
Ventura Sister City
Supporting Eco Tourism
and the Arts
2025 Initiatives
Working with Eco Alianza to support Eco Tourism in Loreto
The Ventura Sister City Association has a lot going on in 2025!!
Whale watching trip to Loreto, Mexico (our Sister City)
February 27 - March 4 - Here is the Video of the trip made by Channel Island NP Naturalist Joe Morgan
July 4th Street Fair - look for our Ventura Sister City booth!
July 10th showing of "LA Recua" at the Museum of Ventura County. More information about this amazing opportunity to see a documentary about Loreto coming soon.
Movie Trailer Please Join Us for this wonderful opportunity to see the movie in Ventura
Join us for the annual October celebration of Loreto's Founding Day, which is October 25th.
A group from Ventura will be there the last week of October.
Ventura College class trip to support Eco Allianza starting March 2026
Collaboration between artists in both cities starting with Mb Hanrahan (Ventura)
and Lizette Inzunza (Loreto) including the design and painting of murals
MB travel to Loreto in March of 2025 and finished the Mural in Loreto working with Lizette and students from Loreto. It looks BEAUTIFUL!! Check out all the photos on the links above (MB and Lizette)
Loreto 2024 October Trip
Loreto trip 2024 with Lizette Inzunza (artist), Fr. Tom Elewaut, Mayor Paz Ochoa, Barbara Post, Carl Morehouse.(From left to right)
The Ventura Sister City Committee gave Lizette the money from her art work that was sold at the 2024 Ventura Art Walk
We are ready to support more collaboration between artist in our two cites with Lizette and MB taking the lead and the Mural Project starting in early 2025 in both cities
Our October 2023 Ventura Sister City group photo before a trip to the islands
We had a wonderful trip to Loreto in October of 2023!
We had the largest ever from Ventura, including 7 students from various Ventura schools who are all in the Ventura Mission Choir.
We are planning another trip the end of Feb/ early March to see the whale migration.
We also plan to return again in October of 2024! This is when Loreta celebrates the founding of their city.
November 13th 2023
The Ventura Sister City Association board members were able to present a proclimation of friendship between our cities to our Mayor Joe Schroeder.

Ventura is a Sister City to Loreto
in Baja California Sur, Mexico
We are a non-profit 501(C)(3) organization focused on promoting Sister City relations between San Buenaventura (Ventura) and Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

The 2022 Ventura delegation visited Loreto October 20-27, 2022.
Visitors included:
VSCA Chair, Carl Morehouse and his wife, Janna Minsk
VSCA Secretary Cliff Rodrigues and his wife Karen (not pictured)
VSCA Treasurer Father Tom Elewaut and his sister Rosemary Pietrowski
Channel Islands National Park Service Superintendent Ethan McKinley
Mission Basilica San Buenaventura parishioners Chris and Barbara Post,
Steve and Celeste Weingardt
Steven Marquez
Local artist and art teacher Kay Zetlmaier
VSCA Immediate Past Chair (and now full time Loreto resident) Caryl Cantrell
Marilyn Beal
Nita Cahn
Rachel Cahn
2022-24 Board Officers
Carl Morehouse, Chair
Mark Urwick, Vice Chair
Cliff Rodrigues, Secretary
Father Tom Elewaut, Treasurer
We invite you to join as a Member. Membership dues are available at the following levels:
Individual - $25
Family - $50
Business Level - $100
Membership Fees and Donations can made made online here use the link below

Ventura is connected to Loreto with two notable anchors: the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura and the Channel Islands National Park. Loreto’s Mission is tied to our Mission from Fray Junipero Serra and the islands- Loreto: Bahia de Loreto National Park in the Sea of Cortez and Ventura: Channel Islands National Park in the Pacific Ocean.
Loreto is one of the oldest settlements on the Baja peninsula, a city with more than 300 years of history, rich in culture and beauty.
Loreto is nestled between the Sea of Cortez and the majestic backdrop of the Sierra de la Giganta mountain range. Studding the oceanic landscape are the islands of Coronado, Del Carmen, Danzante, Monserrat and Santa Catalina, which make up the Loreto Bay National Park.
With breathtaking cliffs, spectacular beaches and dramatic rock formations, these islands are a perfect landscape for the ecologically-minded or those who delight in a vast array of marine life. Loreto also offers sport fishing, golfing, diving, surfing, sailing, mountain biking or rappelling.
Immerse yourself in the Mexico of legends and colonial splendor as you wander the winding streets of this little gem, absorbing the atmosphere, and the sites and sounds of yesteryear.
It was in Loreto that Fray Junipero Serra began laying the groundwork for the evangelization of Alta and Baja California and it was from Loreto and their mission, that the El Camino Real corridor
going north along the ancient route to Sonoma, California was established.