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San Leandro Unified School District and City of San Leandro Joint Response to the Cary Drive/Haas Ave Pedestrian Bridge Collapse

The San Leandro Unified School District and the City of San Leandro announce a joint partnership to address the damage caused to the Cary Drive/Haas Ave Pedestrian Bridge during the recent storms. The San Leandro Unified School District and the City of San Leandro have joined forces to explore potential solutions for pedestrian traffic in the impacted area.

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April 15, 2023

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The San Leandro Unified School District and the City of San Leandro will continue working closely to explore potential solutions for pedestrian traffic in this area. Updates on the progress of the partnership will be provided as they become available.

SAN LEANDRO, CA – The San Leandro Unified School District and the City of San Leandro announce a joint partnership to address the damage caused to the Cary Drive/Haas Ave Pedestrian Bridge during the recent storms. The San Leandro Unified School District and the City of San Leandro have joined forces to explore potential solutions for pedestrian traffic in the impacted area.

“We are committed to working with the City of San Leandro to look into a solution that ensures our students and the community have safe and reliable access to this area of San Leandro,” said Dr. Mike McLaughlin, Superintendent of the San Leandro Unified School District. City Manager Fran Robustelli stated, “We understand the importance of this bridge to the community, and we will do everything in our power to ensure a safe solution to this issue.”

According to San Leandro Mayor Juan González, “Residents expect an effective collaboration between City Hall and the school districts serving our residents. I am grateful to see this joint effort to address damage caused by the storms that battered our city.”

Keziah Moss, Director of Community & Employee Engagement, San Leandro Unified School District, (510) 667-6202, kmoss@slusd.us

Paul Sanftner, Public Information Officer, City of San Leandro, (510) 577-3372, psanftner@sanleandro.org

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Inaugural Juneteenth Awards Ceremony Celebrates the Fillmore’s Black History, Leadership and Resilience

Addressing more than 100 Black and Asian attendees, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated “San Francisco is reliant on the Black community, and we must invest in this community.”

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District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown, Pastor Emeritus of Third Baptist Church, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie. Photo by Linda Parker Pennington.

By Linda Parker Pennington

The Fillmore Community Ambassadors held its first annual Juneteenth Wesley Johnson White Horse Awards ceremony on June 19 inside the newly reopened Fillmore Heritage Center.

The event featured awards for former San Francisco mayors London Breed and Willie Brown, along with Third Baptist Church Pastor Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown.

The Koret Heritage lobby at the newly reopened center at 1330 Fillmore St. held a standing-room-only, culturally diverse and multi-generational audience while the art gallery featured photos of Fillmore community members in action, red Japanese lanterns, art and calligraphy, and Chinese artwork, giving the space a multicultural feel.

Addressing more than 100 Black and Asian attendees, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated “San Francisco is reliant on the Black community, and we must invest in this community.”

District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood acknowledged that “the Fillmore community has had a difficult history. Thanks to Rev. Amos Brown’s continuous focus on accountability and resistance, you hold us accountable and continue to inspire us.”

Mahmoud is referring to the Fillmore’s Japanese residents who were forced from their homes and sent to concentration camps during World War II. Black people occupied those homes until the return of their Japanese neighbors and then gave them back, while homes that had been unoccupied were lost. The presence of the Asian community on Juneteenth is a testament to that shared history.

In receiving his honor, Amos Brown elicited a powerful spontaneous call-and-response, where members of San Francisco’s many Black churches proudly shouted out the names: “Bethel AME! Providence Baptist! Jones Memorial! Glide!”

Awards program Master of Ceremonies Shawn Richards of Brothers Against Guns warmly introduced Breed, highlighting her many accomplishments, particularly on “March 16, 2020, when she became the first mayor to shut down a major U.S. city due to COVID-19, saving thousands of lives.”

The audience was captivated by Breed’s emotional speech touching on past traumas, present conditions, and future hopes for the neighborhood where she grew up.

She recalled another trauma of the neighborhood during the City’s redevelopment era in the 1960s, where Black residents were forced to move with a promise of being able to return that was largely unfulfilled.

“We remember when this land was just a field because they bulldozed hundreds of Victorian homes that Black people owned. They built the Fillmore Center, where most Black people can’t afford to live or start their own business. But we are still here.”