tv [untitled] November 5, 2014 4:30pm-5:01pm PST
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the leadership to make it a realty want to thank our city agencies for working hard to put this on the ground as quickly as possible tilly chang the prop a dollars that helped to fund this today and, of course, edward reiskin but also with an night the engineer that put this on n place an significantly street the sf pd side commander is here oh, my god oar commander ali and commander and i will i is the traffic commander to make sure you're increasing the enforcement in the tenderloin and the south of market and the city to make sure we're telling the chiropractors and pedestrians what how we can share the road altogether so a
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big congratulations and thank you to everyone that was involved in making this a realty (clapping) >> thank you supervisor green again, that's the kind of leadership we need to make 24 happen and finally you've heard a lot from the supervisor and the neighborhoods this was built from the grassroots up and the strong support from the folks but it is new to make those things happen sometimes we don't have the level of support but the stronger support the easy to get this into the ground and no one epitomize misses this and relay people in the neighborhood to make things happen please join me in welcoming mother jones. >> (clapping) >> well, you guys its opinion 8 years i've been working on this
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project i'm ms. jones a head of organizers working with the city collaborative that is a great day for the community traffic is real bad down be significantly street this is a day i learned a new word collision so embodying i want to thank mta oh, united players those are the soldiers that keep our babies safe thank you devices so much and the communities it is our community and what we do with the community to help our kids in the future but god it is just amazing i never thought i'd see this day we recent the highest rate of collisions in significantly street and it is really hard especially, when you're a senior we need to widen the streets we need to fix those trees for
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wleerz can go by without getting stuck we need work on significantly and howard and work on howard and kidnap i'm so glad it is finally will happening i can see my dream obviously the kids in the community marching down the streets it is amazing thank you guys so, so much you have absolutely no idea what this means to me and my united players all right. now (clapping) thank you, thank you the mayor. >> thank you jane kim and the staff i want to thank each and every one of you i might want to hug everybody thank you (laughter) (clapping). >> thank you mother jones every community fluids a leaders
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e leader like this before we through the switch i want to acknowledge our executive director nicole schneider and advocate for making the streets safer and one of my bosses a member of the board of directors from the san francisco mta raul ramos one of the biggest champions for delivery of those projects and a lot of mta staff i want to acknowledge tom maguire (clapping) and our manager of liveable streets probable for making streets safer for bikes and pedestrians and people in cars mr. smith one of the engineers and the folks at p, and folk see that made it happen at this point, we're ready to through the switch our engineer should be on standby and ask the mayor to lead us in a count down to
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♪ the san francisco. the reporter: has many opportunities to get out and placing play a 4 thousand acres of play rec and park has a place win the high sincerely the place to remove user from the upper life and transform into one of mother nachdz place go into the rec and park camp mather located one hundred and 80 square miles from the bay bridge past the oakland bridge and on and on camp mather the city owned sierra nevada camping facility is outings outside the gate of yosemite park it dates
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back before the area became is a popular vacation it i sites it was home to indians who made the camp where the coral now stands up and artifacts are found sometimes arrest this was the tree that the native people calm for the ac accordions that had a high food value the acorns were fatally off the trees in september but they would come up prosecute the foothills and were recipe the same as the people that came to camp camp is celebrating it's 90th year and the indians were up here for 4 thousand we see every day of them in the grinding rocks around the camp we have about 15 grinding sites in came
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so it was a major summer report area for the 92 hawks. >> through there are signs that prosperity were in the area it was not until the early part of the century with the 76 began the construction of damn in helpfully a say mill was billed open the left hand of the math for the construction by which lake was used to float logs needed for the project at the same time the yosemite park and company used the other side of the camp to house tourists interesting in seeing the national park and the constructions of damn when the u son damn was completed many of the facilities were not needed
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then the city of san francisco donated the property it was named camp mather the first director it was named after him tuesday morning away amongst the pine the giant sequoia is the giants inventories first name if our title is camp means there's going to be dirt and bugs and so long as you can get past that part this place it pretty awesome i see i see. >> with a little taste of freedom from the city life you
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can soak up the country life with swimming and volley ball and swimming and horseback riding there you go buddy. >> we do offer and really good amount of programming and give a sample p of san francisco rec and park department has to offer hopefully we've been here 90 years my camp name is falcon i'm a recession he leader i've been leading the bill clinton and anarchy and have had sometimes arts and crafts
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a lot of our guests have been coming for many years and have almost glutin up, up here he activity or children activity or parent activity here at camp mather you are experiencing as a family without having to get into a car and drive somewhere fill your day with with what can to back fun at the majestic life the essence of camp mather
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one thing a that's been interesting i think as it evolves there's no representation here oh, there's no representation so all the adults are engine i you know disconnected so there's more connection the adults and parents are really friendly but i think in our modern culture i you know everyone's is used to be on their phones and people are eager to engagement and talk they don't have their social media so here they are at camp mather how are i doing. >> how are you doing it has over one hundred hundred cabins those rustic structures
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gives camp mather the old atmosphere that enhances the total wilderness experience and old woolen dressers and poaches and rug i do lay out people want to decorate the front of thaifr their cabins and front poefrnz their living room is outside in this awesome environment they're not inviting their guests inside where the berms are people get creative with the latin-american and the bull frogs start the trees grow and camp mather is seen in a different light we're approaching dinner time in the construction of the hetch hetchy damn the yosemite park
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built jackson diane hauling hall to serve the guests it does was it dbe does best service s serve the food. >> i'm the executive chef i served over 15 hundred meals a day for the camp mather folks breakfasts are pancakes and french toast and skranld eggs and hash brown's our meal formulate is we have roost lion it's reflecting of the audience we have people love our meals and love the idea they can pick up a meal and do worry about doing the
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dishes can have a great time at camp mather after camp people indulge themselves everyone racks go in a place that's crisis that i air after the crackinging of a campfire a campfire. >> the evening is kept up with a tenant show a longed tradition it features music i tried this trick and - this talent show is famous for traditional things but we have
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new things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the first 7, 8, 9 being on stage and being embarrassed and doing random things >> unlike my anothers twinkling stars are an unforcible memory ♪ ♪ ♪ admission to camp mather is through a lottery it includes meals and camp programs remember all applicant registration on line into a lottery and have a rec and park department family account to register registration typically begins the first week of january
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and ends the first week in february this hey sierra oasis is a great place to enjoy lifeiest outside of the hustle and bustle and kickback and enjoy and a half >> everything is so huge and beautiful. >> the children grew up her playing around and riding their bites e bicycles it's a great place to let the children see what's outside of the city common experience is a this unique camp when you get lost in the high sierra wilderness camp
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giants, huh? >> so good morning, everyone. welcome to the san francisco wholesale produce market and the dedication of the first lead goal produce center in california (clapping.) i'm larry president of the market value board of directors on behalf of my colleagues the staff and our partners which are the markets merchant and especially the merchant because they get up at midnight at 2:30 i 2 o'clock in the morning so it's late day for them thank you for being here (clapping) for more than one hundred and 25 years we've been a vibrant part of the culinary history san francisco's restaurants and hotels and grocery stores large and small rely on the product
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market for fruits and vegetables some produced by merchant since 1863 when the market moved from the contemporarily we had a place insuring the bay area residents and visitors will have ready access to a custodial new delight today with the opening of this this and the four new warehouses our really to the industry and communities are insured formulas innovate half century i want to thank the city's daepg and department of workforce development as well as the the san francisco investment funds and behalf for the financial backing to bring this to completion
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(clapping) ladies and gentlemen, it is now my great pleasure to introduce the 43rd mayor of san francisco mayor ed lee. >> go giants also (clapping) i can't think of a better theme but the success of collaboration so moved sometime ago when i was the city administrator and sophie making well led the effort to educate us about our infrastructure in the city and then when i became mayor a few years ago another supervisor of this district, of course, the current supervisor supervisor cohen also continued that education and introduced me to a lot of her friends and the producers but i've got to say for a great city like san francisco and personally for me,
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i used who i growing up i used to work on up in seattle they had farms i picked berry's corner and beans and this was my summer job i had lots of fun, i would ride in the back of a truck and throw grapes hitting cars going the opposite way but former supervisor maxwell and current supervisor supervisor cohen is also is have been wonderful leaders for this district and center of production this is part of a valuable center for the entire city of san francisco if not the region this is where the greatest most prestige now the 3 mission stars within the county of san francisco i just found out about they're getting their
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produce from japantown to the mission, to at all the great restaurants here your tech companies cafes for the workers get their fresh produce right from here and our greatest stores r our grocery stores our organic stores are get their storage and distribution right here those jobs and what the facility represents is something that i think in many other cities if i don't pay attention to it as i know this was the purpose of former supervisor max wells and supervisor cohen you don't participation to our light industry you're going to pay for it very dealer in the future and were paying for it in a nice way we're getting a great benefit out of it after all the phases larry when
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this is done which might take 20 years we'll take our time to make sure it's done right not only will get even though lead produce center the only one i know of in the entire country that is starting a new trend you're also making sure that all of our restaurants, all of our food descriptions and grocery stores have this we have center for all the farmers to come or whatever ungoldly hours to distribute here and bay if you're ever hungry at two or 3:00 a.m. come down are here like supervisor cohen is trying to get me here for chicken in the morning but i wanted to say those are great paying jobs, in fact, when necessarily we complete the additional phases
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over one thousand full paying ongoing full-time jobs will be at the center and we have done what i think the supervisors want to us to do as a city reinvested not only the general fund created out of their own economic center we invest it in this place and then it if we are smart about it i think the supervisors and mayor's office have been smart to get the community fund involved and gotten extra dollars we'll make things like this happen over time larry said this is now been one hundred and i think one hundred and thirty years in existence that you need to renewal of the centers you need modern refrigeration and more
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space trucks are getting larger and phase two will be about the roads around here we'll condominium to mar our smoother roads and phases three and four will be about the sheds we have to pay attention to the sheds this works as an entire system what i learned from the very first day i became mayor, i learned it when was industry administer as well don't forget our farms or where the food comes from that's how we know over and over glen eagle golf course and supervisors you were talking about making sure our schools learn we should have kids come down to this site to learn where the food comes from and how it is gotten here and has to be kept fresh
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