Montgomery County to forge ties with Gondar

Washington DC – County Executive Isiah Leggett will be taking a different kind of vacation this month when he visits Gondar, Ethiopia — Montgomery County’s newest sister city.

After addressing a crowd Sept. 22 at the Pan African Festival at Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver Spring, Leggett will board a plane the next day with about 40 community leaders to visit Gondar for nine days, said Bruce Adams, director of the county executive’s Office of Community Partnerships. Read more on the Washington Post