And sustainable work by many in the surfing community on Surf Rider Foundation that integrating food, drink, art, music and surfboards to really raise awareness about sustainability in our community and culture. Lastly im really glad sell and ill sa imaginey are here because they challenge us to take on the surf rider challenge. I will be riding muni for 20 days. The Transit Union is really challenging us to really understand the transit system. I know a number of us already do it. But im going to my daughter does it every day. And i should follow her suit as well. So i wanted to thank the Transit Riders Union for their great effort. Its critical that i and colleagues get out and experience all the facets of San Francisco life including riding muni every day. I wanted to also say that its going to be easier for me, because the Richmond District has a lot of improvements that has happened recently. And i applaud the mta. Thank you dillon and others that are here. For example, its easier
And sustainable work by many in the surfing community on Surf Rider Foundation that integrating food, drink, art, music and surfboards to really raise awareness about sustainability in our community and culture. Lastly im really glad sell and ill sa imaginey are here because they challenge us to take on the surf rider challenge. I will be riding muni for 20 days. The Transit Union is really challenging us to really understand the transit system. I know a number of us already do it. But im going to my daughter does it every day. And i should follow her suit as well. So i wanted to thank the Transit Riders Union for their great effort. Its critical that i and colleagues get out and experience all the facets of San Francisco life including riding muni every day. I wanted to also say that its going to be easier for me, because the Richmond District has a lot of improvements that has happened recently. And i applaud the mta. Thank you dillon and others that are here. For example, its easier
Program, the shanti project, positive research center, applied aquatics institute, San Francisco publicity club, and we also appointed him as a board to the lgbt aging task force where he was a very productive member. Stu was extremely active in shanti and served four terms as board chair. He helped keep that organization strong. Shanti was a key, key part of his life. Recently he he chaired the executive council at the San Francisco para transit coordinating council. He was also serving as the executive director of tin pan alley productions and he wrote a column for the bay times. He hosted several shows including the drag show and the face to face on s. F. Common. He was also very active in the Recovery Community and served on the Advisory Board of the Castro Country Club ~ which was silver space in the castro. Stu had a lot of energy. I think probably more energy than a lot of us. It was just unbelievable how many Different Things he was involved with. I would never its just always
Their kickoff last week for their bill board and bus campaign on sugary drinks, but also the department of Public Health staff, university of california San Francisco, ucsf, San Francisco Health Improvement partnership, especially arial vargas who has been a Great Community asset in building broader alliances, especially in lowincome communities. And i also just wanted to say on the National Level besides ucsf the center for science and the public interest, the California Center for Public Health advocacy, Harold Goldstein and others, and Roberta Friedman and kelly from the yale rec center for food policy and obesity have been really great advisors. I also wanted to say on supervisor avaloss introduction to hearing on the Childrens Fund i hope i can be added as a cosponsor as well. And i know that from your work with coleman and margarets efforts over now 23 years ago with the original prop j which i was strongly supported in the Richmond District from 1991 when norman yee led the camp
And the gift of guns. One Police Departments valentines day suggestion, a firearm for that special someone. There have been plenty of headlines about the winter that just wont stop. Rain has been falling in some parts of california and that is big news but its not nearly enough rain to help desperate farmers teelg dealing with extreme drought. Theyre not the only ones struggling. We begin with melissa chan in californias Central Valley. The worst drought in her memory has her worried. It grabs you from down deep. And youre making me cry but when you see the soil and you touch it and you know that it may not be here for your next generation of family, thats thats big. Reporter she says she had hoped to plant pistachio trees this winter but without water, she will abandon that notion. Many afternoons assessing the effect of the drought. And it will be dry like this all year. All year. She takes us to stoneland farms. They left land fallow, because they dont have enough water. When were n