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High-school students from Â鶹ӰÒô’s sister city – Nijmegen, Netherlands – on Friday prepared then shared a meal with culinary students at Â鶹ӰÒô High Schools’s Abrookin Career and Technical Center.

The 32 Dutch students also shadowed with Â鶹ӰÒô High student volunteers and took part in a physical education class. Their visit to Â鶹ӰÒô High capped a week of activities in Â鶹ӰÒô.

Chef Lisa Valentine and the group of Â鶹ӰÒô and Nijmegen students (Â鶹ӰÒô High students are wearing chef hats) prepared a meal of savory bacon and cheese pancakes, vegetable soup with meatballs, Dutch butter cake, snickerdoodle cookies and chocolate chip cookies. Then they ate their creations!

The relationship between Nijmegen and Â鶹ӰÒô dates back to a humanitarian relief package Â鶹ӰÒô sent to the war-torn city in 1947. Nijmegen returned the favor with a shipment of tulip bulbs that were planted in Washington Park, and the annual Â鶹ӰÒô Tulip Festival was born. Learn more about the partnership between the two cities here:s .

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