the company representatives who have strived and made their way up in their respective positions and all around us in our daily lives. this month is to celebrate all of those particular achievements and more importantly from craft s perspective and all of the programs that it does with the community and the employees is the opportunity to be able to show our future generations of asian pacific americans, the impact that they too can make as they are in school, in the arts, in government, and you are at craft foods, so, so pleased and so, so privileged to be able to celebrate this very special occasion and we look forward to being a part of this month. thank you, claudine. thank you. this is my pleasure to be here this afternoon. to share with you tho celebrating diversity and cultural celebrations is a key value, at wells fargo. and we celebrated not just in this month but every month. and it is the true, people that contribute that are the contributers or the finalists t
am also the president of the board of asian pacific heritage foundation. and so i wanted to give a brief acknowledgment to my fellow board members and if you could please stand, i will not name all of them. but, the great work that they have done and helping out and planning this month s events, please give them a round of applause. and then finally while we have this great board and committee, none of us would be here without the undying efforts of claudia who puts her heart and efforts into this every year, and we thank you for that as well. thank you so much and i look forward to celebrating with you on monday and the remainder of the month, thanks. thank you, mark. thank you,. pg&e have served with the communities for over 100 years and proud to continue the sponsorship. the communities have in turn played a major role in determining how the companies delivers services to our customers. pg&e recognized the importance of in-language services a century ago when it opene
thank you. [ applause ] thank you. so, i i hope that we will have sandwiches waiting for you at the end of this press conference and i just wanted to take the opportunity to thank the many food and beverage. and without them we will not have the great reception that we are going to have. we have been here for 8 years. with us. and mayor lee for six years. and those are for two years or the newest addition this year, and so i hope that you have a great lunch and before that it is the most important business is to turn this over to our co-chair, who will make the announcement for the apa heritage awards this year, mary? okay, did i do this right? okay. okay, so thank you, all for being here today, and i am really very excited to be able to announce the finalist for this year s performing arts award. and many of them did not know who their competition was, as we were going to say, and so this is going to be a surprise for them as carmen said earlier i was one of those
network, i really appreciated the comments about the role that they play in the arts and they like to think that they have a major role in that in bringing arts and communication to all of the residents here in san francisco. i also wear two hats today, i am also the president of the board of asian pacific heritage foundation. and so i wanted to give a brief acknowledgment to my fellow board members and if you could please stand, i will not name all of them. but, the great work that they have done and helping out and planning this month s events, please give them a round of applause. and then finally while we have this great board and committee, none of us would be here without the undying efforts of claudia who puts her heart and efforts into this every year, and we thank you for that as well. thank you so much and i look forward to celebrating with you on monday and the remainder of the month, thanks. thank you, mark. thank you,. pg&e have served with the communities fo
this country. we have established ourselves. immigrants from all of the different backgrounds. we have made san francisco one of the most special homes for immigrants. but we need to see our country modernized its immigration laws. we need to see that comprehensive immigration reform done and we need to celebrate more family unification and we need to get the dreamers here so they don t live in the shadows but live full lives. they earn the living that they have because we know, that if people live in shadows they are going to have to be forced to accept the worse conditions for their jobs for their families. but we also know that as soon as someone has a pathway to citizenship their check powers and their ability to earn and contribute to the communities grows exponentially and this is part of the work that we need to do as mayers and senator and let s get this done in our life times. if does not happen this year it will not happen in your lifetime. we got to get it done, th