i would come down here and began volunteering. when i first walked down that driveway of what used to be a garage, i noticed that i was on sacred ground, holy ground, if you will. there is an era of compassion and love and service and dignity and respect that i do not find any place else, and that is why i keep coming. 15 years, and i hope i can do even more. i wanted to share a very short story with you that sort of speaks to my experience here on a weekly basis. just before christmas, the wednesday before christmas, one of the guests motioned to me and said, i want to tell you about this new show that i have seen. and he was very excited to tell me about an old show from the 1930's and how it was now being seen on his computer or laptop at home. after a few minutes, i took up his enthusiasm and energy and i sat down with him, and he continued to tell me the story and how excited he was. although it was not something that i know about particularly, i found that we were just two people sitting in a dining room and sharing some tim

and released volunteers disguised as angels. these are people who give up their holidays and their free time to come and help people like me who are in need. but we must remember that even though we are so sad to see these walls go, we have something great to look forward to come a new and more beautiful walls. hopefully these walls will be more modern -- [laughter] and they will provide a facility for our staff and our volunteers to continue to serve and blesses through the years. i hope i will be a around another 35 years to appreciate this. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. one of our goals with all of our programs is to make sure that they are integrated, so that whatever door or program a guest interest, it opens up into another program that they might access to help them. father alfred is one of our programs. a 12-month recovery program for men to the gentleman who byrd as bad in that program also help us out in the dining room. some of them do blessings. -- they also help us out in the dining room. they do bless

>>> and the movement in which volunteers help people in ways government doesn't. but for a world long on edge of fear between war of super powers, maybe his most notable achievement. now, president george h.w.bush, the man and his mission. >> i don't think you'll ever find a more thoughtful or considerate person than george president. >> president bush is probably most complete person i've ever met. he left in history... and he is smart. he is humble. >> he is active in the un. >> he's funny. he's spontaneous. >> he was director of central intelligence. >> i remember we first started a campaign for president in 1979. he had this speech he would give about the obligation and promises and rewards. he would say my father a sense of public service. >> i would say people don't understand what that means. average voter isn't going to get it vice president for eight years, then president as the united states, george bush's mission was to make sure everyone got it we have work to do. there are homeless, lost, roaming. we need community service to help everyone as a gift t

i move around volunteering. and i learned about people, all the different ethnic groups and different classes of people. i want to say that i recommend it to the young people. volunteers. and go after the young peoplehood, give them a reward by letting them volunteered. if you never say to them, come on land, i have 50 letters i want you to address whether you have good handwriting or bad, you will be surprised what will happen to the kid because he is going to read the letter, and he is going to be informed of something he did not know about before. so you get information that you wouldn't have otherwise. this clearly is rich with the ethnic groups. i just love them. you know what? i can never understand all of them. i just look at them and say, i see. a lot of things i don't understand. i've got a sudden, it is time for you to shut up. and i am going to shut up. i want to thank the supervisors for recognizing this. there is a way of letting me know because i do have a hand where i'd go some folks are. i want t

i move around volunteering. and i learned about people, all the different ethnic groups and different classes of people. i want to say that i recommend it to the young people. volunteers. and go after the young peoplehood, give them a reward by letting them volunteered. if you never say to them, come on land, i have 50 letters i want you to address whether you have good handwriting or bad, you will be surprised what will happen to the kid because he is going to read the letter, and he is going to be informed of something he did not know about before. so you get information that you wouldn't have otherwise. this clearly is rich

çthey will be walking around to make sure that you, the volunteers, had everything indeed.ed something&j, let us know. ok? have a wonderful day. [applause] >> this is one of the museum's longest art interest groups. it was founded by art lovers who wanted the museum to reflect new directions in contemporary art. it has been focused on artists in this region with an eye toward emerging artists. ♪ it is often at the early stage of their career, often the first major presentation of their work in a museum. it is very competitive. only a few artists per year receive the award. it is to showcase their work to have a gallery and publication dedicated to their work. ♪ i have been working with them on the last two years on the award and the exhibitions. the book looks at the full scope of the awards they have sponsored. ♪ it has been important to understand the different shifts within the award program and how that is nearing what else is going on in the bay area. -- how that is mirror beiing wht else is going on in the bay area. ♪ there are artists from different generations some

of loyalty and duty, part of his legacy as the example he set in life and the movement in which volunteers become, quote, points of light, by helping people in ways in which government doesn't. but with a fear between the super powers, managing the peaceful end of the cold war may be his most notable achievement. now president george h.w. bush, the man and his mission. >> i don't think you will ever find a more thoughtful or considerate person than george bush. >> president bush -- he's probably the most complete person i have ever met. >> if you look at his history... he was a member of congress. >> he is smart. he's humble. >> he was chairman of his party. he was ambassador to the u.n. >> he is funny. he is spontaneous. >> he was second representative to china before we had an embassy. then he came back and he was director of central intelligence. >> i remember when we first started to campaign for president in 1979, george had this speech that he would give about the obligations and the promises and the rewards of public service. he would go out and say, my father inculcated into me, a

volunteers putting their lives on the line. three firefighters have been seriously burned while fighting a fire in prince george's county. we have more on why volunteers risked their lives and how serious those injuries are. >> two of those firefighters are in critical condition. third is still being treated for injuries to his rib. they are alert and conscious. they were injured while trying to escape this riverdale home. >> what firefighters described as a blow torch coming out the front door. >> that have a gust of wind made a blowtorch type of effect out through the house, created a fireball affect. >> 7 firefighters were heard. four of them were treated and released with minor burns, but three are still in the hospital. if mike mcqueary is being treated for injuries, while the thin and kevin remained in critical condition. one of them has burns on his respiratory system and the other has second and third degree burns covering 40% of his body. >> third degree burns are much worse carrot for first-degree is like a sunburn. t

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it is a committee of volunteers. we need for six months out of the year to plan our celebration every year, and without everyone being a part of it, this would not have happened. please thank them and give them our round of applause. [applause] this is the seventh year we are part of the city's official celebration. i want to thank mayor edwin lee and his entire staff. members of the board of supervisors, the apa official elected families. this is the first year with ask for a personal contribution to our celebration. i want to thank both of you. last, but not least, the celebration every year has included a lot of community efforts to spread the word that the month of may is apa heritage month, to put on the kind of public relations effort need to in the city and county of san francisco. we will have a reception in the green room afterwards. no contribution is too small, but i would like to take this opportunity to invite our major sponsors up here as we do have an appreciation gift for you. to start our work, i wou

and so, that's how we run this garden is through volunteer labor. >> yeah. yeah. i like this farm so much since all these fruits and vegetables growing here. >> you know, there's a victory gardens history in san francisco when people were growing-- i heard up to 40% of the city's food was grown within the city limits. and i feel like that's totally realistic. >> we're starting trails of new agriculture of new things. we have peach trees. >> my mother-in-law always says she wants green beans and things like that. i'm like, "don't go to the store! i'll bring you some." you know it's right in the garden. she loves the organic beans as opposed to her beans. so, you know, everybody's just getting healthy around here. we need this in our community. >> if you know what nature is, you can survive through nature. >> the u.s. department of agriculture says there are thousands of community farms and gardens throughout the country. >> being a small little market garden, it's not as if we!re growing a toof food. but we are showing people in urban places like san francio how th

remarkably he still had time to volunteer. >> even while a student at yale he was active in all kindsmpus service activities including raising funds for the united negro college fund. >> he graduated with honors earning a ba degree in economics. he and barbara now proud parents of their first child george w. set out to texas. he was going to try his hand in the oil ex poploration business. >> went the day after he graduated from college broke down the little red studebaker. he was offered a job there. he needed a job. he had a wife and a baby. by 1949 he had a second child. the bushes began making a life for themselves. he started his own oil company. they immersed themselves in their community always finding the time to give back. >> he was involved in creating little legal teams and additional activities that benefited the city and the region. >> almost bred in his dna to give to others the values that led him as a young businessman in midland, texas to help found the first ymca in 1952. not something he did for political gain. >> in 1953 their first child john ellis was born. sadly

everyone else is a volunteer. >> it's not only good for them it's good for us volunteers. >> the citiesting creative. some are appointing volunteer czars to find new way to use free labor, like in social services and education. all the while hoping to avoid a war with organized labor. in seattle, dan springer, fox news. >> john: up next on "special report," mitt romney's big push in his native state of michigan. [ male announcer ] chicken broccoli alfredo. mushroom smothered beef burgers. hearty chicken and noodle casserole. so easy, you just need campbell's cream of mushroom soup to make them and a hungry family to love them. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your ruy nose. [ deep breath ] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast spes. we'l

>> exactly. >> people were less likely to volunteer. reason it's happening even though cell phones are inherently designed to help other people, once we use a cell phone for a couple of minutes, we have this feeling that we are already connected to those people so basic need to connect is satisfied and we are less likely to help other people. >> wow. >> and was this a study that went on over a long period, did you study large groups of people. >> we ran a couple of experiments. we varied how we asked people. sometime. >> we ask people to draw a picture the cell phone and think. and we got the exactly the same effect. >> even if they weren't on the cell phone. >> yes. >> thinking. >> drawing a picture of it and thinking about the cell phone. >> had exactly the same effect. >> tell me what a typical question would be that you might ask. >> we would have those advertisements for local college park, help the homeless and we were just helping getting people volunteer. people who were in cell phone groups were less likely to volunteer. >> wha

an all-volunteer run organization. thank you to the panel of judges for this incredible honor. really, really just surprised and humbled by it. and with that said, i share this award with my fellow nominees, andrew and nikki. you guys are amazing. please continue to do everything that you're doing right now. because you guys are an inspiration to us all at hyphen. somebody very important that i would like to thank as well, melissa hung who was sitting right over there, melissa, can you wave? [applause] she's actually the founder of hyphen magazine eight years ago, if melissa did not have the vision to create our very own asian-american publication, hyphen would not be here today. so thank you so much for that and for the opportunity to serve. and of course vincent pan from chinese affirmative action for giving us a space to do all of our work. there was a time when we were floating around. and carrying out boxes of magazines from garages to garages. our readers, donors and volunteers. just one thing that i would like t

, there are far fewer volunteers than there used to be.er, many areas offer junior firefighting programs like the one here at the fire academy in bergen county. these programs are open to boys and girls 16 and older. if you're interested, check with your local fire station. that's it for this week. thanks for joining us. >> we'll see you next week on "teen kids news." >> here's a shout-out to american troops serving in pakistan.

so many people have volunteered. many school sites have requested readers. anymore volunteer readers. we need you to go to the website, www.sfedfund.org, and signed up. blogging you into a school site, we fill the school site and move on to the next one with vacancies. that is an imperative step that people are forgetting. they think, i am with the school districts all i can go to a school site. but the ed fund is coordinating the sites that still have vacancies. it is imperative that if you want to do it, it is from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 on a friday morning. if you go to the website and say that you're coming so they can contact you or you can plug into a training, which is just 30 minutes, which we need to do it. it would make a world of difference for facilitating the process and make this happen. i want to thank all the volunteers who have said there were to participate grid we have many elected officials, several of our supervisors, our new supervisor olague and i cannot remember all the others. but there for is spreading in many school districts and the s

a fair and balanced look between city workers and volunteers coming up.e mfd blast major baseball's drug testing procedures the day after reversed suspension over a drug test. ryan braun reacts ahead on "the fox report." >> there is a new kind of bailout helping keep cash trapped cities afloat. it's not costing taxpayers a dime. instead taxpayers themselves are doing city jobs that budget cuts eliminated. they are doing it for free. according to a volunteering in america study. 63 million people stepped up last year and worked more than 8 billion hours without the promise of a paycheck. ultimately that happened local governments save more than $170 billion. this volunteer initiative appears to be gaining popularity. dan springer is live in seattle. dan, how do these cities get so many people to go to work for nothing? >> yeah, john, it seems simple blue they ask and people are generous here in this country willing to step in when there is a need and yackima fixing up low income homes and painting over gravity. they come from churches, work training progra

. >>> volunteers rush into disaster zones when they get the call. some 900,000 have headed to northeast japan since the disaster last march. but fewer and fewer are visiting the region. now a travel agency wants to give people opportunities to witness the reconstruction process firsthand. nhk world explains. >> reporter: these people join a three-day, two-night tour from tokyo last week. the 24 participants span generations. they range from high school student to office work er. first, they took part in volunteer work. a heavy layer of snow greeted them on their arrival. their assignment was to clear piles of snow from outside the temporary housing, built for the disaster survivors. women and elderly participants helped with indoor work. the tour costs about 20,000 yen or $260, including transportation and accommodation. the tour organizer believes it is difficult to gain an understanding of local communities through only a few hours of volunteering. >> translator: volunteers didn't have much time to interact with local people until now. i hope thes

i'm proud to have volunteer firemen. >> here in gore, volunteer fire fighting isn't heroic.s what neighbors and family do for each other. today, we were reminded that it is in fact heroic and the cost can be very high. in gore, virginia, scott broom, 9news now. >> certainly can. zach whitacre was riding on the rear of the fire truck when his dad lost control, according to the west virginia state police, who also noted the road was icy at the time. >>> usually in a trial, the public and the media can see the evidence, but that is not the case for much of the evidence at the uva lacrosse murder trial and today the judge denied a media request to make it possible to see and evaluate things. like george huguely's video taped statement to the police. bruce, we want to know why. >> yeah, derek, it was tough to listen to the huguely video tape that was played back here on friday. we could not see it because the prosecutors put it on a tv monitor here that was visible only to the judge, the jury, the lawyers, and huguely. all the public and the media got to see was the back of the t

thank you to the volunteers of the planning committee, supporting organizations, and last but not leastthe sponsors who made this celebration possible. great troubles, everyone. see you next year. -- great tavels, -- great travels, everyone. see you next year. [horns honking] announcer: the first step to getting into college is finding someone who can help. for the next steps, >> this is holly lee knox. there are some proud pet owners in san francisco and they have brought all their pets here to strut their stuff. >> it's an annual event that we've had. this is our 18th year. we bring in rescue groupers, vendors, supporters, lots and lots of animals. it's a proud day for us and for the animals of san francisco. >> the costume contest is really fun. people get really creative. it's a really fun event. people go all out, create costumes, buy costumes, whatever it is. but there's some really fun ones. >> we're just celebrating the pets and just their companionship and how they are invaluable. so everybody's having fun. >> we're the city's open door shelter. that means we take in every anim

and look at our grooming program and volunteer program and many say, hey, this >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area food. we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come together beautifully. >> many to cut out all this talk, and let's go shop. yeah. ♪ >> what makes your dish unique? >> i like it spicy

>>trace: and we have a big spike in volunteer cops.alifornia they outnumber paid officers 3-1 and do everything from investigations to arresting bad guys. >>trace: not everyone is happy about the volunteerism. >>guest: unions are pushing back. seattle is an example, among the top ranked volunteer cities, and the labor union is fighting it saying volunteers are not trains, they are not reliable and they take work arm from their members. so they have demanded the city bar volunteers from staffing recreation centers, driving work trucks, or even using power tools. >> we have to police that. because the work is being erodes and these people that are working have lives and jobs and families and they pay taxes in the community and the city's job programs. >> so what has the city done after 14 percent budget cut? let the grass grow in parks and sharply reduce hours at recreation centers. some cities have not had that problem, though. trace? >>trace: thank you, dan. justin bieber not happy about a mobile app called "joustin bieber," but does h

if you would like to help or volunteer, use the link on cbssf.com, click on the "connect" button, top of the page. and then jefferson awards. >>> we'll be right back. coming up tonight at five: ,,,,,,,,,, man: we need a good night's sleep. woman: which means a little heat to keep us warm. and a good dose of support for my back. some over-the-top comfort couldn't hurt. and our perfect dream factory's been built. you're feeling sleepy already? nighty-night. of some new digs. >>> well, today's tip of the day is going to be is white grapefruit. at one time you saw it at the market you bought the red and pink but you wouldn't buy the white because usually it's associated with bitter grapefruit but certain growing areas in florida are coming up with this variety with great flavor. when you buy them, nice and yellow all the way around. skin nice and shiny. free from any shriveling whatsoever and heavy for their size. like all citrus, the heavier, the more juice and less pulp. store them on the counter. look at the juice just coming out. look at this. this is what i call a great grapefruit. l

çthey will be walking around to make sure that you, the volunteers, had everything indeed. ok? have a wonderful day. [applause] >> the question when i started 11 years ago when i started doing resolution work is can anything be presented on a really low resolution device where it is potentially a digital image? can anything be presented that way? or will it feel cold and electronic? >> the imagery will change. there will be four different sets. it is a two dimensional image. it is stretched out into three dimensions. the device is part of the experience. you cannot experience the image without the device as being part of what you are seeing. whereas with the tv you end up ignoring it. i make gallery work more self and budget and public art work where i have to drop this of indulgence and think about how people will respond. and one of the things i was interested in the work and also a little fearful of, it is not until you get to the first and second floor were the work is recognizable as an image. it is an exploration and perception is what it is. what are you seeing when

we have staff attorneys and also through volunteer attorneys.we are part of the bar association of san francisco, so we leverage $13 million worth of pro bono services every year from the private bar. just last year, we calculated 1600 attorneys provided over 45,000 hours of pro bono services to our clients. it amounts to about 25 full-time staff members. we collaborate with the domestic violence consortium and i would agree with mr. mcnolan, in the ideal society, we would have staff attorneys representing every single lead again. financially, i am not sure -- every single litigant. financially, i am not sure it is possible. we want to make sure justice is served. the volunteers represented 140 tenants and eviction cases, provided a full scope, they represented 1000 tenants in limited scope, and another 270 people dealing with custody issues. [chime] president chiu: thank you very much. mr. collier? >> good afternoon, members of the board. i am a staff attorney at the tenderloin housing clinic. i think you are aware of the work that we do, we ar