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Going to tell you why. applause good evening. My name is dianne rivera, and i have a cold. So, i hope youll bear with me. Im a member of the neighborhood Emergency Response team, and i am so pleased, as we all are, that nora has been chosen as the exemplary leader for receiving the exemplary Leadership Award for 2012. Nora is a leader in her neighborhood and we all recognize her as a leader throughout the city. As a past coordinator nora has led her team in all aspects of nert training. Nora doe...

All this sort of thing. But anyway, so, weve just to show you how much the neighborhood has gotten to know each other, all the people in the portola, wave your hand. [cheering and applauding] and this is only a small representation. And six years ago i would say maybe a dozen of us knew each other, and now we know hundreds of people in our neighborhood. And weve become so desirable from a real estate standpoint, we have multiple offers on houses and they all go for over asking. applause so, if y...

Every year weve grown incrementally. After the first two years of raising money for the library theres our new library we then it was such a Great Community builder that we recently decided to keep wanting to volunteering and do it. We established a scholarship at city college for the horticultural department. And we have just gone gangbusters. We get good press and we get to see everybodys neighbor all our neighbors gardens. Because of the way San Francisco s you get to be veuyer because usuall...

Was treated with that drug. Theres new Research Suggesting a number of pregnant women are overusing antibacterial products. Researchers in arizona tested about 200 pregnant women and found it in their blood. Both can be harmful to unborn babies. Lets go to olga for an update on our yellow alert, when will we start seeing those storms. Some of us are seeing storms already north and west of town particularly the panhandle of maryland and as this camera panned a little bit you can see the storm clo...

Never knew what wonderful neighbors i had until we started the Neighborhood Watch group. So, i would strongly advise everyone to start a Neighborhood Watch group. Its great. And thanks to patricia, shes done an outstanding job and im so happy she took over as block captain for me. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot. applause applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the a...

Big huge conference we had this last august. I called her the hener lisa ma. Shes real a dine a moe and were so lucky to have her in the city. Dynamo. So, i want to invite sandra up here as our most empowering City Employee of the year. applause everybody here, sandra has touched all your lives. Im truly honored. You guys are all wonderful to work with. I love the community. You know that. Im allegation here for you. Thank you so much for this honor. Its all about you guys. Thank you so much. ap...

Wed like to take over the show. I just want to say its a great honor and its a really great event. If you havent been to the portola garden tour, 2013 will be september 28th, mark your calendars. Get your tickets early. And if i could, there are so many people involved in this, id like if all the gardners that have shown their gardens and the people on the committee could stand up for just a second so you could see how many of us there really are. applause thank you very much. Wonderful, what a ...

The cap on this particular initiative. We do have to realize that there are over 40 million americans who do not speak english as their first language this tiny program demonstrates to the American People that we have equal protection under the law regardless of whether people are englishspeaking or Spanish Speaking or speak some other language. Given the tiny amount of money thats involved here, this program has been extraordinarily effective. Almost 30,000 people benefited from a program that ...

Were looking for grant money for more beautification. If anybody is interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch and getting involved, call me and i can help you get started. Its a great thing to know your neighbors, even the ones who are a pain in the neck. Its a great thing to know your neighbors. [laughter] applause i would just like to say thank you to all of our neighbors because we have lived in that neighborhood for 37 years and its just been such a joy to meet people who live right across...

Applause our next award is for the best Community Green community project. And id like to just sort of jump forward a little bit and invite darlene zane to come up and give the award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its the portola, foster recognition. And, dan, things started happening. One of the things that gave attention to our neighborhood is when we decided we were going to have a new branch library. Ruth wallace came up with the ide...