The City of Newport is soliciting applications from youth interested in participating on a youth delegation exchange trip with its Sister City of Mombetsu, Japan.

Under the Sister City program, representatives from the Sister Cities of Newport, Oregon and Mombetsu, Japan, travel back and forth sharing culture and good will.

The youth delegation/exchange will be in Mombetsu on June 26, 2023, and depart from Mombetsu on July 1, 2023.

The exchange will accept up to 12 total youth from Newport, ages of middle school through high school.

Chaperones will also be on the trip.

Interested parties will need to fill out an exchange application, and the exchange slots are filled on a rolling basis, as applications are received.

The travel costs of the exchange are quite high, and the City is coordinating a fundraising effort to help defray the costs for these youth.

For questions/more information, to make an application, or to make a donation to the travel costs of the youth, contact Erik Glover, Assistant City Manager/City Recorder at e.glover@newportoregon.gov.