PV Soccer Youths Travel to Sister City Highland Park Highland Park Sun Times
go to original June 26, 2014

The Highland Park Sister Cities Foundation is hosting a Youth Soccer Tournament over the Fourth of July weekend that will include a team of 12-year-old players from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, one the community’s kindred cities.

The Puerto Vallarta team will be accompanied by members of the Puerto Vallarta Sister City Committee and parents of some children participating in the tournament.

Guests from Puerto Vallarta will march with the Sister Cities Foundation in the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade. During their stay, they also will be escorted on a tour of Chicago and participate in other local events.

Other teams participating in the tournament include Deportivo Highland Park, a team formed by the Hispanic community in Highland Park and Highwood; AYSO Highland Park; Lake Forest Select and Chicago Fire Juniors North.

Games will be played starting at 9 a.m. July 5 and July 6 at Olson Park located on Ridge Road north of Deerfield Road.

Parent Power Chicago, a nonprofit organization, is the event sponsor. Bernardi Securities is the Puerto Vallarta team sponsor.

“We’ve had a great response from the Mexican community locally,” said Richard Wolfe, a vice president of the Sister Cities Foundation for the Puerto Vallartan connection. “People want to come out and see how the Puerto Vallarta team plays because they have such good players at 12 years old.”

The Highland Park Sister Cities Foundation was founded in 1989 to further global understanding through people-to-people exchanges. In addition to Puerto Vallarta, Highland Park is a Sister City to Modena, Italy, and Yerucham, Israel.

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