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October tech help 2013 NEW too tech PUBLIC URINAL for the TL CBD trial toilet san francisco Yammer’s training is for men only Page 2 uses software that ‘She’s a Saint’ group doesn’t have
By M a r k He di n he tax-break tech compa- nies got an earful from some of Tthe neighborhood organizations they’re benefiting, and a warning from a city official to keep the benefits flowing, at the Citizens Advisory Committee meet- ing in September. The city also got lambasted by com- munity members for lax monitoring of the community benefit agreements. Representatives of several nonprofits came before the committee to describe how the promises of tech support made by Twitter, Microsoft, One Kings Lane, Ze- ndesk, Zoosk and 21Tech in their agree- ments have been working out. The six “beneficiaries” who spoke up expressed gratitude for the help they’ve gotten, yet were unafraid to point out FARMERS some shortcomings. Diana Yu, employment specialist at ON THE Vietnamese Youth Development Center, Rev. Glenda Hope, founder and executive director of S.F. Network Ministries, drew a crowd of was effusive about three students landing ROOF 360 at her farewell dinner, a fundraiser for her pet project, the SafeHouse for former prostitutes. $15-per-hour, part-time summer intern- ships at Zoosk and Zendesk. On the other hand, she said, Yammer’s Gardens training at a lab in the Westfield Centre used equipment more advanced than the growing in the youth center’s, “so we can’t use the short- cuts and could not utilize the training.” neighborhood Kathie Lowry, Larkin Street Youth Ser- Page 4 vices chief development officer, said Twit- hope retiresSafeHouse began after Hope had sought ter granted the agency $15,000 last year, out women of the street, not for religious con- even before it had signed its CBA, but still Ministry ends versions or repentance, only to ask what they doesn’t have a system to request a renewal, needed most in their lives. A safe place to live, as she normally does with other benefac- they said. And that became Hope’s goal. “The tors. Lowry was asked by panel member after 41 years women broke my heart, the way they were Robert Marquez about the promotional TENDERLOIN broken,” Hope said. tweets that Twitter’s report touted as part Among the crowd that had trolled vege- of its contribution to Larkin Street. OBITs: tarian food islands during the silent auction “We don’t have the capacity to take serving the TL were several SafeHouse graduates. One, Toni advantage,” Lowry said. “Ad campaigns 2 WHO DIED Eby, was a featured speaker. A military veteran are something we weren’t able to engage St ory a n d phot os by Tom Ca rt e r who fell on hard times in her early 20s, she in.” She added that Larkin Street would William McLeroy, said she had become homeless and dispirit- “welcome people who are experts in the ev. Glenda Hope shrewdly put it all ed. An addiction led to prostitution. She was (tech) field” along with “training, hard- Brenda Bowman on the line by linking her retirement broke, she said, with no hope for the future, ware and software — and money.” then no will to live. Page 7 Rswansong to a fundraiser for one of her Dilraj Kahai, 21Tech co-founder, had cherished programs, S.F. SafeHouse for wom- “Six years ago I came with nothing but the in tow the head of a local firm it says it is en escaping prostitution. And it paid off. clothes on my back,” Eby said, her voice qua- mentoring. He presented Joe DiPasquale, More than 360 guests who had been vering. “And I was greeted by a loving staff.” CEO and founder of Regroup, a mass-mes- touched by her 41-year career with Network Treatment programs followed that helped saging company he was teaching such Ministries converged Sept. 25 for the festive her deal with the trauma of street life. Safe- things as procuring government contracts evening at Patron Hall in St. Mary’s Cathedral House paid for her college courses. Now she and how to register with the city as a mi- to honor the diminutive 77-year-old Presbyte- works at the SafeHouse desk, has a 3.67 GPA nority-owned company. rian minister and use their credit cards. Most and is well on her way toward a degree. Because Regroup has numerous and paid $125 to be there. “It truly, truly works. She gave us hope.” varied investors, DiPasquale told the com- It was also the 15th anniversary of Safe- Eby got the second of three standing ova- mittee, it has been unable to register with House, started by Hope and Sister Rosina Con- tions of the evening. The others were for Hope. the city as a minority-owned firm.K ahai rotto, and Hope’s biggest fundraiser ever. Safe- The entire evening was a Glenda Hope took pains to inform the committee that House has graduated more than 250 women. lovefest. At the hall entrance, sipping a glass DiPasquale is part of the LGBT community, Her announced goal from the raffle and of red wine, her hair stylist hovering, she but that is not a qualification for a minori- auctions was $25,000 and, hopefully, she said, greeted most with her trademark warm hug. ty-owned designation for purposes of win- someone might toss in a house that the pro- People not just in the Tenderloin but ning city contracts; only ethnicity counts. gram could call its own. Now, SafeHouse is in throughout the city and the Bay Area have Under questioning from the panel, a leased building in the Mission. It accommo- known her as a multidimensional woman of DiPasquale said he met Kahai some years dates 10 women for up to two years, its pro- the cloth with ideas and action, resolve and ago at a Silicon Valley event and kept in grams helping them reshape their lives. But stubbornness tempered with a droll sense of touch, and had recently moved his com- expenses are hefty, such as $1,000 for eight humor, aggressively supportive and alternate- pany to San Francisco. weeks of psychotherapy and $500 for eight ly defiant. Her low, slow Georgia drawl seems DiPasquale told the committee that weeks of case management. incongruous for her slight, 100-pound frame 21Tech’s assistance — begun last year, pri- “I had a dream that Larry Ellison moved and white hair. Her clerical collar, winsome or to 21Tech signing the CBA — has been to New Zealand and gave his house to us,” smile and compassionate blue eyes have ➤ C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 3 Hope said at the lectern, her typical wit near- worked wonders for her from the street to ly bringing down the house. “But,” she added City Hall. In battle, the smile vanishes and wishfully, “there’s someone here tonight who the eyes glaze into an icy stare. She’s been is going to give that house to us.” ➤ C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 6 Experimental public urinal recycles the waste
By Tom Ca rt e r the new site’s neighbors. The CBD will esults from the 12-day public be sending them letters, Hilliard said. Rtoilet offering on Ellis Street in The CBD has been in the forefront July show a surprising success, Dina of establishing a portable public toilet Hilliard, executive director of the Ten- for the Tenderloin, whose sidewalks derloin CBD, reported at the Friends of and streets are relentlessly abused as Boeddeker Park meeting in September. an outdoor bathroom. The CBD gave The trial run was to see how the Hyphae the first $20,000 in 2011 to de- open-top PPlanter urinal created by Hy- velop a prototype. phae Design Lab of Oakland would be The PPlanter occupied two parking received in the neighborhood. Hilliard spaces in a white zone in front of Youth said there was no graffiti during the trial With a Mission, which volunteered the and “20 to 30 gallons of urine was col- space. YWM on Friday afternoons offers lected” during the trial. The urine was free showers to the public. combined with water from 50-gallon Hilliard later gave more details of barrels next to the urinal to nourish the the July 12-24 trial run. About 75 peo- ple used the urinal, based on estimates PPlanter’s attached bamboo vegetation. Photo courtesy of Tenderloin CBD The PPlanter is now retired and from Wayne, a man “who had been vacationing at the Tenderloin Nation- sleeping on Ellis Street” and monitored The PPlanter, developed with $115,000 from the city and $20,000 from the al Forest but will be used for a new the project and performed nontechni- Tenderloin CBD, has a planter box that is attached and filled with growing bamboo, facility that Hyphae is building. It will cal maintenance for “a minimal amount” the greenery nourished with the diluted urine. feature a toilet and two urinals and is of money. planned for the street in February. “He was checking every two hours “We’ve applied to the Department for 24 hours a day, but obviously couldn’t of Public Works for a permit for it for a he there all that time,” Hilliard said. “If it Homeless can spruce up year,” Hilliard said. But DPW was not ea- was trashed, he cleaned up.” ger originally, she said, puzzled because There were no needles found, she “all the money” for the new design said, but the first day had three instanc- aboard bus with a shower came from the city. The city contrib- es of “pooping” in the urinal. A no- uted a $35,000 Community Challenge poop sign was made showing a squat- “Lávame” means “wash me” in Spanish. With a little twist to personalize grant and an $80,000 block grant. ting man encircled in a red ring with a a great idea, the word became Lava Mae, a new nonprofit raising funds to Earlier, Mohammed Nuru, DPW di- line through it “and it never happened customize a bus with mobile showers. rector, said he isn’t sure if there’s a need again,” Hilliard said. “Pretty incredible. “It would have two completely separate showers,” says Lava Mae found- for this facility or if a short-term pilot We didn’t know what to expect. People er Doniece Sandoval, “and the bus would move daily on a schedule we’d set could adequately assess the neighbor- were really respectful once they knew.” with partner organizations — public and private — that lack showers for hood’s problems and determine bene- But after the PPlanter was removed, their homeless clients.” fits. But Hilliard said from subsequent many feces piles appeared near the Sandoval’s figures $75,000 will outfit one bus. She hopes to raise discussions she’s had with DPW that area, according to Hilliard, “a reason to enough money to take delivery of the bus by November and begin testing the department favors the chosen new put it back there.” the service early next year in the Tenderloin. location — one parking space on El- It was assumed that men only used She’s going after public and private funding and is doing crowdfunding lis in front of Boeddeker’s north gate. the facility. It is uncovered and the feet through IndieGoGo. That’s already brought in $47,000, and a little goes a and head of a person using it can be Before going5x4_ad1.pdf ahead, 1DPW 9/17/13 wants 4:09 to PMsee long way: A $25 donation can pay for a day’s worth of showers — 100 feedback from the CBD’s outreach to seen.“We had one complaint over a chances to get clean, Lava Mae estimates. lack of privacy,” Hilliard said. The plan is to have the side of the bus carry the organization’s motto: “Delivering dignity, one shower at a time.” th — Marjorie Beggs SF BUSINESS Vote November 5 VOTES for a Better 2013 Economic Future! C
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By Tom Ca rt e r 21Tech names Silicon Valley crony as local group it helps
➤ C o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 1 public resources,” Wilson said. “The city “a godsend for us.” Although Regroup needs to be more actively engaged.” is 21Tech’s poster child for providing Hospitality House Development tech help to the community, DiPasquale Director Daniel Hlad, a member of the conceded: “I don’t know what a CBA is.” CAC until his organization got $10,000 Regroup’s Website lists no street from Twitter for its art program — forc- address, and The Extra’s attempts to ing him to step down to avoid violating contact the company, just like all of our the CAC’s conflict-of-interest rules — attempts to reach 21Tech, failed to get told The Extra that Twitter had also pro- a response. vided some training workshops on how to use its technology to promote Hospi- Michael Anderer-McClelland, vice Photo by Mark Hedin president for mission at De Marillac tality House, and had vowed to encour- Academy, in reply to a question from age staff to support a fundraising event Microsoft subsidiary Yammer offered training sessions at its Westfield mall store. CAC member Brad Paul, said that on Oct. 24 at Arc Gallery on Folsom Street. Twitter’s and Yammer’s “Days for Good” Hlad criticized how the city admin- (Twitter provided Catholic Chari- reports and said he expects all six firms events, dozens of volunteers swarmed istrator has handled the CBA process ties six MacBook Pro laptop computers, currently enjoying the tax break and his school but only a handful ever re- — for example, not responding to CAC with the stipulation that they go to fam- executing CBAs to reapply for 2014 turned. members’ repeated requests to recon- ilies, thus leaving out the organization’s and be joined by the music-sharing What a school needs from its vol- sider the conflict-of-interest rules — and many senior clients.) Website Spotify, which is moving into unteers, he said, is “consistent, regular, he thought the May purge of four CAC The committee elected Marquez the Warfield Building. long-term relationships” for sustained members over an unusual and compli- of S.F. Mental Health Clients’ Rights Ad- Barnes said the companies, in gener- after-school programs, tutoring and cated attendance rule was extreme be- vocates vice chair, and added an Oct. 3 al, were making “good progress” toward workshops. cause it was based on a “technicality.” meeting to its calendar in hopes of re- meeting their commitments, but he also The one-day events, he told the The city’s lack of active oversight of viewing this year’s CBAs and providing fired a warning shot across their bows. CAC, “are more orientation for them the benefit agreements was also cited feedback for next year’s agreements be- “If you complete less than 80% than volunteering.” by Cancino, who pointed out that Twit- fore the city administrator and the tax we’re not going to even discuss a CBA Raymon Cancino, program director ter’s quarterly report lists providing 30 break companies get too far along in next year, or the tax break.” at Catholic Charities, and Joe Wilson, laptops for a new Catholic Charities negotiating them. (The 80% completion figure is writ- community building program manager youth program, dubbed Laptops for “We’re not in on the negotiations, ten into all the CBAs as the threshold at Hospitality House, also addressed the Success. However, he said, the comput- we’re in the prediscussions. If we’re go- companies need to meet to be com- committee. ers “have not happened yet.” ing to evaluate, it’s going to take a few pliant.) Unofficially, the companies are “The issues of jobs, housing, dis- A few days later, he told The Extra months,” Marquez said, recalling how expected to spend approximately 30% placement and affordability for non- that Twitter had told him the laptops little public or CAC input went into of the value of their tax break on their profits remain.” Wilson said. “We are awaited only identification stickers fine-tuning the six CBAs being execut- CBA commitments, two community li- concerned with the significant develop- before being delivered. He said he’d ed this year. “That opportunity to really aisons have told The Extra. ment that’s going to affect nonprofits. simply been trying to drive home his engage in discussions wasn’t there.” Barnes also told the panel it had “Our organization has benefited, impression that Mayor Lee and his staff The city administrator is responsi- the option, but not the requirement, to but we’re only one organization, there “have not been invested in making ble for negotiating the CBAs with the make a six-month progress report to are only two companies,” he said. (Hos- sure that we’re taking advantage of the companies seeking the Twitter tax the Board of Supervisors and said that pitality House has received benefits situation.” Twitter “dictated” who got break, and for taking CAC input into he would work with District 6 Supervi- from Twitter and Yammer.) “We need to computers, he said, and “that’s been consideration when doing so. sor Jane Kim to request a hearing if the make sure that happens in as many or- the whole process. They dictated terms Two representatives of the city ad- CAC wished. The panel voted to make ganizations and companies as possible. to the city administrator’s office, in my ministrator’s office were present. One, the report, with the expectation that “From our perspective, the CBAs opinion. The CAC doesn’t have much” project manager Bill Barnes, gave a cur- the hearing would likely be scheduled are about ensuring public benefit for say-so with the deals. sory review of the firms’ first quarterly for mid-October.
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CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / OCTOBER 2013 3 FARMERS ON THE ROOF Community gardens Illustration by Lise Stampfli are producing in the Tenderloin By Pau l Du n n ine stories high on the roof of a Tenderloin building, the sun Nis by day a micro solar flare hot- ter, the moon by night a nightingale’s breath brighter. “We want our gardens to be tools Up here — in the heart of the “We want our gardens to be tools battered 50-square-block neighbor- hood — fast, trouble-free food is king for us to reach out and organize and verdant vegetable plants quiver for us to reach out and organize at the warm touch, the sun powering the nourishing produce to resist the the residents, and for them to lead Tenderloin’s pull toward prepackaged the residents, and for them to lead food.When the sun sets and the moon rises, the peaceful garden reclines, healthy lives by eating the food.” awash in soothing silver until morning healthy lives by eating the food.” when it will stretch awake. By day and Lorenzo Listana by night, this is another world. Tndc community organizer This is Curran House, a 67-unit community family housing jewel in a tin setting that is the Tenderloin. The residence at 145 Taylor St. — which crops others harvested. “I go up there Residents at the 172-unit Kelly Cul- houses more than 100 low-income and and enjoy the garden to reflect. It’s a len Community plant in a dozen 6-foot formerly homeless people — is one of great place to be.” troughs like those at Curran House and more than two dozen buildings owned He’s looking forward to working have produced 30 pounds of food so and managed by the Tenderloin Neigh- the earth. far. Opened in May, it’s the newest gar- borhood Development Corp. “The benefit is enjoying taking care den among TNDC’s subsistence farms. Its rooftop garden celebrated its of the plants,” he said. “They are like But Cullen Community will soon first birthday on Sept. 19. Residents, your little pets or babies, and you take yield that distinction to 88-unit SoMa TNDC officials and others gathered care of them and watch them grow.” Studios, where a garden was planted there that sunny afternoon to celebrate On a sparkling morning a few days in late September in the building’s sec- the one-year anniversary of its progres- before the anniversary, Lorenzo Lista- ond-floor courtyard. Like its neighbor, sive green sanctuary. na was doing just that. The slender, it will also have a dozen 6-foot trough It isn’t the first rooftop plot in the soft-spoken Filipino wielded a garden planters. Tenderloin (that distinction belongs to trowel to puree soil in one of the 25 The rooftop gardens, though prized Glide), but Curran is coming of age at a galvanized metal feeding troughs the examples of high-flying spirit and in- time when gardens are growing in the garden uses for planters. novation, are small potatoes compared TL and are playing a variety of roles in The bright silver, 6-foot-long bath- with TNDC’s ground-level Tenderloin spreading the gospel about fresh food. tub-shaped planters — which together People’s Garden. Janet Chevalier, a Curran resi- contain about 9,000 pounds of soil — Inaugurated in March 2010 at the dent for six years, helped anchor the nurture green beans, corn, kale, squash, corner of Larkin and McAllister streets event, greeting guests and preach- mint, rosemary and more. Monthly — a cabbage throw from San Francisco ing the benefits of good food. She’s harvests range from 18 to 40 pounds; City Hall — the community garden is done just about everything the gar- in the first year the troughs bore more open to gardeners willing to hoe a row than 400 pounds of produce. and others who just want greens. den has asked: watering, plucking Photos by Paul Dunn crops and now simply “making sure This particular day, Listana plant- The sumptuous plot produces things are up to snuff up there.” ed Great Lakes lettuce. The erstwhile about 3,000 pounds of vegetables a Green thumbs Clockwise from top: Communications Director Maria Stokes, left, and Director of Building Operations Steve Hunter inspect one of Project Open Hand’s two empty volksgarden hydroponic garden wheels, which gardener is an oddity of sorts: He eats year and relies on 400 volunteers to they filled with plants in late September. Lorenzo Listana, TNDC community organizer, plants Great Lakes lettuce recently in the Curran House rooftop garden. Emcee Dave Seiler greets guests at the Sept. 19 anniversary celebra- ‘It tastes better’ the rooftop food he helps cultivate be- maintain it. Vegetables are harvested on tion of the rooftop garden at Curran House Family Housing. Graze the Roof Project Manager Lindsey Dyer, left, leads a recent Sunday morning tour of the Glide church rooftop garden. “There’s nothing better than get- cause he has lived at Curran House for the second and fourth Wednesdays of ting something fresh right out of the seven years, since its opening, and he the month and distributed to an aver- garden,” said Chevalier, 56, a retired educates other residents about garden- age of 400 people; the most recent har- In late September, it converted a our own staff and chefs be able to pick nary herbs, medicinal plants such as mul- Glide’s Cecil Williams House roof- take a pinch of herbs.” emergency medical technician. “I eat ing as a TNDC community organizer. vest yielded 330 pounds of food, Thayer 285-square-foot food distribution room their own food. And there’s an energy, lein, and obscure tubers like the South top garden sports a miniature green- Any extra food residents can’t eat is everything we grow in the garden. It He became acquainted with the TNDC said. into an indoor greenhouse, complete excitement and engagement factor in American yacon, which tastes similar to house, rainwater harvesting, worm shared with the community at the site’s tastes better than the grocery store.” gardens in 2010 as a volunteer at the with two “high-tech Ferris wheels.” doing urban gardening in the middle of apple and jicama. Situated throughout composting systems and resident-de- weekly farmers market. Event emcee Dave Seiler wouldn’t pioneering People’s Tenderloin Garden. push for ‘food justice’ Called “volksgardens,” — yes, they look the Tenderloin.” the rooftop, fig, apple, peach, plum, al- signed mural. “To me, the garden is a really good argue with that. Though he lives in an- Listana, 52, oversees monthly gar- The people’s garden — and subse- like large Volkswagen tires fashioned That excitement also rings true at mond, lemon and lime fruit trees anchor The garden was originally funded example of how we live in the com- other TNDC building, the 60-year-old den meetings for Curran House resi- quent rooftop gardens — were created from molded plastic — the 6-foot-4- Graze the Roof, inaugurated in fall 2008 their green neighbors. through a partnership with the San munity,” explained Ari Neulight, Glide drops by Curran every week to work in dents. “We want our gardens to be tools in response to TNDC’s push for “food inch-tall wheels cradle 80 built-in hy- atop the offices ofG lide Memorial Graze, funded through Glide Foun- Francisco Zen Center and augmented Community Housing clinical program the garden. This day — wearing a glit- for us to reach out and organize the justice,” which helps address the diffi- droponic planters that slowly rotate Methodist Church on Ellis Street, and at dation donations and grants, works by a $20,000 San Francisco Commu- director. “It includes working together tery gold top hat above his luxuriant residents and for them to lead healthy culty low-income people have securing around a 600-watt sodium halide light Glide’s other rooftop garden sowed in its magic on a $12,000 annual bud- nity Challenge grant awarded in 2010 to solve problems, celebrating together salt-and-pepper beard — Seiler extolled lives by eating the food.” healthy food. that mimics sunlight. 2010 at Cecil Williams Glide Communi- get, which is used to purchase garden through the mayor’s office. More re- and honoring the whole process.” the rooftop garden’s virtues. Though it’s the latest to celebrate “Food Justice is the notion that Each volksgarden accommodates ty House, 333 Taylor. materials and pay the salaries of Dyer cently, Twitter has twice helped sustain Some residents still have not “It is extremely helpful to grow a birthday, Curran House garden is no access to healthy, fresh and affordable 660 square feet of plant growth and and her husband, co-manager Nikolaus the garden by donating garden supplies, warmed to the idea, and it can be a your own vegetables,” said Seiler, a only child. It has TNDC-owned siblings food is an essential right for people,” ex- should yield from 40 to 60 pounds of ‘Everything you can imagine’ Dyer. and it and other of the tax-break tech challenge to introduce spinach and TNDC board member. “The harvest is on the roofs of Kelly Cullen Communi- plained Thayer, 28. “TNDC’s Resistance produce per harvest, according to Steve Graze the Roof — the Tenderloin’s The garden is cultivated exclusive- companies send volunteers regularly. tomatoes to people who are less con- sufficient enough to allow people to ty, Polk Senior Apartments and SOMA Sprouts Gardens empower residents to Hunter, Project Open Hand director of first rooftop garden — features what ly by community volunteers — usual- cerned about proper nutrition than participate and be productive, and it Studios & Apartments. Like Curran, the increase their own access to healthy building operations. Graze Project Manager Lindsey Dyer ly from two to 10 people, Lindsey said Abundant crops they are about surviving. Whittle sees gives them hands-on experience.” three gardens — funded through the and fresh food. Through the gardens, Hunter will focus on green, leafy terms “permaculture,” a sustainable, — who work from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Though garden organizers can’t say the rooftop garden as a viable starting Sergio Flores, who has lived at Cur- TNDC general fund and augmented by we’ve wanted people to be able to veggies at first — such as basil and let- self-sufficient gardening system de- Thursdays when Nikolaus is there to how much produce has been harvest- point to help bridge the gap. ran House for five years, will soon dirty grants and donations — are exclusively feel, touch and taste the results of their tuce — “because a lot of this will be signed to “create abundance with low supervise. ed at the site, they point to abundant, “We kind of backed into this proj- his hands in the garden’s soil, too. He for residents and produce similar types work and realize an immediate benefit.” figuring out what works well with the impact on the environment.” Weekly harvests range from 5 to 15 flourishing crops of lettuce, spinach, ect,” she explained. “How could we get hadn’t so far, because the rooftop space of vegetables. Thayer is also trying to establish a wheel. Basil will be the star.” Drip irrigation waters the planters pounds, most of it donated to the Glide collards, tomatoes and berries growing the community to be healthy, and how originally accommodated 25 individual According to Ryan Thayer, TNDC people’s garden in SoMa and recently Open Hand’s Room to Grow cam- made from earth boxes, 5-gallon plastic soup kitchen, which serves about 2,500 side by side with fig, lemon and lime could we introduce them to something plots awarded to residents by lottery, community organizer: Food Justice, the organized a first meeting with interest- paign was seeded with $10,000 from buckets and milk crates. Worm com- meals a day, which is a bit of a reality trees. that was not a part of their lifestyle and and his name hadn’t surfaced. But in aptly named “sodbusters” at the 110- ed parties to discuss the idea. PricewaterhouseCoopers and its fund- posting, beehives and an educational check on expectations for rooftop gar- For residents, the rewards are just a educate them around the broad con- September 2012, organizers convert- unit Polk residence, demonstrate their Lush, edible greenery is sprouting ing goal reached through Indiegogo, an mural add to the site’s ambiance. dens. short vertical jog for the taking. cept of vegetables? We are trying to get ed the garden so that all plots are now gardening skills using six large concrete elsewhere in the TL, too. online crowdfunding tool. Graze “grows everything you can Children in the Tenderloin from “If they want greens for their din- people excited about eating different- shared equally. planter beds. The Polk rooftop garden Project Open Hand, for instance, The volksgardens won’t do much imagine,” Dyer said. “We are very ex- kindergarten through fifth grade vis- ner, they go upstairs and harvest a few l y.” “That’s great to know,” said the was established in July 2012 and so far provides daily meals to seniors and crit- to offset the cost of providing food to perimental here, and we even have un- it the garden three times a week to greens,” said Deborah Whittle, Glide 56-year-old, who relishes the garden’s has yielded 250 pounds of vegetables, ically ill people in San Francisco and its 8,700 Bay Area clients. “But it will known plants in the garden.” learn about cooking, nutrition, planting, Community Housing executive direc- atmosphere and has made salads from about 40 pounds per month. Alameda counties. engage the community and volunteers,” The garden’s highlights include culi- stewardship and ecology, Lindsey said. tor. “If they need certain herbs, they can Stokes stressed. “It’s important to have
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➤ C o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 1 First Presbyterian Church where she became assistant minister in 1970. Two on picket lines in demonstrations and years later, she created San Francisco gone to jail for peace and justice. Network Ministries because of need As she strolls grimy Tenderloin she found in the Tenderloin. She was streets it’s not uncommon for a homeless then married to Scott Hope, a San Fran- person to ask her for a prayer or blessing, cisco State professor, who died in 1997. The evening ended with the song “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” From left, Mary a request she cherishes and what she Now, Network Ministries will be no Russell, June Keegan, Jane Martin, Trilla Jentzsch, Glenda Hope and Gail Kennedy. says she’ll miss most, “the people.” more. “People often ask what I’m going Rev. John Hardin, a Franciscan to do in retirement,” Hope said. “Listen event. Hope started the moving cere- priest long associated with St. Anthony to what God has in store for me.” says with limited circulation, will cease mony more than 20 years ago after be- Foundation, said that in the early 1980s, She will continue her 35 year prac- publishing after the October issue. ing startled to read that 16 people had when he was looking for a project to tice of going on semiannual meditation Hope will step down as chair of died of exposure. She organized a me- join, someone told him about “a little retreats south of Carmel to the House the Tenderloin Futures Collaborative, morial that walked to each site where piece of dynamite” that might have of Prayer run by the sisters of Notre which meets monthly in the police sta- someone had died. Now, starting in his answer, his description of Hope Dame. She’ll stay active in the Older tion Community Room. She started it in Civic Center Park across from City Hall, drawing the crowd’s knowing laughter. Women’s League, about 200 strong in September 2001 to share information a list of the deceased is read, prayers Hope didn’t greet him with open arms, San Francisco. She chairs its 15-member about issues affecting the neighbor- from many denominations are said, a he said. She told him, “If you’re here to political activity committee and tackles, hood. As chair, she was blunt and fair, bell is struck for each name announced convert people, get out.” More laughter. for example, issues surrounding Social notorious for running a tight meeting, and at the end the list is burned. Lists Hardin stayed on, though, and they Security, Medicare and Medicaid. enforcing time limits with a firm if not have grown to 100 names, as homeless created a ministry in a room in the Am- She is also involved in a campaign iron hand, and allowing only questions, who died in other cities get included. bassador Hotel — managed by the “Tere- to organize “community living” in her no rambling. Several bouquets at her Rev. Paul Trudeau of City Church sa of the Tenderloin,” Hank Wilson — for Cayuga Terrace neighborhood as an seat greeted her when she arrived at will be available to do memorials in the what Hope called “drop-in chaplainiz- alternative to assisted living. Communi- the September meeting. “Thank you Tenderloin and SoMa. ing.” Memorials were sorely needed. ty living gets neighbors knowing each for tolerating me being your modera- Hope conducted more than 1,000 “A hundred died in a year,” Hardin other, their needs and resources in a tor, even when I stepped on your toes,” memorials in SROs, dating to 1977. She said. A room called the Listening Post caring network. she told the group of 25. Several people began after a chronically depressed, di- still exists at the Ambassador. Hope re- “It’s entirely residential,” Hope says. showed interest in succeeding her. abetic woman she knew jumped out of mained available to residents during af- “I’ve been working on it a year. We bar- SafeHouse will continue under the a fifth-floor SRO window to her death. ternoons, weekly, for many years. ter and trade. Like, someone does yard aegis of Network Ministries Housing Hope and a nun and a priest held a me- “I think she’s a saint,” Hardin con- work for me in exchange for using my Corp. Hope expects to increase her morial in the lobby. It was well attend- cluded. “I’ll canonize her any day.” front load washer.” time spent with the graduates. ed and appreciated. Sister Rosina, SafeHouse co-found- Some things will not fall far away “Regrets?” she repeats the question. In recent years, The Extra has cov- er, said the “feisty redhead” is known from the Network Ministries tree as the “Of course. How much time do you ered the memorials. Last year a selec- for her “faith, vision and courage. Who doors close at 559 Ellis St. The Tender- have? There is so much work to do. tion of 99 obituaries, plus four features among us is not inspired by Glenda?” loin Tech Lab at 150 Golden Gate Ave. Political priorities need to be changed. about the neighborhood, were pub- In her “Reflections” during her that she started with St. Anthony Foun- Redirect our money from military to lished in “Death in the Tenderloin.” night in the spotlight, Hope talked of dation to give homeless and low-in- peaceful — we could end poverty, we June Keegan of Network Ministries the many ventures she has undertak- come access to now 38 computers will just don’t have the will as a nation. It’s will keep the Ambassador chaplaincy en in her career, often referencing “the be taken over by St. Anthony’s. money for bombs, not people. going at the Listening Post. “If she stops, love of God” as the sustaining spark San Francisco Night Ministry will “And, you know, instead of putting TNDC will take it over,” Hope said. for action. A retrospective slide show organize and lead Hope’s annual Dec. prostituted women in prison, fund The Network Journal, a collection brought a round of smiles when ear- 21 interfaith memorial for homeless things like SafeHouse.” of news briefs and Hope sermons or es- ly photos showed her sweet face and people who die on the street each year Where there’s a will, there’s hope. dark red hair at her ordination at Old that has grown into a Bay Area-wide City and County of San Francisco Outreach Advertising Newspaper Outreach Advertising Survey The Board of Supervisors is evaluating the effectiveness of Outreach advertising. 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WILLIAM McLEROY Christmas carols,” Lim told him. Mr. Mc- person, gave me food. I still can’t believe ‘The Piano Man’ Leroy hated Christmas tunes, but final- it. It hasn’t hit me yet,” Norris said. If you walked the narrow streets ly agreed. After an uptempo medley of Her doctor, Monica Gandhi, an in the Financial District, or shopped “Silent Night” and “O, Come All Ye Faith- award-winning physician and teacher at at Heart of the City Farmers Market, or ful,” the bills and coins started to drop S.F. General Hospital and a noted author hung out at the cable car turnaround in the plastic bucket Mr. McLeroy kept of texts used to train clinicians treating on Powell Street any time in the last 15 nestled beside his amp. A small crowd HIV/AIDS patients, recalled an affection- years, chances are you caught the jaun- gathered, recording his playing on cell ate Ms. Bowman. “When I saw her she ty notes of a ragtime tune from an elec- phones. Mr. McLeroy was happy, but he was always expressive. She always spoke tric piano keyboard sounding through always insisted he got more money in from the heart,” Dr. Gandhi said. the air from a small portable amplifier. his bucket when he played on Irving In 2009, Ms. Bowman became a pa- The piano player was William Mc- Street out in the Inner Sunset. tient at S.F. General’s Ward 86, a clinic Leroy, tall, thin with a mop of red hair. Barrett closed the celebration. “He’s famous for its cutting-edge treatment Mr. McLeroy died of cancer Aug. 30. He not suffering anymore. He’s in that of HIV infections. She had contracted was 56 years old. place of peace and serenity.” “Amen,” pneumonia the previous year and her A dozen friends gathered Sept. 13 came the reply. Lim played Scott Joplin’s HIV disease was discovered during her at the Arlington Hotel, Mr. McLeroy’s “The Entertainer.” She may get to keep recovery. Ms. Bowman was an exempla- last home, to celebrate his life and to Mr. McLeroy’s old keyboard, a Yamaha ry patient, Gandhi said, taking her med remember a quiet man of soft-spoken PSR E323 plus his Crate amplifier. cocktails regularly and steadily improv- — Jonathan Newman ing throughout her treatment. politeness. Photo courtesy of The Arlington “Yeah, The Piano Man. That’s what I Melissa Eaton, the SRO’s resident ser- called him. We met at Medical Respite when she first met Mr. McLeroy. She ad- BRENDA ‘BUCKIE’ BOWMAN vices manager, remembered Bowman as (a convalescent hospital) about 10 dressed him formally and Mr. McLeroy warm-hearted: “She was fully involved in Spoke from the heart all our activities here. She was always a months ago. We both moved into the corrected her. “I’m from New Orleans. Brenda Bowman — her friends bright spot in my day.” Arlington the same day,” Darren Barrett It’s pronounced Mac-Leroy,” he said. In knew her as “Buckie” — died July 19 at A man named Frank spoke. “She was said. “Both of us were into keyboards. truth, he was not fussy about his name, the Arlington Hotel, her home for the a warrior. If she saw something not right, He said he was from New Orleans. friends recalled. “You could call him past 15 years. Her death at 56 was un- she was on it, and she was big enough to “I don’t know if he had any next William, or Tim, or ‘Red’ and he’d an- expected. swer you as always,” Barrett said. admit it, when she was wrong. I’m going of kin. He never mentioned family. He Ms. Bowman, an only child, was born His neighbor, Frank, recalled first to miss her.” was a heavy smoker and he used to be in Natchez, Miss. She lost her mother as hearing Mr. McLeroy playing his key- Her neighbor, Ms. Vee, recalled, “She a heavy drinker. When you played in an infant and had no contact with her board last Thanksgiving at the Arling- always called me Mama. I told her, ‘If I those clubs, they kept the liquor flow- father. About 40 years ago, she traveled ton. “I told him, ‘Sounds like you got was your Mama, I’d probably tan your ing,” Barrett added. west with a boyfriend and when they some soul.’ He could make that thing bottom.’ But she was a good friend and, if Before he became a street musi- reached San Francisco, she decided to talk. It touched you.” she was your friend, she was your friend cian, Mr. McLeroy played at many small stay. Her friends said she often spoke His friend, Evelyn Lim, also met Mr. for life.” joints and bars in San Francisco, most- of her youth in the South with a warm ly around Union Square. But he was McLeroy at the Department of Public After the memorial, Dr. Gandhi re- nostalgia. flected: “Her death is shocking. She was proudest of the newspaper write-ups Health’s Medical Respite. “I once told - At her Aug. 1 memorial at the Arling thriving, doing well, taking her medica- his street playing earned, often show- him I envied the way he played. I only ton, Rev. Glenda Hope softly reminded ing friends old Herb Caen columns learned to play by ear,” Lim said. “Like tions. We’ll know more when the cor- friends: “We’re here to honor the life oner’s report comes in. She was a very where his ragtime style was noted as a this?” she said, Mr. McLeroy joked, gently and mourn the death of one who lived colorful part of the cityscape, or when tapping the side of his head against the loving and extremely grateful person in among us.” She asked the mourners to the clinic who always appreciated any- he was gulled by bystanders who told keyboard. Lim pantomimed his action. share stories of Ms. Bowman. him they had spotted his stolen piano She remembered when Mr. Mc- thing that was done for her. Johnnie Norris Jr. lived across the “We will all miss her terribly at Ward wheeling down “Harmony Lane.” Leroy played at the farmers’ market - hall from her. “Her death was question 86,” Dr. Gandhi said. Melissa Eaton, resident-services last December. It was chilly and damp able. She was young. She was a loving manager at the Arlington, recalled and tips were low. “You’ve got to play — Jonathan Newman
EVENT HOUSING APPLICATIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR Thursday, October 17 • 7:30 – 10 a.m. SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY BUILDINGS (SRO’S) Please go to 241 6th Street, San Francisco, CA for applications The TODCO SRO Housing Waiting List is open; for the Knox and the Bayanihan House. If your name is currently on any TODCO Housing Waiting List and you would like information on your current status please call the TODCO Marketing Office at 415-957-0227 on Fridays’ only. Hotel Whitcomb Ballroom – Central Market Building Size/Occupancy Limit Max./Min. Income- Rent 1231 Market Street, San Francisco Limit • BUFFET BREAKFAST • NETWORKING Knox SRO SRO – 1 Person, or Couple 1 person Move in Deposit located at 241- 6th St. Room size 10 ½ x 18 $34,600.00/Year $560.00 • AWARDS PRESENTATION & Tehama is accepting Neighborhood Small Business Awards Winners: (Semi-Private) Bath- 7 x 7 Couple-Income Rent $560.00 SOMA Supermarket and Bumzy’s Chocolate Chip Cookies applications and has an In-each room: sink, micro-wave, $39,520.00/Year plus Utilities • PANEL DISCUSSION open waiting list. refrigerator, 2-burner stove, closet, Minimum income of KOhArA COheN single bed. The Knox has a small $866.40/Month gym, library, private lounge, roof Reshaping Central Market: top garden, community kitchen, The importance of small businesses in the community fabric laundry facility & 24 hour staff & Moderated by Sydnie Kohara, former CnBC/KPIX 5 news Anchor surveillance PAnelIsts: Amy Cohen, Director of neighborhood Business Development, san francisco office of economic and Workforce Development Hotel Isabel SRO – 1 Person 1 person 30% OF INCOME J.K. Dineen, Reporter, san francisco Business times located at 1095 Mission Shared Bath $33,360.00/Year Requires a Henry Karnilowicz, President, District Council Merchants KArNilOWiCz diNeeN CLOSED OUT Each room has a sink, micro-wave, No Minimum Income Certificate of refrigerator, 2- burner stove, closet Homelessness $ Event tickets: 100 per person and single bed. Since 1992, Urban Solutions has Bayanihan House SRO – 1 Person, Couple 1 person Move in Deposit been helping small businesses in the (Non Assisted Units) Shared Bath $30,275.00/Year $545.00 Central City area, providing assistance with business planning, financing, located at 88 – 6th St. Single 10 ½ x 12 – Double 12x12 Couple Rent $545.00 financial education, lease negotiations, marketing, and job & Mission. In the Unit there is a sink, $34,580.00/Year Utilities included creation. The organization's mission is to strengthen under- open waiting list. micro-wave, refrigerator, 2-burner Minimum income of served neighborhoods by supporting small businesses, job creation, diversity and sustainability. stove, closet, single bed, com- $854.00/Month munity kitchen, 24 hour staff & surveillance, laundry facility Info: www.urbansolutionsSF.org or call 415-553-4433 x106 TDD: (415) 345-4470
CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / OCTOBER 2013 7 COMMUNITYSPECIAL EVENTS CALENDARGene Friend Recreation Center Advisory Board, 3rd Thursday of month, 5 p.m. Works to pro- Tenants Associations Coalition of San Francisco tect SoMa resources for all residents. Gene Friend Rec 15th anniversary event, Oct. 25, noon-3 p.m., 201 Center, 270 Sixth St. Info: Tim Figueras, 554-9532. Turk Street Community Room. Award ceremony, door prizes, refreshments. Info: 339-8327. North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District. Full board meets 3rd Monday at 4 p.m.. Call ARTS EVENTS 292-4812 for location or check nom-tlcbd.org. Safe Haven Project, 4th Tuesday of each month, 3 HeART of Market: Dance, Create, Connect, annual p.m., 519 Ellis St. (Senator Hotel). Contact: 563-3205, free event. LINES Ballet dancers and kids from the Ten- x115, or [email protected]. derloin Boys & Girls Club and De Marillac Academy perform, Oct. 5, noon-3 p.m., Mint Plaza. Info: blog. SoMa Community Stabilization Fund Advisory linesballet.org/2013/09/03/dance-at-mint-plaza. Committee, 3rd Thursday of month, 5:30 p.m., 1 South Van Ness, 2nd floor. Info: Claudine del Rosario, Tango at Mint Plaza, Oct. 10, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Mint 701-5580. Plaza. Demonstration and lessons by Tango & More Argentine Dance, plus LINES Ballet students perform Tenderloin Futures Collaborative, 3rd Wednesday works from upcoming fall performances. Info: blog. of the month, 11 a.m.-noon, Tenderloin Police linesballet.org/2013/09/03/dance-at-mint-plaza. Community Room, 301 Eddy. Presentations on issues of interest to neighborhood residents, nonprofits and Litquake 2013, Oct. 11-19, 160 events at venues businesses. Info: 424-0957. citywide with 800 Bay Area authors and journalists Photo courtesy of Lines Ballet appearing, including Piper Kerman, TC Boyle, Mary Tenderloin Neighborhood Association, 2nd Gaitskill, Delia Ephron, ZZ Packer, Sandra Tsing Loh, Lines Ballet dancers, kids and adults from the neighborhood work on a routine at Friday of month, 842 Geary St., 5 p.m. Nonprofit Lewis Lapham, Ann Packer, Isabelle Allende, Andrew the 2012 Dance, Create, Connect at Mint Plaza. focuses on health and wellness activities to promote Sean Greer, Michele Tea, Viola Di Grado, Adam Mans- neighborly interactions. Info: tenderloinneighbor- bach, Kevin Sessums, Jane Smiley, Anne Perry and [email protected]. 1st Wednesday of each month, noon, 201 Turk St., Info: Jessica Estrada, [email protected], 771-2600. Beth Lisick (Lisick will be at Edinburgh Castle, 950 Community Room. Contact Michael Nulty, 339-8327. Geary, Oct. 13, 4 p.m.) Many events in the 14-year-old SENIORS AND DISABLED Resident unity, leadership training. SAFETY annual literary celebration are free, but some require Mayor’s Disability Council, 3rd Friday of month, , 4th tickets. Info: litquake.org. SoMa Police Community Relations Forum 1-3 p.m., City Hall, room 400. Call: 554-6789. Open HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH Monday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. Location varies. Twisted Sister: Reimagining Urban Portraiture, to the public. CBHS Consumer Council, 3rd Monday of month, To receive monthly email info: 538-8100 x202. Oct. 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m., North Light Court of City Hall, Senior & Disability Action (formerly Planning for 5-7 p.m., 1380 Howard St., room 537, 255-3695. , opening reception. Traveling exhibition, celebrating the Tenderloin Police Station Community Meeting Elders/Senior Action Network), general meeting, 2nd Consumer advisers from self-help groups and mental last Tuesday of month, 6 p.m., Police Station Commu- 10th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Thursday of month, 9 a.m.-noon, Universal Unitarian health consumer advocates. Public welcome. nity Room, 301 Eddy St. Call Susa Black, 345-7300. San Francisco and Zurich, showcases 15 emerging Church, 1187 Franklin St. SDA Housing Collaborative , 2nd Wednesday of Neighborhood safety. and established artists’ conception of modern cities. Healthcare Action Team meeting, 3rd Wednesday, 1 p.m. HealthCare Action month, 1010 Mission St., Bayanihan Community Cen- Artist and curator panel discussion, Oct. 17, 6:30-8 Team meeting, 2nd Wednesday, 1010 Mission St., ter, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Focus on increasing supportive p.m., SF Camerawork, 1011 Market St. Both events are NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT (Bayanihan Community Center). For info about SDA’s home services, expanded eligibility for home care, free, but RSVP: [email protected] Alliance for a Better District 6, 2nd Tuesday of Survival School, University and computer class improved discharge planning. Light lunch. Call James Sidewinders, Oct. 18, 8 p.m., EXIT on Taylor, each month, 6 p.m., 230 Eddy St. Contact Michael schedules: 546-1333, www.sdaction.org. Chionsini, 703-0188 x304. 277 Taylor. Preview of the first play of Cutting Ball Nulty, 820-1560 or [email protected], a Theater’s 2013-14 season of experimental new plays Mental Health Board, 2nd Wednesday of the districtwide improvement association. DISTRICT 6 SUPERVISOR month, 6:30-8:30 p.m., City Hall, room 278. CBHS ad- and classics. Other previews of Sidewinders, an Central Market Community Benefit District, Jane Kim, member, Land Use Committee, School visory committee, open to the public. Call: 255-3474. “absurdist-Western romp through gender queerness,” board meets 2nd Tuesday of month, Hotel Whitcomb, District, Transportation Authority; chair, Transbay Joint Oct. 19 and 20, and opening gala Oct. 25. Info and tix: Tenderloin Healthy Corner Store Coalition, 1231 Market St., 3 p.m. Info: 882-3088, http://cen- Powers Authority Board of Directors; vice-chair Trans- cuttingball.org. 4th Thursday of the month, 3 p.m., Kelly Cullen tral-market.org. portation Authority Plans & Programs Committee Community Building, 220 Golden Gate Ave., 2nd Friends of Boeddeker Park, 2nd Wednesday this Legislative aides: Sunny Angulo Ivy Lee and Danny floor auditorium or 5th floor gym. Public meetings to REGULAR SCHEDULE month, 3 p.m., Police Station Community Room, 301 Yedegar discuss legislation that encourages corner stores to HOUSING Eddy St. Plan park events, activities and improve- sell fresh food and reduce tobacco and alcohol sales. Jane [email protected] 554-7970 ments. Contact Betty Traynor, 931-1126. Tenant Associations Coalition of San Francisco,
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