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all right. how about a big round of applause for all our honorees. thank you dancers. thank you singers. that concludes our program. we re going to celebrate filipino-american history month in san francisco by doing what mayors always do, especially after being solely instructed by hydra as our education advisor to present the proclamation declaring the month of oct filipino-american month in san francisco. come on up here. get up here, so everybody can take a picture here. if i may, i just wanted to say something as well. you know, there are many streets of our great, great city and everybody i think is now enjoying so many of the neighborhoods that are rising up. but there have been neighborhoods like desoma and the excelsior, critical names of streets that we named after filipinos who really served our city and country in a fabulous way. i want to make sure that people remember that. because it s part of our history. so let me say some of them that many of you in the ....
much time as you can to community and ensure folks can meet their basic needs. mr. mayor, thank you for having me here and helping in your leadership in this effort. (applause) all right. during the giants world series celebration, i ran into a lady that many of you might be familiar with. she during the giants game, she s up in the stands dancing and she s the dancing grandmother. rosalie alioto. and i had a chance to meet her. of course, i ve got to tell my joke because i m a jokester. so, the first thing i said to rosalie was, you know, i just want to let you know, because i m going to keep saying it, i bet you you can run the bases faster than prince fielder. [laughter] and make it around before buster posy gets you. is that s the respective for our seniors who are active and supporting us like rita semel and others who are helping so much reach out. and a person that i ve just admired for so many years and had a chance for some years to represent her constituen ....
project, as you well realize. and that s why there is such a uniqueness to this promise and this agreement between labor and the warriors management. it will be of great benefit not only to san franciscans, the bay area workers throughout the whole region. the golden state warriors will also do something as significant as making sure that all of the current employees at the arena in oakland are extended jobs on this new warriors arena here in san francisco. that is also of great significance. we ve oftentimes said, even in our own negotiations with the niners as they moved out, that we wanted to take care of our workers. and similarly with the warriors coming over here, they want to take care of people who have been loyal to them at the oracle arena. and some of them are right here who have worked many years at oracle as well and i think that builds confidence for you that we re dealing with the right people who make the right decisions concerning your lives. so, we c ....
the divisional officers and staff. we ll start with the divisional commander who you ve met, lieutenant colonel steve smith. give me one clap. (applause) very good. divisional secretary for program and metro coordinator major jack bird. (applause) faster, got to be there. harbor light center staff turkey carving producers, we have the harbor light strategic project coordinator who you ve seen running around this morning, john mcknight. (applause) hey, that s better. from harbor light assistant youth director trey hillary. can t miss him. the tallest guy in the room. maybe second tallest. food service manager shawn bradley who is probably back in the kitchen. let s give it to shawn, right. assistant food manager, anna. all right. (applause) and our harbor light residents. [cheering and applauding] good, very good. the advisory board, advisory councilmembers who are with us today, harbor light advisory council chairman jim ayers. right over there. (applause) h ....
the salvation army san francisco center is a state licensed [speaker not understood] recovery program. at any given time upwards of 200 people are here on-site, go through the program and get their life back together. our residential capacity is 106 single adults with up to 30 families and up to 52 kids with those families. you re not likely to find many treatment programs with child care program and also a licensed detox facility, but we have them here. we are truly a place for new beginnings and we have been that place at this location for 40 years. all those years we ve been celebrating thanksgiving with our friends. as evidence of our thanksgiving history, i have these photos. some of you have already recognized dianne finestein before she was mayor. she was on the board of supervisors, i think. even before that, the gentleman in the middle uniform there is my grandfather who was the executive director here before i was born. so, we ve been doing this at least 50 ....