>> (clapping) thank you and congratulations zone (clapping) i would like to take a moment and acknowledge the chairwoman of apa heritage month i know she wasn't here when we started our program but invite claudine to say thank you on behalf of what you're going doing in san

francisco. >> good afternoon. thank you for giving me a few minutes in apa heritage month i want to thank you for coming to the press conference and those of you who joined us in the community celebration yesterday actually, it was signed into law in 1978 any jimmy carter and we've celebrated with our folks 0 so this is the tenth anniversary of the city's organization and i want to share if and the members of the committee asked me to medical cannabis come and honoring the asian pacific islander americans in your district. yesterday mayor ed lee and the apa selection committee on the street exceptional asians at our events they are a

filipino-american and jonathan chinese-american and japanese-american and for their contributions in the community. so our committee had an additional to talk about the guests so our committee asked me to come and present this in celebration of the month. i have your apa heritage month local pin to give to you all one for each and thank you for your time (clapping.) thank you claudine why not continue on with our district 7 presentation by supervisor yee >> i don't think my honoree is here yet oh, there you are sorry

(clapping) colleagues today i am not only honoring someone that is a trait blazers in our community but also someone i admire as a long term friend for asian pacific islander heritage month i'm honored to talk about this lady with her groundbreaking resolutions in san francisco. leann has dedicated her life she is he sunshine she came from hong kong and is proud of your public schools attending both arena junior high school and listen to this supervisor breed she graduated if you're high

school >> go lions like i do and supervisor breed pr she went on to uc berkley for they are flawed degree and got her credentials from the university of san francisco. both her children graduated from public schools and in the education fields following in their mothers footprints which one group of parents wanted to see an immersion program in san francisco so see if it could work this is geez thirty years ago we spoke about the preschool and about many of the same folks that started woody allen me school were behind the west portal elementary school leann

was hired to develop the cantonese program in district 7. while, in fact, she was my older daughters kindergarten teacher and had a lot of influence why my daughter is an emergency room teacher. she was an engaged teacher and worked tirelessly with the teachers. today, you've language immersion program is a national model expiring other schools across san francisco. after the success of the program in 1995 helped to launch the alternative school. the first public chinese

emergence school in the nation and, in fact, the school my other daughter was the president of the school now in public education so you influenced both of my daughters. and leann a builds relationships monk students and parents that's effective. under leann as leadership it's grown the school has grown enormously and it's won the distinguished school ward in 2012 she's a try innovator she builds a platform of success in her students while being a strong mentor to educators so many educators have come to me

she say you know the principle leann a expired me. in 2012 leann a was selected from the united states school of education. leann a we're grateful not only in district 7 but throughout outline san francisco you've established a legacy that will beneficiary decades of folks and thank you for being a role model for all of us. thank you very much >> wow. (clapping.) oh, good afternoon. president chiu and supervisors of our beautiful school i got out of school early.

thank you for i don't know how to respond to it wonderful resume i sent my resume or my bio i have a short one one page i know chinese emergence education in san francisco i'm truly honored to be a recipient of the asian pacific islander american ward as the first to go to college in my family i understand offhand the access to opportunities my success is only there because of the support of my family and communicated theirs they're here. i reap the benefits of the sacrifice made by many asian-americans who blazed the trail before me. i stand on the shoulders of many inevitable asian pacific islander americans heros i want

to random one giant hero ms. alice even though she was born in 1905 in california she was told to go back to china when she was growing up. she was told she couldn't be a traefrn in our schools she was inclines but he overcame discrimination to become the first chinese-american teacher in our public schools in 1926. as supervisor yee mentioned in 1924 when they talked about the emergence the school board we encountered many of the ovations

from the school members why are we spending tax dollars and teaching chinese now many people want their children to be bilingual now because of the unwavering of the opportunity support and leader like supervisor yee and many in the audience our school district embraces our first chinese american school next week we'll celebrity the twot anniversary we're proud to say we've proved to not only being a viable school opposite but providing 21st century world-class education for the residents in our world-class city. so i'm very grateful to this recognition i have to thank my

family and my children but my family other close family at our school. i'll continue to work towards shattering stereotypes and building the community i'll conclude with a families proverb >> (speaking foreign language.) >> perseverance and determination and dedication are the very could he ingredients to success i'm truly grateful for this honor thank you very much. thank you

(clapping.) >> our next presentation will be by district 6 colleague supervisor kim. thank you it's wonderful to see who we honor in our district and as we recognize and honor our history we recognize leaders from the asian pacific islander that continue on in the heritage to make change and being leaders in our community. and today, i have the honor of

recognizing a father and son team from the tenderloin neighborhood christen fong and his family up to the front (clapping) (yelling). so my colleagues tire from me talking about the tenderloin what makes the neighborhood special are the people that live and work there i'm welcoming two christian ton and roger wong christen and his father pastor are the heart of tenderloin. and i'm honored to recognition this family today for asian pacific islander heritage month. i want to start with the story of pastor wong who came to america in the 70s from taiwan

after being abused by his father vermont he came to america he worked in america after coming out of the grace of yard shifty was waiting for a tow truck he noticed a young boy being physically brutal listed not wanting to get involved he drove away with are heavier heart he felt the presence of a divine presence and wondered how it would have felt to be bullied and next day roger and it's father made up up 50 sandwiches and the following week he brought his wife to the tenderloin and then san francisco impact was born it is

now a volunteer nonprofit organization that concludes 5 departments today, we have 11 thousand 189 individuals every month through their come up kitchen program they run a thrift shop and offer affordable closing and have block parties. their church does doird outreach and run a k to 12 school program and run a health center it serves 2 hundred and 50 patience it goes on and on. they have tenderloin sunday street and the tenderloin was such a success and got the attention of press for something that's been going on in san francisco but the residents were

blown away no other you sunday streets have the massages and dog washing and free clothing and free markets it was moving and behalf to see. what has always struck me about the tenderloin is the changes throughout the drug use and low level crime arises a bigger challenges on how much you can give and expect to love and do positive change and many have taken on the call and roger and his family are part of this extraordinary response to the call to service but what's marrow amazing which of you wonder what the next generation b will do and often the children protest and go on to do

something different. christian start off in the private sector but recently took on the executive director of the san francisco impact christian was working for a second health care provider in 2011 a close friend called him and finally told him how he survived sex traffic and she told him it was 4 blocks away from the impact excuse. christian resigned and decided to be back in the neighborhood to make sure that couldn't happen to any other resident. christian has been responsible for the investigators and there are now 8 thousand volunteers they bring into the neighborhood as well as to adapt previously

go forward privately s r o buildings to go door to door for resident who have given up and since 2012 they've adapted 23 buildings in the tenderloin. he started a small property owner pop up that have canals and others to develop a local economy in san francisco. i brought some of the products and i encourage you to come there whether their candles that was made he formerly lived at the hotel now we're giving craft skills to reach a wider audience. i should also mention that

christian loves chicken at ocean tie the 49ers and this tenderloin he's here with his wife and children who live in san francisco and i understand your expecting a fourth so congratulations to raising our children in the city. many of the staff are nougs the tenderloin along with their workshop program and originally the joe sites they'll use as transitional site. through the ministry reinforcing and christian have impacted change they want to build community and the change doesn't occur without the community and strengthening this is much hardly - harder to do in the

heart of the city. thank you very much for your work it's my honor to honor you today (clapping) (yelling) >> thank you very much thank you very much for honoring i consider it basically an incredible feat by my parents to have stuck in the tenderloin for thirty years he refuses to speak 0 an interesting story. when we got the overwhelm on sunday night to come and receive the award i had been reading news from about 10 years ago in san francisco that mayor gavin newsom pledged my father was doing a hunger strict it was ten years ago, i was joking with any

dad dad pits quite strange upper doing a hunger strike in front of city hall for no other reason to stand up for the tenderloin he wanted to parks cleaned and 10 years later i'm receiving an award so god must love me more. i'm kidding i started to tell that to my dad and any mom said we end the hunger strike on may 6th it's been 10 years to the day it's funny 10 years ago he was out there starving 80 to death so all that to say two quick things my dad is my hero he overcame insewer

mother-in-law things to make it but what saved him was not focusing on several but focused on oothdz that's therapeutic and our city was named an st. francis that's the heartbeat of the city impact focus on others. i love the tenderloin that's something that our family we have to watch the warriors until they fired the coach we live and eat and breath tenderloin you may ask why it's simple some of the significant things happen in the tenderloin i got my first john and my dad saw the young man being beat up there are

cambodi cambodian gangsters and now they're on mission i met my wife in the mission so i took her under my wing and showed her the organization we have 4 kids in san francisco and we drive a suburban >> we were married on john's street and my sister had a street closure for her wedding we don't separate our lives from this community but some of the dramatic things happened in the tenderloin i almost ended my life on taylor a close friend of mine was traveled out of the district i've lost a dozen friends who have died by

themselves. and so i know what it's like to have incredible highs in the toinld of meeting our wife and getting married and have incredible lows we have a core value ootsdz the attained we have humility we are the people in the tenderloin (clapping) and i'll say one last thing was we close we're a crisis institution and since i was a teenager i read that christians have had a bad name and reputation we we deserve some of it but i had this deserve that potentially one day we'll show the city that there are christians who don't picket and

point out out things in individuals can we be more like jesus and care for the poor and even when it's we receive no government money but to serve the people and be a blessing to the city. we're not he receiving the award alone we have the great volunteers we put them up against the giants. we have volunteers and our tireless adorns it's because of those great men and women the best days are ahead of tenderloin. i just want to close by saying this is why we do this this is a voicemail from tom on the sixth

floor. chris this is tom quicklyly i'm structuring spiritually i need a call from you i'm at the - coming quigley please call me right now >> i received that 7 months ago tom called we'd invested two years of friendship and three weeks after that he jumps out of the window to his death realizing that thirty thousand residents living in the buildings we want to build relationships so we thank the city for honoring us but we have a long way to go. thank you very much

(clapping.) thank you workers' comp and thank you to the city impact (clapping) supervisor breed district 5 you are up >> finally. we get to district 5 and kernt

come on occupy e up his the owner of an amazing generate board that opened in the hate ashbury in 1996 >> 94 for the reason why you're being honored is not because you own the incredible skateboard shop but opened the door through creating skateboard opportunities through bridging the skateboard with the arts and creating maiming opportunities like the one you did in 2012 at the african-american culture complex the skateboard that kent sells unless you're from the bay area you may not always know who the people are on the boards

where it's korean where you did is an opening he instills pride for thoseville's who have succeeded in various capacities not only in the bay area all over the country he used skateboard and arts we featured them at the african-american exhibits that was really incredible and we have greats or are like one pope person who was an incredible day to enjoy the art and skateboard and use this where what i consider a vehicle of social changes through expression we really appreciate everything you've done in the skateboard community whether building a legal ramp in the back of our store i can't

describe how amazing this ramp say you know san francisco and houses are extremely close to each other he built this huge skateboard ramp in the back of his store and available free for young people to skate. he's been supportive in terms of helping to build the skateboard park in the katrero park and the one south of market and born and raised and continues to put kids first and use skate board of supervisors 89 it influences education and social development and art. his business allows to give back to the community something that puts a smile o