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with us. so, the lifetime achievement award is for someone we feel we should take this moment in time and thank in person for their contributions to the city. and i think we have this year s winner epitomizes the kind of person that we should take the time to acknowledge and to go further into that i d like to actually take a moment and invite now our supervisor district 8 malia cohen who would like to share her opening thoughts on this award. (applause) can i just tell you how good it feels to be up here, to look out to see all the people that make everything possible, that really makes san francisco wonderful? and i just have got to give a special shout out. you knew i grew up in the portola for those that don t know. [cheering and applauding] right there at the intersection of silly man and colby, my parents still live there. that s where it started for me. but tonight is a night that we have abopportunity to up lift and support and say thank you to all the peo ....
and praise the people that call me stop, that e-mail 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, we re almost done. but this is the day that we get to celebrate (applause) i m calling it the nen-ers. you know what s interesting? i ve been around city hall long enough to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. so, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. thank you, daniel. (applause) also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, mayor s office neighborhood services over there in that corner. (applause) and for those of you that don t know, i represent district 10, that s the southeast neighborhoods. that s bayview, that s potrero hill, visitacion valley, it s a little hollywood, it s dogpatch. it used to be the portola, half of it. my heart is still with you, b ....
. the project all started from the brain child over here, noelexsavio of the city of san francisco code enforcement department. (applause). early 2007 gave me a call, he said, hey, i got this funding for a really cool project, can you help me out, i don t do theater. so we got together, we put together a script and we ve been touring every since. we hope it s doing some good. we hope it s changing some lives. i could go on and on and on about this but i m not. we ll have a little q and a session after this. can you hear me? i m an actor, i don t need this. we ll answer questions about how it got going and what it s about. the way we start this out at the schools is i come out and introduce myself, introduce the guys a little bit, these are my students at sacramento city college then kick it off, hello, local celebrity, a guy from sacramento who does performances in poetry, he s an actor, he does rap music, all kinds of stuff, he doesn t juggle but he has a lot of ta ....
grow and mature into what it is today. so, i also want to give a special shout out to daniel homesy who is the originator of this. thank you, daniel. (applause) also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, mayor s office neighborhood services over there in that corner. (applause) and for those of you that don t know, i represent district 10, that s the southeast neighborhoods. that s bayview, that s potrero hill, visitacion valley, it s a little hollywood, it s dogpatch. it used to be the portola, half of it. my heart is still with you, but i m glad like the speaker said, it is whole. and that is what s important, is that that neighborhood remains whole so that our city will be whole. you agree? [cheering and applauding] cheers so, a few years back there was this little idea to take back the bayview and really began to rewrite the history and the narrative that we often hear about in bayview. and it actually started, ironicall ....