The Advisory Board, Advisory Councilmembers who are with us today, Harbor Light Advisory Council chairman jim ayers. Right over there. applause harbor light and chinatown core Advisory Council lilly chin. Hey, lilly. Chairman of the Salvation Army metro Advisory Board and Harbor Light Center Advisory Councilmember, you all know him, pete ratto. applause hey, pete. And introduce our volunteers and vips, San Francisco city ask county, the honorable mayor ed lee. [cheering and applauding] from the San Francisco Police Department, the chief of course, greg. And the San Francisco Police Department command staff. [cheering and applauding] the San Francisco Fire Department. With chief joanne hayes white, San Francisco fire Department Command staff. [cheering and applauding] were not there yet. A little anxious. [laughter] where was i here . United states army, Deputy Commanding officers of the pacific division, colonel petty stratford, senior officer staff. [cheering and applauding] San Franc
applause . applause . Thank you guys so much for that beautiful performance can we give them another round of applause . applause . All the this time if i can ask mr. Joaquin torrez to join us again on stage, joaquin will be introducing the mayor and if i can ask my fellow Committee Members to also join us on stage. Joaquin. Thank you very much i have to say as director the mayors oches of Neighborhood Services its refreshing to have a mayor so dedicated to couldnt and it makes my job easier when our people in the Community Want to feel our elected efficients make our needs and its in physical presence and i have had the great pleasure of serving under our mayor lee who i would like to make a invite to make a few remarks in honor or of arab heritage month here in San Francisco. Thank you, thank you joaquin, thank you, welcome to our orange city hall. I want to welcome everybody here this fourthth animal america arab month of separation and its my pleasure to join us here and many of us
Its just great to have each one of you here. All of the volunteers working so hard and all of our volunteers up here who will soon be working hard. And we just thank you for coming together to help the people who will receive these meals tomorrow morning. Were going to start with a word of prayer and then were going to continue on. Heavenly father, we just thank you for this time and thank you for all the people who have come together today. And as we think about thanksgiving, we think about all the blessings that youve given to us. And we praise your name, lord, and we thank you for the opportunity that we have to give to other people during this time of the year. So, we just pray that you would bless this time together and pray these things in jesus name, amen. Amen. And now, ladies and gentlemen, id like to introduce to you our executive director [speaker not understood]. applause the Salvation Army San Francisco center is a state licensed [speaker not understood] recovery program.
Joining us here as well and to really encourage you to take part of in all of the if he istivities that we have to offer here at city hall and for those of you who have an opportunity to tine sign in at the front please do so we can reach you through the Mayors Office and Neighborhood Services center which highlights the Many Services and if he is activities that occur in San Francisco and in our city. And so while we take a pause, for a moment, to bring some more art into our hall, we would like to pause for one more musical enter lewd and to begin with the rest of our program. So thank you all very much. applause . applause . Thank you guys so much for that beautiful performance can we give them another round of applause . applause . All the this time if i can ask mr. Joaquin torrez to join us again on stage, joaquin will be introducing the mayor and if i can ask my fellow Committee Members to also join us on stage. Joaquin. Thank you very much i have to say as director the mayors oc
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