What is real . It is a thing that happens to you when a child loves you for a long, long time. I think it is a success. For the most part if you are three to seven, you sit in the seats and most of the time the kids are engaged. They laugh and ask questions. I think that is success. The fact we tour it and do it here, it is lasting. I really want to say the reason it is lasting is because of the story Marjorie Williams wrote is a gem of a story. If it was just an okay story, it wouldnt have lasted this long. I have had people say that is the first show i ever saw, that is why i am a choreographer. I have had people that have come back when they are 20 and 23 years old. Little kids and people in their 50s and 60s are telling me how much they love it. They come back more than once, they come back year after year. When the New California academy of sciences opened in 2008, it quickly became one of the top tourist magnets in the city. Part of the cal academies astronomical success is the w
The architects, marsha and a special thanks to erin who has done so much to help us on though this project. You know . That is the city side of this Publicprivate Partnership and i have to be fair in saying that this project has lasted through the term of two supervisors, two head librarians, three mayors, and four rec and park general managers. The heart of this project, the constant thing has been the heart of this neighborhood. Has been our volunteers and our people. [ applause ] so i want to introduce june. [ applause ] , liz diaz. Amy miles. Bill collins. Martha mahoney, who also does our halloween. Terry. I saved lizzy. This is lizzy hirsch. She has been there. One of the founders of the friends of joe d in 1997. What started with planting a little grass on the childrens playground has greatly expanded. Few people know that the movie thelma and louise is a highly fictionalized account of lizzy and mines adventures. [ applause ] most of it is overstated except for the driving off
2012. Okay thank you item 13 please. Item 13, department of Human Resources to execute a agreement for Workers Compensation work parties for an amount not to exceed 26 million and for a term of three years with an option to extend the term for up to two years. Thank you. Good asp. Madame chairs and im here with ed reis kin from the department of Transportation Agency we are joining together to achieve efficiencies in economy of scales we think in Workers Compensation for the cities you have the report before you the Budget Department has made some excellent recommendations which we are planning to administrator as part of this contract. Would you look to add anything to that brief presentation . I would just concur we have two separate Workers Compensation for the m ta and for the rest of the 70 and milky and i talked about this a year and decided that we could do better for all of the cities by joining force and is i had experience in my last role of finding ways of reducing Workers C
Work. What are your hopes for it . That in a way it just becomes part of the area. I think it is starting to have that feeling. People utilize it. They sit and, and have their lunch and play on they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. Just for it to be part of the neighborhood. That is my hope. Is such a beautiful addition to our public art in San Francisco. Thank you for joining us. It was nice to meet you. And thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. Thanks for watching culturewire. Hi, my name is jamie hooper. In this episode, we are featuring the romantic park locations in your very own backyard. This is your chance to find your heart in San Francisco with someone special. Our first look out is here at buena vista park, a favorite with couples and dog lovers. It is as old as its neighbor and both have a significant forest, a refreshing retreat from urban life. The pass that meander we do under a canopy of
We actually live in an extraordinary time because of the shoulders created by george and harvey. We live in an extraordinary moment because each of you believe youre worthy because each of you have a gift of authenticity to offer the world. And each of you are here tonight with not only the moscone and milk family, but the true meaning of the human family, in remembrance of the sacrifices that have taken us to get us here and as a sacred reminder not to forget and not to go back. Supervisor ammiano very brilliantly brought up harvey was tremendously impacted by world war ii. I wear his class ring from high school. He graduated in 1947, just a couple years after the end of world war ii. He could never understand how communities could turn on themselves. And he was, i really think he made a sacred intention to light that message to the world, that we cant go back. In the u. S. Today we have so much to be proud of. The last door that i knocked on on november the 5th campaigning for presid