there is jose cisneros. we thank him for his strong support. as well come a department head, commissioners assembled. this is our 18th sister city. formally, our relationships go back to 1957. the idea behind sister cities began when then-president dwight eisenhower recognized we need to reconcile that there were agreed -- disagreement between nations coming out of world war ii and the best way to reconcile the disagreement was people to people that love to say. people, representing cities, perhaps could get it right. that is when the sisters to the movement began. hear, it began with our first sister city in the osaka in 1957, 1st diplomatic relations between the u.s. and japan. we had the privilege of being there is a couple of years back to celebrate the 50th anniversary. if you walk into the international room, you will see that the mayor from a sock and had not been enlarged robot celebrating the 50th anniversary. since then, 17 others have been established. this is number 18. we recently celebrated some significant milestones. 38th annive

[speaking spanish] our treasurer, jose cisneros, senator torrez. thank you for being with us here tonight. i love you, dad. [applause] i also want to thank assemblywoman, senator leno, congressional representative jackie spear and, of course, the office of the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and thank you to all for being here tonight. all of them contributed and have certificates of honor which they'll find in their bags which were generously donated by the p.u.c. tonight. and i want to say thank you to all of you for being here. and once again, to conclude tonight's ceremony, we have for awful you again, our -- again, i wanted to thank our sponsors, of course, because without comcast, yerba buena engineering and construction, without pse&g and at&t, we could not be here tonight. and most importantly, because we believe in education and its importance to our community, we budgeted so well this year that we can make a little announcement. we have four $500 scholarships that we'll be able to give to four promising latinos who will be graduating

of the board of supervisors, president david chu, supervisor maxwell, subp-- superviser chiu, jose cisneros, the former mayor -- we are all proud to have you here. thank you. we have a special supervisor because he represents this district and has been looking out for laguna honda since he was elected. we are very grateful to him for that and for all he did to make today house -- to the possible. police help -- please help me recognize supervisor elsbernd. >> good afternoon, and welcome to beautiful and sunny san francisco. i would also like to single out and think my friend and colleague and recent father, supervisors mirkarimi, who is over there with his son, for all he has done. there are a few more things that i would like to offer. we are going to hear from one of the two directors of the laguna hospital foundation, and i would like to single out the volunteers who are also here. thank you to the volunteers. [applause] for more than 50 years of service to laguna hospital, thank you to the volunteers. we recognize the architect, but also recognize turner construction. they are the feder

the process and made sure we got the support of their colleagues to steward this forward, and jose cisneros had been trying to organize this, but knowing it would happen, he had to put the whole thing together, and he reached out to some partners in city bank, and we got some folks in stanford, university stanford university interested -- we got some folks at stanford university interested. all these groups said, "we love this idea." de gates foundation said they were interested in the idea, and we are here because all of that has come together. the notion is simple, and i will not take up much time except to say this -- once a mind is stretched, it never goes back to its original form. if you can create that quality of imagination, you can give kids as young as kids that were just a year, a kindergarten, thinking beyond lunch and beyond recessed and talking about a college education. that has a transformative impact on their lives. do not underestimate the notion of a mind that is stretched. if you cannot think it and cannot see it, you can never necessarily be it, but if you start thinkin

the process and made sure we got the support of their colleagues to steward this forward, and jose cisneros had been trying to organize this, but knowing it would happen, he had to put the whole thing together, and he reached out to some partners in city bank, and we got some folks in stanford, university stanford university interested