Senior Escort: Seniors Fight Police Plan To Change Escort Service
Dozens of angry senior citizens packed a San Francisco Police Commission meeting last night to protest a police proposal to turn over senior escort services to private agencies. The reaction was prompted by a budget-cutting proposal from Chief Anthony Ribera, who recommended that the 15-year-old Senior Escort Program be discontinued after June 30.Instead of the $2.1 million escort program employing 45 workers, the city would pay $300,000 to a private agency for ``senior crime prevention...
Senior Escort: Correction
Due to an editing error, Rochelle Frazier, director of San Francisco's Senior Escort program, was incorrectly quoted yesterday in a story about a city audit of the program. In an interview, Frazier dismissed a dispute between a blind client and a panhandler as insignificant. The story wrongly quoted Frazier as saying that the client feared the panhandler. ...
Senior Escort: Cowchip Day not just horse apples
photos rs cowchip jackson photos rs cowchip jackson By Ronn Smith Assistant City Editor WARNER - The parade kicked off Warner's 17th annual Cowchip Day on Saturday with a lot of noise from Warner Fire Department emergency vehicles and the Warner school band bringing "Bo Diddley" to town."I'm here just to see the parade, and I've been coming to these parades almost since the beginning," said Clay...
Senior Escort: BOARDWATCH
At their weekly meeting yesterday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors: Approved: -- Two anti-graffiti measures, including an amendment to the police code requiring store owners to keep aerosol paint and marker pens in locked cases. Conroy, principal sponsor of the measures, said this would prevent theft. Store owners not in compliance with the measure could face fines. The other measure urged the Municipal Court to impose stiffer fines for graffiti offenses and make parents...
Senior Escort: Mandeville High homecoming queen, court honored
Mandeville High School named Lindsay Louise Zollinger as its 2004 homecoming queen during festivities Oct. 29. The homecoming maid of honor is Brittany Bond.Mandeville High School Principal Bruce Bundy presented Lindsay with a bouquet of red roses, and Brooke Ellis, 2003 queen, passed her the crown.Also during the halftime festivities, all senior girls were presented with a bouquet of flowers.Lindsay is secretary of the Key Club, a member of the MHS Spinnerets dance team, the...