Performing Diaspora Sunday October 17th, 3pm CounterPulse, 1310 Mission @ 9th $19-24 Featured performances of Indonesian and Cambodian dance. For more information visit www.counterPULSE.org
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PERFORMING DIASPORA
Performing Diaspora Thursday- Saturday October 14-16th, 8pm CounterPulse, 1310 Mission @ 9th $19-24 Featured performances of Indonesian and Cambodian dance. For more information visit www.counterPULSE.org
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Homeless shelters struggle to meet growing demand for services
Lines are getting longer for beds in San Francisco even as budget cuts have forced the closure of shelters throughout the city. Many of those seeking shelter are low-income residents of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, including Spanish-speaking residents of the Mission District. “San Francisco at the beginning of the economic crisis was somewhat isolated from […]
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City spotlights historic sites in Mission
The SF Planning Department expects that the completion of the South Mission Historical Resource Survey and its adoption by the Historical Preservation Commission will streamline the process for both private and public building projects in the Mission
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Pageant winner visits Bay Area to raise awareness of Nicaragua’s coastal area
In her first social visit to the Bay Area, Scharllette Allen Moses, Miss Nicaragua 2010, visited the Oakland’s Children’s Hospital
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New program aims to lower San Francisco truancy rate
Under California law, children between the ages of six and 18 are required to attend school. Chronic truancy puts students at risk of dropping out of school and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris notes a strong correlation between high school dropouts and crime. In the past four years, 94 percent of San Francisco’s homicide […]
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The Impact of Truancy
— Students are considered truant after three days of unexcused absences. A habitual truant is a student with unexcused absences totaling 10 or more days of school. A chronic truant is a student with unexcused absences totaling 20 or more days. — In 2009, San Francisco Unified School District had 56,000 students. Approximately 16 percent […]
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Ricardo S. Morado, from the Philippines with a heart in the Mission
Ricardo Saclote Morada, the son of Genaro and Agostina Morada, was 84 years old when he made a peaceful transition to his eternal home on Sept. 18, 2010 at approximately 1:15 p.m. in his hometown of Miagao, on the island of Iloilo in the Philippines.
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Latin American Briefs
MADRID: SUCCESSFUL GENERAL STRIKE IN SPAIN The 24 hour stoppage that fell on the same day of protest in all of Europe was called by a majority of left leaning unions to demonstrate against labor reform, the decline of pensions and the austerity measures aimed at reducing a ballooning public deficit approved by the socialist government. […]