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The future looks blurry for the proposed network of Castro district surveillance cameras, as neighborhood groups opposed to the plan await word from the Upper Market/Castro Community Benefit District.
In Support of the San Francisco Bay Times for the Legacy Business Registry
By John Lewis–
(Editor’s Note: On April 7, John Lewis provided the following comment before the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. This meeting preceded that of the San Francisco Small Business Commission on April 26, when the
San Francisco Bay Times along with six other small businesses was added to the Legacy Business Registry.)
My name is John Lewis. Thank you for this opportunity to speak in support of the
San Francisco Bay Times. My husband Stuart Gaffney and I moved to San Francisco 35 years ago. New to the city and its LGBTIQ community, we quickly became readers of the
Why the San Francisco Bay Times Merits Designation as a Legacy Business
By Donna Sachet–
(Editor’s Note: On April 26, Donna Sachet spoke these words before the San Francisco Small Business Commission. That date is notable both because it was when seven new businesses, including the
San Francisco Bay Times, were added to the Legacy Business Registry, and for the fact that April 26 is Donna’s birthday!)
Good evening, I am Donna Sachet, proud San Francisco resident for over 30 years. Thank you each for your service to the city. To quote from the website of the San Francisco Legacy Business Program, its purpose is “to maintain San Francisco’s cultural identity and to foster civic engagement and pride by assisting long-operating businesses to remain in the city.” I can think of no more suitable and qualified candidate than the
Dean Karau
For the Star Courier
This brief paragraph was buried on page 8 of the Dec. 22, 1903, Kewanee Daily Star Courier: “The United States government wants the flying machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Dayton, O., brothers who made a successful test of their invention at Kitty Hawk, N.C.”
That was our hometown’s inauspicious introduction to the age of flight, which had begun a mere five days earlier.
A young Annawan boy was only five years-old at the time, so he surely didn’t read that article. But by 1910, Frederick Eugene Machesney had fallen in love with “aeroplanes,” and within a decade and a half, had become Kewanee’s flying “ace.”