Experiencing technical difficulty; please stand by here is the other linda to accept the award on behalf of the group. applause thank you. My name is linda light haiser and i work with help mclaren park. Aliotopier here to accept the award on behalf of the founders of the organization, the real movers and shakers who couldnt be here tonight, chuck and [speaker not understood]. [cheering and applauding] their family is in peru, which is where [speaker not understood] hailses from. Theyre so disappointed they couldnt be here tonight. But the back story on this is chuck grew up in the portola. And next to mclaren park and he spent his whole childhood there. And when he and she married, they wanted the same childhood experiences chuck had had, and even better ones. So, they have spent their time working on the play grounds and all the other aspects of the park. And they worked so well and collaboratively with all the other park groups that represent mclaren park. Parks alliance and rec and
Thank you. applause jack . Ah, come on. I dont think jack wants to say anything, but i think that jack just basically said that actions speak louder than words. So, thank you. applause jack, are your parents or your family here . Yep . So, if we could ask jacks family to please stand up and be recognized. Because this is a family effort. [cheering and applauding] thank you very much. Thank you. You can see the user bringing back the bow tie. Without further ado, id like to introduce Supervisor John Avalos to introduce our next award. applause thank you, daniel. And thank you all for being here for this great, great event. It is my honor and bridge to help bring up the folks who are part of the outstanding Neighborhood Watch group, part of the nay street Neighborhood Watch of district 11. applause we can bring up linda cook and patricia de font. I am really, really proud of this Neighborhood Watch group. We had some really hard times back in 2008. We had a few homicides in the excelsior
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 get good p
Homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you, but im glad like the speaker said, it is whole. And that is whats important, is that that neighborhood remains whole so that our city will be whole. You agree . [cheering and applauding] cheers so, a few years back there was this little idea to take back the bayview and really began to rewrite the history and the narrative that we often hear about in bayview. And it actually started, ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. And its the thought child and the
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 neighbors because we have lived in that neighborhood for 37 years and its just been such a joy to meet people who live right across the street and neve