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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 collaboratively with all the other park groups that represent mclaren park. Parks alliance and rec and park ...

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 does many other things for the nert program. She has organized youth groups, namely the red cross youth...

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 you want to know how to do a garden tour, ruth wallace is your woman. Come on up, ruth. applause [che...

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 Young smith and carl pages work on the block where i live. Annette lived across the street from me and ...

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 usually you have to go through their garage or their house to see the gardens. And ruth gets known through...