People who helped with this years tree. First i want to start off with our core team, our Core Creative Team and that consists of karin kai and linda mihara and thank you they have been working on the tree for seven years. And this year we have the help of dozens of volunteers and i want to particularly acknowledge the university of berkeley alfa, fi Omega Service community and volunteers from one brick. Aid for good, the San Francisco chapter. And you guys are here. The bridgemen. The left coast theatre. Skip and the staff of martinis bar. Yeah. And berny man and we had a bunch of burners helping us this year. Yeah. And also, of course i would like to thank the Mayors Office of Neighborhood Services and city hall events department. We worked them for seven years and they are always wonderful. And so thank you. It was his idea in the beginning. He must be very proud. That is a Beautiful Tree. And there are hundreds of cranes, when you look at it from here, it looks like it is snowcover
And linda mahara, thank you for your wonderful presentation, you know the stories that linda tells every year that updates us. These are the stories that i am proud of. Because for every story that she has told about the original, the origin of origami, we inherit those stories and spread them to generations of our friends and children and so they understand what hope is about. Halahanzo, and our San Francisco, polorio. Thank you for being here tonight. I also know that veronica klaus, thank you for being here. Sisters, i was going to say the sisters of petulince. Thank you for being here as well. [ applause ] and of course, you will hear and you have heard them earlier, our San Francisco boys chorus, thank you, boys chorus for being here to celebrate. And then, tonight, many of you will be treated to goodies and some refreshments all donated through the world fund and their volunteers and all of the Small Businesses of San Francisco. Thank you for your wonderful donations during these
Years, thank you for you and all of the volunteers from the rainbow fund to put this together to place all of these 10,000 ornaments on the tree to give us the kind of attention that we would like not just because we have a great tree or city hall, but because we do always want to show our hearts first, especially during these holiday season. I know that is why, all of you are here tonight. And i want to also give a shout out to isabel iunda, thank you very much for being here, isabel. And linda mahara, thank you for your wonderful presentation, you know the stories that linda tells every year that updates us. These are the stories that i am proud of. Because for every story that she has told about the original, the origin of origami, we inherit those stories and spread them to generations of our friends and children and so they understand what hope is about. Halahanzo, and our San Francisco, polorio. Thank you for being here tonight. I also know that veronica klaus, thank you for bein
Every year that it has been here and i tell you when it was announced that this was the tallest, largest tree of hope in the United States, if not in the world, i also wanted to say my very first thought was San Francisco has always the biggest hearts in the world, thanks to all of you. Thank you, donna, for your wonderful mc work here every year. And your beautiful presence. Jeff carter, thank you very much, congratulations and thank you on behalf of everyone in the city, we are so proud of your work. Karin that i have known for 30 years, thank you for you and all of the volunteers from the rainbow fund to put this together to place all of these 10,000 ornaments on the tree to give us the kind of attention that we would like not just because we have a great tree or city hall, but because we do always want to show our hearts first, especially during these holiday season. I know that is why, all of you are here tonight. And i want to also give a shout out to isabel iunda, thank you very
Sisters of petulince. Thank you for being here as well. [ applause ] and of course, you will hear and you have heard them earlier, our San Francisco boys chorus, thank you, boys chorus for being here to celebrate. And then, tonight, many of you will be treated to goodies and some refreshments all donated through the world fund and their volunteers and all of the Small Businesses of San Francisco. Thank you for your wonderful donations during these holidays. Said earlier, the tree of hope is our symbol of tolerance and acceptance. And i know what is on my mind, hopefully by the end of this week is that we will see more than this symbol. We will see the wishes, that this tree represents for all of us. And that will make this world, with our own decisions, with our own hands, more acceptance, more tolerance, as we wait with great anxiousness on our u. S. Supreme court to exhibit their tolerance in our United States for the samesex marriage that we all deserve. [ applause ] i also wanted t