The Potrero Hill Parents Association members who worked so hard to keep Daniel Webster open and who are continuing to work with the school and the SFUSD to improve our neighborhood schools have invited six of the Board of Education candidates to meet parents and community members on Potrero Hill. Each of the six will introduce themselves, talk about their views, and have time to answer questions.
Please come listen and learn so you can make an informed decision in the upcoming election. Three seats are open … and your informed opinion and vote could save our city’s public school families from another year of mishandled threatened closures in years to come.
Meet candidates:
Dr. Dan Kelly
Jane Kim
Kim Knox
Kim-Shree Maufus
Bob Twomey
Mauricio Vela
Saturday Oct 21, 1-3pm
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
953 DeHaro St.
Update: We’ve gotten the official schedule of events for the Potrero Hill Festival. Be sure to make it early for the $7 All you can eat breakfast (kids 5 and under eat free!). Check out the schedule.
There’s a lot happening in Potrero Hill this month, so be sure to check out the Potrero Hill events calendar for all the latest.
Here are a few of the highlights:
• Sat Oct 14 - 16th Annual Potrero Hill Festival
• Sat Oct 21 - Potrero Hill History Night
• Sat Oct 28 - Farley’s 16th Annual Pet Fest featuring Christopher Irion’s PhotoBooth
From Sharon Virtue
Funded with a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Spirit Garden project is being conducted at Potrero Hill Neighbourhood House garden at 827 De Haro St in San Francisco.
A proposal was made to renovate and replant the gardens and to build a mosaic bench. There have been several renovations to the design so far because not all the funding requested was received.
The Spirit Garden Bench (or throne as neighbors are calling it) was completed in the last week of August 2006. The Project was to build and mosaic a bench, dedicated to the memory of Enola Maxwell, in the gardens opposite Potrero Hill Neighborhood house. It has been a huge artistic success, although ideas of how to create the bench had to change, the final artwork is well received by the Neighborhood house in whose park it now sits, and all the neighbors who have watched its progressive creation. There were approximately 20 youth enrolled in the summer programs who helped with the program, but as the project grew about 8 neighbors who use the park have also participated in mosaic work and gardening. The project grew, as I envisioned the garden falling under my care and enrolled in the neighborhood parks council to ensure sustained maintenance for the artwork and gardens into the future.
The successful aspects of the project were the community participation. The students of the “Nabe” helped to enlarge the scale drawings and make tiles that were used to decorate the bench. Also the neighborhood participation. Neighbors seeing that there was an art project in the long neglected park were enthusiastic and joined in.The work is not over … now we want to try and create a garden that all the neighbors can enjoy more fully with beautiful plants and more carefully laid gardens. We will be trying to create a neighborhood garden group that can water the gardens on a regular basis, while the new plants are taking root. Also there is an oportunity to create more mosaic pieces for the flower beds.
We would like to raise funds to have some of the old dead trees removed, around $150 for one large shrub cut back and $250 to have it completely removed and plant something more pleasant in its place.
Volunteers are needed to help with the garden and mosaic work so if you’re interested please contact me. Thank you.
Michael P points us to footage he shot of the destruction of a house at 19th & Mississippi. Rumor has it that a two story house is going up in that space.
According to Michael, the house had been condemned and without inhabitants for about 2 years, and was transplanted to the hill after the 1906 eartquake.
Tablehopper has the scoop on a couple new restaurants opening in the Dogpatch (thanks to Susan Eslick for the heads up):
Piccino
Folks in the Dogpatch area are gonna be stoked about this news, and pizza lovers just might make the trek cross-town for this one: a tiny pizza place will be opening (optimistically) by the beginning of November called ~PICCINO~ (it’s an endearing Italian diminutive of the word “little,” picco). Not only is the 700-square-foot space small (there will be four tables inside, max, plus some outdoor seating), but the menu will also be small—and so are the owners, who barely clock in 5′2″. Awww! Piccino will be open daily in the morning, serving Blue Bottle coffee and baked goods (plus organic hard-boiled eggs with flavored salts for those on the go), and come early afternoon, the gas oven will be fired up for pizzas. Panini, soup, and salads will also be on the menu, all made with local and organic ingredients. Read More
The Bayou
Come October, Kelly’s Mission Rock will be transformed into ~THE BAYOU~, a Cajun and Creole restaurant and jazz lounge from a new management team, 40 Green Acres. The space is getting a petite facelift, with new floors, furniture, and a fresh paintjob. The team is Deborah Theodule of Crescent City Catering (she also owned the restaurant Craves in Willow Glen) and Glenn Ladet. Theodule is known for her authentic Cajun and Creole cooking—her family is from New Orleans, and her husband is Creole, so she says her cooking is a mix of those two styles. Read More
The New Spot
Nearby Dogpatch continues to blow up: a new El Salvadorean and Mexican place has opened called ~THE NEW SPOT~ in the former Arturo’s space. This first-time venture is from Gilbert Cab, who is cooking up home-style dishes from his native Yucatan like cochinita pibil, plus pupusas, and even burritos (served on a plate, not taqueria-style in foil). The most expensive item on the menu is $8.75. Word. (No beer is offered, at the moment.) Open Mon-Sat 7am-7pm, 632 20th St. at 3rd St., 415-558-0556.
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