wealth and richness of music and the arts. congratulations, and thank you for all your work in the mission district. [applause] you know, i would just like to say something peter i am very honored. thank you very much. but i have to think the parents. all the wonderful parents better here and all the wonderful students that i have worked with. so please give them a round of applause. thank you. [applause] we will be lucky enough to hear jose at the end of our program tonight. it is important to recognize dianna and also one of our sponsors deny, wells fargo, who is presenting with us in san francisco later on tonight at a beautiful reception we can all enjoy. so please give a warm round of applause for wells fargo and our other sponsors. [applause] i will bring up maggie later on tonight. i also want to recognize supervisor wiener. thank you for being here and joining our community this evening. [applause] the next awards tonight is a very special one to talk about, becau
maggie. it seems as though the person who would be accepting the award on superintendent garcia s behalf will not be able to join us. but the presenter is someone who i thought was a very important to pass that a war on it too. i would like to say a few words. he created a program. it is our treasurer. [applause] hello, yes was so honored to be here and to join you in giving this incredible award to superintendent carlos garcia. i have had the honor to work with him to launch an exciting program called kindergarten to college, which opens up automatically for every child entering the san francisco public schools at kindergarten a college savings account. it puts an initial deposit in for each and every one of those children. it is funded by the city. it is administered by the treasurer s office, and it is in a strong partnership with the school district. the reason we re doing this is that studies show that if a child grows up with a college savings account in the child s n
mission community activists to join together for the san francisco voter education and registration project. she d been organized the great boycott committee. she served as regional manager and a spokesperson of that organization until 2002. in 1988, the ufw co-founder was brutally beaten here in san francisco by a police officer. as a leader, there is a happy ending to this story. after a three-year effort, she worked diligently with the college and to ensure justice for delores and to ensure there was a change in the san francisco police department policies regarding police reaction to legal social protests. in 1994, she organized the cesar chavez street coalition. to change the name of army street to cesar chavez street. she led a campaign to keep cesar chavez street in 1995. she serves and purposes of organizing and producing the and all cesar chavez quality breakfast and said that the parade and festival. you have done so much. thank you for being here tonight. and con
[applause] gracias, thank you. i think we can applaud again. thank you so much. [applause] we heard her for the first time, or i heard her for the first time at the mission committed to market in the mission, and was completely enamored. we had to have her last year, and we had to hover again this year. thank you so much for being here again. [applause] now we begin the next portion of our program. we will begin to talk and discuss all of our incredible honorees tonight. the first is in the field of business. the first on a region that will be maria gallo, who unfortunately cannot be here with us tonight, but we have the executive director of the latino community foundation to accept this award on her behalf. [applause] i will invite up to the stage the chair at the san francisco hispanic chamber of commerce to present this award. thank you for being here. [applause] for those of you who do not know, maria is a retired senior officer of union bank, retired as of june
of media. our next awardee is marisol. i do not know how many of you have heard her on sunday mornings at 8:00. she has a radio show in spanish for latino families where they talk about various subjects from child development to teenage violence to managing stress as a parent to family literacy and emergency preparedness. she is an altar. she has written several children s books as well as some teenage books in spanish. should as conferences, does lectures, and teachers throughout northern california. she s a big fan and participant of dia de los ninos in san francisco. we re honored to present an award to marisol tonight. and juan martine dennis from kqed is here to present this award. i have to say that when she joined dia de los ninos about nine years ago, they help to promote this event to such a degree that we have had the celebration grow over the years. it has been at delores part the last sunday of april. we have had up to 2,000 families get free books in multiple