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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 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 thi...

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. applause id now like to invite the supervisor for district 9, supervisor david campos, to represent the next award. applause good evening, everyone. Welcome to this beautiful building here at city hall, the peoples building. And to help me present the next award, id like to ask an institution and the portal nei...

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 idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour . Our neighborhood . Who is going to come ...

I am really, really proud of this Neighborhood Watch group. We had some really hard times back in 2008. We had a few homicides in the excelsior district, one that is very well known, the bologna homicides. These tragedies are horrible if nothing else but to help communities organize. Nay street neighbors really did that. They looked out for one another. They reached out. They created relationships where perhaps they didnt exist before. They looked at their neighborhood and thought, how can we make this neighborhood safer . And theyve done Amazing Things. Theyve done greening, they planted last...

Inductee is bernice. [speaker not understood] to talk more about her contributions to the city. Jen . applause hi, my name is Jennifer Banta and i am proud to nominate bernice beng to the nen hall of fame. Bernice being was a visionary artist. She was born, raised, educated and worked in San Francisco. Bing. She graduated from the first mfa class of the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961. She was good friends with joan brown and jay de feo. Shes what an integral part of the art scene in north beach. She was also part of the first argot lin artists in Residence Program in 1967 and spent the be...