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Sherborne Newsletter July 2010 SHERBORNE NEWSLETTER JULY 2010 14 people from Sherborne have just returned from the 35th General Meeting held in the picturesque town of Sušice in the Czech Republic. Whilst Britain was gripped by its own elections, the Douzelage was electing a new International Leadership Team. The 7 years of sterling work in guiding Douzelage through a time of expansion by Ed Weber the President from Luxembourg and Günther Pecher and Alphonse Henrard the two Vice Presidents from Germany and Bel- gium came to an end. The new President is Cezary Salamonczyk from Chojna in Poland, a frequent visitor to Sherborne, who brings considerable experience and enthusiasm to the role. Mike Balfour from Sherborne and Mario Calleja from Marsaskala, the Mal- tese member town, took on their new roles as Vice Presidents and will make a good team balancing experience and vitality. Over 100 people from 22 countries attended the meeting, which also had the pleasure of welcoming a new member town Siret in Romania, a town from a re- gion famous for its painted mediaeval churches. Cezary and Mario Sušice itself lies in the valley of the Otrava and is surrounded by wooded rolling countryside dotted with farms. It produces timber products and used to be known for the quality of its match production, but nowadays tourism is playing a greater part. PAGE 2 SHERBORNE DOUZELAGE JULY 2010 35TH GENERAL MEETING IN SUŠICE Within 40 minutes drive of the bor- there are common problems that der with Bavaria the town is not only would benefit from central EU within easy reach of the Bavarian direction, there are many site member town of Bad Kötzting, but is specific matters that need to be also the gateway to the Šumava , a dealt with locally. land of high sometimes bleak hills, forests, peat bogs and grasslands Working together on the issues interspersed with streams and and being able to mix socially marshes. Very cold in winter this provided an excellent cooperative National Park formed a focus for the approach between young people field work of the Youth Workshop. of many nationalities, recognising their differences and helping to build on their shared and individ- Mike ual strengths. A lot of new friend- ships were made and the rush of Balfour activity on the social networking sites reflects the enthusiasm and value of these contacts. The close proximity of Bad Kötz- ting meant that the very hospita- ble people of Sušice were able to highlight their well organised Conference on the last evening with wonderful music from the joint choirs and musicians from The Youth Workshop focused on the two towns. The exchange of the theme of: Impact of Human Ac- ideas usually in excellent English tivities on the Environment in Pro- that go on outside the main meet- tected Nature Areas. There were25 ings and the chance to renew or full time youth delegates from part- make new friendships are the ner towns in 12 EU Countries taking most valuable opportunities with part, plus other students and young such a gathering. The 35th Gen- people from Sušice. eral Meeting was indeed one with memories to cherish. The young people compared and con- For the Education meeting please trasted the challenges between their see page 15. various countries and developed a good understanding of the range of Michael Morrell issues. It was recognised that whilst Kevin Waterfall PAGE 3 SHERBORNE DOUZELAGE JULY 2010 PLANNING A CONFERENCE Hopes and Anxieties by Anezka Nova It was Sunday 2nd May 2010 and I About two years ago we announced could say: "It is over" with a bit of re- we would hold the general meeting laxation but a bit of regret, as well. in Sušice and immediately after The 35th Douzelage General Meeting arriving home from Altea, where we finished; all the delegates were on introduced our town in a presenta- their way back home. We could have a tion, we began to prepare the pro- rest a little after those four busy days. gramme and other matters. When did it actually start? In the At first we were waiting for a call of 1990s when Sušice became a twin EACEA for Town Twinning funding. town with Bad Kötzting. A few years We studied the application from Türi later Jeremy Barker met Pavel Kahle published on the Douzelage website and visited our town (I heard he liked and we hoped it would help. When it very much). Then delegations from the call was released we found out Sušice were invited to Douzelage Gen- that the new form is more compli- eral Meetings - in Houffalize and Se- cated and we had to start to attack simbra, and at last in 2004 we became all Douzelage member towns to pro- vide various information. However, Sušice Museum we sent off the application to EACEA a few days before the dead- line. What was a surprise when we found out the next day the deadline was postponed for a month. Fortunately our application was adopted. And our team of seven la- dies started working hard on prepa- rations – suitable rooms, accommo- dation, catering... It was not very easy. We asked ourselves: Will it be good enough? What can we improve? The more the date was approaching the more nervous we felt, because a member of this unique association. more and more details had to be We took part in regular meetings and solved. events organized by other towns, and we learnt how Douzelage works. Of course, we had to involve more people who could speak English to PAGE 4 SHERBORNE DOUZELAGE JULY 2010 PLANNING A CONFERENCE help us – they were former students, The following day the meeting who took part in some of Douzelage started with a lecture and then events, our friends and our family the conference was led by Presi- members. To enhance the awareness dent Ed Weber. We also appreci- of Douzelage and address some possi- ated that Kevin Waterfall from ble sponsors we had published a series Sherborne and Stuart Atkinson of newspaper articles in the local from Niederanven were so kind press, we organized a contest about and agreed to lead the Youth Douzelage towns in the local schools. Workshop and the Education Meeting. Thanks a lot. Preparing a culture programme we I do not want to describe the tried to show the delegates the best of whole meeting and judge it. It is our culture life and beauties both of town and its surroundings. When the month of April came, sud- denly there was shocking news about the Iceland volcano eruption and the shutdown of airports all over Europe. Luckily this danger had passed away in time and we could welcome the delegations of twenty two Douzelage towns. We were sorry that we could not meet friends from Preveza, Kark- kila and Celje from Slovenia as a pos- sible new candidate. Personally, the four days of the meet- Sušice and Bad Kötzting choirs ing were full of work and arranging things, but also full of pleasure and not my matter as one of the peo- friendly meetings both with people I ple responsible for organizing the had met before and the new delegates. meeting. On Thursday night the delegates saw We all tried to do our best and if there were some misunderstand- a performance of the children choir ings or faults (of course, there and dance and folk music band. Wel- come speeches by Mayor Petr Mottl were), we hope they will be forgot- ten and you will remember only and Vera Svobodova were followed by the good things about Sušice. a rich international dinner in the rooms of Sušice grammar school. PAGE 5 SHERBORNE DOUZELAGE JULY 2010 CHARLOTTE’S VIEW The 35th Douzelage Conference took place in Sušice, Czech Re- public from 29th April until 2nd May. To help the delegates get to know each other there were some ice breaker activities which made some of us feel very uncomfortable initially, as we had to stare into strangers eyes. However we soon became more relaxed and confident. The fo- cus of the conference was an International Youth workshop Watchtower in the Šumava looking at ‘Impact of Human Activities on the Environment ideas on the various issues and to see the in Protected Nature Areas’. communication and debate develop be- tween the delegates. I feel that this con- Mr Jan Vancura from the Ba- tributed to a more positive outlook on varian National Park opened international communication. The work- proceedings with a very infor- shop itself was excellent. We were ex- mative lecture, which was fol- tremely fortunate to have access to such lowed up by a guided tour of the wonderful facilities. Šumava National Park. Each country produced a presentation on I felt it was extremely beneficial a National Park in their country. Some of to bring together youth of differ- the presentations were outstanding. ent nations to discuss environ- Much time and effort had been taken in mental issues. Although the the production of those informative pres- specific issues such as the Bark entations and it was fascinating to hear Beetle affecting Šumava may the various issues affecting the National vary from area to area the gen- Parks in a range of countries. eral issues show that our nations have much in common. Issues such as tourism and pollution We were able to discuss the dif- were frequently discussed. It was also ferent management levels and found that there are some issues very were able to see the stunning specific to certain countries and it was parklands for ourselves. interesting to hear how they are attempt- ing to tackle these.
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