State Senator Ed Kennedy attends Reception for the Lowell Delegation to Kalamata

State Senator Ed Kennedy attended Mayor Sokhary Chau’s Reception for the Lowell Delegation to Kalamata, Greece on Tuesday, November 15 at Lowell City Hall. The seven-member delegation traveled to Kalamata in September to formalize the Sister City Agreement between Lowell and Kalamata. A delegation from Kalamata had visited Lowell earlier in the year. In addition to Senator Kennedy, the seven-member delegation consisted of Lowell Mayor Sokhary Chau, Former Lowell Mayor Bill Samaras, Middlesex Community College Dean Judith Hogan, UMass-Lowell Associate Vice-Chancelor Arlene Parquette, Federation of Hellenic-American Societies of New England President Bill Kafkas and Federation board member, Dimitrios Mattheos.

State Senator Ed Kennedy addresses the crowd at the Mayor’s Reception for the Lowell Delegation to Kalamata, Greece in the Mayor’s Reception Room at Lowell City Hall on Tuesday, November 15. Looking on from left to right are Federation of Hellenic-American Societies of New England President Bill Kafkas. Federation Vice-President Kostos Travagiakis, and Mayor Sokhary Chau.