it s a great honor to be here. my name is debby dirsh, san francisco native. i d like to welcome you to the annual cable car bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they re great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka and malcolm hideke here today. i d like to thank our judges. we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have pro
and they have been one of the most generous library supportering foundations in the city. there s a room, there s an auditorium at the main library named for the current foundation. they have made a very generous gift leer. we want to thank them. the donald b. gold foundation, made a fabulous half million dollar gift here. others are the goldsmith foundation. dr. barbara schultz and literally hundreds of members of the community who have made very, very generous gifts and support of this branch and as you know, the richmond community decided that rather than just focus on this one branch, they were going to commit to raising the funds needed for both this and the other branch. so as we celebrate the reopening of this spectacular neighborhood anchor, we ll again celebrate the beginning of the amfa campaign. we re glad you re here to celebrate and part of the great family that support our libraries and know what they mean to our communities. you notice that the name of this b
it s a great honor to be here. my name is debby dirsh, san francisco native. i d like to welcome you to the annual cable car bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they re great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka and malcolm hideke here today. i d like to thank our judges. we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have
it s a great honor to be here. my name is debby dirsh, san francisco native. i d like to welcome you to the annual cable car bell ringing contest. i would like to introduce mr. ford. welcome to the 47th annual cable car bell ringing competition. this is one of a kind. this is a comptation competition for the world championship and thank you for coming. i also have to thank our cable car grip men and conductors. every day they help move people around our city, they re great ambassadors and do a great job entertaining visitors to our fine city. we have two members from the mta board, bruce oka and malcolm hideke here today. i d like to thank our judges. we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have p
we have judges representing a lot of president businesses here in the union square area. with that, to all the mta employees and fine citizens of san francisco, thank you for joining us today and thank you for your support. matt ford, ladies and gentlemen. the bell ringing competition is a two-part event today. we have professionals competing for a number of prizes in the coveted title of world champion bell ringer. for the amateur portion we have executives from some of our local media outlets competing for first, second, and third place trophies. the competition started with preliminaries. 37 contestants went through filling out the paperwork and a chance to proceed to the finals. all cable car crews were invited to compete. this year they have six finalists competing here at union square, competing against the two-time current champion mr. leonard oates. going to be tough. two years with the tiara, hard to give up. individual trophies welcome awarded to all six professio