she was my asb vice-president 1992. i know, don't tell them, but she was great there. and i really appreciate principal mr. black shear to be here and also i have some of my associate student body officers here and i really do want to recognize norman yee because he graded from galileo and he's done a lot for our school here. that's something i want to pass off an i started student teaching at galileo about 1970. that's 43 years. everyone says how old are you and i keep saying, i forgot. they ask me what do you teach? i teach biology and sociology. in school if it's broken you learn physics, if it smells you learn chemistry, if it jumps, you learn biology. okay. now, one of the questions that students always ask me is what made you stay this long, 43 years at galileo because i'm really not a product of san francisco. i was born and raised in santa rosa. but i had the people from the chinese community they said we would like to have you student teach there. they wouldn't let me go after that. and i had this principal from another high school, i saw it stones town and he

owner of a restaurant ins s asb park. memorial weekend is only two weekends away.the jersey shore summer tourism season. how much of the area has come back? >> i think for tourism purposes it's come back quite a bit. most of the boardwalks are going to be open. a lot of the businesses along the boardwalks will be open. so i do encourage people to come down. i think they'll see the shore the way they're used to it. but in terms of homeowners and a lot of small businesses, we still have a long way to go. many homeowners still have not been able to come back and haven't had the money, frankly, because their insurance hasn't been paid out or the federal funds have not been forthcoming yet. so there's still a lot to be done in terms of homeowners coming back, repairing their homes, rebuilding. and also for businesses as well. >> speaking of small businesses, marilyn, your restaurant was seriously damaged by sandy. six months later, how tough has it been getting back up on your feet? >> it's probably been the worst six months of my life. i've had some tough things happen