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The Innovation District working group will host a series of community <br />visioning sessions in the next few months and I want to thank them for <br />their careful work and thoughtful debate, over the last several months. <br />I also want to thank our higher education partners for traveling to our <br />sister city in Vietnam for the first time; As we connect with Can Tho <br />toward creating an English Language Institute. And start a joint <br />research project, to save the Mekong Delta from salt water intrusion. <br />Just like our very own Grow Riverside movement, which is developing <br />future farmers and jobs for our region; this rice saving project will keep <br />a stable source of food production for Southeast Asia. And THAT'S the <br />power of partnership. <br />To this point, please join me in extending a warm Riverside welcome to <br />another international partner — newly inaugurated Ensenada Mayor <br />Marco Novelo and his wife, Mirna — while we have been friends for <br />years Marco, and we have common interests and ideas for exporting <br />local goods through our sister city partnership — now that you are the <br />Mayor .... mi hermano, it's time to move our vision into action. I look <br />forward to supporting you, and Ensenada, over the years to come — <br />advancing our friendship and accelerating our two cities' economic <br />relationship, because that is the power of partnership. <br />Our freedom to innovate and grow our economy is protected by our <br />armed forces. Many thanks go out to our military partners in the <br />region for the national security you provide us; and for the economic <br />impact you create in and around Riverside. <br />If you didn't know, between March Air Reserve Base and the Naval <br />Surface Warfare Center in Norco, our military institutions contribute <br />over 900 million dollars into the local economy, generating thousands <br />of jobs over their decades of service. <br />Page 2 of 9 <br />