Life night court event. Sterling bank, one of the great local banks we have here in San Francisco. Without further ado wed like to begin tonights program and were going to start off with a message from mayor ed lee. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the fifth annual Neighborhood Empowerment Network awards. While im unable to attend this years event, i want to express my deep appreciation to tonights award recipients for the extraordinary work and service that they provide to our cities, neighborhoods every day. All of the award recipients share one common goal. And that is to ensure that San Francisco continues to be the best place to live, visit, and do business. I am proud to be the mayor of a city where residents and Civic Leaders are partners and Work Together to tackle challenges and find Innovative Solutions to keep our neighborhoods world class. Thank you for attending this important event, and thank you to the Neighborhood Empowerment Network for your dedication and commit
applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour . Our neighborhood . Who is going to come . Well, we had every weve done it for six years. Every year weve grown incrementally. After the first two years of raising money for the library theres our new library we then it was such a Great Community builder that we recently decided to keep wanting to volunteering and do it. We established a scholarship at city college for the horticultural department. And we have just gone gangbusters. We g
Never knew what wonderful neighbors i had until we started the Neighborhood Watch group. So, i would strongly advise everyone to start a Neighborhood Watch group. Its great. And thanks to patricia, shes done an outstanding job and im so happy she took over as block captain for me. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. applause applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour . Our neighborhood . Who is going to come . Well, we had every weve done it for six years. Every year weve grown increme
applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour . Our neighborhood . Who is going to come . Well, we had every weve done it for six years. Every year weve grown incrementally. After the first two years of raising money for the library theres our new library we then it was such a Great Community builder that we recently decided to keep wanting to volunteering and do it. We established a scholarship at city college for the horticultural department. And we have just gone gangbusters. We g
To working with you in all the years to come. Thank you. Thank you. applause john said almost everything i wanted to say. But i do want to thank specifically Mohammed Nuru because hes been incredible. His toehold, everyone. Francis and john avalos office, without her nobody would know what we were doing because she helps us with all of our fliers and everything that we need to do. John has been tireless. He comes to my house on fridays at 5 30 for meetings. Hes a great, great supervisor and a champion for our district. And were excited about this year. Were going to put in a park. Were going to do safety initiatives. Were looking for grant money for more beautification. If anybody is interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch and getting involved, call me and i can help you get started. Its a great thing to know your neighbors, even the ones who are a pain in the neck. Its a great thing to know your neighbors. [laughter] applause i would just like to say thank you to all of our neighb