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Expanding the Sister City Relationship between Loreto, Baja California Sur, México and Ventura, California U.S.A. In a ceremony both solemn and impassioned, the Loreto City Council voted unanimously on Monday, the 5th of June, to approve the Sister City relationship between Loreto and Buenaventura (Ventura). Loreto Presidente Jorge Avilés presented Ventura Mayor Cheryl Heitmann with the Key to the City of Loreto in the Municipality Council Chambers. Father Thomas J. Elewaut, VF, Mission San Buenaventura, Dennis Heitmann, Ventura Mayor Cheryl Heitmann, Presidente Jorge Avilés Pérez, Nancy Saldaña de Avilés, and Padre Lucio Francisco Sánchez Loya, Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó Speeches from Avilés and Heitmann co-expressed the historical significance of the joining of the two cities, with an [...]

13 November 2015 Mining in México is a complex topic, and the source of much confusion. This update is meant to educate Eco-Alianza supporters on some of the background, as well as to bring you up to speed on some disturbing developments in Loreto. We are adding a section to our website https://ecoalianzaloreto.org/newsroom/mining-facts-11-11-15 to broaden our educational outreach on this topic, and we will continue to supplement it in the days ahead. Eco-Alianza is active on a daily basis in monitoring potential mining activities, working in coordination with other groups, and building coalitions and consensus to manage this potential threat, for the short term and the long term. Like many projects we work on, much of our work on behalf of a [...]

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On Monday, March 30, 2015, President Jorge Alberto Avilés Pérez of Loreto, Baja California Sur, received the "Keys to the City" of Ventura, California from Mayor Cheryl Heitmann, confirming the Sister City relationship between the two municipalities. The formal ceremony, which took place in the historic Ventura City Hall, included the reading of a proclamation, declaring the relationship between The City of San Buenaventura, California and The City of Loreto, Baja California Sur, "To encourage bi-national promotion of conservation, education, social entrepreneurship and cultural exchange between its citizens and governments in support of the Parque Nacional Bahía de Loreto and Channel Islands Sister Park Project.” President Avilés thanked the people of the City of Ventura for the distinction of Sisterhood with the [...]

Sister City status has moved one step closer! A signed letter from Ventura Mayor Cheryl Heitmann was hand-delivered to Presidente Municipal de Loreto, Jorge Alberto Avilés Pérez, in an informal ceremony at Eco-Alianza’s headquarters, the Community Center for the Environment (CenCoMA) on the 13th of March, confirming the intention of forming a Sister City relationship. A formalization of the joining of the two cities is planned for the end of March in Ventura at the invitation of Mayor Heitmann. Members of Eco-Alianza de Loreto A.C. began contemplating this relationship during a visit to the Channel Islands in November 2013 to explore the Sister Park project. The November 2013 meeting in the Channel Islands was followed up with a week-long meeting and tour [...]