To make sure this is a vibrant area. Even if you dont come to the convention and enjoy the public space, it is something that helps revitalize the neighborhood and bring energy to the neighborhood and more people to the neighborhood and shops and retail and shocase San Francisco around the world. Weve never been in so much focus worldwide and will not be this this is a the moment in time when a story going and make a wish is a program that fulfills wishes for children we operate in every cities there are 62 chapters. Our chapter was formed in 8984 we fulfilled 24 wishes. Our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. We send verizons it out to the wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen. Dismissals is a 5yearold boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old hes 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose mon
Nicholas hufnagle. Charles jacobs. Gitara january. Shia chang wo ng. Wing lamb. David lee. Allen, lee. Christensen lean. Crystal blocket. Eric madian. Pierre middleton viez. Joanne moore. Alicia powell. Germ an wigins. Ricky rawlins. Darrel rushing. Peter oliver. Michael sierra. Kerri winford. Barry wo o. Fonshi sin. And wilson bangs. Congratulations to all of our graduates. [ applause ] thank you, arcadia and thank you graduates. I would quickly like to acknowledge udo and david dalatory from the labor area here today and i have the pleasure of introducing our fearless leader the director of city build pat mulligan thank you. Thanks. I want to thank everybody that participated in this event. It is really heartwarming after the end of 18 weeks to go through this process and i want to congratulate the class that each of the student completed the 18week section of training but now you embark on a new career. And so the work now begins in earnest really. It is just the beginning, endure,
Then in the afternoon there is real physical results and the pride from your work and the web corp builders we are proud to have many of the graduates working on our projects. And once you are in the field, the opportunities only continue. You know, it is not uncommon for people to expand their horizon and their abilities going to estimating and Business Development and union representatives, and becoming inspectors for the city and going into management. And you know, those were some of the practical benefits that you ultimately see and for some of you who already have a job, you are already beginning to see those, but in addition to the practical, there is also universal ones and some easy ones like listen to others and make sure that you hear all sides, you know what . Because you may not have the best idea. And also, you can accomplish a lot more if you dont care who gets the credit. And stay focused, finish what you start and if you make a mistake or a bad decision, admit it and t
who is interested in this program, you really, what you really have to do is you must be committed, and you must be dedicated to this program, and most important, again, most important, be respectful to your teachers, fellow students, peers. i want to thank workforce development, mission hire hall and my peers to speak at this cycle 7 graduation. our next student speaker, i could speak about now or about the guy but what i will say in short is that he inspires me, kerri winford. thank you, mr. jackson. good evening, everyone. my name is kerri win ford. and i m a graduate of city build cycle 16, and i live in san francisco community. questions, what brought me to the city build academy? what brought me there was a friend who followed me to it. and he referred to it as it was something. but, as i went to the mission hire hall i met chavez which i think is exceptional who really helped me a whole lot through this. and i can t say enough about her. thank you gracy, very much.
and stay focused, finish what you start and if you make a mistake or a bad decision, admit it and take care tf and move on. seize the opportunities because whatever plan you might have there are other things that come up and you want to be sure that you take care of all of them and you enjoy and also people want to see leaders. they want to see leaders out there. if you see a void fill it. and then always lead by example and do the right thing. in the end contribute to your community. volunteer for projects you care about, not only will do good but they will make you feel good and in the end you will get a chance and give the chance to give back in the same way that the city build gave to you and today congratulations to you and good luck. [ applause ] thank you, before we introduce our student speakers, i would like to first thank the families for supporting these students and all of their endeavors, that is. without that support it makes it much harder to achieve what t