'Our kin:' Ukraine mayor coming to State College for sister-city ceremony

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (WTAJ)-- The State College community is invited to join Mayor Ezra Nanes in welcoming the mayor of Nizhyn, Ukraine, in celebration of the two being a sister-city.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) signing ceremony will be taking place at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday with Mayor Oleksandr Kodola in the council chambers of the State College Municipal Building.

State College is honored to welcome Mayor Kodola and the esteemed delegates from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, D.C. The people of Nizhyn are our kin, and we want to support them during this time when their nation is under siege. We share a profound aspiration to see the nation of Ukraine triumph over tyranny and to welcome a new era of peace. We look forward to enriching the lives of the people of both of our beloved communities through cultural, economic, educational, agricultural, spiritual, and civic exchanges now and in the future

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