today, i'm one of the trauma surgeons at the general hospital. i need to recognize symptom who is special our vips barking garcia who's standing over there barbara please stand up and we'll give you a hand. (clapping.) she would be our big boss. what a fantastic video where is steve i didn't i want to congratulate here group. at san francisco general hospital trauma center i'm proingd to work with professionals in my field. i'm proud of my number one surgical and surgical trainers after the asia a plane crash the

emergency operating room and intensive unit and the radiologist group sfgh they opened their doors for our underpass group and support staff and those who discharge patients so rapidly we were blown away. it was our finest hour at san francisco general house the only odd thing was seeing homeland security officers in the cafeteria. i had the urge to take off high shoes and go through an x ray machine and assume the position (laughter) the lives that we save would not be possible without the financial support of you who gives us.

so many of you who have helped us and the fact you're here today demonstrates your continued support. however, if i can be bold to make one final appeal everyone at the general sees the difference your help makes every hour everyday and i can each and every one of you to consider making a donation the cards are at your plate. dig deep we need money and help (laughter) please do what you can i thank you and my colleagues thank you and most importantly the patient and families of the folks at general thank you. please give our cards to the host or connect with a volunteer to make a credit cardgentlemen.

ladies and gentlemen, to present the next hero award at the afternoon please welcome jim from chevron energy solutions (clapping) >> great, thank you happy valentine's day. i'm both delighted and honored to be here today representing chevron and our over 6 thousand chevron employees that call san francisco and the bay area their home. as a san franciscan myself i know what a critical role we play and am proud of our programs. i'm especially grifrtd to have with us today at our table 3 representatives of the perry

program that aspires women who want to get careers in engineering and have touched over 15 young women. the ficht is named in honor of the laid jacqueline perry one of the first 10 orthopedic surgeons and countless women. i'd like to recognize from the perry initiative dr. lisa (clappin (clapping) actually, if you watch tv you'll see she was honored with a jefferson community service award with her efforts with the perry initiative and we have dr. sawyer (clapping) and outreach program volunteer

nadia (clapping) thank you ladies for joining us and for the great work you do in carrying forward dr. perry's noocht. now, it's my great opportunity to introduce san francisco general hospitals san joaquin who is memorialized in song as well (clapping) in her 32 years on the staff at san francisco general san joaquin as annoyed her sensitive to patient with a profoundly connection to the earth she created the comfort garden a buff nature space that officer respite from pain. sfart starting in 1984 he uses

the hospital champions for growing meals for homes and aids patients (clapping) this effort has expanded and become a program that provides training and wellness and fresh produce to the hospitals neighbors. i'm proud to give this award to joan carney. joan (clapping) joan that is your cue. here she is. >> okay. thank you. good afternoon. and thank you very much for this award. i really appreciate it. i must say i need to share it

with the many folks who helped to make the gardens program a success. the hospital administration and the facilities department big ideas like jeff and laura the staff and inheritance at the wellness center and especially the garden shop headed up by the lead gardener ann woods whose sitting over here. so how did the garden program get started in 1982 i took a job and in working at the sfgh in the early 1980s you could not be unaware of the aids. it was also apparent that we noted to step up and help out. i finding out found out about

project open hand who helped homebound aids patients who noted a homegrown produce so i started the first food garden at san francisco general and continued for 20 years until the food garden was paved over for a parking lot on campus. i heard about a new group of people who worked at the hospital and want to contact me about growing food on campus for the patients. all right. i don't know if i wanted to try this again. okay. okay i'll meet with them and tell me this will never work i know because i tried and look what happened to any. so i went to the first meeting

of what was to become heart bases that's heart b e example t s and my kifrm was rest included u let you but lasted only for 5 minutes as the group praised the garden work our shop had done. after the meeting i felt more hope about the development of this program mainly because of the broad participation. i felt it just could take a how old and become part of the fabric of the hospital. 3 years later we have a guarantee food distribution program called food give away for patients we now grow or have grown everything from basis i will to garlic and is a lent

from beans and tomatoes and each year brings new crops and the cumulative knowledge of what works and what does. i'd like to leave you with a thought. it is from a person who bend from the program. he said if someone i don't know cares enough about me to grow this healthy food and give it to me and show me different ways to prepare it i should care enough about me to make those changes in my life. it made me realize that we all can be healers, healers in our own in the courunique way.

thank you (clapping.) today finally, is my great pleasure to introduce our evenings third hero joe distracting (clapping) age over 6 years ago joe came to the general as a victim of multiple gunshot and stab wounds. his case manager from the san francisco wrap around project helped joe to transform his life. joe now hypotheticals anyone else seminaries to inspire

others. he volunteers with wrap around minors with the - to allow minors to talk about the impact of weapons. joe is ref support for individual how's he attends city college and working for the recycling center his positive number one violate change helped did young people while at the same time helped him to make progress. i'm honored to present this award to joe distracting

(clapping.) good afternoon and greetings i embarked on this road shot 5 times and stabbed in the same day in a neighborhood that doesn't get much recognition for good. after being rehabbed by general it was great work and wrap around case manager and director - (clapping) - i was embraced by information and people that i did not know would be part of my life for a a long time. one of the people was dr. dick

take care i had two tubes in my liver that i was shot ♪ the emergency and i had to come to the emergency the next day and i had a dead end look on life so much was taken from me and i looked at dr. dicker and she said what do you want to do now i said i don't know. she said you know their help; right? and the did i know that this was the woman that had a hand in the wrap around project and was standing next to my mom to help encourage her. the way she said there was help there 0 was nothing to hold onto the but any mother always told

me continually and continuously i didn't know what it meant until i saw my nephew make a decision to be adjusted u judged. something needs to happen and that's to express so i started out volunteering and being a part of the wrap around youths empowerment we take kids to field trips and individual films and entertain their imagination and from there i've been volunteering were the a.d. judgedtion and been a part of the appreciation it's been my success. now those situations of me not having a home was because i made

decision not to be prepared at a younger age but now any youngster or young people can do it regardless of whose there. for people i know who have been there wrap around and my mother and some new people i've met through wrap around their become my family when i come to san francisco. i take this time right now just to take it all in because at some point i did structural it seemed hopes because no one would understand why you would do some things without the support but they didn't know i

had all my needs met by the people around me. thank you all you guys. appreciate it (clapping) >> now, please welcome back to the stage dr. andrea campbell. >> thank you implicit for coming today. and for your ongoing support. before we leave there's one more

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builders and theanford robertso jean >> here we are at the embarcadero. we are standing at one of locations for the street artists. can you tell me about this particular location, the program? >> this location is very significant. this was the very first and only location granted by the board of supervisors for the street

artist when the program began in 1972. how does a person become a street artist? there are two major tenants. you must make the work yourself and you must sell the work yourself. a street artist, the license, then submitting the work to a committee of artists. this committee actually watches them make the work in front of them so that we can verify that it is all their own work. >> what happened during the holiday to make this an exciting location? >> this would be a magic time of year. you would probably see this place is jammed with street artists. as the no, there is a lottery held at 6 in the morning. that is how sought after the spaces are. you might get as many as 150 street artists to show up for 50

spaces. >> what other areas can a licensed street artist go to? >> they can go to the fisherman's wharf area. they can go in and around union square. we have space is now up in the castro, in fact. >> how many are there? >> we have about 420. >> are they here all year round? >> out of the 420, i know 150 to sell all year round. i mean like five-seven days a week. >> are they making their living of of this? >> this is their sole source of income for many. >> how long have you been with this program. how much has it changed? >> i have been with the program since it began 37 and a half years ago but i have seen changes in the trend. fashion comes and goes. >> i think that you can still

find plenty of titis perhaps. >> this is because the 60's is retro for a lot of people. i have seen that come back, yes. >> people still think of this city as the birth of that movement. great, thank you for talking about the background of the program. i'm excited to go shopping. >> i would like you to meet two street artists. this is linda and jeremy. >> night said to me to print them -- nice to meet you. >> can you talk to me about a variety of products that use cell? >> we have these lovely

constructed platters. we make these wonderful powder bowls. they can have a lot of color. >> york also using your license. -- you are also using your license. >> this means that i can register with the city. this makes sure that our family participated in making all of these. >> this comes by licensed artists. the person selling it is the person that made it. there is nothing better than the people that made it. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you.

what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best.

>> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me. it ranges from t-shirts, jackets, hats. what is the day of the life of a street artist? >> they have their 2536 in the morning. by the end of the day, the last people to pack the vehicle probably get on their own at

7:30 at night. >> nice to me to condemn the -- nice to meet you. >> it was a pleasure to share this with you. i hope that the bay area will descend upon the plaza and go through these arts and crafts and by some holiday gifts. >> that would be amazing. thank you so much for the hard work that you do.