San Francisco New Year s Eve to be without fireworks, crowds
Bay City News
SAN FRANCISCO The COVID-19 pandemic has caused several closures in San Francisco and the cancellation of the annual New Year s Eve fireworks show along the Embarcadero.
The holiday light exhibits in Golden Gate Park will be shut off and several parking lots will be closed, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department announced. Millions of healthcare workers are fighting each day to keep Americans alive and will continue to do so in 2021, the department said in an announcement. To honor our healthcare heroes, as well as those lost in the past year, we will be turning off all of the holiday light exhibits in Golden Gate Park on New Year s Eve.
Creative bakers have built gingerbread monuments to many famous landmarks – New York s Empire State Building, India s Taj Mahal and even Osama Bin Laden s compound (aka Gingerbottobad ). Now they re giving monoliths the edible memorial treatment.
Social media users around the world have been mesmerized by the proliferation of metal structures since the first popped up in Utah s Red Rock Country in November. Since then, copycats have appeared in California, Texas, North Carolina, England and Romania.
An edible, 7-foot-tall monolith rose on Christmas Day – and fell the next day – in San Francisco s Corona Heights Park, Bay Area public radio station KQED reported, along with several locals who photographed it and posted them on Twitter.
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Why Playgrounds Need to Stay Open
California has reversed its decision to close playgrounds as part of the state s stay-at-home order after some legislators and parents complained and argued that children need outdoor play for their health and well-being. December 15, 2020, 10am PST | clementkhlau |
Should playgrounds be open during the pandemic? In this commentary, Jeffrey Klausner and Phil Ginsburg argue that California Governor Gavin Newson made the correct call to allow playgrounds to reopen.
Klausner is a professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA, while Ginsburg is the general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. Together, they offer the following key points to show that the reopening of playground is the right thing to do based on science and equity: