News: Lublin (Lublin Days - 2015)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Baginski, Gajewski, Jusiak, Kulinski, Nowak, Pruszkowski, Semeniuk, Wilson

----Source: The Star News (Medford, WI) 7/16/2015

Foreign visitors to take part in Lublin Days - By Brian Wilson

In addition to the usual games, parades and fun, this year’s celebration of Lublin Days includes foreign dignitaries taking part in the community’s centennial celebration set to run July 24-26.

The event focuses on the heritage, history and culture of the region with officials from Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the Ukraine invited to attend.

According to Eastern European Cultural Society President Chris Kulinski, the guest list of dignitaries attending the event includes: Andrzej Pruszkowski, former president of the city of Lublin, Poland (population 360,000) and current vice-chairman of the Lublin Regional Parliament and an active member of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of ECR (European Conservative Ceform Party). He is also a member of the Polish national Council of the Peace and Justice Party, which won the recent presidential election in Poland.

Father Prof. Roman O. Jusiak, of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.

Ryszard Gajewski, president of the Social thought Institute in Lublin, Poland and representative of the prestigious Medical University of Lublin, Poland.

Piotr Semeniuk, of the municipality of Lublin, Poland, and former chief of staff to the president and foreign relations office.

Zbigniew Baginski, of the prestigious Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Ryszard Nowak, president of the National Council of Polish Wholesale Market Association and the Lublin Wholesale Market (JSC), and the Agricultural wholesale markets in Poland and Europe.

Along with their trip to the area, these visitors will be stopping in Madison to lean about the Dade County Farmers’ Market and other issues.