Hermosa Beach Sister City program celebrates 50 years
Students from the South Bay and Loreto, Mexico, along with chaperones and members of the Sister City program, gather at Hermosa’s Loreto Plaza this week. Photo A mixture of Spanish and English filled the alley. Delivery trucks inched forward, nervously trying to reach their destination among a throng of kids. Spandex clad cyclists muttered under their breath as they found an unexpected crowd on their cut-through route. Some three dozen middle school students had assembled near Hermosa Cyclery Monday morning, preparing to go on a bike ride along The Strand through the beach cities. The students were a blend of South Bay residents and visitors from Loreto, Mexico, in town this week for the student exchange program that forms the heart of Hermosa Beach’s Sister City program. As parents and chaperones struggled to corral the rambunctious kids, a kind of border-crossing lesson set in no matter what language you speak, organizing teenagers is never easy. This year marks the 50th anniversary for Hermosa’s Sister City program. Members say the program continues to provide the valuable lessons that inspired its formation in the first place. “The importance is exposing these students to…
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