Japanese Volunteers Needed

Good morning Japanese International Student Ambassadors!

 The International Center wants to enlist 5 Japanese students to help clean the Japanese Gardens at White Park on Saturday, October 4 starting at 9 am and ending at 11:30 with a picnic lunch to follow.  RCC International Center has a history of helping with the cleaning of the Japanese Gardens since its establishment in 2007.

Riverside and Sendai have been friends since 1951 and sister cities since 1957 in what is one of the oldest continuous sister city relationships in the United States. Over the past five decades there have been museum, citizen, youth, and governmental exchanges between the two cities. In 2007, on the 50th anniversary of the relationship, Sendai gave Riverside the gift of a Japanese Garden at White Park in Downtown Riverside. Riverside’s 50th anniversary gift to Sendai was a giant orange sculpture that commemorates the citrus heritage of Riverside as well as the historic ties between the two cities.

Sendai committee members, William Tarpai and John McArthur will be in charge of garden cleaning.  They will assign students where they would be working. There is no heavy work involved.  Bring your own garden gloves and small trowel if you have.  work is simple and fun.

Please contact the Center for International Students and Programs at (951) 222-8160 to confirm you will be at White Park on Saturday, October 4 at 9 am to keep this tradition going.