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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 gentlemen, is a Lifetime Achievement award winner. Please, please welcome her to the stage. applause ...

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 award. Here she comes. [cheering and applauding] hello, everyone. So, for years the portola and its t...

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 to watch the nen awards grow and mature into what it is today. So, i also want to give a special shou...

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. applause id now like to invite the supervisor for district 9, supervisor david campos, to represent th...

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 great award that is. Id like to take a moment and acknowledge Supervisor Scott Wiener has joined us ...