The Tulancingo delegation of the Pleasanton-Tulancingo Sister City Association wrapped up its six-day excursion to the Bay Area yesterday. This trip included a stop in Benicia, which has its own Sister City partnership with the town of Tula, Mexico. In 1956, then-President Dwight Eisenhower— who had previously been a top-ranking general in World War II— […]
Letters: Sister Cities thanks
Sister Cities thanks On July 2, eight members of the Tula-Benicia Sister Cities Association came to Benicia for their Bi-Annual Visit. This year, most had never been to Benicia before. They spent time getting acquainted with Benicia, seeing the Benicia Historical Museum, the State Capital and the Fisher Hanlon House, going to Recology in San […]
Benicia honors new mayor of Mexican sister city
Sister City Association Emissary Lic. Octavio Magaña of Tula, Mexico stopped into Benicia recently to share news of the town’s sister city’s recent induction of its new Mayor, Lic. Ismael Gadoth Tapia. The new mayor began his official term of office in Tula on Friday, Aug. 19. Magaña was planning a visit to the Bay […]
From Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, with love
Sister City Association chronicles visit with book of colorful photos A new book assembled by Elena Munoz and her daughter, America Swassord, documents the September 2012 trip by a group of local delegates to Benicia’s sister city, Tula, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. Munoz is the Benicia-Tula Sister City Association’s historian, and having that […]