aspen Sister Cities Committee then became involved with the...
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Jul
22
Aspen's past and Shimukappu's present offer lessons for our culture's future Shimukappu is at a turning point. Or that’s the belief of Yoshiharu Hoshino, anyway. He’s the CEO of Hoshino Resorts, the hotel brand with four 36-story hotels at the town’s local ski resort. When COVID halted global travel, Hoshino...
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Jul
19
City’s parks and rec officials visit Sister City Bariloche to consult on how manage a 7,000-acre piece of open space just outside of city A recent trip by the city’s top parks department officials to one of Aspen’s sister cities, Bariloche, Argentina, is evidence that the importance and complexities of open...
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Jun
10
It’s never too early to think about the ski season, and for two Challenge Aspen (CA) professional ski instructors, the next season cannot start soon enough. In a partnership with the Aspen Sister Cities (ASC) adaptive ski exchange program, CA will be sending locals Cami Aumoite and John Klonowski to...
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Jun
06
Matías Sanchez has been a ski patrolman at Bariloche’s Cerro Catedral for eight years. In November of 2021, he traveled to Aspen to report for duty at the Snowmass Ski Area as part ski patrol exchange program for the 2021/22 ski season. Matias was the ninth ski patrolman from Bariloche...
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Jun
02
Self-care in Shimukappu is part of the way of life. I sensed that the toilet advertisement was a promising sign, but I struggled to grasp the meaning. Two children wearing evil-looking headgear gasped in pain above a set of futuristic TOTO toilets — the largest toilet manufacturer in the world....
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Jun
01
After ten unsuccessful years of trying to gather a team to compete in Chamonix’s international women’s Ice Hockey Ida Chappot Tournament, 2022 proved to be the winning year. Normally, at least 10 players and a goalie would be the minimum to compete but with Aspen’s ski season still rocking and...
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Mar
23
Lessons at school in Shimukappu show how to be a global team player My ninth-grade students recently had a lesson that discussed humanitarian work in Afghanistan. One passage read, “Have you ever heard of groups that collect Japanese school backpacks? They send them overseas. So far, more than 200,000 backpacks...
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Mar
23
“Aspen is an international city,” according to Pat Fallin, “because we have lots of international visitors.” Fallin ought to know — she lived here for four decades and has deep roots with the Aspen Sister Cities organization. Aspen also has a lot of international friends, in part thanks to its...
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Mar
03
The Aspen Sister Cities Committee has applied for and been awarded a Teqball table to be located at the Aspen High School. As part of this, there will be an introduction and launch of the program on March 12, 2022 from 4:30-6:30 in the Aspen High School Skier Dome....
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