San francisco, that dress, donna will make santa claus stay up all night. Any way, i want to welcome everybody again to city hall, and to view our wonderful, wonderful tree of hope. It is something that i enjoy every year that it has been here and i tell you when it was announced that this was the tallest, largest tree of hope in the United States, if not in the world, i also wanted to say my very first thought was San Francisco has always the biggest hearts in the world, thanks to all of you. Thank you, donna, for your wonderful mc work here every year. And your beautiful presence. Jeff carter, thank you very much, congratulations and thank you on behalf of everyone in the city, we are so proud of your work. Karin that i have known for 30 years, thank you for you and all of the volunteers from the rainbow fund to put this together to place all of these 10,000 ornaments on the tree to give us the kind of attention that we would like not just because we have a great tree or city hall, b
Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yule tide bright. From now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yuletide gay. From now on, our troubles will be miles away, miles away. We are in older day, happy golden days of yore faithful friends who are dear to us will be kneer to us once more through the years, we all will be together. Hang a shining star on top of the highest bow. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas now. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas. Let your hearts be light from now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight have yourself, a merry Little Christmas. Make the yule tide gay. From now on our troubles will be miles, miles away. Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore. Happy friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more. Through the years, we all will be together if the fates allow. Until then we will have to muddle through somehow. And have yourself. A merry Little Christmas no
Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yule tide bright. From now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yuletide gay. From now on, our troubles will be miles away, miles away. We are in older day, happy golden days of yore faithful friends who are dear to us will be kneer to us once more through the years, we all will be together. Hang a shining star on top of the highest bow. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas now. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas. Let your hearts be light from now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight have yourself, a merry Little Christmas. Make the yule tide gay. From now on our troubles will be miles, miles away. Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore. Happy friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more. Through the years, we all will be together if the fates allow. Until then we will have to muddle through somehow. And have yourself. A merry Little Christmas no
Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yule tide bright. From now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas make the yuletide gay. From now on, our troubles will be miles away, miles away. We are in older day, happy golden days of yore faithful friends who are dear to us will be kneer to us once more through the years, we all will be together. Hang a shining star on top of the highest bow. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas now. Have yourself a merry Little Christmas. Let your hearts be light from now on, our troubles will be out, out of sight have yourself, a merry Little Christmas. Make the yule tide gay. From now on our troubles will be miles, miles away. Here we are as in olden days, happy golden days of yore. Happy friends who are dear to us gather near to us once more. Through the years, we all will be together if the fates allow. Until then we will have to muddle through somehow. And have yourself. A merry Little Christmas no
With our snow day, december 15th and 16th, you are all welcome to come and bring the kids and all of the extended families. And if i may say again, these holidays and what the tree represent is the best hope and wishes. The holidays should never be about ourselves. What reminds us and what this tree will continue doing, is that you have to remember others that are less fortunate, and share our hearts and our minds and our resources with them. And it is just like japan, for what they have done. If you read the papers recently, you know, that japan suffered a very harsh earthquake and tsunami a while back. And they could have easily said, that we are victims of a national disaster. But, when the country heard that the debris was crossing international lines, all the way to the west coast, and they did not claim victim. They also said, we could help. And that is why we heard the news of japan donating 5 million to help the west coast also deal with the debris. That is a wonderful, wonderf