A recent surgery on six year-old Lily Gordon has let the child take her first steps after living the first few years of her life crippled by cerebral palsy. The operation has even allowed her to dance a few steps with the support of a walking frame. Lily’s mother Joanne said: “She is doing so…
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SF’s Annual Lunar Year Celebration
The San Francisco Botanical Garden Society recently invited city residents to join in the 13th Annual Lunar Year Celebration and Flower Market at the San Francisco County Fair Building. The event, which will take place on January 21st, celebrates the Year of the Dragon with flowers, food and festivities. The event is family-oriented, and admission…
Alpine Travel Works on Outer-Space Flights from Bay Area
Civilian flights to outer space sound like a science fiction novel, but for people living in the Bay Area, it may become a reality in the very near future. Saratoga, CA’s Alpine Travel is one of 58 travel agencies teamed up with Virgin Galactic in efforts to send passengers to the very border between earth’s…
Is San Francisco’s New Wage Rate Really a Blessing?
Workers in San Francisco have what to celebrate this New Year’s: a new raise! Starting January 1st, the city’s minimum wage will increase to $10.24 per hour. This is the highest rate in the entire country, and San Francisco is now the first place in the United States to issue double-digit wages for its lowest-paid…
Harbor Porpoises Return to San Francisco Bay
For the first time in over sixty years, to the delight of both researchers and onlookers, harbor porpoises are returning to the San Francisco Bay. Experts are now working to discover why the ‘puffing pigs’ as they are called due to their pig-like exhalations, are returning to the Golden Gate Bridge area. Until the 1930s,…
San Francisco Firefighters Replace Toys for Christmas
Firefighters in San Francisco were recently inspired to replace toys and Christmas gifts after the biggest blaze in seven years left over forty people homeless this holiday season. According to Chief Joanna Hayes-White, the project was initiated after firefighters saw ruined gifts lying amongst the wreckage near Alamo Square. “The main thing is no lives…
Hamilton Family Center Receives Twin Donations for the Holiday Season
Two large donations were recently pledged to the Hamilton Family Center, the major housing services provider for homeless families in San Francisco. The first is $850,000 from Marc and Lynne Benioff through the Salesforce.com Foundation, while the second, $483,167, will be given by the Mayor’s Homeless Fund. Marc Benioff is the founder of salesforce.com. When…
Zynga Begins Trading in New York, Maintains ‘Startup Feeling’
Zynga, the developer of games including “Farmville,” and “Mafia Wars,” began trading in New York this weekend. The company’s San Francisco headquarters hosted a gathering of hundreds of employees to celebrate. Mark Pincus, Zynga CEO, explained that he arranged the ceremony in order to include staff members in the IPO process. Mere moments after the…
Employment Looking Up for Bay Area Techies
Certainly, this news should help Bay Area techies to sleep a bit more easily. A new study commissioned by NOVA, a Sunnyvale-based economic development agency, has predicted that tech hiring in the Bay Area in 2010 will outpace other industries. This could translate to the creation of 28,000 new jobs in tech. Approximately 58% o…
New Electric Car Mitsubishi i Arrives in San Francisco
A new electric car has arrived in the Bay Area: the Mitsubishi i. In a transaction with local dealer San Rafael Mitsubishi, the car manufacturer has delivered its first fleet of all-electric 2012 ‘i’s to City CarShare in the San Francisco Bay Area. The non-profit organization works to promote creative, cost-effective transportation options to support…