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In a local observance of Earth Day 2005, Carbondale Mayor Brad Cole dedicated the green space area located at the northeast corner of the downtown Mill Street Underpass intersection as “Friendship Plaza”.

 

 

 
The City of Carbondale has always enjoyed positive relationships with friends around the world. Many of those friendships have developed into formal city-to-city exchanges through Sister Cities International. Carbondale currently has three official Sister Cities. Our official connections are with Shimla, India, Tainai City, Japan and Tainan City, Taiwan.

 

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The Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois and Mayor Brad Cole dedicated a Peace Pole to the City at Friendship Plaza during an Earth Day Celebration.  A message that says “May Peace Prevail on Earth” is inscribed in eight languages on the pole.  Supporting organizations included the Carbondale Interfaith Council, Church Women United of Carbondale, the Southern Illinois Chapter of the United Nationals Association in the USA, the Justice and Witness Committee of Church of the Good Shepherd, Southern Illinois Society of Friends, and the Social Action Committee of the Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship.