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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 ...

Of the damage is done for small towns. All within 40 mi. Of each other. About an hour and half north west of omaha. Have been telling people for many years that i have not seen a tornado all my life. I got to see something today that wish i had never seen. Officials are assessing damage right now. Do storms and possibly a tornado moves through parts of southern wisconsin overnight. A storm pack dangerously high wind and hit shortly after midnight. The National Weather service says a tornado may have touched down. How early today looking at the damage. Stansel summer class system. Asking people...

To working with you in all the years to come. Thank you. Thank you. applause john said almost everything i wanted to say. But i do want to thank specifically Mohammed Nuru because hes been incredible. His toehold, everyone. Francis and john avalos office, without her nobody would know what we were doing because she helps us with all of our fliers and everything that we need to do. John has been tireless. He comes to my house on fridays at 5 30 for meetings. Hes a great, great supervisor and a champion for our district. And were excited about this year. Were going to put in a park. Were going t...

Ment network and that was to takethe opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of folks while theyre still 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 years winner epitomizes the kind of person that we should take the time to acknowledge and to go further into that id 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 fee...

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, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you, but im glad like the speaker said, it is whole. And that is whats important, is that that neigh...