Tomball's partnership with its sister city, Telgte, Germany, was established in 1999 and...
Tomball is, but some residents may not know the town has a sister city 5,000 air miles away.
“Right here around Tomball was an excellent farming country and a lot of these people were farmers. They just gravitated toward this area and settled here,” said Grady Martin, president of the Tomball Sister City Organization. One of their goals for the organization was to sponsor a foreign exchange student program between the two towns. According to Martin, 70 foreign exchange students in Tomball and four Tomball natives in Telgte have graduated high school through the program since 1999.Here are Tomball's 5 most heartwarming stories of 2022 from nonprofits to helping kidsCovering exchange students’ travel expenses was no small feat, according to Martin.
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