Mayor Ed Lee, Muni executive director Ed Reiskin, and Supervisor Jane Kim will be among several city officials participating in Walk to School Day on Oct. 5.Overall, 44 city schools will take part in Walk to School Day, an international event aimed at drawing awareness to pedestrian needs and goals. Lee, Kim and Reiskin will all walk to the event’s featured school, Marshall Elementary, in the Mission district.
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Lyn-Tise Jones, a 25-year-old native of the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, was the mistress of ceremonies at the recent Maisin Scholar Award Alumni Reunion. The Maisin Scholars program provides financial support to San Francisco students in underprivileged neighborhoods. Jones graduated from Fisk University with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication and sociology and now attends St. Mary’s College in Moraga.
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AT&T showed off a recent cell site upgrade to the network that serves the Bayview-Hunters Point area of San Francisco, and representatives said the neighborhood will benefit. “People don’t just want to talk -- they want to connect,” said AT&T spokesman John Britton.AT&T representatives said the upgrades would enhance mobile broadband coverage to the area.
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One of the concerns we pointed out in a story on Sunday about a city effort to rebuild eight of San Francisco’s most decrepit public housing developments was that one of the sites, Alice Griffith, depended on $40 million in matching redevelopment funds.
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San Francisco’s black exodus is continuing at breakneck speed, and its Latino population is growing slowly as California’s soars. Meanwhile, Asians now make up fully one-third of The City’s population, gaining steadily on the non-Hispanic white population.
Click on the photo to the right to see more census data.
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Lafayette Park has a neighborhood group that advocates for it. So does Glen Canyon Park. And Dolores Park has several.
But the 11 parks in the Bayview-Hunters Point area have not had a loud advocating voice, and local resident Geoffrea Morris wondered if that was why those other parks are getting renovated while the parks in her neighborhood seem to be in a state of perpetual disrepair.
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