>> right outside cafe trieste as the cornerstone for angela alioto's plaza that she is putting in there. >> i wouldn't have a problem with it coming here. it is an italian neighborhood. if they want it here, put it here. >> reporter: the arts commission hasn't picked a place yet. but st. francis is the patron saint of animals. maybe a dog park. one thing is for sure. ask a san franciscan and one idea doesn't have a chance. >> what if they try to put it in santa clara? >> i think it's st. francis, not st. santa clara. >> reporter: in san francisco, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> saint francis could cost the city. just cleaning it up and moving it is looking like buy $200,000. >>> this is a unique idea. the san francisco zoo is offering a special promotion. >> someone in the marketing department thought of this. instead of a valentine's day gift for your significant other this one lets you get back at someone. adopt a scorpion. they are usually found in low elevations and they sting their victims. so there you go. how about a madagascar hissing cockroach? a certificate of adoption will be sent to

sal's uncle was the mayor of san francisco mayor alioto and during the '70s became the executive vice president of something known as the pacific far east line where he again got to travel the world as a mariner. in his pseudoretirement years because he never actually retired, he was an avid tennis player, playing in tournaments every weekend at his beloved napa and coming home to be at the waterfront ~ in the wee hours of the morning, he was known for walking around the waterfront in his exercise at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning checking up on everybody, [speaker not understood]. so, last week he he passed away in his late 80s and there will be a celebration and a mass, actually, a funeral mass of his life this coming thursday at 10:30 a.m., thursday november 20th at st. peter's and paul's church in north beach. and we are going to really miss him, but he was extremely fond of the waterfront, particularly of the port and its maritime history and its maritime future. so, as i talked to a number of different people, everyone has to remember what a gentleman he was in his tennis playing y