[applause] >> gracias, thank you. >> i think we can applaud again. thank you so much. [applause] we heard her for the first time, or i heard her for the first time at the mission committed to market in the mission, and was completely enamored. we had to have her last year, and we had to hover again this year. thank you so much for being here again. [applause] now we begin the next portion of our program. we will begin to talk and discuss all of our incredible honorees tonight. the first is in the field of business.

the first on a region that will be maria gallo, who unfortunately cannot be here with us tonight, but we have the executive director of the latino community foundation to accept this award on her behalf. [applause] i will invite up to the stage the chair at the san francisco hispanic chamber of commerce to present this award. thank you for being here. [applause] for those of you who do not know, maria is a retired senior officer of union bank, retired as of june 1 as senior vice president with a corporate social responsibility group focusing on engaging bank employees and volunteer service in the communities in which the bank was operating and expanding financial education. she had over 30 years experience in the banking industry. we're honored that we're able to

honor her tonight. on behalf of the mayor, the city and county of san francisco, thank you so much. thank you. [applause] >> our next business award goes to the ramons and the familia. [applause] please join us on the podium. ramon ramirez and his wife emigrated to san francisco in 1955. since then, they have started many businesses, 1one that was a cafe, which then started catering food when they bought another cafe on 11th street where they sold mexican food that they made at the cafe, and they brought it over. it was so popular that they decided that they needed to

expand the business. more than 20 years ago now, they founded the ramons, which is on 11th street. it is a place of great mexican food and heritage. we would like to honor and say thank you to all your working contributions to san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> now we move on to the field of media. >> our next awardee is marisol. i do not know how many of you have heard her on sunday mornings at 8:00. she has a radio show in spanish for latino families where they talk about various subjects from child development to teenage violence to managing stress as a parent to family

literacy and emergency preparedness. she is an altar. she has written several children's books as well as some teenage books in spanish. should as conferences, does lectures, and teachers throughout northern california. she's a big fan and participant of dia de los ninos in san francisco. we're honored to present an award to marisol tonight. and juan martine dennis from kqed is here to present this award. i have to say that when she joined dia de los ninos about nine years ago, they help to promote this event to such a degree that we have had the celebration grow over the years. it has been at delores' part the last sunday of april. we have had up to 2,000 families

get free books in multiple languages. she has been the and see of it. thank you. [applause] our next honoree is the latino heritage art award. this will be presented by the city librarian. please join us that the's abbottabad award goes to jose leon and chiles, chiles, chiles. [cheers and applause] jose is a san francisco native, born and raised in the mission district. he has worked in the nonprofit community for almost 30 years and is well known and respected for his support of youth involvement and empowerment.

he has dedicated his work to make sure toyouth are well represented in our opportunity and that they had the opportunity to experience the wealth and richness of music and the arts. congratulations, and thank you for all your work in the mission district. [applause] >> you know, i would just like to say something peter i am very honored. thank you very much. but i have to think the parents. all the wonderful parents better here and all the wonderful students that i have worked with. so please give them a round of applause. thank you. [applause] >> we will be lucky enough to hear jose at the end of our program tonight. it is important to recognize dianna and also one of our sponsors deny, wells fargo, who is presenting with us in san francisco later on tonight at a beautiful reception we can all

enjoy. so please give a warm round of applause for wells fargo and our other sponsors. [applause] i will bring up maggie later on tonight. i also want to recognize supervisor wiener. thank you for being here and joining our community this evening. [applause] the next awards tonight is a very special one to talk about, because it is all about community to that is pretty much what we are about here tonight at city hall. to present this next award is dr. estella garcia, who was recognized with this award last year. [applause] thank you for joining us tonight. tonight we're recognizing the community service award of 2011, eva reale. born and raised in hanford,

california. she attended san francisco state university in 1971. she became a student teacher and has fought for at the studies while earning degrees in economics, a process that is, and social work. getting her degree, she met her husband. they have raised four children in the mission. in the 1980's, eva and other mission community activists to join together for the san francisco voter education and registration project. she'd been organized the great boycott committee. she served as regional manager and a spokesperson of that organization until 2002. in 1988, the ufw co-founder was brutally beaten here in san francisco by a police officer. as a leader, -- there is a happy ending to this story. after a three-year effort, she worked diligently with the

college and to ensure justice for delores and to ensure there was a change in the san francisco police department policies regarding police reaction to legal social protests. in 1994, she organized the cesar chavez street coalition. to change the name of army street to cesar chavez street. she led a campaign to keep cesar chavez street in 1995. she serves and purposes of organizing and producing the and all cesar chavez quality breakfast and said that the parade and festival. you have done so much. thank you for being here tonight. and congratulations. [applause] >> one of the reasons i am up here tonight is because i have been inspired by people like you, eva, and a special person in my life as part of that movement is a presenter tonight

that that is my father, senator torres, who will be presenting the next award. [applause] which will be our health and medicine award. i would be remiss, as i was last year, if i did not recognize my other father, gonzalo escondero, and i gorges, a beautiful sister, danielle torres. [applause] >> the next awardee is at gladys sandlin from the mission neighborhood health center. gladys was social service director in it -- and a public- relations quarter neighborhood -- coordinator for the neighborhood center. she would got an award for mayor dianne feinstein. during 1980, she worked with the prenatal health project at the university of california in san francisco at general hospital. from 1974 to 1937, she was a

program coordinator for the educational unit of the american cancer society of san francisco in at the mission district. she is an advocate for the health care and rights of latinos, locally and nationally. through her participation, numerous health organization, she ensures that the particular health and socio-economic officials of that in the spanish-speaking population are understood and that resources are lat -- allocated to the latino community. thank you for all your work on behalf of our community. [applause] >> i am sorry. buenos tardes. [speaking spanish] thank you. >> it is a great honor for her

to be presented this award by senator torres because of all the work they did statewide for the help of latinos in california. >> our next and final award tonight is for the field of education in the but tonight we're honored to honor our superintendent of the san francisco unified school district, carlos garcia. [applause] we're going to pause for a moment, because our selected designee to seek -- to receive the award on his behalf will be joining us shortly because another event is happening next door. so i would like to invite of ms. maggie for wells fargo. she can say a couple words on behalf of wells fargo, and we will like to thank her. thank you, maggie.

[applause] >> thank you. good evening. i am so proud of presenting wells fargo and the 25,000 team members who live and work in the san francisco bay area here tonight with you. first of all, let me say salute to the council with generals, supervisors, district attorney, and treasurer. they're all here in the room tonight for this special event. i also want to extend my congratulations to all the awardees here tonight. your story is inspiring. your work in the community is excellent. it is really important for the community, so thank you so much for your great work. tonight, on behalf of wells fargo, we want to celebrate hispanic heritage month. this is not the only event we

sponsor throughout the year. just for this month, with wells fargo, you probably get a lot of invitations going to hispanic heritage month or the mariachi festival in san jose. coming up, another event. when macy, mario will hate me if i do not say it correctly. it is the la katrina benefit for the maximum -- mexican and use them, and it is coming up on october 29. we do not only celebrate in this month. we celebrate throughout the year. why we're doing this, one of the reasons that we support events like this is very simple. we know that stronger community makes us successful. as a company as well. showcasing our expense celebrating culture is also

important to the soul and important to bridge the gaps of understanding between all of us. that makes starter community. we also care about the community because wells fargo as a lot of team members here tonight. they also live and work and raise our families in the same local communities. the wells fargo team members, can you raise your hands. great, they are around the room here. [applause] because they also work and live and raise their family here. that is why it is important for us to support the community. the local approach has guided wells fargo and lot of ways for how we do our business. wells fargo is the number one public giver among all the financial services company in the bay area. i think a lot of our friends are here. a lot of my friends are here to you can feel this, and i know. for this year, we also are

making milestones in many different ways. we contributed last year almost $21 million. $20.7 million to the local non- profit organizations. but more impressively is our team members volunteered 90,000 hours of volunteer hours in support of nonprofit organizations. sitting on the boards, volunteering a different events, and raising funds to help the community. i want you to know that we're very committed to the hispanic community. also very committed to all the communities, so that we can be a better community in this environment. i also want to give a special thanks to mr. corona, issue is based here in san francisco, for allowing us to be part of this event. [applause] promoting the arts of the

latinas. thank you so much. the event is going to be in that court later on. we look forward to seeing you at the reception. i would like to thank our mayor, eduardo lee, which i changed his name to, for letting us join him tonight, hosting this event so we can celebrate together. i look forward to seeing you at the reception. and congratulations once again to all the awardees. thank you. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, maggie. it seems as though the person who would be accepting the award on superintendent garcia's behalf will not be able to join us. but the presenter is someone who i thought was a very important to pass that a war on it too. i would like to say a few words. he created a program. it is our treasurer. [applause]

>> hello, yes was so honored to be here and to join you in giving this incredible award to superintendent carlos garcia. i have had the honor to work with him to launch an exciting program called kindergarten to college, which opens up automatically for every child entering the san francisco public schools at kindergarten a college savings account. it puts an initial deposit in for each and every one of those children. it is funded by the city. it is administered by the treasurer's office, and it is in a strong partnership with the school district. the reason we're doing this is that studies show that if a child grows up with a college savings account in the child's name, that child is seven times more likely to go to college than a child without a similar account. we want to bring that kind of success to every child here in san francisco. thank you to you all and to the san francisco public schools. [applause]

>> and we will be certain that carlos receive his award. there's a special gift that all of us presented with the department of the environment. the bags the honorees will receive. i want to thank the leadership of supervisor john avalos and supervisor campos. [applause] john, you can stand. to make sure that we had certificates of honor from the board of supervisors signed by each and every member for each of our honorees tonight. i wanted to thank the minority leader, nancy pelosi, for sending someone to bring us her awards but the assembly member who also provided it certificates of recognition. and the senator who joined us tonight. thank you again to wells fargo, to you, maggie, to you, carlos. we're so much looking forward to enjoying the entertainment and the culture that you brought with us to city hall tonight.

without further ado, we will begin presenting next door. in addition to that, i wanted to make sure we recognize our other sponsors that are so important for us tonight. an issue to wells fargo and others, want to recognize at&t, pg&e, bullhook bank usa, and a special thank you to ms. ann cervantes, who helped design the beautiful program. thank you for helping to design that. [applause] she really puts a lot in to make this happen for us. we invite you to try the food next door, served by check moon -- chuck moon, along with the florida street cafe. thank you for bringing us commission language vocational schools and florida street cafe

to provide some of our beverages for the evening. we wanted to make sure that we had some libations tonight for all of you that representatives of the latino community. you can try them tonight. the bodega winery and others, all who wanted to be here tonight to help reflect our diversity that we can enjoy. >> please join us in the court over there. muchas gracias. buenos noches. >> thank you, everyone. he a >> is also my boss, which does not mean those two have anything to do with each other. you will read his biography in the program, so i will not insult you by reading it, but let me point out a few things that it does not explicitly say.

he is, by every stretch of the imagination, a scholar, a gentle man, a combat-pror, a dedicated naval officer, and what we have determined, a true visionary leader. it is an honor that i have to work for admiral walsh. it is not the first time we have had an opportunity to work together, and hopefully it will not be the last. without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, the commander of the u.s. pacific fleet, admiral patrick walsh. [applause] he >> thank you. and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today. what a privilege to be able to follow the table top exercise discretion and the presentation of remarks by the governor. as i think about the work that

you are embarked on and the type of steps that you would like to take in the continuum of preparation for natural disasters and the response that you would take as responsible officials, think of the next presentation as an opportunity for a case study. think about the questions that leaders need to answer in times of crisis. what will be unique and different about our discussion in this operation was that this was not one singular event. it was a series of cascading crises, aggravated by hundreds and then eventually thousands of aftershocks.

it is continually challenged those who were in positions of responsibility in ways -- in complex areas that were very, very hard to anticipate. i think one question that is important to ask is how do leaders prepare themselves for a crisis situation, and i think what you heard here this morning is that whether or not you are prepared is one question, but you should assume that you are going to have to deal with situations in time-critical crisis response scenarios. next slide, please. i am here today to represent the u.s. pacific fleet, a fleet that has about 120,000 people, 180 ships, two dozen aircraft, 44 submarines, six carrier strikers, and we will talk about how we have organized our

selves to respond to the crisis in japan. in the course of the previous two years of this assignment, we have been involved in a six humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. super typhoons in the philippines, vietnam, taiwan. earthquakes in samoa, christchurch, new zealand, chile, operation in japan. on average, what we are seeing in the ring of fire is about every six to eight weeks, a calamity, a natural disaster. in the case of operation tomodache, the reference point that i it would be very helpful for those who want to study this is to go back and look at what nova and the public broadcasting

service has done in terms of collecting now scientific measurable data, and one of the points that comes out in that 60-minute documentary is that in terms of instrumentation, scientists now know exactly what happened, where it happened. and then, in your case study sort of approach, you can now test the earthquake response plan that you have with the sort of scenarios and the variables that we were having to contend with in this crisis. the account weren't signs of the fleet were represented by the pictures, and typically we focus on the right-hand side of the charge, but what is embedded inside this group is an organization that has learned how to sustain itself at sewa for extended time spans. embedded in that is an

understanding of how to work logistics, and understanding to how to respond to lift requirements, and understanding of command and control. the plea today -- the fleet today has people who have strong technical competence in being able to respond and answer those sorts of questions. the fleet today is more mature and more seasoned because of the forward-deployed in nature of our operations. and we can apply that in the lessons that we have learned, and i think what you'll recognize is a very adaptable force. so this is what japan looked like before 2:00 p.m. on march 11, 2011. what you see at the top of the chart is the question the dai- ichi power plant -- the fukushima power plant. on the left-hand side is sendai

airport. on the other side, any japan. this is a bird's-eye view of what the tsunami looked like --