Monthly Archives: June 2007

Free Jazz Music on Fillmore Street

If you’re looking for something fun to do this weekend, I’d like to recommend the Fillmore Jazz festival that takes place from 10am until 6pm across twelve blocks of Fillmore Street (from Jackson to Eddy streets). Admission is FREE. For details, visit www.FillmoreJazzFestival.com Keep reading

General Public Safety Chatter

This is more information from the Potero Hill Neighbors note regarding public safety that I thought was interesting and worth sharing. Thank you to Julie J. for typing this information up for us to share among ourselves! There has been an increase in crime due in part to “commuter criminals” coming into the City to… Keep reading

Personal Safety Tips

I used to live in Potrero Hill, and I still receive Potrero Hill Neighbors email messages. The latest one had some good tips about public safety from a Potrero Hill Booster’s meeting that I want to share with you. Luckily, Rincon Hill does not have a lot of issues beyond car break-ins relative to some… Keep reading

Join Mayor Newsom for a Discussion on Transportation in San Francisco

A community meeting on transportation sponsored by the Mayor’s Office and the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA). It will take place on Saturday, June 30 at 10AM at Parker Elementary School, 840 Broadway. The meeting will include updates on the Central Subway project and the Transit Effectiveness Plan (TEP), and questions and comments from community members… Keep reading

Free Nutritional Summer Lunches for Children from Low-Income Homes

Image from www.SummerLunch.org. This information also came from the SFPD’s Southern Station Weekly Newsletter. With schools on summer break, kids may not have the same opportunity to maintain a nutritionally sound diet like that offered at our public schools. In San Francisco and other counties, the California Association of Food Banks (CAFB) has stepped up… Keep reading

All Star Baseball Game Street Closures and Parking Passes

I received this notification from the Southern Station’s Weekly Newsletter. To get on the Station’s email list, please send an email to: policeandcommunity-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Residents/Businesses, Parking passes for residents and businesses during the All-Star Week closures have been printed. Many Homeowners Association representatives have been supplied with a number of passes for the residents/businesses within the… Keep reading

LGBT Pride Celebration & Parade

Image courtesy of SFPride.org web site. It is that time of the year when the LGBT community spends a weekend celebrating progress and pride in who they are. I hope you have a chance to join in the festivities. Today (June 23rd), there are activities at Civic Center from Noon until 6pm. Tomorrow (June 24th),… Keep reading

San Francisco Port Authority Pursuing Legislation to Remove Seawall Use Restrictions

There was a meeting on June 12th where the San Francisco Port Commission decided to forward a proposed bill lifting the Public Trust restrictions from nine seawall lots. The chief moneymakers include Parking Lot A by AT&T Park and the remainder of the seawall lot around Watermark at Bryant and The Embarcadero (which is already… Keep reading

One Rincon Hill Pictures and Progress

Photo taken by Jamie Whitaker Fabulous local news blog SFist.com had a link to someone’s Flickr posted photos documenting the progress of One Rincon Hill construction. View the slideshow! There was also a good article about the project in the San Francisco Chronicle over the weekend. It is very neat to watch these new high… Keep reading

Photo Contest – Picture the Future of the Bay Area

Logo from the TALC web site. After spending the past week in Rodanthe on Hatteras Island of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, I am happy to be back to my City that affords me the chance to get around via my own two legs quite a bit. An email I received from the Walk… Keep reading

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