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SF Opens 3 New Test Sites for Underserved Areas This Week
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates Mayor London Breed Announces New COVID-19 Testing Sites in Underserved Areas Monday, May 18, 2020 Three new testing opportunities—a mobile site initially stationed in the Tenderloin, a site at City College, and another in Hunters View—bring testing resources to neighborhoods that are underserved and bolster San Francisco’s capacity to test workers and more...
Most Shops in SF Can Reopen Starting Monday at 10am
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Funcheap Needs Your Help Our goal is to stay open during the crisis and, more importantly, when we come out of this. If you love Funcheap, can you help us stay alive? Learn more at GoFundMe As long as COVID-19 indicators in San Francisco continue to demonstrate progress on slowing the spread more...
E-40 Donates 1,000 Gallons of Hand Saniitzer to Local Prisons
Bay Area Updates, Uplifting Bay Area rap legend E-40 is doing his best to help make sure that COVID doesn’t run rampant in prisons. The hip-hop mogul, who in addition to music also runs wine, tequlia and “sluricane” pre-mix cocktail brands, helps convert alcohol production facilities to temporarily make hand sanitizer and has donated 1,000 more...
Berkeley May Open Huge Outdoor Dining Rooms
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, What's Closed / What's Open Funcheap Needs Your Help Our goal is to stay open during the crisis and, more importantly, when we come out of this. If you love Funcheap, can you help us stay alive? Learn more at GoFundMe Thanks to Eater SF for letting us know that the city of Berkeley is trying to more...
SF’s Updated Food Resources Map: Grocery Stores, Free / Low-Cost Groceries & Meals
Brand New Funcheap Needs Your Help Our goal is to stay open during the crisis and, more importantly, when we come out of this. If you love Funcheap, can you help us stay alive? Learn more at GoFundMe In April, Mayor London Breed announced a citywide effort to help San Franciscans access food during the COVID-19 more...
Muni Bringing Back Lots of Buses to SF on May 16th
Bay Area Updates Beginning Saturday, May 16, the SFMTA will increase the frequency on a number of lines in Muni’s existing COVID-19 Core system (including the 8, 14R, 22 Fillmore, 38R, 49, N Bus and T Bus) along with bringing back service on the 9R San Bruno Rapid. This more frequent service will continue to support essential trips in more...
South Lake Tahoe May Starting Fining Tourists $1,000
Bay Area Updates In the lead up to what is normally a packed Memorial Day weekend, South Lake Tahoe is increasing enforcement of their local order which allows the city to fine people $1,000 who violate the state’s stay-at-home order. According to SF Gate, South Lake mayor Jason Collins says the city has already more...
Stern Grove Festival Canceled for First Time Ever
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open It was announced on Thursday that the 83rd Stern Grove Festival has been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the continued moratorium on large gatherings. The Bay Area’s original free outdoor music festival was initially scheduled to take place on Sundays from June 14 through August 16, 2020. It is the more...
SF’s First Sanctioned “Tent City” Opens By City Hall
Bay Area Updates Thanks to 48 Hills for letting us know that the first city-sanctioned “Safe Sleeping Village” opened up this week. The officially-allowed homeless encampment has spaces for 50 tents (spaced 6-feet apart) on a closed off street in Civic Center on Fulton between the Main Library and the Asian Art Museum. This more...
The Bay’s First Classic Car Cruise in Months is Tonight
Bay Area Updates The Suisun City Recreation, Parks, and Marina Department present “Cruisin’ Suisun” – the socially-distant version. On Friday, May 15, 2020, 6-7:30pm all exotic, classic, custom cars, and trucks pre-1975 are invited to participate in a classic car cruise making two laps through town. View the map. Classic car owners are encouraged to more...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Donates $15 Million to SF’s COVID Relief Fund
Bay Area Updates, Uplifting After donating 1/3 of his net worth (around $1 Billion) for COVID-19 Relief Worldwide, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is putting more tech money into good use as he donated $15 million to Give2SF that has doubled SF’s Coronavirus relief fund in a single day. Read the full press release. On Tuesday, Mayor more...
20 More Awesome Freebies & Deals for Healthcare Workers
Freebies, Uplifting Funcheap Needs Your Help Our goal is to stay open during the crisis and, more importantly, when we come out of this. If you love Funcheap, can you help us stay alive? Learn more at GoFundMe Last week we told you about 7 great “National Nurses Week” freebies and deals. And now more...
Bay Area Locals Launch “Hospital Hero” Wish-List Website
Bay Area Updates, Uplifting Thank you KRON4 for letting us know about a new online platform to connect volunteers with healthcare workers in need. HospitalHero was co-founded by two Bay Area residents Keith Weissglass of Oakland and Andrew Cantino of San Francisco. The idea behind the platform is to help healthcare workers to stay focused more...
200 Goats Escape and Run Wild in San Jose Neighborhood
Bay Area Updates, Uplifting Thanks to NBC Bay Area for sharing one of the wildest things that happened during quarantine, 200 goats escaped and roamed the streets of East San Jose this week. But nothing really surprises us anymore as almost 200 goats escaped from their enclosure and took over a San Jose. Zach Roelands more...
“Drive-in” Graduations Coming to the Bay Area?
Bay Area Updates, What's Closed / What's Open Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that San Mateo County will be allowing “vehicle-based gatherings” for graduation ceremonies. This graduation season, the senior high school class of 2020 now have a choice between virtual graduation or drive-in graduations. With San Mateo County’s newly approved order, people are allowed to get more...
