Editing Pendleton, Oregon (section)

==Sister cities==
Pendleton has a [[Town twinning|sister city]] relationship with [[Marikina]], a municipality-turned-city in the [[Philippines]]. The relationship was established in 1971 when then mayor Eddie O. Knopp and Marikina mayor Osmundo de Guzman had their daughters temporarily switch schools in their respective towns. By 1974, Knopp visited Marikina after Philippine president [[Ferdinand Marcos]] [[Proclamation No. 1081|declared]] a [[Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos|nationwide martial law]] two years prior, and expressed that based on the "excellent peace and order situation" he saw while in the country, the United States could try implementing martial law in towns rampant with violence and crime.<ref name="DelRosario">{{cite book|last=Del Rosario|first=Simeon G.|title=How Martial Law Saved Democracy in the Philippines|date=1974|publisher=SGR Research and Publishing|page=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79aOAAAAMAAJ|access-date=November 12, 2024}}</ref>

Another sister city of Pendleton is the town of [[Minamisōma]], in [[Fukushima Prefecture]], Japan. Minamisoma is {{convert|16|mi|km}} north of the [[Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant]], which was [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|damaged]] by the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]]. Since then, Japanese exchange students from Minamisoma have continued to visit Pendleton, though students from Pendleton have stopped visiting Minamisoma over growing radiation concerns.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pendleton Weighs Safety of Visits to Sister City|publisher=KGW|url=http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2014/07/25/12563066/|date=September 14, 2013|access-date=August 28, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140828193829/http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2014/07/25/12563066/|archive-date=August 28, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref>