in community, sharon hewitt, co-share. i want to thank you, grandmother, sharon. we miss you but know you aren't gone. we're doing what we can. although i'm sure we're not doing enough, to continue your work. so if her daughter has made it up, i don't see her yet, this award will be presented to her when she comes in. she has a baby with her and had to leave work. but i want to also present this commendation to the many people whose lives she's touched, the folks who, especially hear from the tenderloin and i think i see dee-de coming in now. and i want to thank you dee-dee foefor sharing your mother with. this is a roomful of people whose lives she had touched. (applause). (applause. >> i wouldn't be standing here if it weren't for her and your family so i want to say thank you. >> i'm sorry, i couldn't hear if you were finished. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you, president. i want to say, you know, i want to thank supervisor hain earthquakes for doiney fordoing. very few people have the capacity to provide leadership in several communities here in san francisco

hewitt. i wanted to ask for many of those here to for sharon, can yu please stand?thank you for being here. i appreciate it. so there are many things that we could say about sharon. she was known to many of us as san francisco's own grandmother for social change. she was the cofounder of the tenderer loin people's congress and the founder and executive director of the community leadership came and emergency response project, which offered peer to peer empowerment and civic engagement programmes for victims of violence. she's had an impact on every neighborhood in our city from the bayview where she did most of her early work to ingleside, to the western addition and she stood up against violence, against guns and against hate and for diversity, love and peace. she was a quintessential peace-healer and maker and if she knew if she did that successfully, she had to be an organizer and irritator. where there was pain, suffering, fear of hate, she didn't look away or ignore it, she went directly toward it and would use whatever means necessary to make sure we did the sa