mr. john haley to introduce them. we have frank lem, an electronic minutes system supervisor, here for 21 years. the able leader at the presidio. wun wong, with 18 years of service. douglas glee, electronic trances it -- assistant supervisor of the 21 years. ms. peterson, 21 years of service. more years than i have days. [laughter] myra tellabs and nim lem, with years of service given to the people of san francisco, it is all extraordinary. the work that they did to drive down the generation of waste is what we are recognizing today. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you. i will actually turn the microphone over and i will say only two things. one, you do not get the kinds of results that they got by not being passionate at the job. please make sure that you dispose of your waist before you leave. [laughter] i will say that the extraordinary effort described started but a banana peel. -- with a banana peel. [laughter] >> that afternoon, all. i was asked by my supervisor to be the zero waste coordinator. i found

mr. john irwin, a museum owner in our area that specializes in preserving the history of the pap latch chan region. upon mr. haley' departure, he had asked mr. irwin if property came up for sale in this area, please, let him know, that he would be interested in coming this way because at that time he lived in california. so it was six or eight months or so after mr. haley's departure from the world's fair, this facility came up for sale. it was a 125-acre farm, and the johnson family owned it and put it up for sale through their heirs. so mr. haley came out, and mr. irwin brought him down to look at this farm, and mr. haley just absolutely fell in love with it. the only two things that were on the property at the time of the purchase was this two-story white house and the capt lever -- cant lever barn which how olds the langston hughes library. mr. haley just fell in love with it, so he set about at that time to purchase it. i think it was in purchased of around 1984. a lot of times we would do entertaining for him on the facility across, in front of the library. we would set up the wig black iron kettles on bric