Kid books. I got into the dr. Doolittle search. Back in my youth nobody was reading. Nobody ever heard of them until after the movie came out the dr. Doolittle, most people discovered who he was and what it was about. I think it was a british set of books. For some reason i got a kick out of the fact they were talking animals. Our military. Of course the hardy boys and all the others that followed. Thats kind of part of who we were. My mom was an immigrant to this country, eighth grade education. She was really selftaught. She taught herself everything under the sun. Cooking, shorthand, reading, art. All this. I think that probably inspired me. From with each immigrant and how did she end up in east st. Louis . She was born in lithuania, brighter at the age of two. The lithuania population came from germany to baltimore. She didnt land at ellis island in new york. The baltimore and ohio reverend at two destinations, chicago and st. Louis. Had to go to chicago she wouldve been part of t
Print i didnt put my hand print in another of the concrete. But i look at this crowd and look at the tshirts of the agencies printed on the back were very proud of this library youre on important part of the San Francisco and we bless it and reflect it by the energy this library medians and after hearing the list many of things make sure this library has modernization even though it is the final one not the final investments the education for you kids and the Community Centers that libraries become more than youre old and my old libraries Community Centers are excepted for people to come together to Exchange Ideas and provide hope to learn and constantly learn and the button of this is the deimagine playground yes clapping i want to thank the supervisors again supervisor david chiu and a scott wiener theyve been here with smaert on all of our Branch Openings weve celebrated in the bay area or out in the excelsior time and time again weve celebrated this with literally every Community A
Talked about the public spaces being magic and all the other sense of the public is that a being engaged so her vision and that of her team is making a difference. But it also is is a play thats staishg more technology. We used to have 6 public terminals for access to technology and youll have 22 wifi and the First Library connected to the cities fiberoptics network so board band and transmit anything you want that are as the afternoon unfolds hell hear more and more but well start by thanking the community all of you for your patience and per southerners of making this a reality i didnt want to settlement for a modified expansion you knew from generations to come you would get an iconic building give yourselves a applause you wanted to vision for a civic plaza and the plagued thats going to be realized thats a civic plaza so thank you. Again. The community was a key partner it goes without saying the city family comes together to deliver on a promise ill happy to a work with an unanim
Community if we do the right thing so were lucky to have emergency respond money with our Police Department and Fire Department and retired those debts but today is about looking at those kids having fun and being safe isnt it a transformation of an old parking lot isnt ii, visualize this we used our innovation and imagination and what else we didnt just build a library i think as friends of the library are showing as frinsz of the joe deimagine is showing when we do things like that we respond to form the agencies like friends and bring people together to finish what we cant do the friends are going to need our help the furnishings and the trimming so, please help when you can. The friends of deimagine playground and phil will love it quite a nice blessing enriching each other when the kids are playing or lockup things and go out and play again in a safe community. The biggest thanks to are the people like you who never, ever gave up. You know when lewis was saying the moss mother of
Learning and inspiration be filed with great vibes of repeated. repeated. . Turbulent repeated. imagination. repeated. . Expanding horizons repeated. for those who hunger and this matter may the spirit of peace. repeated. joy. repeated. and wonder bless this new north Beach Library clapping so so much reverend functioning and what a glories day welcome ladies and gentlemen, im louis us the city librarian clapping. ive had the honor and privilege of doing Ribbon Cuttings for the 24 libraries it never gets old its fantastic is were here to celebrate the grand opening of a new icon in the north beach neighborhood it represents the end of the largest Capital Improvement program in the history of the city 24 libraries every library is seismic safe we have ada access and staiks libraries for every neighborhood in our city clapping isnt that fantastic really a testament to all of you were here to celebrate the last one and best one of the lot clapping absolutely. How appropriate is it this is