November 4th, 2009
We just received word that ClementinaCares will be honored with an award from the Neighborhood Empowerment Network! The 2009 NEN Award Ceremony will be held on November 18, 2009 and there are limited seats still available.
The award is for “Best Green Community Project”, in recognition of our efforts to plant nearly 100 trees, plus the landscaping, planter boxes and maintenance of the greening initiatives. We were selected from other candidate projects citywide.
This great news arrived on the heels of last month’s neighborhood improvement award, which we just received from SF Beautiful in October.
Thanks so much to all of you. With your tireless efforts to continue transforming our little part of SOMA, this is a wonderful affirmation of what can happen when a neighborhood pulls together to make it a better place for our residents and local businesses.
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September 18th, 2009
I’m very proud to announce that our Clementina, Tehama & Gallagher Streets Greening and Maintenance effort was announced by San Francisco Beautiful as one of only 6 award winners citywide, on behalf of the 2009 Beautification Awards Committee. We will be honored for our neighborhood beautification efforts at this year’s awards dinner on October 29th.
Congratulations to all of our neighbors and local businesses for your efforts and continued perseverance, especially during these ‘interesting’ times. It takes a lot to keep plugging away when there is so much uncertainty in the world, but the fact that so many of you are committed says a quite a bit about the momentum established for and potential of our area.
So, great job and let’s hope that with further improvement, it’s the first of many.
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September 2nd, 2009
Please join us for the next ClementinaCares neighborhood meeting at Vehicle SF (map). The meeting will start at 5:15pm.
This month, we’ll be discussing the work to date on the Janitorial contracts on the 400 blocks of Tehama and Clementina, recent security concerns and our Fall fund raiser as well as a few other issues.
PLEASE pass this along to your neighbors and HOAs to post. And please try to bring at least 1 new person to the meeting.
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July 27th, 2009
We were so successful with our FUF tree planting in May and then we wondered, “Hey, what about the tree beds?” They were so barren, gray, dirty and lifeless.
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Goofing around
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Mary tells a tree joke
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Foster and Joel hard at work
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Cuddle break
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Admiring a job well done
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The "before" shot
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After the work
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A creative planting
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The "after" shot
So, Mary Scholten and Joel Smith got together with Clark de Mornay, who works for Flora Grub, a garden supply store way South of Market, almost to HuntersPoint/Bayview. Clark ordered the plants and got us a tremendous deal. Be sure to check out Flora Grubb the next time you have gardening or plant needs – it’s a really cool place and they’re supporting our neighborhood. Their site is: www.floragrubb.com.
Mary and Joel purchased some gardening tools (shovels, hand spades, buckets, gloves, etc.) but others brought shovels or hand tool as well. Ethan, our new neighbor in Hugh Thatcher’s apartment helped out. Paul Lamb of Rocket Postcards helped out, as did Laura and her children. Brian Wallace and Betty Marshall, and of course, old reliable Foster Weeks provides additional muscle. There’s no stopping that guy.
We met at 469 Tehama at 9 a.m., drank lots of coffee and ate plenty of donuts. Betty supplied home-baked muffins. Then, half of us headed down to 5th street where we started the plantings, and half headed towards 6th Street.
The before and after photos show the dramatic results. THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to make this possible.
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July 13th, 2009
Please join us for the next ClementinaCares neighborhood meeting at Vehicle SF (map). The meeting will start at 5:15pm.
This month, we will be discussing the current janitorial contract on the 400 blocks of Clementina and Tehama, an upcoming beautification project and the launch of our new web site. We will also have discussion on issues facing us in the coming year.
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May 28th, 2009
We’ve had a few questions about the mural on Tehama Street. This was one of the first big projects launched within our community, and was designed and supervised by Tehama Street resident and artist Sharon Anderson.
For additional info and a lot of photos…
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May 11th, 2009
Last Saturday we followed up on the big 2008 tree planting with another 30 new trees for our neighborhood. We did over 60 trees last year, so that makes almost 100 new trees planted by ClementinaCares,Inc. in the last 15 months. Great job everyone.
Matt Drake and Brian Wallace led the charge at 7am, doing the heavy lifting and grunting when the trees were delivered to our friends over at ClementinaSF. Without John Dunlap’s tireless efforts, our streets would be far more barren than they are today.
The turnout was fantastic last weekend - we had about 8 volunteers per tree, so it was really great to see that everyone is still so motivated to improve our neighborhood. Special thanks to Tami and the good folks at Luscious Garage for opening their doors to us (for the second year in a row) and hosting the post-planting potluck when we wrapped up at noon!
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Tehama St. tree and basin
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Tehama St. trees and basins
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New Tehama St. trees
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Time to water!
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May 1st, 2009
Friends of the Urban Forest
SoMa Tree Planting: Saturday, May 9th
8:00 AM Meet at Clementina & Sumner Streets just off 8th Street.
Coffee & sign in. Pickup trucks distribute trees; non-drivers assemble light hardware.
9:00 AM Volunteers arrive.
9:15 AM Planting demonstration.
9:30 AM We break into small groups & start planting trees.
12:30 PM We regroup at the Luscious Garage** 459 Clementina Street for the potluck.
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March 26th, 2009
Save the Date! Our next ClementinaCares neighborhood meeting will be on Tuesday, April 14th at Vehicle SF (map). This month the meeting will start at 6:15pm.
Please be sure to invite your neighbors, HOA board members and local contacts who may be interested. This meeting will focus on the issues we will focus on over the rest of this year.
See you there!
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November 10th, 2008
Wanted to alert you that Paul Lamb and I will be leading an effort to plant and replant existing foliage at the basins of all trees on the 350 Blocks of CLEMENTINA and TEHAMA this coming SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH. We can use volunteers, so if you or someone you know would like to help (for an hour or all day), please let us know.
Meet us at 10am on Sunday, Nov 16th at:
Rocket Postcards
363 Clementina St
San Francisco
Thanks,
Foster
UPDATE: Thanks for your help everyone, the new basins look great!
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"before" the new basins...
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