Dayhoff: Westminster hosts Estonian dancers in international cultural exchange
Most notably Indrek visited us in June 2004 and made a presentation at the Maryland Municipal League Convention.
In fact, Indrek and Tiina helped host this writer’s trip to Estonia in September 2004 when I served as the mayor of Westminster and visited Estonia as part of a diplomatic mission for the Maryland National Guard and the U.S. The program, headed by the Army National Guard, developed into a partner city program in 1993.
The first presentation of the idea of Westminster developing a sister city relationship came in presentation by Col. In 2004, Paide has approximately 10,000 citizens, compared to Westminster’s population of 17,000 citizens at the time.
In September 2002, Westminster formally established a partner city program with Paide, Estonia. In the past, Westminster has had several informal sister city relationships, most notably with Westminster, England, and Westminster, Colorado.
However, since the Paide partnership was established, the local efforts of our community, thanks to the leadership of Beyard, McDaniel College, the Community Foundation of Carroll County, Diane Jones of the Children’s Chorus of Carroll County, Lyndi McNulty, Caroline Babylon, Marty Hill, and Aime Pringle; have been touted as one of the most successful and productive grassroots, community efforts promoting peace, understanding, economic development and multi-national friendship building in the world.
