The 4th annual hosted by 6 of 7 Mission based business organizations:
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A Benefit for the new Mission Branch of the San Francisco Library Friday, September 18, 1998 |
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| Sponsors: Bay View Bank, Mission National Bank Exhibitions: Foreign Cinema |
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 Builder
of the YearArchitect Martin Del Campo has pushed for distinguished design and the greater possibilities they inspire in the rest of us since he began his career as an architect in 1952. His firm, Del Campo & Maru takes particular pleasure in providing plans for the Latin American community in the Mission. These designs include the George Moscone Elementary School and the Mission Recreation Center near 21st and Harrison and the El Dorado Building on Mission. Del Campo & Maru was especially pleased to play a key role in helping the non-profit training and rehabilitation group, Arriba Juntos realize their dream of buying and renovating their building last year.
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 Banker
of the YearNina Pellegrini Everybody knows Nina, as Mission National Bank's 21st Street Branch Manager yet her banking career extends well over 30 years to include 13 year stints with both Home and Coast Savings. This Past President South of Army and Mission Merchants Association will be President of the Greater Mission Rotary Club beginning in 1999. This Italian/German by way of Argentina is a cheerful believer in the people of the Mission and their historic collective role as the heart of San Francisco. According to Nina, her greatest accomplishment is her recently married daughter Dina a star in the Carnaval-San Francisco parade and elsewhere.
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Person of the YearAlina Laguna Attorney at Law Best known as the President of the San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Alina regularly donates 25 plus hours per week of her valuable time to Mission organizations including the Mission Cultural Center, Women's Building, and MECA's Cinco de Mayo and Carnaval-San Francisco parades. This sought after speaker often lobbies other professionals to enjoy the rewards of giving back to their community. Alina is a skilled consensus builder who loves interacting with people and would most like to see the San Francisco Hispanic Chamber of Commerce makes waves globally as well as locally.
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 Employer
of the Year:Joseph Schmidt Chocolate Company The NorthEast Mission was blessed when the globally acclaimed Joseph Schmidt Chocolate Company re-opened the long closed, huge bakery at 16th and Folsom creating scores of new jobs for the local population and dramatically improving the neighborhood atmosphere. The Mission District is renowned for both it fine foods and fine arts and these outstanding qualities are both on fine display with the imagination and craftsmanship of Joseph Schmidt's sculpted confections.
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Visitor Promotion:City Guides Free Walking Tours In the last two years, this twenty year old San Francisco Public Library Program expanded its Mission position many times over. Beginning from one Mural tour per month to a current 3 different tours given nine times per month. This excellent program provides 125 free tours per month with just one staff person, Michele Canning. While many give the tours, two volunteers Cathy Kornblith and Margaret Sheehan have been quite active expanding the Mission knowledge base.
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New Public ArtMarta Ayala The mostly new "In lak 'ech" at 23rd & Mission was recently restored and rededicated by well known Mission Muralist Marta Ayala. The mural names mean "I am another you" and features a striking native American women surrounded by Mother Nature. Marta has been an important member of the Precita Eyes Muralists for a great many years.
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Business: Valencia Modern Times Bookstore Since 1970 Modern Times Bookstore has served as a beacon of counter culture and anchor to one of the Left Coast's richest concentrations of non-mainstream bookstores. Modern Times continues to be a meeting spot for many community groups as well as a destination highlight for a vast range of writers, poets and social commentators. In 1998 the Modern Times Ulysses discussion group was swamped by hundreds of participants seeking to find author James Joyce's hero's path at this outpost of the neighborhood's burgeoning cultural renaissance.
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| Latin Publisher of the Year Marco Meza Avance In 1998 Marco Meza celebrated his tenth anniversary as publisher/editor of the magazine Avance. Mr. Meza hopes the publication will play an instrumental role in bring Bay Area Latinos together to achieve a lasting economic presence in the Mission district. Marco Meza is a former Board Member of Mission Economic Development Association, founding member of the California Hispanic Publishers Association and an active member of the 24th Street Merchants Association. His 24th Street office has been providing accounting services for 15 years when he arrived here from Nicaragua. Top of Page |
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Betty
Traynor has been a rock like presence amongst the large waves of
change along the 16th Street corridor. Her steady diligence and
consensus building focus have become the constant most relied upon by
the large active ambitious association of residents, businesses and
non-profits in the 16th Street/ North Mission Neighborhood
Association. Betty has also operated her own business Academic
Research and helped operate the famous Redstone Building
for decades.
Donald
Bird
Guillermo
Vasquez was instrumental in getting trees planted around the
much-loved mini-Park at 20th & Capp known as Alioto Park.
As a volunteer member of SLUG (San Francisco League of Urban
Gardeners) Mr. Vasquez coordinates the community gardening at
this park. Planting trees on San Francisco Streets is an on-going passion
that Guillermo expresses by volunteering with Friends of the Urban Forest
when he is not helping maintain the open space around our reservoirs as an
employee of the San Francisco Water Department.