Healing
Cute Santa Cruz Turtles All Swaddled Up
Adorable, Bay Area Updates, Healing Adorable turtles were caught in traps at Glenwood East Preserve in Santa Cruz County and put in cute swaddles. They were having CT scans of their shells to check for deficits that may have been caused by a novel fungal pathogen. They were released back into the preserve that same day. Thanks more...
SF Launches 1st Ever African American Reparations Advisory Committee
Brand New, Healing, Only in San Francisco San Francisco Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously appointed 15 people to the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee — touted as the first body of its kind to create a comprehensive reparations plan for African Americans. The newly created committee is the result of efforts by Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton, more...
Big Basin State Park Plans for Limited Reopening by Memorial Day
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, Causes, Fire Updates, Getting Help, Healing, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches, Reopening By Julie Cart – CalMatters In the annals of California history, no one has ever had to put a broken state park back together. There’s no guidebook, no rules. So now state officials and conservationists are attempting a complex and extraordinary Humpty Dumpty project: The reawakening of Big Basin Redwoods State more...
SF Expands Its Street Violence Intervention Program
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, City Insight, Community, Getting Help, Healing, Only in San Francisco, Stop Asian Hate, Support the Bay San Francisco just announced that it will expand the Street Violence Intervention Program in partnership with API non-profit organizations with new community safety teams in several neighborhoods, and extend a program to accompany seniors to medical and personal appointments. San Francisco just announced new efforts to advance public safety in San more...
SF’s “I’ll Walk With You” Neighborhood Buddy Program
Brand New, Community, Getting Help, Healing, Stop Asian Hate, Support the Bay Thanks to Broke-Ass Stuart for sharing about San Francisco’s new walking buddy program that’s launched recently in response to the brutal attacks on the Asian American community. If you’d like to volunteer to be a Walking Buddy, or if you’d like to be matched with a Walking Buddy, fill out the more...
SF Now Has a $125 Million Surplus. Here’s How They’ll Spend It
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, City Insight, Healing, Only in San Francisco Surplus funding for the current year will be allocated to one-time relief and recovery programs to support small business, arts and culture, and youth and families, and vulnerable residents. Mayor London N. Breed and Budget Chair of the Board of Supervisors Matt Haney announced an agreement on a spending plan for more...
Oakland Zoo Helps Cold-Stunned Texas Sea Turtles
Getting Help, Healing Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the news that Oakland Zoo has joined the the efforts to aid the rescue efforts for the cold-stunned sea turtles affected by the recent freezing temperatures in Texas. The Zoo donated to The Association of Zoos and Aquariums Save Animals From Extinction fund to help the more...
SF Zoo Aids Heroic Sea Turtle Rescue in Freezing Texas
Getting Help, Healing, Storm Watch Thank you to the San Francisco Zoo for lending a hand to help the rescue efforts to save thousands of cold-stunned sea turtles affected by the recent frigid storms in Texas. As Texans endure the devastating conditions brought on by loss of power amid frigid temperatures, a mass casualty to the more...
Honor SF’s COVID Heroes City-Wide Virtual Celebration
COVID-19 Updates, Healing Join Renel Brooks-Moon (Voice of the SF Giants), Bob Weir, Santana and more for a free virtual fundraising event to say thanks to those on the front lines of public healthcare that benefits us all. Now more than ever, there is an urgent need to support health equity and access for all. Take an hour to honor the front more...
Church Bells Ring Across SF for COVID Memorial
Healing San Francisco will be participating in the National Memorial to Lives Lost to COVID-19 on January 19, 2021. San Francisco’s faith community will participate in the memorial by ringing bells at 2:30 p.m. PT. Plus, the following San Francisco buildings will be lit at 5:30 p.m. PT: San Francisco City Hall The Bill Graham Civic more...
13 Iconic SF Buildings Light Up for Nationwide COVID-19 Memorial
Healing San Francisco will be participating in the National Memorial to Lives Lost to COVID-19 by lighting buildings across the city in amber and gold. The memorial will take place in Washington D.C. and nationwide on January 19, 2021 starting at 5:30 p.m. ET (2:30pm on the West Coast) and continuing more...
Nationwide COVID-19 Memorial: Candle Lighting at Home
COVID-19 Updates, Healing Americans across the country are invited to shine a light for those we’ve lost for the COVID Memorial, A National Moment of Unity and Remembrance, to remember and honor the lives lost to COVID-19, on January 19 at 5:30pm (local time). COVID-19 Memorial A National Moment of Unity and Remembrance The Presidential Inaugural more...
SF-Marin Food Bank Needs 1,000 Volunteers
Community, COVID-19 Updates, Healing Thanks to KRON4 for letting us know that the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is in desperate need of volunteers. Because of increased need during COVID, the food bank is currently serving about 60,000 households a week. But the food bank says it’s only about to fill about half of their needed more...
Oakland Salutes Chadwick Boseman with Huge Video Mural
Healing Did you see the tribute to Chadwick Boseman projected onto the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland this weekend? According to @ResistanceSF, Black Panther director Ryan Cooglar grew up watching movies here. Artist credits: Purple panther: @rynessart Gaze up: @l3earfat_h Fire halo by @UltraRaw26 panther tree by @mary.ashe.artin WF stance by @donelece Video by @ResistanceSF View this post on Instagram #BlackLivesMatter marchers more...
San Francisco Archbishop Holds Exorcism in Golden Gate Park
Causes, Healing Thanks to CBS Bay Area for letting us know that over the weekend, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who has been very critical of the protesters, performed an exorcism at the site in Golden Gate Park where the Father Junipero Statue was toppled because “evil is present there.” Read more at CBS Bay more...
