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Thank you all for coming today. Hello, everyone, and good morning. My name is christina coloan. Im with the director of the office. Welcome to the graduating seniors who live in Public Housing. applause its incredible to see so many people here today to honor the hard work of these graduates. This important milestone and accomplishment marks the next chapter in these young peoples lives. Todays ceremony includes representation from the elected and city family, special guests from the professional athletic community, private and Public Sector representation, and most importantly, the friends and family of the graduates who have supported these young people during their journey to this point. We thank everyone here today for showing how important these graduates are, that your participation and attendance. ~ by graduates pay close attention to the stage advice you will hear from ....
Wow. So, this announcement is really for you and some of your other fellow africanamerican graduates. [speaker not understood] formerlyedth mission k4 foundation. We are based in oakland, california. We just moved there from San Francisco. I actually make the community not really. But nonetheless, in San Francisco, im glad to be here to make the announcement. June 19th were going to recognize africanamerican young men who have graduated high school and are going to college. This is an annual event that we host. We are very proud to be putting it together and recognizing young black men. So, this is a call announcement for all the Young Brothers who are graduating from the college, your friends, family to come out, support these young men. Juan, we have Something Specia ....
I just want to welcome carl landry here. [cheering and applauding] but i also want to say that the most important folks here, while the warriors did very well and we know next year theyre going to do even better. While our giants this year won the world series, today we are celebrating our young giants, our young warriors, the class of 2013edthv this is to you. applause ~ and all of us who are your elected officials, and im glad to be joined by many of my colleagues today, we all know the challenges that you faced. We know the challenges that our Housing Authority has face and had has overcome. We know the challenges that our School District has faced and is overcoming. We know the challenges that our Law Enforcement and our Police Officers have faced and we a ....
It apt just a number. We really can get to 6,000 jobs and hit every youth and public housing, if they want a job, earn their way forward, we can do that. ~ aint so, as we embark on this, i want to make sure you know that our city family is behind you. You are the best investment we could be making in our city. Thats our youth. And, so, not only is it graduation time, its time to announce who our investees are, the people were investing in you for your success. Were counting on you to be successful because if you are, you can take my job pretty soon. You can take a supervisors job. You can take the Police Chiefs job. You can take any job you want because youve got the talent, the focus, and the background to do it. Thats whats open up here in San Francisco for you. And be proud of it. I also want to say im proud of your family, your friends, your parents who are here, the people ....