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Their family is in peru, which is where [speaker not understood] hailses from. Theyre so disappointed they couldnt be here tonight. But the back story on this is chuck grew up in the portola. And next to mclaren park and he spent his whole childhood there. And when he and she married, they wanted the same childhood experiences chuck had had, and even better ones. So, they have spent their time working on the play grounds and all the other aspects of the park. And they worked so well and collabor...

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...

The stage. applause i cant think of a more deserving woman. Thank you. Come on in. Jeffery, i love you. I love you, too. Hello, neighbors. Good evening. You know, first i have to say that i heart the portola, i really do. [laughter] this is an amazing win frankly for the whole southeast sector, from Progress Park down, and its a wonderful night. Great to be here with all of you. My name is jeffery betcher. I am the executive director of the organization that emerged 10 years ago from Annette You...

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...

Ironically, with a small little abandoned swath of land that has grown up to become the cuseda garden. And its the thought child and the physical manifestation of hard work, of a few Community Leaders that got together and rolled up their sleeves and got to work. And tonight i have the honor to introduce one of the cofounders, his name is jeffery betcher. Where are you . Get up here. And jeff is going to introduce to you as he escorts ms. Annette young smith to the stage. This lady, ladies and g...

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...

Certainly provide me support and provide me the motivation to get up and come to work every single day. This is an opportunity to thank and praise the people that call me stop, that email me, find me on facebook, send me a twitter and pick, found me on next door. I tell you, this is your day. Put your hands together. Hang in there, were almost done. But this is the day that we get to celebrate applause im calling it the neners. You know whats interesting . Ive been around city hall long enough t...

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 ...