Mar 24: ‘Family Wealth Forum’: free event for family financial planning

From the SF Office of the Assessor-Recorder. This popular and well-received forum, to be held again on March 24, provides free help to to SF families in financial planning. 

In March, Assessor Carmen Chu is bringing back by popular demand her Office’s community event to help San Francisco families build their financial futures, the Family Wealth Forum. Often when speaking with community members, Assessor Chu receives questions about estate planning and passing on a family’s most valuable asset, their home.

In response, she created the Family Wealth Forum as a one-stop shop to answer those questions, offering multilingual workshops, one-on-one counseling with experts, and a variety of informative vendors.  We invite you to join us for this free community event on Saturday, March 24th, 2018, from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm at Lincoln High School, 2162 24th Avenue.  For more information and to register, please visit www.sfassessor.org/familywealthforum

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Mar 15: Balboa Reservoir Project fiscal feasibility meeting

On Thursday Mar 15, there will be a meeting on the Balboa Reservoir fiscal feasibility–at the 10 a.m. meeting of the Budget & Finance Sub-Committee, in City Hall Room 250.

It is the final item on the meeting’s agenda, which can be downloaded here.

Note that the Budget & Finance Committee will also be meeting at 1 p.m. on March 15, but the Balboa Reservoir project will not be discussed at that time.

Read more about the project at the top tab on this page.

Sunnyside mural featured on SF Curbed

Leon Loucheur’s mural on Circular Avenue was featured in an sfcurbed.com piece, “13 overlooked and forgotten murals of San Francisco” It’s number 11 on the list on left. (The map is keyed wrong.)

The provocative mix of carefully rendered live shark with urban tattoos and skeletal fishes with a patterned background was painted on the rear retaining wall of a Monterey Boulevard home in 2015.

Leon Loucheur mural, Circular Avenue. Photo: Adam Brinklow
Leon Loucheur mural, Circular Avenue. Photo: Adam Brinklow

More about the artist: http://www.loucheur.com .

Mar 11: Unity Plaza Craft Fair

From Ocean Avenue Association: Unity Plaza Craft Fair, Sunday, March 11, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Shop for locally handmade arts and crafts and live music at the Unity Plaza Craft Fair from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

unnamed (2)Unity Plaza is located on Ocean Avenue in Ingleside, next to Philz Coffee and City College.

Unity Plaza Craft Fair is a collaboration between Ocean Avenue Association, OMI Cultural Participation Project, the office of District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee, and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development

(…But don’t forget about Shakespeare at the Conservatory that same afternoon)

SF Rec & Park survey: What do you want to see at Sunnyside Playground?

San Francisco Recreation and Parks Dept announces a new survey — they want to know how they can improve their services. San Francisco Recreation and ParksSunnyside has one medium-sized Rec & Park facility, Sunnyside Playground, as well as the Joost-Baden Mini-park and the Sunnyside Conservatory park grounds.

URL to surveys in all languages: sfrecpark.org/survey

Come Out and Play!

Playgrounds? Swimming pools? Soccer fields? Trails? Picnic tables? The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department is eager to improve the reach of our services across San Francisco and wants your perspective and ideas to guide future investment. Take our brief survey and enter to win a $50 gift card!

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