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sweep but not a world series sweep. we took that idea and something that hunter did with all the other players when they won the series they said something that will never leave my mind about this great ball team. they played for each other. and that's what i wanted to make sure the giant sweep meant to us. the world class students, residents, businesses we want to play important each other. we want to make sure others are always welcome. we know that if we keep the trash off our streets it will
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make us provided and maybe a world series with the giants. yes as well as you'll our others sports team. you live here and you know it your parents are part of this effort. i want to marry that everybody participants. we're going to have ever neighborhood, every business raise their consciousness so that the trash is not just picked up by public works but make sure we all not throw our trash down. you see somebody get non-mini speak to that person and say
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hey, it's everybody's responsibility. with that i want to say thank you to everybody for helping us to launch it here in the school of hoilg. but the best is yet to come and lincoln high school gets to start the world series san francisco. let's get it done. give it up for their ed lee. he is ready to go. next up we'd like to hear from the supervisors ladies and gentlemen students a round of appraised for carmen chu.
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all right. everybody when i say lincoln you say keep ready. lincoln. sweep. all right. thank you so much i'm here to welcome you all to the beautiful sin set district. and i want to thank you for principle payne. can we hear a loud applause for the principle. i think what the mayor said was right on we all have to come together and pick up the trash. so i want to welcome you to our beautiful district and your beautiful reconcile and thank the giants for sweeping and going on to do another sweep. thank you. now we're going to hear from the
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member of the san francisco giants organization an organization by the way, that priced itself on being a strong partner in san francisco and a team player when it comes to living in san francisco to work and visit. now let's welcome stacey. >> thank you on behalf of the entire giants organization we're thiefrd to be here and we're provided of this initiative. when you come out to the games you're going to see a lot of the information on the sweep so thank you everybody.
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thank you stacey. although, i know it's hard to sit still you want to get up and give a sink? that's what i'm talking about. lucille. all right. now i'm going to bring to the podium mahammod is mr. clean. let's hear it everybody for muhammad mr. clean. and how we all doing? all right. all right. let me first say a great thank you to marry ed lee for the
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vision and the encourage for him to bring us altogether to stress cleanliness. our mayor is a man who brings people together but more importantly he gets things done. (applauding). and as you heard from him ed is a leader and a team player. you see many of the heads of the families here today because this is a very important campaign. this is the giants sweep. today when i drive around our city streets you look at the our bus stops and trash cans you see gum on our sidewalks and cigarette butts. you go into our parks you see
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people who have left pet waste and have not picked up after themselves. this means somebody else is going to have to pick up after them. our job today is to let its going to take all of us individually to do our part to make san francisco clean. and as you haired in the mayor the giants did it last year the way they sweetie pie the tigers. we're going to use that philosophy and get san francisco clean. by joining this campaign you'll get information on you can join our school program our dr. block
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program and many altercate programs that we're offering you. are we ready to get this task done? this effort will lead to a krurlt that will bring awareness to our city. and no matter what part of the city you live in san francisco should be clean. our staff works 24 hours, 7 days a week. we've been picking up litter by month matter how much we work there is no one individual we
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all have to clean together. today, we're empowering our young people that will carry forth many generations for people to come to san francisco. let's go giant sweep. >> all right. thank you so much mahammod. and we're counting on you and all people all over san francisco. and the school is an important part and we will e we need tour contempt we need your participation. as i said earlier this is about making san francisco's beautiful and for generations to come as well. and let's welcome the san francisco board president rachel
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norton. >> any giant fans in the house? i'm a little star stuck-up here we've got the mayor, we've got the police chief and the fire chief. i want to thank mayor lee for your leadership for bringing this together. and i want to thank the giant for helping us to remember we're part of a team. we stress sustainability in how we manage our buildings and we're diverting our trash away
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from the landfills and you're helping us do that. so we're asking for your help again. this is going to be a fun activity there's going to be contests and you'll be winning stuff. thank you, very much. >> thank you rachel for your contempt to education. well students are getting involved in the giant sweep and right now we have two student leaders. that's right you give it up for your student leaders.
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>> all right. lincoln high school. how you feeling today? >> it's so nice to see many of you coming out today to celebrate the giant sweep in joining with our schools and, of course, the san francisco giants. >> you guys want to know why this is important? because it gives us the chance to work with the police department and the fire department. and it gives us the opportunity to be the leaders and as a whole we can really make a difference. >> by sometimes young people get on unfair wrap for not caring about the world around us. we do but sometimes, we don't
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know how to show it or what to do >> and i want to make a really, really good point san francisco lincoln school is the only school that supports picking up trash and the giant with sweep. >> giant sweep is a way for us the young people to build our community. >> so let's kickoff the giant sweep. >> thank you and please give it up for kimberly and her friend. >> well, certainly there's layoff a lot to cheer when it
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♪ >> all right. let's here if for you lincoln cheerleading squad. you you know, i had to get here a little early to get that down. i appreciate that. at this time, i'd like to ask the children from the day school to come down. give it up for your second-graders everybody. show them your love everybody. come in come on. hi kids. hi.
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this is fantastic. oh, this takes me back to my high school assembly. now we're going to hear now from the man who earned the index name the preacher. we'll never forgot his talks. show your love right now and give it up for giants right fielder. hunter. >> yeah. hello lincoln high school. how's it going out there.
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how do you feel about san francisco giant chamber? pretty amazing. we definitely wouldn't have done it without the help of everyone in san francisco. there were so many people who were involved just besides us and i think if you look back at what really went on in the playoffs we made a decision when we were detain 2 games from the cincinnati reds. we had an easy decision to make. it would have been pretty easy to give up. i remember we heard on the radio
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that there was no way the 70 giepts were going to win. well, we decided to make a decision we weren't going to play four ourselves we were going to play for each other. we didn't care if with had to win a hundred games we were going to win that day. it's the same challenge we ask i. there's a decision everyday between what's right. and what's easy. it's easy to look away but i've been in a lot of cities and san francisco is one of the most beautiful places i've ever been in my life. i absolutely love it here he every time i go to the park i'm
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so happy. you can't compare it to anywhere. you guys are spoiled. it's beautiful. by at the end of the day let's keep san francisco beautiful and clean. and let's do this ever day and let's get this win >> come on we can do better than the that. the second-graders from the day school have been working on this chant. are you ready to do this. i going to say this with me.
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>> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account, things to an innovative program, bank on s.f. >> everyone is welcome, even if you are not a citizen or have bad credit to qualify for a bank account is simple. just live or work in san francisco and have a form of id. >> we started bank on s.f. six
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years ago to reach out to folks in the city who do not have a bank account. we wanted to make sure they know they have options which should be more low-cost, more successful to them and using chat catchers. >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city, but they're convenient locations come with a hidden price. >> these are big. >> i remember coming in to collect -- charged a fee to collect a monogram. >> people who use check catchers, particularly those who use them to cash their paychecks all year long, they can pay hundreds, even a thousand dollars a year just in fees to get access to their pay. >> i do not have that kind of money. >> i would not have to pay it if i had a bank account.
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>> bank accounts are essential. they keep your money saved and that helps save for the future. most banks require information that may limit its pool of qualified applicants. encouraging to turn to costly and unsafe check captures. >> i do not feel safe carrying the money order that i get home. >> without a bank account, you are more vulnerable to loss, robbery, or theft. thankfully, the program was designed to meet the needs of every kind, so qualifying for a bank account is no longer a problem. even if you have had problems with an account in the past, have never had an account, or are not a u.s. citizen, bank on s.f. makes it easy for you to have an account. >> many people do not have a bank account because they might be in the check system, which means they had an account in the past but had problems managing it and it was closed.
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