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
To make sure this is a vibrant area. Even if you dont come to the convention and enjoy the public space, it is something that helps revitalize the neighborhood and bring energy to the neighborhood and more people to the neighborhood and shops and retail and shocase San Francisco around the world. Weve never been in so much focus worldwide and will not be this this is a the moment in time when a story going and make a wish is a program that fulfills wishes for children we operate in every cities there are 62 chapters. Our chapter was formed in 8984 we fulfilled 24 wishes. Our chapter covers from movntd ray 17 communities and we expect to fully 3 hundred and 50 wishes this year. We send verizons it out to the wish families and interviews the wish child and if you do their heartfelt wish then go to work to make it happen. Dismissals is a 5yearold boy who was diagnosing diagnosed with life without parole when he was 20 months old hes 5 hose now in remission he had his port removed hose mon
Then in the afternoon there is real physical results and the pride from your work and the web corp builders we are proud to have many of the graduates working on our projects. And once you are in the field, the opportunities only continue. You know, it is not uncommon for people to expand their horizon and their abilities going to estimating and Business Development and union representatives, and becoming inspectors for the city and going into management. And you know, those were some of the practical benefits that you ultimately see and for some of you who already have a job, you are already beginning to see those, but in addition to the practical, there is also universal ones and some easy ones like listen to others and make sure that you hear all sides, you know what . Because you may not have the best idea. And also, you can accomplish a lot more if you dont care who gets the credit. And stay focused, finish what you start and if you make a mistake or a bad decision, admit it and t