erald Union H Vol. XXII, No. 19
Wiesbaden: Your home in Germany
Tapping off friendship
July 2, 2015
Naturalization ceremony welcomes new Americans Story and photos by Shayna Brouker
U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Public Affairs Office
On any other work day, Yasmin Farria would be sitting behind a window in this spacious room, processing paperwork for hopeful citizens one-by-one. It took a fiancé visa, a green card and years of paperwork and waiting to get to this point, but today, she is on the other side of the window, so to speak, and will become a citizen of the United States of America. Farria, a native German, employee with the Non-immigrant Visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt and a Wiesbaden spouse, was one of 12 candidates for naturalization to receive her citizenship at a ceremony June 25 in Frankfurt. See ‘Citizen’ on page 4
Photo by Jacob Corbin
U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden and the City of Wiesbaden teamed up to kick off the second annual GermanAmerican Friendship Festival, held June 26 to July 4. For more information and photos, see page 16.
Sesame Street, USO team up to help kids cope with change Story and photos by Jacob Corbin
U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Public Affairs Office
For military families, moving is a fact of life. For military children, that fact can be extremely tough to deal with. The USO and Sesame Street have teamed up to help make that change easier for them, through the Sesame Street/USO Experience for Militarry Families, which features two traveling
Inside ‘The Chocolate Pilot’ Longtime friend of the Chocolate Pilot reads her story. See page 5.
shows starring some of their favorite characters. “We like to think of it as a live singing and dancing thank you card that we hand deliver,” Mcsaid Nicole Mc Clendon, USO entertainment productour produc er for the show. T h e
Concert on the Lawn
See more photos of the inaugural event on page 10.
tour’s two shows are “Katie is Moving to a New Base” and “Katie’s Family Transitions to Civilian Life.” “Sesame Street knows kids, and the USO knows the military,” McClendon said. “This is a show for our military families, about our military families and we bring it to them.” Both shows star familiar Sesame Street characters, like Elmo, Cookie Monster and Grover, but also feature Katie, a military child who faces some of the same challenges kids in the See ‘Sesame’ on page 4
Pvt. 1st class Marianne Franco, a Phillippines native, walks away with her certificate of citizenship during the naturalization ceremony at the Frankfurt Consulate June 25.
5K Color Run
MWR hosts colorful fun run. See page 11.