Woodson center in washington, d. C. This is just over one hour. I want to welcome everybody to this press conference. Im bob woodson, resident and found of the woodson center. Were sponsoring the 1776 gathering today. We also want to welcome our new partners, the Washington Examiner. They will be publishing rsas on their website starting today, one a day for the next 12 days, and they have an editorial today. Also all of the hour essays are listed on their website, 1776 unites. Com. You can read the essays. Also want to thank our sponsors, greg coons who couldnt be your but has a representative and also jim forrest who is one of our great supporters to enable us to do this. The reason that we are gathered to address the 1619 project, the good news is that it has stimulated and muchneeded debate within the black community. The quality of life in the black community has been served over the past two centuries but the quality of the debate within. During the 19th century, latter 19th cent
It is essential we write a check to candidates. Cattrell when he was alive, god rest his soul, the white folks got together and said we want the you to run for mayor. Question. Her man andrews. How much training do Police Officers in your Community Service receive in how to assist those with Mental Health issues. We actually have a Great Program where Police Officers receive two days of training, relative to Mental Health. There is also a Mental Health court. We have a new unit that allows Police Officers to take people who they believe have mental problems to that issue. But one of the things that we have been very, very strong on is deescalation. Trying to get Police Officers to understand, yep, youve got the gun, yep, youve got the badge. That means you have the power and you dont have to use any of that. Real quick on that. Ive been going around encouraging Police Officers saying theyre going to be the peacekeepers. They need to endeavor to be the peace makers when it comes to a si
Market. Being a strong developing market. We do have some donut competition around the world. I think you have to come back to the fact that globally, the number one seller of donuts anywhere in the world is dunki donuts. Matt you mention the cold pressed coffee and i know youve recently done a partnership as well with cocacola. How do you see your coffee evolution . Youve moved away from drip coffee and more into espresso and customized drinks. I wouldnt say we moved away from it. Original blend coffee is still a significant part of our revenue. Young people like two things, which we are the Market Leader in iced coffee, and we enhanced our coffee range with the introduction of cold brew. We brought in more espressobased drinks. Millenials like espressobased drinks and maki otto ma cciato. Macchiato. They also like iced coffee. We are not going away from drip coffee, but the opportunity and espressobased drinks and iced coffee is spectacular and is growing. Matt probably because you c
All of the women, shes going back just pulled over the side of the road and asked gore to speak to her about what she was doing. To make herself. I remember her taking homeless men and women into home in gaithersburg which did not please the neighbors. And so then she moved into the neighborhood where there was a problem with a rundown house to i let her pick it up from there to talk about what she does house of help and the city of hope. Thank you, bob. Good afternoon, good morning, everybody. Ive been working really hard. House of help city of hope as a nonprofit faithbased organization that helps residents and also helps its volunteers. And just recently we had to downsize. But downsize is a nasty word but its a good thing. It determines when i use it and how you shift. So we decided to downsize. While we would downsize to make what we did equality of what we do better even if we couldnt increase the quantity. And so i just left my staff. We just put in for a 1 million grant to take
Campus housing will have a Significant Impact on future student veterans like myself who will be proud and thankful to have usf to come to after service. Thank you. Hi, thank you for having me here today. My name is eva long and i am a junior attending the university of San Francisco majoring in politics and minoring in public service. I am a First Generation College student from honolulu, hawaii i am also a pell grant recipient who highly depends on Financial Aid to go to usf and i am very fortunate to attend a university that cares about academic success and individual growth inside and outside of the classroom. Not only myself, but 30 of usf population depends on the pell grant as well. I support the building of a New Residence hall because i understand the need of it on campus. I was on campus for two years and has not only been convenient for dining and studying purposes, but it offered a space as well as able to get involved in different campus clubs and organizations. Being invo