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 press and we get to see everybodys neighbor all our neighbors gardens. Because of the way San Francisco s you get to be veuyer because usually you have to go through their garage or their house to see the gardens. And ruth gets known through the neighborhood because shes constantly peeking over fences and leaving fliers in peoples mailboxes saying, do you want to be on the garden tour, and all this sort of thing. But anyway, so, weve just to show you how much the neighborhood has gotten to know each other, all the people in the portola, wave your hand. [cheering and applauding] and this is only a small representation. And six years a
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 physical manifestation of hard work, of a few Community Leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. And tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the cofounders, his name is jeffery betcher. Where are you . Get up here. And jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. Annette young smith to the stage. This lady, ladies and gentlemen, is a Lifetime Achievement award winner. Please, please welcome her to the stage. applause i cant think of a more deserving woman. Thank you. Come on in. Jeffery, i love you. I love you, too. Hello, neighbors. Good evening. You know, first i have to say that i heart the portola, i really do. [laughter] this is an amazing win frankly for the whole southeast sector, from Progress Park down, and its a wonderful night. Great to be here with all of you. My name is jeffery betcher. I am the e
Never knew what wonderful neighbors i had until we started the Neighborhood Watch group. So, i would strongly advise everyone to start a Neighborhood Watch group. Its great. And thanks to patricia, shes done an outstanding job and im so happy she took over as block captain for me. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. applause applause 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 increme
Certainly provide me support and provide me the motivation to get up and come to work every single day. This is an opportunity to thank and praise the people that call me stop, that email me, find me on facebook, send me a twitter and pick, found me on next door. I tell you, this is your day. Put your hands together. Hang in there, were almost done. But this is the day that we get to celebrate applause im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel 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
Big huge conference we had this last august. I called her the hener lisa ma. Shes real a dine a moe and were so lucky to have her in the city. Dynamo. So, i want to invite sandra up here as our most empowering City Employee of the year. applause everybody here, sandra has touched all your lives. Im truly honored. You guys are all wonderful to work with. I love the community. You know that. Im allegation here for you. Thank you so much for this honor. Its all about you guys. Thank you so much. applause id now like to invite the supervisor for district 9, supervisor david campos, to represent the next award. applause good evening, everyone. Welcome to this beautiful building here at city hall, the peoples building. And to help me present the next award, id like to ask an institution and the portal neighborhood, ruth wallace, if you could please come up. [cheering and applauding] it is, it is my honor, our honor to present today what i think is one of the most important ones. Every award