me as a member of this board of supervisors and our whole body, it's my honor to recognize brother tony robles as our honoree from district 1. tony? [cheering and applauding] >> thank you very much, supervisor mar. and to think that i thought you were going to take me out to joe's ice cream. [laughter] >> i didn't expect this. let me just say for the record, if not for a poet by the name of al robles, you would be saying tony who because that was a real organizer, a real man. i don't consider myself to be a great organizer, not even a good one, but i'm a poet like my uncle was. just a poet, just a dreamer. filipino-american history month is observed in october. it commemorates filipinos landing in morrow bay, part of san luis obispo, manila trade that started in 1865 and lasted until about 1815. 250 years of transferring, 200 to 300 filipinos each time, okay. many jumped ship. 101 people in contrast came over on the mayflower. now, by the time the mayflower got here in 16 20, there were over a thousand filipinos here on the west coast. we've been here, we have a rich and a very rich and powerf