Residents are welcome to the grand reopening of the Cupertino Sport Center on Jan. 10 at 10 a.m. People can meet personal trainers and check out the new equipment, the child-watch center and the teen center. Special activities are planned throughout the day. People can join a lottery, participate in free fitness classes and watch the tennis exhibition.

And there will be free gift bags for the first 500 people.

The Cupertino Sport Center is located at 21111 Stevens Creek Blvd.

Middle schoolers can visit Japan this year

The Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister City Program will hold an informational meeting for prospective exchange students on Jan. 21 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Cupertino Union School District boardroom, at 10301 Vista Drive.

The sister city relationship between Cupertino and Toyokawa was established in 1978. Since that time, student delegations from Toyokawa and Cupertino have exchanged visits to share experiences and cultural awareness.

This year, students will be selected from sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Cupertino, Hyde, Kennedy, McAuliffe and Miller middle schools. They will travel to Japan in the summer, live with host families and tour cultural sites.

Proof of U.S. citizenship is required of all applicants, to be shown at the information meeting, and attendance at the meeting is mandatory for all prospective students.

For more information, call Lucille Honig, president of the Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister City Program, at 408.257.7424.