By Colleen Rivecca, HANC President
On June 19, 2014, the Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors held a hearing, called by Supervisor Eric Mar, on the closure of recycling centers in San Francisco. Supervisor Mar characterized the wave of recycling center closures in San Francisco as an economic justice issue, a facet of the City’s current eviction and displacement crisis, and as a threat to San Francisco’s stated goal to reach “zero waste” by 2020.
The hearing featured speakers from San Francisco’s Department of the Environment, Department of Public Works, and Office of Small Business, as well as speakers from CalRecycle, Recology, and the office of Assembly Member Tom Ammiano.
Francisco's most internationally celebrated neighborhoods - This year we are celebrating our 37th Haight-Ashbury Street Fair on Sunday, June 8th from 11am - 5:30pm.
The annual celebration of pot known as "420" Day held on April 20th came to the Haight Ashbury again this year. Both the City of SF and the Rec and Parks Department were much better prepared than in previous years to handle the tens of thousands of participants who flooded into the neighborhood for it. In fact, some might say there was a bit of overkill in the street closures that were in effect. 
in Golden Gate Park, Muni seems to have had added many more buses to move folks out of the neighborhood. There were at least 12 Muni staff people working all day long at Masonic and Haight and a sizable contingent working the N Judah stop at Parnassus and Cole as well. Coming to the event by Muni proved challenging. I rode an N Judah from Fourth and Townsend about 2 pm that day and by the time we reached Powell Street it was packed and no one could get on for the rest of the trip until it reached the Cole Street stop. The next run was scheduled 13 minutes later. I have been told the surface buses were no better.