joining us in the studio is darla .arl even you have a great program call rethink your drink . >> right . summer campaign is in the fourth summer and it started in 2007. we is had a conversation with the health officer in almeda county x. shared the story of big box store and seeing the family wheel out a cartful of cases of soda and thought we need to do something about that. >> how much. >> in a cola 17 tea spoons of sugar. >> that is a lot of sugar. >> and we know. >> right. and we know that the average american is eating close to 100 pounds of sugar a year. that breaks down to a quarter of a pound a day. >> you have 26 tea spoons of sugar. that's what the average person is consuming on a add sugar. what success do you have? >> we launched the campaign after we did the campaign. it was adopted to the collectative. and they joined us with a good success story. >> we have. we have had a number of personal testimonials that they gave up and lost weight and feel better. we did it with household telephone survey and they

my name is darla bernard. i have been a member of the community since 1989. i'm here in support of tony and his restaurant. many of my friends have enjoyed his restaurant. many of my friends are asian and they too, like karaoke. i urge you to support the karaoke machine. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners in. my name is elmer patry. i've been in the north beach neighborhood since 1985. i would like to say -- basically hello in thai. i spent a lot of time in thailand as well. i'm here also in support of tony. i -- as i'm sure you commissioners know, there is different types of people in north beach and i certainly want to say that tony and his restaurant is one of the good groups that i certainly support and certainly hope that you will understand that and be supportive of his desire. thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm from japan. i live in north beach. japan is the original country of karaoke and many japanese people have a karaoke machine at home and they enjoy the karaoke. some people enjoy that every day. kara

>> good. >> and, darla, seven years ago before the surgery, was there an alternative option for the gis was home. and macy had to stay a little bit longer, about a month or so longer for her to heal up. >> but now they're normal, very active young girls, they do just about everything, right, darla? >> they're very independent. they have chores. they take care of animals at home and they're pretty normal 7-year-old girls. >> you all moved out to a big farm, i understand, in iowa in 2003. so they have how many dogs and horses and cats? is it ten horses? >> yes. >> yeah? >> three dogs and four cats. >> you have a farm then all right. six kids total because you're raising the girls along with your three sons, too. it's a pretty full house. >> it is a full house. >> and your situation, they're foster children you adopted as babies and looking at what a wonderful addition they've been to your family. >> yeah. they were our foster kids for about 18 months and then we had the opportunity to adopt them so of course we jumped on that opportunity. we wanted them all along. >> and, girls, i see yo