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.

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.