Things to do in the Sunset District
Letter to the Editor – Richmond Review
“… this mandated increase in the minimum wage is having a ripple effect you might not have seen coming.”
Richmond Roundup
Things to do in the Richmond District
July Calendar of Events – Sunset
Calendar of events for July, 2017.
New Trail Opens
The Clarendon trail route at Mt. Sutro was completed and officially opened as part of a
huge volunteer effort for National Trails Day on Saturday, June 3.
Surfrider Picks Up Butts
The Surfrider Foundation is offering free cigarette containers for the outside of
businesses that allow smoking in an effort to keep cigarette butts out of the
environment.
Putting Butts in Proper Place
On Friday, June 30, a six-month effort was launched to reduce the
number of toxic cigarette butt waste in San Francisco’s
Sunset and Richmond districts when SF supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer
and Katy Tang organized a kick-off event and beach clean-up at Ocean Beach.
Sunset Spotlight
A neighborhood journal for the Sunset District.
Historic Presidio Theater to be Rebuilt
The Presidio Trust has announced plans to rehabilitate the Presidio Theater, located in
the heart of the national park site on the Presidio’s Main Post, as a multi-purpose
performance space.
City Aims to Build Teachers’ Housing
A plan to turn the Francis Scott Key Annex in the Outer Sunset District from a dilapidated
surplus school property into new housing for teachers is moving forward, as city officials
seek ways to keep educators from leaving for less expensive towns.
Blood drive at the Y
The Park Presidio-Sunset Lions Club joined forces with the Richmond District YMCA to host a blood drive on June 17.
Playground’s grand re-opening
The historic Mountain Lake Park, located at 12th Avenue and Lake Street, reopened
to much fanfare on June 8.
Theater rebuild features pools; movies nixed
After more than a dozen years of slow and silent disintegration, it seems the final curtain
has fallen for cinema at the Alexandria movie theater.
June Calendar of Events – Sunset District
Things to do, June 2017.
Sunset Roommates Hit the Road, Make SF Doc Fest
Four straight men and one straight woman were committed enough to
“Homo The Documentary” to drive 18 hours in a row to be on time to interview
a subject in Oregon and to spontaneously grab their equipment to get footage of a gay
pride parade (called Emancipation Parade) in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 