CABORCA, SONORA Activities The Prescott group undertakes a variety of activities. A unique one is selling pickles at various events. Following is a sampling of ZIP______projects we help support in cooperation with our Sister City friends in Caborca: by______

• Ongoing financial, material and logistic Heroica Caborca is approximately 330 miles support provided to Casa Hogar, a from Prescott; about 96 miles south of the Caborcan orphanage (building rewiring, air City Committee, Referred

U.S.-Mexico border. It is located in a valley conditioner, appliances, folding chairs, • floor 940 feet above sea level. Its hot clothing, toys, DVD player and DVDs, summers and cool winters average out to 72°. blankets). 3 The present Caborca is a new city built • Ambulance, defibrillators, and CPR around 1869 after the surging waters of the training donated in conjunction with E-Mail______Asunción River almost destroyed the old Lifeline Ambulance Service. Business/Service Org. -- $50.00 Org. Business/Service

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• Annual reciprocal visits between citizens PPLICATION Kino Mission still stands in the “Old Pueblo”. □

of the cities of Caborca and Prescott. A □ Caborca is a modern city of some 60,000

• Support for the Alberge (similar to Ronald to: people, with more than 81,000 in the Sister - Caborca Prescott 201 S.Cortez, City Hall, Prescott Prescott, Caborca immediate area. It is governed by a mayor McDonald House), for building repairs and $25.00

upgrades. check and eight council members. Caborca is in an for agricultural and ranching area of Sonora. • Equipment provided to the Caborca fire Prescott - Caborca Sister City Committee. Sister - Caborca Prescott Local industries include asparagus farms and police departments. -- Family

EMBERSHIP □ and packing facilities, as well as a large gold Donation

• Phone______Caborcan dancers, singers, artists and

mining operation. There is a hospital in the M

young Mariachi bands have appeared in of the main town, several secondary schools, and a Prescott. Work Work

branch of the University of Sonora. • Financial support has been provided to $15.00 Some local service organizations include: the Caborca for their charitable programs. -- Chamber of Commerce, the Lions, Rotary

! $______International, and the Business and • Bikes 4 Books Program – refurbished and Professional Women’s Club. Caborca has transported donated bicycles to Caborca □ Individual mail this form, along with your with along form, this mail several motels and a number of fine for sale to raise funds for library programs. restaurants. The fishing and swimming at ! □ the nearby beaches (60 miles) are among the best on the Gulf of California. • Helped with renovation of the Templo Please Historico (18th century church, a Father I wanta member to become

! Kino legacy) in Caborca.

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The Sister City Association of Prescott, and its The national concept of a Sister City Program SISTER CITY PROGRAM Prescott-Caborca Sister City committee needs was launched at the White House in 1956 ! your help, ideas and creativity. To join this when President Dwight D. Eisenhower called important and rewarding effort, simply fill out for personal exchanges between Americans and return the membership panel of this and peoples of other lands. It was intended to brochure. Help prove that world brotherhood be a program for ordinary citizens of different is more than words…make it a permanent countries to exchange ideas and opinions way of life. and, hopefully, become friends. ! In 1972, after a trip to Caborca, the Honorable Our Committee has a wide variety of Taylor T. Hicks, Sr., the Mayor of the City of activities in which members can become Prescott and the City Council invited Heroica involved. You will find opportunities to assist Caborca, Sonora, Mexico to join Prescott, in the areas of: hosting Caborcan families Arizona in a Sister City affiliation. Prescott is during their annual visit (no Spanish one of more than 2,000 American cities that required), our various committees (cultural, has adopted “sisters” around the world. In PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, U.S.A. orphanage, fundraising, newsletter and 2006 the Prescott City Council approved program development), and working with a similar relationship with Caborcans and Caborca businesses and Suchitoto, Cuscatlán, El Salvador. HEROICA CABORCA, SONORA, tourism organizations to facilitate oppor- tunities for both communities. The Sister City Association of Prescott is a ! charitable organization associated with Sister MEXICO! Cities International through the Town Affiliation Association and with the U.S.- Mexico Sister City Association, Inc. We are INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF sponsored by the City of Prescott and the FRIENDSHIP AND CULTURE citizens of the greater Prescott area. Our ! monthly Association meetings are held at a VISION STATEMENT time and day announced in our monthly To focus community interest in building a newsletter and our Facebook page: better climate toward world understanding by www.facebook.com/groups/619868721407194 fulfilling the desire of the citizens of the PRESCOTT - CABORCA COMMITTEE Prescott area to learn about the people of Heroica Caborca, Sonora, Mexico, through ISTER ITY SSOCIATION OF RESCOTT S C A P reciprocal visits, economic and tourism A 501 (c) (3) Corporation opportunities, educational exchange Prescott City Hall • 201 S. Cortez, programs as well as social, cultural and Prescott, AZ 86303 charitable programs. www.PrescottSisterCity.com