we do a great job in the lower haight.e any other local or merchant association, you guys can do it as well. and if you need any input on anything, from crime in your neighborhood to how to do an art walk or event, just please contact the lower haight or haighter's nation and you can get in touch with either thea, dick, myself, or devon, joe, lisa, any one of us. so, please feel free to contact us. we'll be more than happy to help you, okay. >> thank you. (applause) >> thank you. ♪ >> and next i'd like to introduce a gentleman who needs no introduction here, especially in this room, but the director for the department of public works for the city and county of san francisco, mr. clean man, robin nu for our next award. (applause) >> how is everyone doing? >>> good. >> are we excited? >>> yeah. >> all right, thank you. first of all, congratulations to all the awardees and to nen for doing such a great job. it is very, very important to honor all the people who are working hard to make our city be the beautiful and greener ci

i love the lower haight because it's like a family. it's a real community.mazing place to eat. it's amazing place to shop. it's amazing place to be. and you are so deserving of this award. and i couldn't be proud eras district 5 supervisor and also as a resident of the lower haight. so, thank you and congratulations on your award. and i'm just here to actually crash the event, to just say congratulations because you all are some of my favorite people in this district. thank you very much. (applause) >> can i leave or you want me to stay? >> oh, stay. supervisor breed, thank you so much for being here. it's always a pleasure and it is a great mesh tower stand on this stage with you in your new position as supervisor of district 5. it's a great honor always to be able to recognize the incredible work that is a.m. done by people throughout our city who really do the work once all of us from the city and our partners leave the stage, as it were, because as the supervisor mentioned, once we're gone, we need other people to pick it up and make sure our streets are

and this is from a blog called uppercasing.com that covers the upper haight here. this very spot that i'm standing, at haight and belvedere, you could see a whole bunch of police officers. according to the blog, there was a mob of about 100 people following a brawl and it took hours to dissipate. the bottom line here, they're saying $15,000 to pick up five tons of trash just yesterday. >> they did clean it up, though. all right, joe. thank you. >>> canada says it has thwarted a terror plot. authorities say two men were scheming to derail a passenger train on a route that goes from toronto to new york city. the suspects were in the planning phase and getting outside help. >> the individuals were receiving support from al-qaeda elements located in iran. >> the two suspects have been under surveillance for more than a year. as far as anyone can tell, the plot was not linked to the boston bombings. >>> and as , talking. adriana diaz on what he is saying tonight. >> reporter: juliette, he is talking in writing to authorities and we have learned that he has told them tha

one of them is randy haight. >> this is no way to spend your life.ng about being in prison and being on death row, especially, because there's so much idle time, is you've got a lot of time to examine yourself, think about the things that you've done, think about the opportunities you had in life and squandered them. >> haight ended up here after he escaped from another jail and robbed and killed two people. >> the jury found me guilty of a double murder and robbery and being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, and that's what i'm on death row for. i know that what i done was wrong. i deserve to be where i'm at, whether they execute me or i spend the rest of my life in prison. i've accepted that. >> the men who share the death row facility rarely break the rules of the castle. >> their basic behavior is directly related to them being able to say in their clemency plea that we were good guys while we were there. we didn't -- we didn't create havoc. we weren't violent, we weren't all of these things and try to obviously portray the good thing

i used to work as a coworker on haight street. and i still remember black people coming in and i didn't know black people lived in that area on the haight street. but i think what we need to know, this exemption should not -- appealing for the exemption is important because if you look here, monitor, environmental not only affects the esthetics of the neighborhood, but it also affects people mental and physically. and if you go out to bca and were seeking wellness on the 17th this month, they have environmental justice tour that takes you to bayview. people are dying in bayview at 30 and 25, boys and girls, because that environment and justice out there in that area has been so unthought of. but this is a good time to join in and get environmental and come back and redo this because the environment just doesn't affect -- it affects people's health, physical and mental. so, this would be a good note -- [speaker not understood] and is earth day april 20. keep the green. remember, the environmental tour on the 17ing. they take you th

the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over

we areher here in the average eight -- upper haight. you will be competing in the quick buy food challenge. an appetizer and if you are the winner you will get the title of the quitck bite "chompion." i am here with matt cohen, from off the grid. >> we assembled trucks and put them into a really unique heurban settings. >> what inspired you to start off the grid? >> i was helping people lodge mobile food trucks. the work asking for what can we get -- part together? we started our first location and then from there we expanded locations. >> why do think food trucks have grown? >> i have gotten popular because the high cost of starting a brick and mortar or strong, the rise of social media, trucks can be easily located, and food trucks to offer a unique outdoor experience that is not easily replaced by any of their setting any worlwhere else in san franc. san francisco eaters are interested in cuisine. there adventuress. the fact theyuse grea use great ingredients and make gourmet food makes unpopular. >> i have been dying to have these.

there was a capsized row boat floating around near the haight street pier. there was no one on board. it's a possible hazard so crews pulled it to shore. >> chp officers across california will be on lookout tomorrow texting tomorrow while driving. it's part of a crackdown supported by highway safety dollars. they estimate 28% of all crashes annually, 1.6 million involve drivers using cellphones or texting. >> a legal defeat for apple. they denied the company's application to trademark the ipad's mini. they ruled the term mini describes a smaller version of an existing product. apple holds a trademark for the term ipad in the u.s. and several other nations. apple has until july to appeal the ruling. >> ahead, a letter that leading to a nationwide debate. a woman's words of wisdom to female college students have some outraged. hear more from the author ahead. >> taking you live outside right now, the wet weather isn't over just yet. leigh glaser will let you know what to expect for your morning wish. >> louisville has horrifying injury. women were so... [ gasp

of restoration, now therefore be it resolved that we join the community, the advisory committee, haight-ashbury neighborhood council and other groups for the recreation and park commission to work with the mayor to find the necessary funds to restore the track to the original standards. passed unanimously by the members on this date and submitted by myself, chair. >> thank you very much. >> this week i got to spend some time in washington dc at the in fact recreation and park conference for urban park directors and i joined them in meeting members of the interior and transportation and white house to talk about the park system and federal legislative priorities and the meetings were productive and i think we are developing a better handle of existing federal grant opportunities particularly those in urban development and for bikes and open space and we going to be developing those in the months to come. i wanted to let you know about the three legislative priorities that urban park systems are advocating this year in congress. one is full funding for the water and conservation fund. the departm

i host open mic at the haight. i'll be here tomorrow for thursday for poems under the dome. offer a short poem. this relates to unused public spaces. the garden of humanitarian. the garden of humantarians in golden gate park is deserted. the wooden green benches and tables sit vacant. where has all the ben he have lance gone? i enter the grove and find a crumpled up pack of cigarettes and orange peels scattered on the ground. as far humanity goes, this place is forgotten and forlorn. still, the birds sing from tree limbs over the yellow of these ever present flowers. thank you. and i encourage each one of you to visit your district branch library and look at the shelf for poetry. it's usually only about this long. and i think that can be expanded and each neighborhood branch library should have books of poets from that neighborhood and the city in general. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. let's hear from our next poet. >>> next poet indeed, supervisor. bobby coleman from the tenants union and other groups where i organize poets, writers and artists. i want to tha

haight here is my point. last august i remember mitt romney saying how he was against pot and not just the integration of pot but he was against medicinal pot. he was in colorado and most people who want recreational pot voted for obama. the republicans have been talking about how they need to reach out to latinos and black people but i don't hear any of them talk about legalizing pot. also another thing is this. at the beginning of the year there was about 15 minutes on c-span and you had a man on that was pro and then you had a man on, a republican congressman from the heritage foundation again that was against pot, the legalization of pot. it was the same thing like today. i heard earlier on talking about how there are for limited government and yet these guys come out against legalized pot. >> host: thanks for your comments. we will get an answer from beau kilmer. >> guest: no, if you look at the latest polls a study done by pew that got a lot of attention a couple of weeks ago and it came out that 52% of

it is not about park merced, treasure island, haight washington or cpmc. those projects all proceeded under full environmental impact report. we already have clear and transparent appeal processes for full e-i-rs. instead, this legislation aims to bring that same clear and transparent appeal process that we already have for e-i-rs to smaller projects, particularly categorical exemptions and negative declarations. many of these projects are small home projects, small business projects, park projects and other public projects. as we saw yet again last week, when somebody appealed the negative declaration for the dolores park renovation, one person, one single person, can appeal and potentially delay a project even if hundreds of community members participated in the design process. indeed, under our current rules, that appeal can occur when the project is already in construction. that appellant who filed the dolores parka peel, as with other appellants, has every right to file that appeal, but we should at least have clear rules and deadlines in place. the [

i live in the haight neighborhood and i visit buena vista park. many times i walk by the house at 61 1 buena vista. i ask the board to deny [speaker not understood]. this is a small addition and one of the most beautiful homes in the area. it has no impact on the environment and even features green growth. the city should deny the appeal and not side with the appel apartments to exploit the city rules to protect their own private views and interests. i'm also very concerned about what your ruling today would mean for the small homes -- small homeowners like myself in the city. the cost to rehabilitate in san francisco is one of the highest in the country. often the best option for a young family already in possession of property is to do a small expansion of a home to make it more family friendly. this is the best time for homeowners and a benefit to san francisco, needs for more family friendly housing and for bringing young family in the city. the planning commission and the city has permitted the expansion of the home at 61 1 buena vista west,

we have goldfish all up and down haight street. but permission by the property owners. so, that goes into it also. >> there will be a yellow brick road somewhere, too. we're going to go -- do you want to respond to this? >> i'll respond very briefly. my experience with graffiti vandals is that they are actually quite smart and adaptable. if they know that the graffiti on the sidewalk is staying because something has changed their responsibility or accountability, they will target your sidewalks. what i would say is don't wait for people to report it. because they may not know that it's not permission. they may not know they have a right to report t. they may not want to upset their neighbors, their fellow business people. if you see it, by law enforcement or code enforcement officer, city staff, committee member, change the culture. if the graffiti starts showing up on your light poles you're not used to paying attention to that, they will know that, the graffiti stays there, they will target your light polls. we went from zero on light polls in van kao to hundreds and

some extra time to consult and collaborate with merchants, residents and neighborhood leaders in the haight. we have reached the compromise that reflects everyone's input although everyone is not completely satisfied with the outcome. i wanted to thank the recreation and parks department for working with my office and the community to find creative ways to find amenities in our parks and activate under utilized space and i look forward to seeing more bikes in albert lake and throughout san francisco. the other thing that's happening and actually just started this past weekend happened, happens every year in japantown, the northern california cherry blossom festival. this is the 46th anian cherry blossom festival. and this weekend the festival will be on both saturday and sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in japantown located primarily at polk street where it crosses webster. so, i hope you will join me. but also the parade will be this sunday. it starts at city hall at 1:00 p.m. and it concludes in japantown at approximately 3:00 p.m. it's an incredible parade and it's really festive. and