♪ ♪ ♪ shiny day unovers all smile upon your face every now and then, the light bulb breaks the sun is so bright there is enough for all of us there is enough for both of us there is a lot for all of us long and short yours and mine this color, here it is

it sees the light coming down coming down ♪ ♪ ♪ the sky is filled with clouds the rain is coming down the sun went for a walk soon he will be back and i say, the sun is so bright there is enough for all of us the sun is so bright, there is enough for both of us. there is love for all of us.

the sun is so bright ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ [applause] thank you, gracias. ♪ ♪ [guitar] this song i did not really write.

it talks about life in the fields. it speaks close to me. my grandparents were farmers. i guess i can dedicate this to everybody who has been involved in any sort of field work, growing up there, or even if you just enjoy the fields, being in the country, nature. ♪ ♪ [singing in the fiel spanish]♪ ♪ ♪ [singing in spanish] ♪ ♪

[applause] ♪ how are we doing? i want to get some feedback. how are we feeling? it is an amazing day. i am so grateful for this day to day. you are in for a real treat. it is going to be a great night. thank you for coming out.

♪ i am going to share another song that i wrote. it also talks about being away from the land where you were born, from your language, from your roots. ♪ ♪ ♪ [singing in spanish] ♪

♪ ♪ [singing in spanish] ♪

[applause] i have one more song for you.

♪ ♪ ♪ [singing in spanish] ♪

gracias, thank you very much. [applause]

>> it is a sign of good luck. good evening. thank you for being here on this special occasion to celebrate with us. >> latino heritage in san francisco. buenos noches, san francisco. [applause] >> it is and honor to celebrate the achievements and have so many great honorees here tonight. they enhance our economic,

educational, and artistic environment in san francisco. we want to thank everyone for their participation, especially in the latino month heritage committee and the consul generals, and all of our presenters who helped represent our community so well. >> i work in the mayor's office of housing and community development. and the community builder for the district 9 and 11. i am presenting tonight. >> i am from the mayor's office of neighborhood services. thank you for being here tonight. it is good to see you. supervisor cohen, thank you for joining us tonight. where would like to present our mayor, mayor edwin m. lee. [applause]

>> good afternoon. it is my pleasure to celebrate with you latino heritage month in san francisco. welcome! we live in a very unique place. i know the history of our own city has been wonderfully filled with people from the south to move to appear in the 1970's and 1980's. i want to thank all of the consul generals here representing your country and continuing to work with san francisco to make sure that we have good policies to welcome all of our immigrant visitors, families, and the reunification of families. thank you for your great service to our city. i have been privileged to be the mayor of this wonderful, diversite -- diverse city.

latino heritage month celebrates all of the contributions of latinos from all different walks of life. from the police department, to the libraries, to the 311 center, to public servants of the board of supervisors, to even retired state senators. it has been a great tradition. this city is recognizing that very much. we often talk about the increase in population. it is very exciting to see the latino population and the asian population are the most aggressively increasing populations in the state. we must do more. we must have more representation. it is very welcome to. this has been a natural history for us. it is exciting to see some much of our culture and arts in our

businesses and levels of government represented by latinos. thank you, jose cisneros for being here. thank you, a supervisor avalos. we have a lot more work ahead of us and a lot more work to do together. it is not just the increase in population. we have challenges in education, challenges for businesses. we have to do more. one of the best things that has happened in a long time is something that the community and work very closely together on is that the california dream act passed. it was signed by our governor. [applause] that was such a tremendous and courageous act. it is necessarily reflective of

what is happening in our own education. i have had that great pleasure of working with the board president and carlos garcia. he is at another conference, the association of latino administrators and superintendents, having a national conference on the very important topic of how we improve education for latino communities across the country. i want to thank him for working so closely with us. luis herera has done so much for the libraries. thank you for such wonderful leadership. we get so excited when we open up libraries and increase the performance of our kids in school. all the kids are increasing

participation. i get very excited about the city even more when all of our services are accessible to all of our communities in all different languages. you should not be surprised the both of my daughters who graduated from public-school also speaks spanish fluently. [applause] that is our future. anita and i told our kids that they were lucky to live in a global city. the global. learn chinese and spanish. -- be global. learn chinese and spanish. i continue to be proud to work in the city. i am excited about all the programs. the challenges are to improve all of our communities and make them stronger. every time i have a chance to work with new leaders and department heads like nancy

worling o -- working on 311, and get very excited. david campos is walking in now. we have worked together on challenging legislation. we still know we will be united around building our communities. i am very excited to do that on behalf of our great city. it is a city of diversity and strength. i want to present something i have wanted to do for some weeks as we talk about how to really give celebration. i know there are a couple of people that i wanted to help recognize on their behalf. we had a moment earlier this year with the passing of maurice

vela. i wanted to recognize him by providing the proclamation to his family who is here today. >> carlos, eddie, rose. [applause] >> thank you. >> carlos, eddie, rose, i want to welcome you to the stage and express our great appreciation for the family of maurice vela. we are working to preserve and improve the mural at bernal

heights in his name. we're doing that with the love of the city for his leadership. please accept the proclamation declaring latino heritage month celebration day on behalf of your father and husband. thank you very much. [applause] we also want to honor another great leader in our community. i have had a chance to meet him and see the product of his work. the family of eric, please step forward. [applause]

please welcome loreno and his mother carla to the stage. on behalf of the city of san francisco, we sincerely want to signify our deep appreciation for eric, his love for the community of san francisco. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, i would like to present the latino heritage celebration day in san francisco. [applause] >> please stay for a moment.

i would like to invite up all of the honorees. please come to stand. [applause] this is the latino community in 2011, everyone. [applause] we are so happy to honor all of you tonight.

[applause] >> thank you. >> i wish everybody a happy latino heritage month in san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, mr. mayor. it is always a pleasure to have with us the minority leader's office of the united states of america. we're always excited to have a special letter from the minority leader. please welcome nicole rivera.

>> buenes tardes. the leader wishes she could be here, but we did have house floor votes today. congratulations to all of the honorees for providing leadership and service to the san francisco bay area. the hispanic dream is the american dream. whether serving with great patriotism in the armed services, pursuing higher education, preserving and sharing their culture, demonstrating commitment to family and faith, education and work, the hispanic community makes america a more american. it is my honor today