Incident Date:
Monday, January 20th, 2014
The next community meeting at Ingleside Station will be held on February 18, 2014. Thank you.
Greetings San Francisco Garden Community -
After a competitive bidding process, the SFPUC College Hill Demonstration
Garden Project was awarded to seasoned Landscape Architects Pam Nagle and
Jeni Webber. And, for the past few months, their firms have been working
closely with the SFPUC to finalize the build-out plans as well as a
projected vision for the SFPUC's new eco-literacy demonstration garden and
outdoor education center. The new demonstration gardens will be built
adjacent to the water reservoirs on Elsie Street at Santa Maria just South
of Cortland in Bernal Heights neighborhood, San Francisco.
Since September, their firms, Pam Nagle Landscape Architect and Jeni Webber
and Associates have been developing a very forward-thinking
sustainability-focused physical design with an even more progressive plan
for youth engagement and educational programming on site. And we need your
input.
The "One Water, One City (One World)" Program is putting a call out to
solicit community input on the programmatic side of the College Hill
Demonstration Gardens. What would you like to see happen in Bernal Heights
related to urban garden education and the promotion of global
sustainability?
How do you envision youth and other community engagement happening on site?
Please join other interested community members for a...
What: COLLEGE HILL DEMONSTRATION GARDEN COMMUNITY MEETING
When: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Where: @ the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center - 515 Cortland Ave, San
Francisco, CA 94110
Who: All interested community members, urban farmers, gardeners,
neighbors, etc.
Why: Because we need your input!
For more information please email: markosmajor@gmail.com
We look forward to cultivating the environmental stewards of the future
with your input -
Best with compost -
Markos Major
Climate Action Now! Manager415.503.7639
markosmajor@gmail.com
Rules and pointers for pedestrians and drivers
Pay attention to reduce your chances of being in an accident
The most important safety tip to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities is to pay attention. You can significantly reduce your chances of being in a collision with a motor vehicle by obeying traffic rules and being aware of dangers posed by cars in your vicinity. Make eye contact with drivers if possible and make sure that they can see you.
Both drivers and pedestrians have certain safety responsibilities that depend on both circumstances and common sense.
Drivers must:
- Yield to pedestrians when crossing a sidewalk or entering an alley or driveway
- Yield to pedestrians who have started crossing at an intersection or crosswalk on a "walk" signal or a green light, if there is no walk signal
- Yield to pedestrians who are crossing the highway within a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection where there are no traffic lights or control signals
- Not overtake and pass any vehicle that stops at an intersection or crosswalk to permit a pedestrian or bicyclist to cross the roadway safely
Pedestrians must:
- Yield to drivers when crossing a road where there is no intersection or crosswalk or where the pedestrian does not have a green or "walk" signal and where vehicles have a green signal
- Not suddenly move into the path of a closely approaching vehicle that does not have sufficient time to yield for a pedestrian
- Walk on and along the left side of a highway when not walking on a sidewalk. Note: This law does not apply to bicycles. Bicycles operate under the same laws as other legal vehicles on the road and should always stay on the right side of the road.
Crime Alert: Many people are out and about enjoying this unseasonably warm weather during these winter months, but many people are focused on their electronic devices and unaware of their surroundings. Burglary trends are on the rise as well as robberies, especially in the Excelsior District. If you’re walking along and headed to or from your destination, be vigilant of your surroundings. Don’t let yourself be a target and have valuable items exposed for everyone to see. If you leave any windows or doors open to help cool down during the warm weather, remember to shut and lock them before you leave your home. Burglary suspects are on the look-out for an easy way into your house. They will climb, crawl, scale and squeeze themselves through any opening to get to your valuable belongings. Don’t hesitate to call the police if you see anything suspicious.
The San Francisco Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) is free training from the San Francisco Fire Department in how to help yourself and your neighbors prepare for and respond to a disaster by working together. The 20-hour training, taught by First Responders, includes personal preparedness, light search and rescue, disaster medicine, shutting off your utilities, and how to participate as a member of a neighborhood response team. NERT also offers continuing training for graduates and activities that support building robust neighborhood teams. For more information, visit the NERT website at http://sfgov.org//sffdnert, or contact Lt. Erica Arteseros at (415)970-2022 or sffdnert@sfgov.org
Are you someone who is interested in disaster preparedness and wants to help out your community while working hand in hand with law enforcement? Then the ALERT program is for you!
What is the A.L.E.R.T. Program?
The San Francisco Police Department has developed a volunteer citizen disaster preparedness program. The Auxiliary Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) is modeled after and works in partnership with the San Francisco Fire Department's Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT). The ALERT program will train members of the public to assist law enforcement in essential tasks after a major disaster. Such tasks may include: traffic control, foot patrol of business and residential areas, and reporting criminal activity. Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age and live, work, or attend high school in San Francisco.
Three steps to becoming an
A.L.E.R.T. volunteer:
1. Complete NERT training and receive certification. To register for NERT training courses please visit www.sfgov.org/sfnert
2. Once NERT certified, forward a copy of your NERT ID card to the ALERT program. sfpdalert@sfov.org
3. After clearing a basic background check the individual is eligible to register for ALERT training.
An informational meeting will be held on March 6th, 2014, at 7:00pm. The meeting will be held at the San Francisco Police Academy in the parking lot bungalow. This is NOT a mandatory meeting for interested volunteers. Come have your questions answered.
Arrests:
No Incidents to Report.
Serious Incidents:
6:50pm 200 Blk Santa Ynez Robbery
A woman walking home from BART noticed someone following her for several blocks. When she neared her home the suspect was right behind her and grabbed the victim from behind. He grabbed her tote bag from her right hand with the victim resisting. During the violent assault he pushed her to the sidewalk injuring her face and head. He then ran off with her property. Ingleside Officers Shugars and Schiff arrived on scene and called for medical assistance. The victim was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital and treated for her injuries. The loss was a wallet, cash, and California identification. Report number: 140058694
7:09 pm 300 Blk Murray Robbery
Ingleside Officers Khan and Kerlegan were dispatched to St. Mary’s playground to investigate a robbery. The young victims told the officers they were sitting at a picnic table when two suspects approached them from behind and told them to give up their belongings and not turn around to look at them. The victims turned around anyway when they heard one of the suspects load a bullet into the chamber of a semi-automatic handgun. The female victim, seeing the gun and fearing for her life, gave the suspects her purse containing a cell phone, wallet, bank card, and California identification. Report number: 140058779
7:10pm 300 Blk Rome Robbery
A woman returning from grocery shopping was robbed on the street. She told Ingleside Officers Fung and Suguitan that she took the #14 MUNI bus from the Safeway store to the intersection of Mission and Foote Streets. After getting off the bus, she started walking home on Foote Street then to Rome Street, carefully avoiding the dark side of the block. As she neared her home a suspect ran up behind her and grabbed her purse. A struggled ensued with the victim pulled to the ground by the robber before she reluctantly released her grip on her purse. The suspect then ran away to a waiting vehicle with the victim in pursuit screaming for help. The suspect fled in the vehicle and the victim called police. The loss was credit and debit cards, California identification, a wallet containing cash, along with glasses, and keys. Report number: 140058763
Vehicle and Other Incidents:
12:09am 100 Blk Edinburgh Battery
2:31am Geneva/San Jose Traffic Collision
9:15am Unit Blk Elk Recovered Vehicle
9:42am 50 Phelan Traffic Collision
1:15pm 200 Blk Lowell Fraud
9:00pm Madrid/France Vandalism to Vehicle
10:00pm Unit Blk Tingley Theft from Vehicle
Burglaries with suspect description:
No Incidents to Report.
