It did take a village. I was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. The difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didnt have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. And they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. That is what i want to prevent. [ ] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. Opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. It really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in San Francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or workbased learning opportunities. Money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. Theres always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they dont get an opportunity to wo
Adults and children and more we have at any given time, go in on a sunday morning and youll see everything from toddlers to people my age there, and they are indeed playing mini golf, ski ball, basketball and they are eating, because its a full service restaurant, and they are drinking either alcoholic beverages if they choose to and of course theres nonalcoholic beverages. We have kids until 8 00. And we have many of them. So im going to talk a little bit about the economics of the situation. And i can tell you very clearly there would be, no, you are ban putt if we didnt have a restaurant and a bar. We only charge 12 for miniature golf. We have a full Maintenance Team that has to come in every morning to do work on it. It would not be financially feasible for us to have that. So, in fact, having food, and it is a full service restaurant, which is important. I have two kids. And they are there quite a lot. Ive lived in San Francisco, it will be 30 years next year. I live in vernal hei
What a great store. Thank you so much for inviting us into your home, your business. We know that this store is named after your great grandmother, and we really appreciate the work that you are doing here with the castro street merchants and all the incredible merchants that are here. Hey, richard. Good to see you. All the incredible merchants, im london breed, im the mayor of San Francisco, joined by the supervisor of district 8, supervisor mandelman to talk about the shopping and dining and 49ing, that didnt work. But the 49ers are winning. We are here today because we know that we are kicking off the Holiday Season. And there is nothing like nothing like shopping and hanging out at some of our great restaurants and other places in so many of our neighborhoods that really does put you into the holiday spirit. And so we want to encourage people to shop in places like stag and main, which is an incredible store as you can see, ornaments, furniture, bowls, plates, cups, you can come he
Watching my low rider. Now that wouldnt have happened 30 years ago because 30 years ago i would have probably been ticketed or my car would have been towed. You know what im talking about . We have come a long way, low and slow. There is a lot that has been said about whats going on in this country. I just want to thank all of you that came out to the march that we had to protest about children being encaged. I want to thank you because youre standing up to close those camps. I want to thank you because youre standing up to keep families together, because in our culture, the number one thing thats most important to us is family. So the first award is famed after an incredible, amazing woman that was born in 1930, and i just ask somebody if i knew the math right. She is 89 years of age. I am speaking about delores. [cheering and applause] i met delores when i was 12 years old, when mi papa sent me away for the summer and sent me to volunteer for the united farm workers. I had no idea wh
Cancer and the number of teenagers with the disease is rising. The thames riverboat in which 51 people lost their lives. 30 years on, tributes are paid to those killed in the marchioness disaster. The government has reiterated its insistence that there is no prospect of a brexit deal until the eu agrees to scrap the irish backstop from the current Withdrawal Agreement. The backstop is intended to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland. Speaking earlier this evening, the Prime Minister, whos due to meet european and World Leaders this week, said he would try to persuade brussels to renegotiate the exit terms to get an agreement that would be passed by parliament dont forget why we are doing this. The existing agreementjust does not work for the uk. They have rejected it three times and we cannot have this backstop. So im going to go see him ourfriends and then going to germany and france and i am going to germany and france and i am going to make the point that the backstop is g