News items from the Sunset District.
Volunteer Gardeners Help Keep City’s Parks Shining
For Wayne Hiroshima and Bill Lafferty, working as assistant gardeners in Golden Gate Park around plants, animals and birds, places them regularly in the life cycle. They discover how plants, animals, birds and humans are all interdependent on each other.
Officials Warn Public About Urban Coyotes
Coyote season is here, that time of year between April and August when coyote sightings sometimes cause problems with humans and their pets, so Project Coyote is giving seminars about what to do when encountering the wild animals.
April Calendar of Events
Things to do in April, 2018.
Real Estate – John M. Lee
Recently, housing activists starting using the term “ethnic cleansing” to describe what is going on in the San Francisco real estate market!
Plan in works to use recycled water at GG Park, golf courses
To decrease San Francisco’s dependency on the Hetch Hetchy water system, which delivers water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and the SF Recreation and Park Department are in the process of switching to “recycled” water for irrigating Golden Gate and Lincoln parks and the Presidio.
Richmond Roundup
Local athletes going into Prep Hall of Fame The 36th annual San Francisco Prep Hall of Fame award banquet in May will feature top athletes from local schools. From the Richmond District, Michael Gridley will be inducted. He was […]
State bill would re-zone large swaths of City
A bill now sitting in the state legislature would take the zoning power to reject taller buildings away from municipalities across California if developers want to put them near public transit stops.
Life on the Road Provides Inspiration for New Novel
“I have a goal to write a great, even beautiful book by the end of my life. Fortun ately, we’re all living longer than ever,” he joked.
Keeping the Beat
Cleo Jong (left) and her sister, Betty Choy, are a part of a mural that hangs at the Wells Fargo Bank branch at Irving Street and 24th Avenue.
Bloomin’ Exotics
The annual Pacific Orchid Exposition was held at the Hall of Flowers, located in Golden Gate Park, from Feb. 23 through Feb. 25.
Sunset Comedian Passes Away
Friends and family were saddened by the death of Sunset District native
Howard Meehan, who died on Valentine’s Day at 57 years of age.
Letter to the Editor – Sunset Beacon
Editor: Last month, I mentioned Senate Bill-827 (Wiener/Ting/Skinner – “transit-rich housing”) which sets minimum building heights statewide for all parcels at 45 feet, which increases to 85 feet-plus if within a quarter mile or […]
Police Blotter – Sunset District
A summary of recent police activity in the Sunset District.
Police Beat – Sunset District
I am pleased to announce that additional personnel will be added to the Taraval Neighborhood Team (TNT)…
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 