Dagupan City renews ties with Milpitas City
DAGUPAN City and Milpitas City in California, USA have renewed their sisterhood pact with the signing of a new memorandum of agreement on October 16 in Milpitas City.
The signing between Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and Milpitas City Mayor Jose Esteves, a native of Dagupan, was done at Milpitas City Hall.
The signing took place when Mayor Fernandez and his delegation were in the U.S. on October 11 to 26 to promote the incoming Dagupan Fiesta in December among overseas Dagupenos.
Speaking after the signing of the MOA, Fernandez told the Milpitas City Council, “We in the city government of Dagupan are pleased to forge another sisterhood with Milpitas City and are hoping for a healthy and more fruitful relationship in the years to come.”
With Fernandez in the trip were City Administrator Alvin Fernandez, Councilor Farah Decano and Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, ‘Hermano Mayor’ of the Dagupan City Fiesta in December.
Decano, chair of the committee on local and international affairs in the city council, said the sisterhood pact, which started in 2003, has been bringing wonderful mutual benefits to both cities.
This includes, among others, the advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace, particularly through reciprocal social and cultural exchanges between the two cities.
Last year, 12 Dagupeño students participated in an exchange program where they learned about the American educational system.
This time, she said, a U.S. student delegation will come to Dagupan and visit major learning institutions in the city.
Milpitas is located at the heart of California’s Silicon Valley or the Information Technology Center of the World.
The Dagupan delegation held dialogues with officers and members of Dagupan associations in different states and key cities and invited them to come home during the city fiesta and Christmas.
The city is restaging its ‘Pawil Dagupan’, a program that seeks to invite overseas Dagupenos to come home and renew their ties with their kin and hometown. #
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