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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Former leaders of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043932/how-a-trusted-sf-nonprofit-unraveled-and-took-millions-with-it\">San Francisco nonprofit that shut down in June\u003c/a> after allegedly misspending millions of dollars meant for city parks will testify before the Board of Supervisors on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Government Audit and Oversight Committee is set to question former San Francisco Parks Alliance CEOs Robert Ogilvie and Drew Becher, as well as former treasurer Rick Hutchinson, about how the nonprofit mispent at least $3.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have questions about internal controls that were in place; how and who became aware of what and when; and how our community organizations in the city are going to be made whole if the funding has completely dried up,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who chairs the committee, told KQED on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening: \u003c/strong>Former leaders of the Parks Alliance, who the city’s government oversight committee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042870/sf-supervisors-order-subpoenas-for-fraught-former-parks-nonprofit\">subpoenaed\u003c/a> in June, will take questions from supervisors on Thursday. They’re expected to explain how the Alliance, a nonprofit that worked closely with the city’s Recreation and Parks Department and acted as the fundraising arm for about 80 community groups, misspent nearly $4 million, though Fielder said they plan to appear with attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we’ll get some answers as to how this all transpired and happened, although it’s unclear … as they’re also going to be there with their lawyers,” Fielder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People row on a rental boat on Blue Heron Lake in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on June 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>Partner organizations began raising concerns about the Parks Alliance’s finances in late April, after struggling to get reimbursements. In May, the board chair, Louise Mozingo, told a donor in leaked emails that the Alliance had used at least $3.8 million earmarked for specific projects to cover operating expenses, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than $1 million of the misspent money is owed to the city’s Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins launched a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043932/how-a-trusted-sf-nonprofit-unraveled-and-took-millions-with-it\">criminal investigation\u003c/a> into the Parks Alliance. City Attorney David Chiu and Controller Greg Wagner also announced a public integrity review of the nonprofit’s finances. On May 23, Mayor Daniel Lurie directed departments to halt all funding to the organization. The organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042526/sf-parks-alliance-to-shut-down-amid-misspending-scandal-leaving-partners-in-the-lurch\">collapsed\u003c/a> in early June.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warning signs: \u003c/strong>This isn’t the first time the Parks Alliance has been mired in scandal. In 2020, former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru funneled \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">nearly $1 million in donations\u003c/a> from city contractors into a Parks Alliance bank account for personal use. He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years in federal prison two years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Supervisor Connie Chan raised concerns that the nonprofit’s donations were unfairly influencing investment decisions by the parks department. Her concerns prompted a subpoena of financial transactions between the Parks Alliance and the parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>One of the biggest questions now is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042526/sf-parks-alliance-to-shut-down-amid-misspending-scandal-leaving-partners-in-the-lurch\">what happens to the Alliance’s many community partners\u003c/a> — groups that coordinate park cleanups, maintain public water fountains and staircases, and perform habitat restoration and trail maintenance, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the groups don’t have tax-exempt status and rely on the Parks Alliance to hold and distribute funds. While many are volunteer-run, a few had employees who were technically employed by the Parks Alliance — and were laid off in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups said in June that about $1.7 million they raised collectively was misappropriated by the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put our money that we raised under very difficult circumstances, with trust into San Francisco Parks Alliance. And we’re wondering where that trust has gone and what can be done about it,” Devi Joseph, who founded Friends of Cabrillo Playground, told supervisors at a June oversight committee hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/matthewgreen\">Matthew Green\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Stepping into San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">newest memorial\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s northwestern edge, all the busyness of the city and park seems to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space is small — just one wide stone pathway leading to an even wider circle, encircled by soaring greenery. On one side are wooden benches. On the other, a porous steel semicircle displays the names of 110 young people who have died from breast cancer — a ring which seems to float in midair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a metaphorical hug,” said Meaghan Campbell, board member and volunteer for \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/\">Bay Area Young Survivors\u003c/a>, or BAYS: the support community for breast cancer patients and survivors, which was the force behind this new \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/memorial-garden/\">Breast Cancer Memorial Garden, the first of its kind in the country.\u003c/a> The idea of an “infinite hug” was repeated to me several times on the sunny May morning just after the memorial first opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new memorial, which has been in the works since 2009, overlooks the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/conservatory-of-flowers/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a> and the Golden Gate Bridge. Its \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/WCDkt5yrNV6ZKXgD6\">entrance on Conservatory Drive\u003c/a> features a sign welcoming survivors, their caregivers and anyone else affected by cancer — or in need of a quiet place to sit and reflect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html\">around 40,000 people die of breast cancer in the United States alone\u003c/a>. Since the group’s inception in 2003, 110 have been BAYS members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jump straight to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gardens-Bay-Area\">Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>After a decade, a space with ‘a whole new meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984534/why-nature-is-great-for-your-mental-health\">Visiting outdoor spaces like parks and beaches is known to improve mental health\u003c/a>. And for someone who has just received the news of a diagnosis or needs a quiet moment amid the stress of caregiving, the garden opens its arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade navigating design, approvals and discussing dozens of potential locations for the memorial, BAYS, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and consultants from InsideOut Design settled on this corner of Golden Gate Park \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">as the site for the new memorial\u003c/a>, said Daniel Montes, a parks department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Montes looks at the names inscribed on the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had been taken over by plants and just kind of forgotten, but it’s been revived,” Montes said. “It’s totally new and it has a whole new meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes and Omar Davis, the parks department’s project manager for the memorial, said BAYS’ advocacy and unwavering commitment to the project ushered it through all 11 years of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out, there’s a lot of great ideas being pitched to Rec and Park for all kinds of new programs, new spaces,” Davis said. “But it is really incumbent on those groups to have that commitment. And BAYS was 1,000% committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/about/\">Founded in 2003\u003c/a>, BAYS focuses on those diagnosed young — its members all received their cancer diagnosis before age 45. The group meets virtually, hosting events and connecting over Slack and Google groups, offering a forum to discuss the particularly difficult and often isolating questions and issues that are unique to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also provides support in the form of meal deliveries, gatherings and invaluable advice. In addition to regular volunteer workdays to maintain the garden, BAYS plans to hold events in the memorial in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meaghan Calcari Campbell poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to go through cancer alone, especially at a young age,” Campbell said. She was 32, in an MBA program and living in Canada when she felt a lump on her breast against her elbow that led to her diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/bring-your-brave/breast-cancer-in-young-women/index.html#:~:text=About%2010%25%20of%20all%20new,than%2045%20years%20of%20age.\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u003c/a> around 10% of all new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. are found in women younger than 45. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2024/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures-2024.pdf\">number is increasing,\u003c/a> according to the American Cancer Society. Campbell hopes the memorial will bring greater awareness to the fact that “young people get cancer, and \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3262236/\">they die at higher rates.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In finalizing the design of the space, the group’s central focus was creating “a lightness as a counterbalance to the heavy reality of a memorial,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrases written on the memorial — including “feeling makes us human” and “held aloft by loving community” — come from the four anthologies BAYS has published of writings from its members, many of whom have since passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vision for this memorial began with BAYS member and master gardener Melissa Wyss — and a need to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyss “found so much healing with dirt, hands, sun, wind, in that outdoor space,” said Campbell, who co-project managed the space. “It was her who really set off this conversation around what could it be to have a physical spot where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate, and that’s an extension of our support groups, and really for the whole world. Anybody who comes here can feel held, just like we do in BAYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha touches a plaque reading “my friend” at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nola Agha, a BAYS member, volunteer and one of the memorial’s project managers, introduced me to the women whose names are on display on the arc. Many of them were surrounded by flowers drying out in the sun, and Agha instinctively touched each name as she remembered something about each of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Sarah. She was a young mother of two when she passed away,” Agha said. “Julie was a nurse. Kate was an amazing musician — she played the saxophone like nobody you could ever imagine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first name on the arc, farthest to the left, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deb-Mosley-dies-she-inspired-cancer-patients-3273302.php\">is that of Deb Mosley, who founded BAYS.\u003c/a> “We wouldn’t be here without her,” Agha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are my friends; these are people I miss,” Agha said, as she pointed out master gardner Wyss’ name next to Janet Sollod’s and Alison McCreery’s, who started the process of working with the parks department to create the memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promised them we’d finish it,” she said. “And we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha, BAYS Memorial project manager and volunteer, poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Agha was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 35. Her two kids were two and three, and she had been breastfeeding, so she had misidentified a cancerous lump in her breast as a clogged duct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the names on the memorial arc is of Lori Wallace-Pushinaitis, who Agha said received a similar diagnosis at the same time as her. “My treatment was successful, and hers wasn’t,” Agha said. Now, Agha has been diagnosed with lung cancer, possibly from the radiation that was used to treat her breast cancer, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closest to the center of the memorial, the words in the ground read, “learn how to survive, and in the process, how to live. Consider what the sum of our own lives will be. And it will be enough. And it will be enough. And it will be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you walk the labyrinth-like path and experience these arcs, you get to the center, and it’s the reflection of what the sum of our lives will be,” Campbell said. “And it will always be enough — it has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nola Agha, Yvonne Tou and Meaghan Calcari Campbell walk past the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"gardens-Bay-Area\">\u003c/a>Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hold each other, appearing to be dancing, in a wooded area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina O’Connor and Zoe Huey rehearse for the Bay Curious National AIDS Memorial Walking Tour in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 acres that make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/grove\">National AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park take you through native forests with species like dogwoods, oaks, redwoods, pines and ferns and to babbling creeks and fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site commemorates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883856/remembering-the-early-days-of-the-aids-epidemic-40-years-later\">those lost to the AIDS pandemic\u003c/a> and today’s continued work to remember, heal and act against anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and hate. There are many spaces to sit and reflect in the shade of the trees, or simply stroll to clear your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pulgas Water Temple, Redwood City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972095/sunol-pulgas-redwood-city-why-bay-area-water-temples\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> off of Cañada Road in Redwood City marks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future\">the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir\u003c/a> and the first point where water from the Sierra reached the Bay Area at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747125/the-not-so-crystal-clean-history-of-san-franciscos-drinking-water-2\">Crystal Springs Reservoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree-lined reflecting pool and lawn make for an idyllic picnic spot or place to rest and reflect. Tim Ramirez, who manages the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpuc.gov/\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s\u003c/a> Division of Natural Resources, said the temple is a reminder of the vision and foresight of those who first imagined Hetch Hetchy and its role in the success of San Francisco and the Bay Area as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12043590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SEASACHI-SWITCH-QUEERSURF-JUNE-7-2025-_23-2000x1333.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emeryville Shellmound Memorial, Emeryville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a massive archaeological site, the Emeryville Shellmound Memorial pays a small tribute to the history of the Ohlone people, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704679/there-were-once-more-than-425-shellmounds-in-the-bay-area-where-did-they-go\">shellmounds — used as burial or ceremonial sites — used to dot the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a shopping mall, the former shellmound was excavated to make way for the mall. This spot is often used as a gathering place for protests on Black Friday that call attention to the site’s destruction and the mishandling of Indigenous remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Angel Island Immigration Station, Angel Island\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1910 and 1940, around 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries arrived at \u003ca href=\"https://www.aiisf.org/history\">Angel Island,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821133/the-little-known-history-of-japanese-internment-on-angel-island\">many of whom were detained or interrogated\u003c/a> as their status was processed.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a state park and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1582/index.htm\">National Historic Landmark\u003c/a>, the island houses a history museum and a monument to the Chinese immigrants who were detained on the island. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034009/angel-island-exhibit-aims-shine-light-border-surveillance-american-exclusion\">A new exhibit opened this spring\u003c/a> focusing on the U.S.-Mexico border amid President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration crackdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanforan Memorial, San Bruno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 2022, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.tanforanmemorial.org/\">Tanforan Memorial\u003c/a> commemorates the 8,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned there in 1942 while more permanent internment camps were under construction, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021919/bay-area-japanese-americans-draw-on-wwii-trauma-resist-deportation-threats\">the United States invoked the Alien Enemies Act\u003c/a> to detain people of Japanese descent living in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/planning/art-program/exhibit\">San Bruno BART\u003c/a> station, the memorial was designed to replicate a horse stall, like the ones detainees were forced to occupy at the former racetrack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCeDp_MY_h4G6VWj_-VPl-BJlQ3Uya2H0vxRZZd_47BpXwVA/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Stepping into San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">newest memorial\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>’s northwestern edge, all the busyness of the city and park seems to soften.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The space is small — just one wide stone pathway leading to an even wider circle, encircled by soaring greenery. On one side are wooden benches. On the other, a porous steel semicircle displays the names of 110 young people who have died from breast cancer — a ring which seems to float in midair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a metaphorical hug,” said Meaghan Campbell, board member and volunteer for \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/\">Bay Area Young Survivors\u003c/a>, or BAYS: the support community for breast cancer patients and survivors, which was the force behind this new \u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/memorial-garden/\">Breast Cancer Memorial Garden, the first of its kind in the country.\u003c/a> The idea of an “infinite hug” was repeated to me several times on the sunny May morning just after the memorial first opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new memorial, which has been in the works since 2009, overlooks the \u003ca href=\"https://gggp.org/conservatory-of-flowers/\">Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a> and the Golden Gate Bridge. Its \u003ca href=\"https://maps.app.goo.gl/WCDkt5yrNV6ZKXgD6\">entrance on Conservatory Drive\u003c/a> features a sign welcoming survivors, their caregivers and anyone else affected by cancer — or in need of a quiet place to sit and reflect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html\">around 40,000 people die of breast cancer in the United States alone\u003c/a>. Since the group’s inception in 2003, 110 have been BAYS members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Jump straight to: \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gardens-Bay-Area\">Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>After a decade, a space with ‘a whole new meaning’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984534/why-nature-is-great-for-your-mental-health\">Visiting outdoor spaces like parks and beaches is known to improve mental health\u003c/a>. And for someone who has just received the news of a diagnosis or needs a quiet moment amid the stress of caregiving, the garden opens its arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than a decade navigating design, approvals and discussing dozens of potential locations for the memorial, BAYS, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and consultants from InsideOut Design settled on this corner of Golden Gate Park \u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2233\">as the site for the new memorial\u003c/a>, said Daniel Montes, a parks department spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041387\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Montes looks at the names inscribed on the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It had been taken over by plants and just kind of forgotten, but it’s been revived,” Montes said. “It’s totally new and it has a whole new meaning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes and Omar Davis, the parks department’s project manager for the memorial, said BAYS’ advocacy and unwavering commitment to the project ushered it through all 11 years of planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it turns out, there’s a lot of great ideas being pitched to Rec and Park for all kinds of new programs, new spaces,” Davis said. “But it is really incumbent on those groups to have that commitment. And BAYS was 1,000% committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bayareayoungsurvivors.org/about/\">Founded in 2003\u003c/a>, BAYS focuses on those diagnosed young — its members all received their cancer diagnosis before age 45. The group meets virtually, hosting events and connecting over Slack and Google groups, offering a forum to discuss the particularly difficult and often isolating questions and issues that are unique to the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group also provides support in the form of meal deliveries, gatherings and invaluable advice. In addition to regular volunteer workdays to maintain the garden, BAYS plans to hold events in the memorial in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meaghan Calcari Campbell poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nobody should have to go through cancer alone, especially at a young age,” Campbell said. She was 32, in an MBA program and living in Canada when she felt a lump on her breast against her elbow that led to her diagnosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/bring-your-brave/breast-cancer-in-young-women/index.html#:~:text=About%2010%25%20of%20all%20new,than%2045%20years%20of%20age.\">According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,\u003c/a> around 10% of all new cases of breast cancer in the U.S. are found in women younger than 45. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2024/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures-2024.pdf\">number is increasing,\u003c/a> according to the American Cancer Society. Campbell hopes the memorial will bring greater awareness to the fact that “young people get cancer, and \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3262236/\">they die at higher rates.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In finalizing the design of the space, the group’s central focus was creating “a lightness as a counterbalance to the heavy reality of a memorial,” Campbell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The phrases written on the memorial — including “feeling makes us human” and “held aloft by loving community” — come from the four anthologies BAYS has published of writings from its members, many of whom have since passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vision for this memorial began with BAYS member and master gardener Melissa Wyss — and a need to gather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wyss “found so much healing with dirt, hands, sun, wind, in that outdoor space,” said Campbell, who co-project managed the space. “It was her who really set off this conversation around what could it be to have a physical spot where we come together, where we grieve, we celebrate, and that’s an extension of our support groups, and really for the whole world. Anybody who comes here can feel held, just like we do in BAYS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha touches a plaque reading “my friend” at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nola Agha, a BAYS member, volunteer and one of the memorial’s project managers, introduced me to the women whose names are on display on the arc. Many of them were surrounded by flowers drying out in the sun, and Agha instinctively touched each name as she remembered something about each of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is Sarah. She was a young mother of two when she passed away,” Agha said. “Julie was a nurse. Kate was an amazing musician — she played the saxophone like nobody you could ever imagine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first name on the arc, farthest to the left, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deb-Mosley-dies-she-inspired-cancer-patients-3273302.php\">is that of Deb Mosley, who founded BAYS.\u003c/a> “We wouldn’t be here without her,” Agha said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are my friends; these are people I miss,” Agha said, as she pointed out master gardner Wyss’ name next to Janet Sollod’s and Alison McCreery’s, who started the process of working with the parks department to create the memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We promised them we’d finish it,” she said. “And we did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-6-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nola Agha, BAYS Memorial project manager and volunteer, poses for a photo at the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. She was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Agha was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 35. Her two kids were two and three, and she had been breastfeeding, so she had misidentified a cancerous lump in her breast as a clogged duct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the names on the memorial arc is of Lori Wallace-Pushinaitis, who Agha said received a similar diagnosis at the same time as her. “My treatment was successful, and hers wasn’t,” Agha said. Now, Agha has been diagnosed with lung cancer, possibly from the radiation that was used to treat her breast cancer, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closest to the center of the memorial, the words in the ground read, “learn how to survive, and in the process, how to live. Consider what the sum of our own lives will be. And it will be enough. And it will be enough. And it will be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you walk the labyrinth-like path and experience these arcs, you get to the center, and it’s the reflection of what the sum of our lives will be,” Campbell said. “And it will always be enough — it has to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250522_GGPMEMORIALGARDEN_GC-30-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Nola Agha, Yvonne Tou and Meaghan Calcari Campbell walk past the Bay Area Young Survivors Breast Cancer Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on May 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"gardens-Bay-Area\">\u003c/a>Five more spaces to honor, reflect and gather in the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11965426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11965426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people hold each other, appearing to be dancing, in a wooded area.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231022-AIDSMemorialGrove-034-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalina O’Connor and Zoe Huey rehearse for the Bay Curious National AIDS Memorial Walking Tour in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10 acres that make up the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/grove\">National AIDS Memorial Grove\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park take you through native forests with species like dogwoods, oaks, redwoods, pines and ferns and to babbling creeks and fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site commemorates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883856/remembering-the-early-days-of-the-aids-epidemic-40-years-later\">those lost to the AIDS pandemic\u003c/a> and today’s continued work to remember, heal and act against anti-LGBTQ+ stigma and hate. There are many spaces to sit and reflect in the shade of the trees, or simply stroll to clear your head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pulgas Water Temple, Redwood City\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972095/sunol-pulgas-redwood-city-why-bay-area-water-temples\">Pulgas Water Temple\u003c/a> off of Cañada Road in Redwood City marks \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1982551/celebration-and-concern-hetch-hetchy-reservoir-turns-100-but-climate-change-complicates-its-future\">the completion of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir\u003c/a> and the first point where water from the Sierra reached the Bay Area at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11747125/the-not-so-crystal-clean-history-of-san-franciscos-drinking-water-2\">Crystal Springs Reservoir\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree-lined reflecting pool and lawn make for an idyllic picnic spot or place to rest and reflect. Tim Ramirez, who manages the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpuc.gov/\">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s\u003c/a> Division of Natural Resources, said the temple is a reminder of the vision and foresight of those who first imagined Hetch Hetchy and its role in the success of San Francisco and the Bay Area as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors are subpoenaing the former leaders of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, days after the prominent nonprofit abruptly shut down amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">allegations of gross financial mismanagement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing on Thursday, Supervisors Shamann Walton and Jackie Fielder called on three former top officials to testify about why the organization misspent millions of dollars in donor funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance acted as the fundraising arm of the city’s open spaces. The group’s former leaders, including Robert Ogilvie, the organization’s CEO until just days ago, his predecessor, Drew Becher, and former treasurer, Rick Hutchinson, will be required to appear before the committee under penalty of perjury, and could be held in contempt if they refuse to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton lambasted the organization for its fiscal mismanagement and lack of transparency, which has left dozens of partner organizations scrambling for funding alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The harm to neighborhood groups across San Francisco cannot be overstated,” said Walton, a member of the Government Audit & Oversight Committee. “Many of these groups are volunteer-run. They did nothing wrong. Their funds were held in a trust, and now those funds may be gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization’s implosion comes as its leaders last month admitted to misspending at least $3.8 million in restricted funds in order to cover its operating costs, prompting the city to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\"> launch civil and criminal investigations\u003c/a> of the group and the mayor to suspend its city funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12042690 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250604_SFBUDGETLABOR_GC-20-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 50 years, the Parks Alliance was a critical player in supporting San Francisco’s many open-space projects and serving as a fiscal sponsor for more than 80 community organizations across the city that don’t have their own tax-exempt status and use the nonprofit as a bank to hold and distribute their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not know the Parks Alliance’s full assets at this time, but we do know they owe the city and many nonprofits a lot of money,” Walton said. “We are here to demand answers. This is about public trust, accountability and the real consequences of failed oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and obtained by the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>, the Alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to improperly spending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “nonprofit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to \u003cem>the Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.[aside postID=news_12042526 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS42458_003_KQED_SanFrancisco_GGP_03302020-qut-1020x680.jpg']The downfall of the Alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a series of scandals involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was arrested for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Thursday’s hearing, Fielder also directed the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">audit the city’s Recreation and Parks Department,\u003c/a> which has worked closely with the Alliance on various open-space projects. The audit, she said, should include a review of the department’s current projects and its financial ties to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With all of the mistrust in city government from San Franciscans, I think it’s all the more important for the Recreation and Parks Department to undertake this audit as questions surround their affiliated nonprofits,” Fielder told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of representatives of groups impacted by the Alliance’s closure also spoke at Thursday’s hearing, urging supervisors to hold the defunct nonprofit’s leaders accountable and “solve this mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of community projects in every single district of the city, and each of the supervisors here knows well how important these projects are to the fabric of the neighborhood,” said Rosaura Valle, who helps lead the Detroit Steps Project in the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood, an initiative funded largely by small donations from local residents. ”Volunteers commit their own personal time, skills and passion to projects that benefit the community and the city at no cost to the city. And now we’re stripped of our assets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ildiko Polony, the executive director of conservation group Sutro Stewards, one of the few fiscally sponsored groups that had paid employees, said her entire staff, who the Alliance technically employed, received layoff notices on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I’m in a position of scrambling, trying to figure out what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of fiscally sponsored groups, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep the Alliance afloat. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Parks Alliance, a prominent nonprofit that has supported the city’s public spaces for more than 50 years, is reportedly preparing to shut down amid revelations that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041112/sf-supervisor-calls-for-parks-audit-after-nonprofit-partner-misspends-3-8-million\">misspent millions of dollars\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s board members voted last week to begin shuttering operations and laying off staff, leaving dozens of partner organizations scrambling for funding alternatives, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/troubled-s-f-parks-alliance-shut-amid-city-20357746.php\">the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/02/sf-parks-alliance-shut-down-close/\">\u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported on Monday, based on information both outlets said they received from an anonymous source familiar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees who work with at least some of the local groups that the Parks Alliance supports have already received layoff notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implosion of the organization comes as its leaders recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\"> admitted to misspending\u003c/a> at least $3.8 million in restricted funds to cover its operating costs, prompting the city to launch civil and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/da-launches-criminal-probe-nonprofit-misspending-20335694.php\">criminal investigations\u003c/a> of the group and the mayor to suspend its city funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance has long been a critical player in supporting San Francisco’s many open-space projects, serving as a fiscal sponsor for about 80 community organizations across the city that don’t have their own tax-exempt status and use the nonprofit as a bank to hold and distribute their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow Falls at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those groups is Sutro Stewards, which performs habitat restoration and trail maintenance on Mount Sutro and, until this week, had eight staff members, all of whom are technically employed by the Parks Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was laid off yesterday, as was all my staff,” Ildiko Polony, the group’s executive director, told KQED. She said all of her employees received a notice on Monday afternoon from the Parks Alliance, sent to their personal emails, with separation paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to significant financial challenges, the San Francisco Parks Alliance had to make a difficult decision to lay off employees effective May 30th,” the email stated, according to Polony, who said she had a feeling this was coming after her entire staff on Friday received vacation payouts on their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s how we found out,” she said, noting that the email doesn’t explicitly state the alliance is shutting down. “The communication was horrible. And this is incredibly detrimental to our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13975608 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/Sister-Act-2-at-Dolores-Park-2022_1920-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reports of the Parks Alliance’s financial mismanagement began emerging in late April, Polony formed a coalition of the many community groups that receive fiscal sponsorship from the alliance, in an effort to keep it afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all came together to try to work with the board of directors, the board of trustees of SFPA, to right the ship,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the fiscally sponsored groups are volunteer-led, using the alliance to park their individual donations, although at least two others have employees who were also laid off on Monday, Polony said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups involved operate in every part of the city, performing an array of open-space improvement projects, she said, including litter cleanup in parks and maintaining public water fountains and stairways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I really want people to understand is that while what’s happened with SFPA is unjust, egregious, unfair, possibly criminal and horribly negligent, they’ve [also] basically stolen our money,” added Polony, who said the Parks Alliance is still holding about $175,000 in funds raised by her organization that may now be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why they had access to spend money that my group, as well as most of these other partner groups, had entrusted with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a leaked email last month sent to a Parks Alliance donor and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\">obtained by the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the alliance’s board chair, Louise Mozingo, admitted to misspending those restricted funds and likened the organization’s financial situation to “a dumpster fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11801558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11801558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1249\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-800x520.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Mohammed-Nuru-1020x664.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who the FBI arrested in January on public corruption charges. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the email, Mozingo said the board was preparing for the possibility of shutting down the organization and had already contacted a firm specializing in “non-profit liquidation.” She also acknowledged that the board was “very conscious” that doing so would “substantially hurt many small businesses and organizations that will realize a significant loss, causing real hardship in already uncertain times,” according to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance did not respond to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downfall of the alliance, which Supervisor Jackie Fielder described to KQED as “a magnet and a who’s who in the city for very powerful people,” follows a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035871/sf-will-let-nonprofits-report-less-about-themselves-fears-political-attacks\">series of scandals\u003c/a> involving multiple city-funded nonprofits accused of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\">misusing city funds\u003c/a> or unfairly awarding grants based on personal connections. Last year, the executive director of the now-defunct nonprofit SF SAFE was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997977/former-head-of-sfpd-linked-nonprofit-arrested-over-alleged-misuse-of-700000\">arrested for allegedly stealing and misusing\u003c/a> more than $700,000 in public funds and donations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also not the first time the Parks Alliance, which operates independently from the parks department but is closely linked to it, has been mired in scandal. In 2020, Mohammed Nuru, the city’s former chief of public works, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839531/report-corrupt-sf-official-directed-nonprofit-to-pay-60k-to-organizations-under-fbi-investigation\">funneled nearly $1 million in donations \u003c/a>from various city contractors into a Parks Alliance account that he used as his personal slush fund.[aside postID=news_12041112 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250624-PARKFILE-25-BL-KQED.jpg']Two years later, Nuru was convicted of fraud and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">sentenced to seven years in federal prison\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following news of the alliance’s imminent closure, the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee, co-led by Fielder, announced it would hold a hearing on Friday addressing allegations of financial mismanagement directed against the organization, while also introducing a motion to initiate an audit of the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The offices of the city attorney and controller, which had already been reviewing the Parks Alliance’s finances, said in a statement on Tuesday that they sought to make sure that any closure or liquidation process “takes into account the needs of the City and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial mismanagement at the Parks Alliance has done real harm to San Francisco, which is why we are working on a joint public integrity review of the matter,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Polony said that while the alliance has always been disorganized, it served a critical role in enabling groups like hers to do public service work that directly benefits the city and its residents. And she said it’s incumbent on the city to now step in and fix the mess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city hasn’t been able to raise the revenue via taxes to support our public space,” she said. “And so, the function that SFPA provided needs to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other groups in her coalition, Polony is now rushing to find a new fiscal sponsor to access her funds so she can rehire her staff and continue the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had this been done smoothly, had the city worked with the Alliance to create a transition for all of these community partners, this could have been done with a lot less harm,” she said. “Their going under makes a bad problem even worse for us because now we’re left in the lurch with no one to catch us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implosion of the organization comes as its leaders recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/parks-alliance-20331332.php\"> admitted to misspending\u003c/a> at least $3.8 million in restricted funds to cover its operating costs, prompting the city to launch civil and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/da-launches-criminal-probe-nonprofit-misspending-20335694.php\">criminal investigations\u003c/a> of the group and the mayor to suspend its city funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parks Alliance has long been a critical player in supporting San Francisco’s many open-space projects, serving as a fiscal sponsor for about 80 community organizations across the city that don’t have their own tax-exempt status and use the nonprofit as a bank to hold and distribute their funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041119\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250206-RainbowFalls-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainbow Falls at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Feb. 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those groups is Sutro Stewards, which performs habitat restoration and trail maintenance on Mount Sutro and, until this week, had eight staff members, all of whom are technically employed by the Parks Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was laid off yesterday, as was all my staff,” Ildiko Polony, the group’s executive director, told KQED. She said all of her employees received a notice on Monday afternoon from the Parks Alliance, sent to their personal emails, with separation paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to significant financial challenges, the San Francisco Parks Alliance had to make a difficult decision to lay off employees effective May 30th,” the email stated, according to Polony, who said she had a feeling this was coming after her entire staff on Friday received vacation payouts on their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that’s how we found out,” she said, noting that the email doesn’t explicitly state the alliance is shutting down. “The communication was horrible. And this is incredibly detrimental to our work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 1900s, San Francisco eradicated native coyotes from the city. But around 20 years ago, they returned and are now a part of daily life. For some residents, they’re a source of wonder, while others view them as a nuisance and a danger to pets and children.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lin\u003c/b>\u003cstrong>ks:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/us/coyotes-san-francisco-california.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Coyotes of San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/insider/coyotes-photography.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">How We Photographed Coyotes in San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Where are you likely to come across a coyote in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Increasingly, just about anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] There are different packs that control the green spaces. So anywhere from Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, to the Presidio, to Glen Canyon, to golf courses. That’s where they’re concentrated. But they’ve been getting more bold and they go out and explore the city. So you can see them walking up streets. One was found in a laundromat. Sam Altman found one in his backyard, lounging on patio furniture. So yeah, there’s about 100 of them now. I live in Glen Park, and I walk a lot in the canyon there and I see them. There are the warning signs up, and I saw one walking up and down a staircase there. They’re just like your neighbors, you say hi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] You mentioned you see them in your own neighborhood and it sounds like just depending where you live and where you hang out they’re basically part of daily life here in a weird way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] Yeah, people around the country who read my story could not believe that. It sounds so strange that these apex predators would just be out and about in a city, but they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] I mean, how would you describe people’s relationship to these coyotes in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] That’s where things are very divisive. Some people love them, they’ve become part of the culture in some ways. Some people love seeing them and consider it really cool that these wild creatures are just part of our city. They’re on murals now and there are talks at the libraries that just fill up like you can’t even get into them. They’re so popular. But then on the other hand people, especially those who have small dogs and walk them around the city, really do not like them. They can be very dangerous to small dogs especially those that are off leash and a number of them have been killed. They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. 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What are the range of feelings that you heard from folks about how they’re feeling about them these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] The scientists I talked to are very pro-coyote. They said, you know, you can’t do anything about them anyway. They’re going to be here as they proved they came back and repopulated. Some people say we should cull them, eradicate them again. But the scientists point out that would not work. They’re gonna come back. So there’s a lot of people who live in the city and think they’re majestic creatures. It’s kind a delightful little aspect of San Francisco that you see coyotes, you know, walking to your grocery store. Other people feel very differently, especially those who walk little dogs. I did interview a woman she talked about last fall walking her little eight pound pup at Chrissy Field and it is an off leash area although there were warning signs of coyotes. So she let her dog off leash but kept an eye on him and then a coyote came up and grabbed the dog in its mouth in front of her and ran off and she described screaming and chasing the coyote, eventually caught up to him and it was way too late for her dog. So to see that happen to your pet on a Saturday walk is pretty devastating, so obviously these emotions are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:41] Yeah, that’s traumatic. And there’s been a couple of more high profile incidents involving these coyotes in recent years, right, that’s, I think, really leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Right. So for example, there was one incident at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, I believe in the summer of 2024, where a five-year-old girl was bitten on the backside by a coyote and needed stitches. She was okay. But of course, that was traumatic as well. Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. And so there’s, you know, scientists are saying like, we need to better exist with these animals and be careful when we have little kids and little dogs in these wild spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:32] You talked earlier about the city’s approach to coyotes back in the 1900s, and basically the approach being get rid of the coyotes, but how would you describe the city approach to the coyote these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] So now they have a policy where if a coyote kills a little dog, they just consider that kind of the circle of life. That is prey. And it’s just, it can be traumatic to see it, you know, in a city and kind of feel strange and devastating, but it is also natural. But if they do go after children, then that’s when they will take action and discuss what has happened with federal agents and jointly decide when coyotes need to be taken out. So that really aggressive coyote who had killed a number of dogs, the city wasn’t going to do anything about that. But when the coyote did lunge at a school trip of children at Chrissy Field, they decided that the coyotes had to be eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Do we know whether San Francisco coyotes are in fact getting more aggressive? Like has their behavior changed over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Animal care and control gets reports about coyote behavior often. Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. 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They described it as a real failure on their part to not better educate the public and the failure of humans who are leaving far too much food out and kind of messing with the way coyotes naturally behave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] And I mean, talking about the circle of life, we actually kind of need these coyotes too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Yes, so although pet owners can be very anti-coyote, which can be understandable, the scientists I talked to said that they’re actually really important to the ecology of San Francisco. They keep the rat population in check. And they also kill feral cats, which can protect birds. So there’s a lot of benefits to having the coyotes around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] Yeah, I guess that’s why our streets don’t look like New York with the rats. Shout out to the coyotes. What would it look like to live in harmony with these coyotes, which as you’ve described are natural to this part of California. They’re important to our ecology. I mean, what do the people you talk with say when it comes to how we can live with these coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah, so they said the big thing is the food. Do not leave food scraps out and about. That’s probably just good behavior generally. But another issue is just to be better aware of what their behavior is. One behavior they have is called escorting. So if a parent coyote has babies in a den, they will be very protective of that space in the area around it. This has happened a lot at Bernal Hill where people will be walking their dogs and the coyotes appear to be very threatening. Their face looks threatening, their ears go back, they bare their teeth. But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:00] Where are you likely to come across a coyote in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:04] Increasingly, just about anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Heather Knight is the San Francisco Bureau Chief for The New York Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] There are different packs that control the green spaces. So anywhere from Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower, to the Presidio, to Glen Canyon, to golf courses. That’s where they’re concentrated. But they’ve been getting more bold and they go out and explore the city. So you can see them walking up streets. One was found in a laundromat. Sam Altman found one in his backyard, lounging on patio furniture. So yeah, there’s about 100 of them now. I live in Glen Park, and I walk a lot in the canyon there and I see them. There are the warning signs up, and I saw one walking up and down a staircase there. They’re just like your neighbors, you say hi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] You mentioned you see them in your own neighborhood and it sounds like just depending where you live and where you hang out they’re basically part of daily life here in a weird way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:10] Yeah, people around the country who read my story could not believe that. It sounds so strange that these apex predators would just be out and about in a city, but they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] I mean, how would you describe people’s relationship to these coyotes in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:02:28] That’s where things are very divisive. Some people love them, they’ve become part of the culture in some ways. Some people love seeing them and consider it really cool that these wild creatures are just part of our city. They’re on murals now and there are talks at the libraries that just fill up like you can’t even get into them. They’re so popular. But then on the other hand people, especially those who have small dogs and walk them around the city, really do not like them. They can be very dangerous to small dogs especially those that are off leash and a number of them have been killed. They’ve also killed cats, so people with pets may feel differently than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:09] Stepping back a little bit, tell us about these coyotes and why are they in San Francisco? I mean, they’re native to California, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:03:16] Yes, they’re native to the West and they’re actually in cities around the country. Some have been spotted in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, but they really seem to be ubiquitous here in San Francisco. They were very widespread in the city in the early 1900s, but back then, they were considered kind of part of the Wild West that needed to be tamed, and so people were encouraged to actually shoot them on sight or poison them. There were bounties put out by the government, and so they were eradicated from San Francisco for about 75 years. But one of my favorite tidbits that I learned was that they came back to San Francisco about 2002, about 20, 25 years ago. The scientists were able to study their blood, and the DNA of the first arrivals back then actually do not match those to the south, the peninsula, Silicon Valley. Those coyotes are a different beast, apparently, and they actually more closely align with the DNA of those living in Marin County and beyond up north. And so scientists think that they came back by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, just walked over. I don’t think they paid the toll, probably. And then the first one probably howled and brought others across with them. So then every spring more pups were born and now we have about a hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] Are there any other theories about how these coyotes could have ended up back in San Francisco from the north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:04:47] It’s possible that they swam, but that is more of a challenge, of course, than walking across the bridge, as probably we could relate to. But interestingly, I learned after publication that there is a family living on Angel Island. So it seems like those probably did swim over, although that’s a shorter swim, so more feasible, unless maybe they hopped aboard a ferry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] I mean, I know you talked about this love-hate relationship that San Franciscans seem to have with these coyotes these days. And I know, you talked to a bunch of people. What are the range of feelings that you heard from folks about how they’re feeling about them these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:05:27] The scientists I talked to are very pro-coyote. They said, you know, you can’t do anything about them anyway. They’re going to be here as they proved they came back and repopulated. Some people say we should cull them, eradicate them again. But the scientists point out that would not work. They’re gonna come back. So there’s a lot of people who live in the city and think they’re majestic creatures. It’s kind a delightful little aspect of San Francisco that you see coyotes, you know, walking to your grocery store. Other people feel very differently, especially those who walk little dogs. I did interview a woman she talked about last fall walking her little eight pound pup at Chrissy Field and it is an off leash area although there were warning signs of coyotes. So she let her dog off leash but kept an eye on him and then a coyote came up and grabbed the dog in its mouth in front of her and ran off and she described screaming and chasing the coyote, eventually caught up to him and it was way too late for her dog. So to see that happen to your pet on a Saturday walk is pretty devastating, so obviously these emotions are strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:41] Yeah, that’s traumatic. And there’s been a couple of more high profile incidents involving these coyotes in recent years, right, that’s, I think, really leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:06:54] Right. So for example, there was one incident at the Botanical Gardens in Golden Gate Park, I believe in the summer of 2024, where a five-year-old girl was bitten on the backside by a coyote and needed stitches. She was okay. But of course, that was traumatic as well. Federal agents came out and killed three members of that coyote family. But it turns out that the camp was held very close to a coyotes den and that it may be that adults were not keeping an eye on the children. 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So that really aggressive coyote who had killed a number of dogs, the city wasn’t going to do anything about that. But when the coyote did lunge at a school trip of children at Chrissy Field, they decided that the coyotes had to be eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Do we know whether San Francisco coyotes are in fact getting more aggressive? Like has their behavior changed over the years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:08:59] Animal care and control gets reports about coyote behavior often. Usually they do not consider them super disturbing, but when that really aggressive coyote at Chrissy Field was killing dogs and lunged at the school children, they started getting up to 10 reports a day of just that one coyote and, you know, very disturbing, bold, overly aggressive behavior. I’ve never heard of a coyote attacking an adult. Most coyotes will never go after humans. That’s just not part of their behavior. But a few in recent years have become overly aggressive. The wildlife specialists and scientists said that one problem is humans. Some humans will actually hand feed coyotes, which is kind of insane. Like there’s been a few people who will bring trays of raw meat out to parks and just feed them. Far more often, humans are just careless, like they may be picnicking and leave food out near dens. Or trash cans, we see that all the time, are overflowing with food, or fishermen who use raw chicken as bait when they’re fishing in the bay may leave that out on docks. And so coyotes are getting accustomed to associating humans with food. And that is a huge problem behind all of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] It’s interesting. It sounds like, I mean, part of the problem is our relationship to the coyotes, actually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:10:24] Right, so when this particular coyote was killed last fall, the Presidio Wildlife people actually got together and held a funeral for the coyote. They sang songs and spread flowers and they felt really devastated because this is a coyote family that lives in the Presidio, you know, well known to people who work there. They described it as a real failure on their part to not better educate the public and the failure of humans who are leaving far too much food out and kind of messing with the way coyotes naturally behave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:05] And I mean, talking about the circle of life, we actually kind of need these coyotes too, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] Yes, so although pet owners can be very anti-coyote, which can be understandable, the scientists I talked to said that they’re actually really important to the ecology of San Francisco. They keep the rat population in check. And they also kill feral cats, which can protect birds. So there’s a lot of benefits to having the coyotes around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:34] Yeah, I guess that’s why our streets don’t look like New York with the rats. Shout out to the coyotes. What would it look like to live in harmony with these coyotes, which as you’ve described are natural to this part of California. They’re important to our ecology. I mean, what do the people you talk with say when it comes to how we can live with these coyotes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Heather Knight \u003c/strong>[00:11:57] Yeah, so they said the big thing is the food. Do not leave food scraps out and about. That’s probably just good behavior generally. But another issue is just to be better aware of what their behavior is. One behavior they have is called escorting. So if a parent coyote has babies in a den, they will be very protective of that space in the area around it. This has happened a lot at Bernal Hill where people will be walking their dogs and the coyotes appear to be very threatening. Their face looks threatening, their ears go back, they bare their teeth. But the scientists said that they’re just kind of trying to steer you away from the den and they’re not actually intending to hurt anyone or do anything other than make sure that you don’t get too close to their pups. They’re very big on keeping your little dogs on leashes, especially when you see signs posted. The city’s doing a better job of knowing where the coyotes are and posting those warning signs. So if you see that, even if you’d like your little dog to be able to run around, you know, better safe, then sorry. I was at an outdoor yoga class in Hellman Hollow yesterday and there were a lot of those signs posted but I saw a lot dog owners with little dogs letting them off leash and running around these signs warning of coyotes and I was just like oh gosh this yoga class could go very bad. 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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, stoners from the Bay Area and beyond have made a pilgrimage to Hippie Hill in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on April 20 — to collectively combust their favorite plant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663153/420-started-in-the-bay-area-meet-the-guys-who-invented-it\">in observance of 420\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981277/san-franciscos-420-festival-cancellation-reveals-difficulties-in-cannabis-industry\">like last year\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\">2025’s “official” 420 celebration at Hippie Hill has been canceled\u003c/a>, as both event organizers and the city said they lacked the resources to hold the celebration this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#is-smoking-weed-in-public-legal\">What does the law say about smoking cannabis in public in San Francisco?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Despite the cancellation, many people are still likely to descend on the park to celebrate, in a nod to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103141/how-did-420-become-a-phenomenon-we-tracked-down-the-guys-who-invented-it\">the grassroots beginning of the holiday.\u003c/a> For almost a decade, it’s been legal in California for people age 21 years or older to buy and use marijuana — \u003ca href=\"#is-smoking-weed-in-public-legal\">with some important caveats.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for those who plan to celebrate cannabis’ marquee day by sparking up some “jazz cabbage” of their own, keep reading to find out how and where to mark 420 safely and legally in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the San Francisco 420 celebration?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the years before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california\">cannabis was legalized in California in 2016\u003c/a>, 420 in San Francisco was an informal — but still well-attended — gathering of devoted potheads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year on April 20, cannabis enthusiasts would gather on Hippie Hill overlooking Robin Williams Meadow (formerly Sharon Meadow) in Golden Gate Park and enjoy the drug by sparking up collectively at 4:20 p.m., producing\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\"> a cloud of weed smoke worthy of a false alarm to the fire department\u003c/a>. (As for \u003cem>why “\u003c/em>420” came to mean “marijuana,” you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663153/420-started-in-the-bay-area-meet-the-guys-who-invented-it\">read or listen to KQED Bay Curious’ episode\u003c/a> on how five San Rafael high school students coined the phrase back in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-949250112-e1744312988362.jpg\" alt=\"People wore pot-themed gear, like these marijuana leaf glasses, during a 420 celebration on 'Hippie Hill.'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of San Francisco’s annual 420 celebration on “Hippie Hill” gather on the lawn wearing sunglasses shaped like cannabis leaves. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the increasing popularity of the informal San Francisco 420 event brought growing pains, culminating in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.420hippiehill.com/info\">reports of violence, theft and 11 tons of trash\u003c/a> being left behind by attendees, putting it at “risk of being shut down,” according to the event’s website. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california\">that 2016 voter-approved measure that legalized cannabis statewide\u003c/a> also provided the opportunity for organizers to apply for permits, and in 2017, they formally sought the city’s blessing to turn the Hippie Hill 420 party into an officially-sanctioned bud-bonanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the celebration has morphed from an informal gathering of hacky sacks and drum circles into a highly produced event, complete with increased amenities like portable restrooms and medical services, within a fenced-off perimeter with security. That is, until …\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The SF 420 event is canceled for a second year in a row. Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\">the same reasons as last year\u003c/a>. Citing a struggling cannabis industry and city budget cuts, organizers canceled the celebration in 2024 — and those same economic conditions have forced the same outcome this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There were conversations with organizers early on to see the feasibility of having the 420 festival, but because of economic challenges within the cannabis industry, organizers couldn’t secure sponsorships” for the 2025 event, said Daniel Montes, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department communications manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes also said that “city budget cuts” had affected the department’s “ability to cover staffing for the event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will people still gather at Hippie Hill on 420 even if the official event is canceled?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If last year is any indication, then yes. Despite the cancellation of the official 420 festivities in 2024, hundreds of people still showed up to Robin Williams Meadow to keep the tradition alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a second year running, the city is seeking to activate the area with alternate — and decidedly non-weed-themed — events in lieu of any official 420 celebration, partnering with coed sports league Volo Sports to hold an event called “\u003ca href=\"https://sfrecpark.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2149\">Peace, Love and Volo Field Day\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11662140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11662140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015.jpg\" alt=\"A view of Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park during the 2015 420 celebration.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/HippieHill2015-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of “Hippie Hill” in Golden Gate Park during the 420 celebration in 2015. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The event will feature volleyball and kickball tournaments in Robin Williams Meadow, adjacent to Hippie Hill, and according to the city, “mark[s] a shift from the traditional cannabis culture celebration that previously took place in the park on that day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means less hype, but also fewer services, like security or porta potties, and the prospect of consuming cannabis in public without the city’s blessing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"is-smoking-weed-in-public-legal\">\u003c/a>What does the law say about consuming or possessing cannabis in San Francisco?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It is legal for anyone age 21 and older to buy and use cannabis in California. “But, like tobacco and alcohol, there are laws that you need to follow,” warns the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/information--know-your-rights-cannabis-consumer\">City of San Francisco’s know-your-rights page on consuming cannabis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter your age, it is illegal to consume cannabis in public in California — including places like parks, sidewalks and beaches. The only place that legal cannabis consumption is permitted is in a private residence, like your home or someone else’s — or another place that has applied for the appropriate permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Events like San Francisco’s 420 festival apply for such permits to allow the legalized consumption of cannabis. It’s similar to how an event like Oktoberfest might apply for a permit to operate a beer garden, said Ken Seligson, the principal attorney at Seligson Law, a cannabis law firm.[aside postID=news_12032246 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/98579521_qed-1020x680.jpg']“ These designated events are given that leeway because there are security and safety protocols that are required to have an event like that,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no official 420 celebration happening this year, it will be technically illegal to consume cannabis in public in Golden Gate Park this year. However, as many San Franciscans know, the day-to-day realities in San Francisco can be quite different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think the risk would be low — but not zero — to show up on 420 and consume cannabis in Golden Gate Park,” said Seligson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligson said that generally, people are less likely to get busted for consuming cannabis in public in San Francisco because “ police have discretion in enforcing these rules and they have priorities. Cannabis is one of the lowest priorities for enforcement in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/DO/letstalkcannabis/CDPH%20Document%20Library/October%202017%20Update/CDPH-Adult_Use_Cannabis_Penalties.pdf\">The penalty for consuming cannabis\u003c/a> in a public place is an infraction of up to $100 for adults. But that penalty goes up if you’re caught smoking cannabis in a place where tobacco is prohibited — or within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center or youth center while children are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘ That’s where you might see the discretion of a police officer,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about smoking or carrying cannabis on federal land like the Presidio?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is blessed with a multitude of scenic properties that are owned by the federal government, which could strike someone as the perfect place to (ahem) take a walk with some friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Seligson said cannabis consumers should be aware that the chances of police enforcing cannabis law is much higher on federal property — and the penalty is much more harsh. Possession of any amount of cannabis on federal land is a misdemeanor offense and can carry a maximum sentence of 1 year in prison or a maximum fine of $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10934799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10934799 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/GettyImages-98579528-e1744313047122.jpg\" alt=\"April 20, 2010 at "Hippie Hill" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis fans gather at San Francisco’s “Hippie Hill” in Golden Gate Park on April 20, 2010. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ Do not bring your cannabis, and do not smoke your cannabis in the Presidio,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notable federally-owned properties in the San Francisco area include Alcatraz Island, the Marin Headlands and Ocean Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cannabis remains federally classified as a schedule one controlled substance, meaning any cannabis use, possession or distribution on federal property is illegal,” Seligson said. “There is no leeway there, and there is enforcement as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Are there any other 420 events happening in San Francisco on 420?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. For a second year in a row, \u003ca href=\"https://sfspacewalk.com/\">SF Space Walk\u003c/a> — formerly known as SF Weed Week — brings a weeklong celebration of cannabis culture to the city from April 13 through April 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who want to stay in Golden Gate Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHmcpkNSSyt/\">Crucial Reggae Sundays\u003c/a>, a weekly free Reggae concert located at the Bandshell between the Cal Academy and the De Young Museum, will feature Prezident Brown playing with a live band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://ambrosia.church/\">Church of Ambrosia\u003c/a> — a “nondenominational, interfaith religious organization that supports the use and safe access of all entheogenic plants, with a focus on cannabis and magic mushrooms” — is holding an “adults-only easter egg hunt,” offering “over $10,000 worth of vouchers issued by the church” as prizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on April 10.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the San Francisco 420 celebration?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the years before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california\">cannabis was legalized in California in 2016\u003c/a>, 420 in San Francisco was an informal — but still well-attended — gathering of devoted potheads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year on April 20, cannabis enthusiasts would gather on Hippie Hill overlooking Robin Williams Meadow (formerly Sharon Meadow) in Golden Gate Park and enjoy the drug by sparking up collectively at 4:20 p.m., producing\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\"> a cloud of weed smoke worthy of a false alarm to the fire department\u003c/a>. (As for \u003cem>why “\u003c/em>420” came to mean “marijuana,” you can \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11663153/420-started-in-the-bay-area-meet-the-guys-who-invented-it\">read or listen to KQED Bay Curious’ episode\u003c/a> on how five San Rafael high school students coined the phrase back in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663940\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GettyImages-949250112-e1744312988362.jpg\" alt=\"People wore pot-themed gear, like these marijuana leaf glasses, during a 420 celebration on 'Hippie Hill.'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1327\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of San Francisco’s annual 420 celebration on “Hippie Hill” gather on the lawn wearing sunglasses shaped like cannabis leaves. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, the increasing popularity of the informal San Francisco 420 event brought growing pains, culminating in 2016 with \u003ca href=\"https://www.420hippiehill.com/info\">reports of violence, theft and 11 tons of trash\u003c/a> being left behind by attendees, putting it at “risk of being shut down,” according to the event’s website. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11159814/recreational-marijuana-heads-for-legalization-in-california\">that 2016 voter-approved measure that legalized cannabis statewide\u003c/a> also provided the opportunity for organizers to apply for permits, and in 2017, they formally sought the city’s blessing to turn the Hippie Hill 420 party into an officially-sanctioned bud-bonanza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the celebration has morphed from an informal gathering of hacky sacks and drum circles into a highly produced event, complete with increased amenities like portable restrooms and medical services, within a fenced-off perimeter with security. That is, until …\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The SF 420 event is canceled for a second year in a row. Why?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In short, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032246/sfs-official-420-celebration-cancelled-for-2nd-year-in-a-row\">the same reasons as last year\u003c/a>. Citing a struggling cannabis industry and city budget cuts, organizers canceled the celebration in 2024 — and those same economic conditions have forced the same outcome this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ There were conversations with organizers early on to see the feasibility of having the 420 festival, but because of economic challenges within the cannabis industry, organizers couldn’t secure sponsorships” for the 2025 event, said Daniel Montes, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department communications manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes also said that “city budget cuts” had affected the department’s “ability to cover staffing for the event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Will people still gather at Hippie Hill on 420 even if the official event is canceled?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If last year is any indication, then yes. 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The only place that legal cannabis consumption is permitted is in a private residence, like your home or someone else’s — or another place that has applied for the appropriate permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Events like San Francisco’s 420 festival apply for such permits to allow the legalized consumption of cannabis. It’s similar to how an event like Oktoberfest might apply for a permit to operate a beer garden, said Ken Seligson, the principal attorney at Seligson Law, a cannabis law firm.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“ These designated events are given that leeway because there are security and safety protocols that are required to have an event like that,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no official 420 celebration happening this year, it will be technically illegal to consume cannabis in public in Golden Gate Park this year. However, as many San Franciscans know, the day-to-day realities in San Francisco can be quite different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I think the risk would be low — but not zero — to show up on 420 and consume cannabis in Golden Gate Park,” said Seligson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seligson said that generally, people are less likely to get busted for consuming cannabis in public in San Francisco because “ police have discretion in enforcing these rules and they have priorities. Cannabis is one of the lowest priorities for enforcement in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/DO/letstalkcannabis/CDPH%20Document%20Library/October%202017%20Update/CDPH-Adult_Use_Cannabis_Penalties.pdf\">The penalty for consuming cannabis\u003c/a> in a public place is an infraction of up to $100 for adults. But that penalty goes up if you’re caught smoking cannabis in a place where tobacco is prohibited — or within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center or youth center while children are present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>‘ That’s where you might see the discretion of a police officer,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about smoking or carrying cannabis on federal land like the Presidio?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is blessed with a multitude of scenic properties that are owned by the federal government, which could strike someone as the perfect place to (ahem) take a walk with some friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Seligson said cannabis consumers should be aware that the chances of police enforcing cannabis law is much higher on federal property — and the penalty is much more harsh. Possession of any amount of cannabis on federal land is a misdemeanor offense and can carry a maximum sentence of 1 year in prison or a maximum fine of $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10934799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10934799 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/GettyImages-98579528-e1744313047122.jpg\" alt=\"April 20, 2010 at "Hippie Hill" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1325\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cannabis fans gather at San Francisco’s “Hippie Hill” in Golden Gate Park on April 20, 2010. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“ Do not bring your cannabis, and do not smoke your cannabis in the Presidio,” Seligson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notable federally-owned properties in the San Francisco area include Alcatraz Island, the Marin Headlands and Ocean Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cannabis remains federally classified as a schedule one controlled substance, meaning any cannabis use, possession or distribution on federal property is illegal,” Seligson said. “There is no leeway there, and there is enforcement as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Are there any other 420 events happening in San Francisco on 420?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. For a second year in a row, \u003ca href=\"https://sfspacewalk.com/\">SF Space Walk\u003c/a> — formerly known as SF Weed Week — brings a weeklong celebration of cannabis culture to the city from April 13 through April 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who want to stay in Golden Gate Park, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DHmcpkNSSyt/\">Crucial Reggae Sundays\u003c/a>, a weekly free Reggae concert located at the Bandshell between the Cal Academy and the De Young Museum, will feature Prezident Brown playing with a live band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the \u003ca href=\"https://ambrosia.church/\">Church of Ambrosia\u003c/a> — a “nondenominational, interfaith religious organization that supports the use and safe access of all entheogenic plants, with a focus on cannabis and magic mushrooms” — is holding an “adults-only easter egg hunt,” offering “over $10,000 worth of vouchers issued by the church” as prizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on April 10.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Park is one of those magical places where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">it’s possible to stumble upon something new\u003c/a>, even after visiting hundreds of times. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915008/golden-gate-park-was-once-miles-and-miles-of-sand-dunes\">It’s full of hidden trails\u003c/a>, tucked-away lakes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915788/healing-in-nature-at-the-aids-memorial-grove\">private dells\u003c/a>. And then, there are park features that are smack dab in the middle of everything but somehow become almost invisible in their ubiquity. That’s the case for a waterfall along John F Kennedy Promenade, just east of Crossover Drive. Hundreds of people jog, bike or stroll past Rainbow Falls daily, but few stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spot where the falls sit today used to be a small quarry, used to supply stone for a number of park projects. Many of the early roads in the park were made with stone from here. Later, it became a public dumping ground, so neighbors called on the city to build something beautiful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tclf.org/pioneer/john-mclaren\">The superintendent at the time, John McLaren\u003c/a>, listened and oversaw the creation of the waterfall we see today. The falls opened in 1930 with a spectacular evening dedication that featured a multi-hued light display shining on the waterfall. That’s how the falls got their name — Rainbow Falls. No lights can be seen now, but look closely, and you can see the bronze light fixtures from near the top of the falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Persie Nakonechny has definitely noticed this waterfall, but mostly because there’s something not quite right about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water at Rainbow Falls and the creek that runs from it into Lloyd Lake is sometimes an alarming shade of green,” Nakonechny said. “I’m not sure if it’s algae or an attempt to stop people from being tempted to drink it or something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s going on with the almost fluorescent green hue the water takes on sometimes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘greenness’ of the waterfall fluctuates with the seasons, but Reddit user wopwopdoowop captured a particularly green moment. \u003ccite>(wopwopdoowop/Reddit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The answer is actually fairly simple — it’s an algae bloom, said Dave Iribarne, superintendent of Golden Gate Park for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. He describes the color as “neon green with a hint of lime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just an alarming shade,” he said. “So it kind of freaks people out, but there’s really nothing harmful about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The color changes throughout the year, he explained, depending on what’s going on with the algae and various efforts by San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department to control its growth. The water from the falls drops into a pool, then runs downhill next to the JFK promenade for several hundred feet until it drains into Lloyd Lake. From there, it is pumped back up to the top of the falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep the algae at bay, Rec and Park has installed aeration in Lloyd Lake, and they add a powder to the water, called flocculant, that sticks to the algae and weighs it down to the bottom. On top of all that, they also introduce microbiotics to the water that eat the algae. Still, at certain times of year, the water is unmistakably green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so funny to me that it’s a natural substance,” question asker Persie Nakonechny said. “Nature’s weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 958px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029892\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356.jpg 958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Gate Park’s \u003ca href=\"https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.01750.jpg\">Rainbow Falls, San Francisco,\u003c/a> circa 1933. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory/wnp37.01750)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Hey everyone, I’m Olivia Allen-Price. And this is Bay Curious, the show that answers listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s show takes us to the city of Richmond where something magical is happening within the small bayside neighborhood of Point Richmond. That’s where a Bay Curious listener, who also happens to be a KQED employee, Laura Benitez lives. She was on a stroll with her toddler, passing the local fire station when…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Benitez:\u003c/strong> Next to the fire station, there was a tiny fairy house fire station. And it was just the cutest thing. And she played with it for like half an hour. And I then kind of heard from other people in the neighborhood that there was a whole series of fairy houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Sprinkled all up and down Washington Street you’ll find more miniature homes and the public services to support them. They’re all brimming with the personality of their imaginary fairy inhabitants and highly detailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wee buildings have been dubbed “Little Point Richmond” and Laura loves them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Benitez:\u003c/strong> I appreciate all things whimsical and artistic and those little things that make life more meaningful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But she wants to know: where did this little fairy amusement park come from? Who is behind it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today on the show we explore some of the hidden treasures you’ve been wondering about as you explore your neighborhoods. We’ll start in the tucked away community of Point Richmond in the East Bay and then make our way to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to visit a very green waterfall. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor break\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Benitez:\u003c/strong> Scattered across the Point Richmond neighborhood are dozens of intricate fairy houses. KQED reporter Pauline Bartolone set out to discover who is behind them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of kids running\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1:\u003c/strong> “Oh I found something!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Every time my five year old daughter and I go to Little Point Richmond, there’s something new to explore. On a recent Saturday with one of her buddies it felt like we were on an easter egg hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> Over here!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> At least thirty magical creations, in all shapes and colors, flank the sidewalks. Some are hidden under branches, others are on the ground in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1: \u003c/strong>Ahhh! Fairyhouse…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2: \u003c/strong>Ah… there’s too many of them…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>They jut out from tree trunks, or perched on stumps and concrete walls. When found, they’re a total delight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1:\u003c/strong> Another fairyhouse… Pretty…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> Let’s go!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>They’re like tiny dollhouses made of gourds, popsicle sticks, or sawed-off baskets. Each has their own theme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> We gotta ring the bell!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>And there’s plenty to interact with… windchimes, marble slides…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> See how it goes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of a bell ringing and a marble rolling down a shoot.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Open up a tiny door and you’ll peak into a miniature world of whimsy. Furniture crafted with found things, like a stool made with a bottle cap. You’ll find a one inch salmon dinner and thumbnail-sized mailboxes. The scenes make these preschoolers bust out into song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1 singing: \u003c/strong>Go on the bench and go in your cozy fairy house and sit on your little chair. Close the fairy house house and you’re all ready now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Just a few minutes of playing with the wee dwellings inspire deep questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> Who made these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Neighbors say the fairy houses just pop up like mushrooms after a good rain. But there is indeed one artist behind them, who so far has been pretty elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I’ve been hiding for so long \u003cem>(laughs)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Jimmie Robinson. He’s a professional illustrator and successful comic book artist. He lives on the street with all the fairy houses, but he doesn’t sign his works. And this is the first time he’s publicly spoken about being the fairy house creator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> Just here in the basement is my little workshop of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Call it social anxiety, or maybe humility, Jimmie prefers the work space underneath his house over being seen outside with his creations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I do not want the spotlight. This is true. I wanted people to see the fairy houses, but not see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Jimmie says this public art project, it all started about eight years ago. On a wall outside his own house. All the flowers had died in one of his planter boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>I put this little tiny garden shed, like a gnome garden shed there as if, you know, “Hey, I’m working on new flowers. Don’t worry.” And the flowers never came back, but I just kept building off of the garden shed. So made a little pathway for it. And then a house for the garden shed. People would stop and look at it and it was funny. That’s where it all started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Then he built one for his neighbor. And then another one. He’s friendly with people on the block so he knew enough about them to cater his creations to their specific jobs and interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> So I already knew that Rosa was a librarian, that, you know, that Aveline was from France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> He says some of his neighbors are touched when fairy houses pop up in their yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>You know, Tien, she’s from Laos, she’s Laotian and when I did the Laotian flag and I researched how to make the numbers. And so I did them in their native language and they were just like, they’re bringing all their friends and neighbors and family over to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> But most of the time, he doesn’t see their reactions. Because he’s often putting the houses up at night, when no one is looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I do get notes. I get letters. I get stuff left in the mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Little Point Richmond became more of a town for fairies a few years ago when Jimmie started crafting mini public services. There’s now a fire station, a post office, a school and a little library, with yes, miniature books and pages to turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes Jimmie about a month to craft a fairy dwelling. But each project is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>And I’ll be down here six hours a day, all day, or barely at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Jimmie says he’s always been a tinkerer, back to when he was growing up in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>I’m an only child. My mom’s very creative herself as a seamstress and so I didn’t have brothers and sisters to play with. I had to create worlds. I had to imagine my own places, uh, or build things that had a story as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>He says building fairy houses is different from his two-dimensional work as an illustrator. With comic books, he completes the story for the reader. But fairy houses invite people to imagine their own stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>Fairy houses are open ended. They’re, you know, open for interpretation and all that. There’s no figures. There’s just the house. You don’t know what it does, what lives there, how it lives, what it eats, what it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> Ooh, this one’s going to need some work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>On a walk down the fairy house street, Jimmie shows me all the things people add to the houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>Oh, yeah. See somebody’s added a bunch of stuff here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>People leave a lot of fairy figurines, of course, but unexpected treasures show up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> Yeah, there’s salamanders and little glass rocks and pebbles and a candy wrapper. There’s a little nut back there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Jimmie has to make a lot of repairs to these little worlds…he checks on them once a week. But the way visitors interact with them gives him new ideas, too. …Like the marble slide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I was finding marbles, they were part of this little landscape and the thing was the kids would mess with them and the marbles would roll down the hill. And so that’s when I came up with making my own marble run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Jimmie says, Little Point Richmond is all about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>The houses aren’t just for fairies — gnomes and insects can live here too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be a fairy tourist, you don’t have to be a kid. In fact, lately, people of all ages come by the bus load. It’s on Google Maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> My intention with the fairy houses is to make an environment that you can walk into an interactive experience. That’s what I want. I don’t care if it’s a kid or adult or whatever or my neighbors. It is you’re walking into an area that’s now Little Point Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The latest addition to the neighborhood? A mini Louvre, as in the French national art museum, where visitors can contribute bite-sized works of art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was KQED reporter Pauline Bartalone. She first reported on the fairy houses for Craftsmanship Magazine. Thanks also to Eli Rosenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fairy homes are quite the draw for kids. We’re currently working on an episode about other kid-friendly places and activities in the Bay Area and we want to hear from you. If you have kids in your life, what are some of your favorite places to have fun? Whether it’s a business, outdoor space, cultural center or an offbeat hidden gem — we want to hear about it and why you love it. Use your phone to send a voice memo to \u003ca href=\"mailto:baycurious@kqed.org\">baycurious@kqed.org\u003c/a> or leave us a voicemail. Just call 415-553-3334.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up we’re heading across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park where another listener question is waiting for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persie Nakonechny:\u003c/strong> I’ve lived in San Francisco for over 30 years but my husband and I moved to the Richmond district a couple of years ago and during COVID, it was awesome to get out into the park and be around other people, but at a distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>This is Persie Nakonechny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persie Nakonechny:\u003c/strong> That’s when we really took a closer look at a lot of the little hollows, the museums, the little areas that are made, you know, just for people to enjoy and hang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>There’s one particular feature in Golden Gate Park that Persie has wondered about whenever she passes it. Rainbow Falls… a man-made waterfall on John F. Kennedy Promenade near Crossover Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persie Nakonechny:\u003c/strong> the water at Rainbow Falls and the creek that runs from it into Lloyd Lake is sometimes an alarming shade of green. with a weird foam. I’m not sure if it’s algae or an attempt to stop people from being tempted to drink it or something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>We passed this one along to KQED editor Chris Hambrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of a stream gurgling, birds singing, wind\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick:\u003c/strong> I had to see this green waterfall for myself. Even though it’s man-made, the area is serene with trees, tall grasses and bushes bordering the lake. I even saw a few ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape: \u003c/strong>Time to hang out with the ducks. \u003cem>(Sounds of wings flapping) \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick: \u003c/strong>This spot used to be a quarry. Many of the original roads in Golden Gate Park were built with rock from here. When the quarry closed, neighbors wanted something beautiful and Park Superintendent John McLaren listened. The Falls opened in 1930. General Electric lit up the water with multicolored lights for the dedication, thus the name “Rainbow Falls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lights don’t work nowadays, but both the waterfall and the pool below it are green, bright green. I talked to someone who can tell me why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne: \u003c/strong>My name is Dave Iribarne. I’m the superintendent of Golden Gate Park for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape:\u003c/strong> What color would you call this green?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne: \u003c/strong>I would say it’s definitely neon green with a hint of lime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape: \u003c/strong>What causes water in this lake and the corresponding falls to be this shade of green?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne:\u003c/strong> Basically, it’s just a natural algae bloom. it’s just an alarming shade. So it kind of freaks people out, but there’s really nothing harmful about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick: \u003c/strong>Dave tells me that the shade of green changes depending on what’s going on with the algae, and today when I arrive, I see that he and his crew are draining the falls for maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne:\u003c/strong> We’re right now in the process of, uh, installing aeration in Lloyd Lake, which feeds Rainbow Falls. And then we’re going to put some flocculant. It’s like a powder that gets poured in, and it actually grabs onto the algae and weighs it down and sinks it down to the bottom so that it can’t keep reproducing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick:\u003c/strong> To help control algae growth, they also add in some microbiotics, which are living organisms that actually feed on the algae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne:\u003c/strong> And then we put in a dye, like a green dye. It’s pretty unnatural looking. We have it in many of our lakes in the park. But the dye prevents the sunlight from feeding the algae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape: \u003c/strong>Okay, but it is like for sure for sure it’s the algae that causes this color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne:\u003c/strong> 100 percent it’s the algae that causes the color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape:\u003c/strong> That’s so interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne: \u003c/strong>Yeah, we’re actually getting ready for St. Patrick’s Day. So, you know, we just dye it green. Just kidding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick:\u003c/strong> I take all this info back to Persie to see what she thinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persie Nakonechny:\u003c/strong> So that’s natural. And maybe the change in the color would make sense to that, like in the summer, when there’s more sunlight that it’s growing more, and that’s why it turns that fluorescent green. It’s so funny to me that it’s a natural substance. But nature’s weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick: \u003c/strong>Indeed, it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was KQED editor Chris Hambrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, and me, Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Extra support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Senad, Alana Walker, Holly Kernan and everyone at team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price, have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#A\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Park is one of those magical places where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">it’s possible to stumble upon something new\u003c/a>, even after visiting hundreds of times. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915008/golden-gate-park-was-once-miles-and-miles-of-sand-dunes\">It’s full of hidden trails\u003c/a>, tucked-away lakes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915788/healing-in-nature-at-the-aids-memorial-grove\">private dells\u003c/a>. And then, there are park features that are smack dab in the middle of everything but somehow become almost invisible in their ubiquity. That’s the case for a waterfall along John F Kennedy Promenade, just east of Crossover Drive. Hundreds of people jog, bike or stroll past Rainbow Falls daily, but few stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spot where the falls sit today used to be a small quarry, used to supply stone for a number of park projects. Many of the early roads in the park were made with stone from here. Later, it became a public dumping ground, so neighbors called on the city to build something beautiful. \u003ca href=\"https://www.tclf.org/pioneer/john-mclaren\">The superintendent at the time, John McLaren\u003c/a>, listened and oversaw the creation of the waterfall we see today. The falls opened in 1930 with a spectacular evening dedication that featured a multi-hued light display shining on the waterfall. That’s how the falls got their name — Rainbow Falls. No lights can be seen now, but look closely, and you can see the bronze light fixtures from near the top of the falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Persie Nakonechny has definitely noticed this waterfall, but mostly because there’s something not quite right about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water at Rainbow Falls and the creek that runs from it into Lloyd Lake is sometimes an alarming shade of green,” Nakonechny said. “I’m not sure if it’s algae or an attempt to stop people from being tempted to drink it or something else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s going on with the almost fluorescent green hue the water takes on sometimes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030785\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/rainbow-falls-in-golden-gate-park-v0-o57ezz7t1cc91-copy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ‘greenness’ of the waterfall fluctuates with the seasons, but Reddit user wopwopdoowop captured a particularly green moment. \u003ccite>(wopwopdoowop/Reddit)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The answer is actually fairly simple — it’s an algae bloom, said Dave Iribarne, superintendent of Golden Gate Park for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. He describes the color as “neon green with a hint of lime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just an alarming shade,” he said. “So it kind of freaks people out, but there’s really nothing harmful about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The color changes throughout the year, he explained, depending on what’s going on with the algae and various efforts by San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department to control its growth. The water from the falls drops into a pool, then runs downhill next to the JFK promenade for several hundred feet until it drains into Lloyd Lake. From there, it is pumped back up to the top of the falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep the algae at bay, Rec and Park has installed aeration in Lloyd Lake, and they add a powder to the water, called flocculant, that sticks to the algae and weighs it down to the bottom. On top of all that, they also introduce microbiotics to the water that eat the algae. Still, at certain times of year, the water is unmistakably green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so funny to me that it’s a natural substance,” question asker Persie Nakonechny said. “Nature’s weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 958px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029892\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"738\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356.jpg 958w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356-800x616.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/opensfhistory_wnp37.01750-e1741215795356-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Gate Park’s \u003ca href=\"https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.01750.jpg\">Rainbow Falls, San Francisco,\u003c/a> circa 1933. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory/wnp37.01750)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Hey everyone, I’m Olivia Allen-Price. And this is Bay Curious, the show that answers listener questions about the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s show takes us to the city of Richmond where something magical is happening within the small bayside neighborhood of Point Richmond. That’s where a Bay Curious listener, who also happens to be a KQED employee, Laura Benitez lives. She was on a stroll with her toddler, passing the local fire station when…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Benitez:\u003c/strong> Next to the fire station, there was a tiny fairy house fire station. And it was just the cutest thing. And she played with it for like half an hour. And I then kind of heard from other people in the neighborhood that there was a whole series of fairy houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Sprinkled all up and down Washington Street you’ll find more miniature homes and the public services to support them. They’re all brimming with the personality of their imaginary fairy inhabitants and highly detailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wee buildings have been dubbed “Little Point Richmond” and Laura loves them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Benitez:\u003c/strong> I appreciate all things whimsical and artistic and those little things that make life more meaningful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>But she wants to know: where did this little fairy amusement park come from? Who is behind it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today on the show we explore some of the hidden treasures you’ve been wondering about as you explore your neighborhoods. We’ll start in the tucked away community of Point Richmond in the East Bay and then make our way to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to visit a very green waterfall. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor break\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Laura Benitez:\u003c/strong> Scattered across the Point Richmond neighborhood are dozens of intricate fairy houses. KQED reporter Pauline Bartolone set out to discover who is behind them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of kids running\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1:\u003c/strong> “Oh I found something!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Every time my five year old daughter and I go to Little Point Richmond, there’s something new to explore. On a recent Saturday with one of her buddies it felt like we were on an easter egg hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> Over here!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> At least thirty magical creations, in all shapes and colors, flank the sidewalks. Some are hidden under branches, others are on the ground in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1: \u003c/strong>Ahhh! Fairyhouse…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2: \u003c/strong>Ah… there’s too many of them…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>They jut out from tree trunks, or perched on stumps and concrete walls. When found, they’re a total delight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1:\u003c/strong> Another fairyhouse… Pretty…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> Let’s go!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>They’re like tiny dollhouses made of gourds, popsicle sticks, or sawed-off baskets. Each has their own theme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> We gotta ring the bell!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>And there’s plenty to interact with… windchimes, marble slides…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> See how it goes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of a bell ringing and a marble rolling down a shoot.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Open up a tiny door and you’ll peak into a miniature world of whimsy. Furniture crafted with found things, like a stool made with a bottle cap. You’ll find a one inch salmon dinner and thumbnail-sized mailboxes. The scenes make these preschoolers bust out into song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 1 singing: \u003c/strong>Go on the bench and go in your cozy fairy house and sit on your little chair. Close the fairy house house and you’re all ready now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Just a few minutes of playing with the wee dwellings inspire deep questions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kid 2:\u003c/strong> Who made these?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Neighbors say the fairy houses just pop up like mushrooms after a good rain. But there is indeed one artist behind them, who so far has been pretty elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I’ve been hiding for so long \u003cem>(laughs)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Jimmie Robinson. He’s a professional illustrator and successful comic book artist. He lives on the street with all the fairy houses, but he doesn’t sign his works. And this is the first time he’s publicly spoken about being the fairy house creator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> Just here in the basement is my little workshop of sorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Call it social anxiety, or maybe humility, Jimmie prefers the work space underneath his house over being seen outside with his creations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I do not want the spotlight. This is true. I wanted people to see the fairy houses, but not see me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Jimmie says this public art project, it all started about eight years ago. On a wall outside his own house. All the flowers had died in one of his planter boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>I put this little tiny garden shed, like a gnome garden shed there as if, you know, “Hey, I’m working on new flowers. Don’t worry.” And the flowers never came back, but I just kept building off of the garden shed. So made a little pathway for it. And then a house for the garden shed. People would stop and look at it and it was funny. That’s where it all started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Then he built one for his neighbor. And then another one. He’s friendly with people on the block so he knew enough about them to cater his creations to their specific jobs and interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> So I already knew that Rosa was a librarian, that, you know, that Aveline was from France.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> He says some of his neighbors are touched when fairy houses pop up in their yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>You know, Tien, she’s from Laos, she’s Laotian and when I did the Laotian flag and I researched how to make the numbers. And so I did them in their native language and they were just like, they’re bringing all their friends and neighbors and family over to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> But most of the time, he doesn’t see their reactions. Because he’s often putting the houses up at night, when no one is looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I do get notes. I get letters. I get stuff left in the mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Little Point Richmond became more of a town for fairies a few years ago when Jimmie started crafting mini public services. There’s now a fire station, a post office, a school and a little library, with yes, miniature books and pages to turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It takes Jimmie about a month to craft a fairy dwelling. But each project is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>And I’ll be down here six hours a day, all day, or barely at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone:\u003c/strong> Jimmie says he’s always been a tinkerer, back to when he was growing up in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>I’m an only child. My mom’s very creative herself as a seamstress and so I didn’t have brothers and sisters to play with. I had to create worlds. I had to imagine my own places, uh, or build things that had a story as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>He says building fairy houses is different from his two-dimensional work as an illustrator. With comic books, he completes the story for the reader. But fairy houses invite people to imagine their own stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>Fairy houses are open ended. They’re, you know, open for interpretation and all that. There’s no figures. There’s just the house. You don’t know what it does, what lives there, how it lives, what it eats, what it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> Ooh, this one’s going to need some work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>On a walk down the fairy house street, Jimmie shows me all the things people add to the houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>Oh, yeah. See somebody’s added a bunch of stuff here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>People leave a lot of fairy figurines, of course, but unexpected treasures show up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> Yeah, there’s salamanders and little glass rocks and pebbles and a candy wrapper. There’s a little nut back there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Jimmie has to make a lot of repairs to these little worlds…he checks on them once a week. But the way visitors interact with them gives him new ideas, too. …Like the marble slide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> I was finding marbles, they were part of this little landscape and the thing was the kids would mess with them and the marbles would roll down the hill. And so that’s when I came up with making my own marble run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>Jimmie says, Little Point Richmond is all about inclusivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson: \u003c/strong>The houses aren’t just for fairies — gnomes and insects can live here too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be a fairy tourist, you don’t have to be a kid. In fact, lately, people of all ages come by the bus load. It’s on Google Maps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Robinson:\u003c/strong> My intention with the fairy houses is to make an environment that you can walk into an interactive experience. That’s what I want. I don’t care if it’s a kid or adult or whatever or my neighbors. It is you’re walking into an area that’s now Little Point Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pauline Bartolone: \u003c/strong>The latest addition to the neighborhood? A mini Louvre, as in the French national art museum, where visitors can contribute bite-sized works of art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>That was KQED reporter Pauline Bartalone. She first reported on the fairy houses for Craftsmanship Magazine. Thanks also to Eli Rosenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those fairy homes are quite the draw for kids. We’re currently working on an episode about other kid-friendly places and activities in the Bay Area and we want to hear from you. If you have kids in your life, what are some of your favorite places to have fun? Whether it’s a business, outdoor space, cultural center or an offbeat hidden gem — we want to hear about it and why you love it. Use your phone to send a voice memo to \u003ca href=\"mailto:baycurious@kqed.org\">baycurious@kqed.org\u003c/a> or leave us a voicemail. Just call 415-553-3334.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up we’re heading across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park where another listener question is waiting for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persie Nakonechny:\u003c/strong> I’ve lived in San Francisco for over 30 years but my husband and I moved to the Richmond district a couple of years ago and during COVID, it was awesome to get out into the park and be around other people, but at a distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>This is Persie Nakonechny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persie Nakonechny:\u003c/strong> That’s when we really took a closer look at a lot of the little hollows, the museums, the little areas that are made, you know, just for people to enjoy and hang out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>There’s one particular feature in Golden Gate Park that Persie has wondered about whenever she passes it. Rainbow Falls… a man-made waterfall on John F. Kennedy Promenade near Crossover Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Persie Nakonechny:\u003c/strong> the water at Rainbow Falls and the creek that runs from it into Lloyd Lake is sometimes an alarming shade of green. with a weird foam. I’m not sure if it’s algae or an attempt to stop people from being tempted to drink it or something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>We passed this one along to KQED editor Chris Hambrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of a stream gurgling, birds singing, wind\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick:\u003c/strong> I had to see this green waterfall for myself. Even though it’s man-made, the area is serene with trees, tall grasses and bushes bordering the lake. I even saw a few ducks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape: \u003c/strong>Time to hang out with the ducks. \u003cem>(Sounds of wings flapping) \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick: \u003c/strong>This spot used to be a quarry. Many of the original roads in Golden Gate Park were built with rock from here. When the quarry closed, neighbors wanted something beautiful and Park Superintendent John McLaren listened. The Falls opened in 1930. General Electric lit up the water with multicolored lights for the dedication, thus the name “Rainbow Falls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lights don’t work nowadays, but both the waterfall and the pool below it are green, bright green. I talked to someone who can tell me why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne: \u003c/strong>My name is Dave Iribarne. I’m the superintendent of Golden Gate Park for the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape:\u003c/strong> What color would you call this green?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne: \u003c/strong>I would say it’s definitely neon green with a hint of lime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chris Hambrick in tape: \u003c/strong>What causes water in this lake and the corresponding falls to be this shade of green?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dave Iribarne:\u003c/strong> Basically, it’s just a natural algae bloom. it’s just an alarming shade. 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The Department of Public Works is fielding more than 350 reports of fallen and damaged trees on city streets, and the Recreation and Parks Department estimates that up to 100 more were downed throughout its parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Park and the Mission District were hit particularly hard, according to department spokespeople.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 50 to 100 trees fell across the whole park system, and about half of those at least were in the west end of Golden Gate Park,” said Tamara Aparton, the parks department’s communications director. “It was a really violent storm in the west end, and it knocked down a lot of really big trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some damage to the outer paddock of the park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">beloved bison pasture\u003c/a>, but Aparton said the inner paddock remained intact, and all of the bison were safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Richmond District, water seeped into the gym at George Washington High School after a rooftop skylight was damaged, according to San Francisco school district spokesperson Laura Dudnick. 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Fallen street trees broke windows, wrecked cars and landed on some buildings, and the Department of Public Works is also handling damaged fencing and pavement, spokesperson Rachel Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility infrastructure was also damaged in the storm, which had 100,000 customers without power at its peak, according to PG&E. The company did not yet have a tally of the damage on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No injuries have been reported to either the public works or parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018025 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0666-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to many downed trees in the Mission, an entire cluster near San Jose Avenue between Noe Valley and Bernal Heights came down at once, causing a road closure on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big culprit really is wind and then saturated ground,” she said. “If the ground is really wet, there’s not a lot for the roots to grip onto, so they’re more vulnerable to damage, and [that’s] when large limbs come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the total number of downed trees in this storm wasn’t unusually high, city officials said their cleanup would take at least a few more days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no magic wand to make the fallen trees and the branches disappear,” Gordon told KQED. “There are real people who are going out to pick them up and move them away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said crews had been out before dawn and late into the night clearing trees. 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The lone dissenter was Connie Chan, who cited concerns that the events would cause disruptions in the Richmond District where her constituents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original \u003c/b>\u003cb>story\u003c/b>\u003cb>, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a proposal Tuesday that would bring more concerts to Golden Gate Park the weekend after Outside Lands in addition to three free concerts scattered throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concerts would be organized by Berkeley-based promoter Another Planet Entertainment, the company that also produces the Outside Lands music festival every August, and would take place at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659844/does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore\">the same location as Outside Lands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, Another Planet would pay the city of San Francisco up to $1.4 million for a two-day event, or $2.1 million for a three-day event, annually, during the duration of the permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the extra weekend of entertainment slated for Golden Gate Park, Another Planet has also committed to staging three free concerts in downtown San Francisco on the same summer weekend if the city approves the permit. 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The Budget and Finance Committee unanimously voted last week to forward the proposal to the full board for a vote after a hearing that was dominated by supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarah Dennis Phillips, executive director of the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said the downtown concerts would draw more people to an area that has experienced less foot traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are an absolute fulfillment to the mayor’s roadmap to San Francisco’s future that she put out just as COVID was ending,” Phillips said. “One of the key strategies in that roadmap was to transform downtown into a leading arts, culture and nightlife destination, so these concerts fit exactly within the strategies the mayor put forward to try to revitalize downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Andrew Solow, San Francisco resident\"]‘I live two miles away and it is so loud that I can’t think. I can’t work. I can’t even talk on the phone.’[/pullquote] Some San Francisco residents, however, are concerned about the noise that Outside Lands brings to their neighborhoods and said they dread another round of concerts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live two miles away and it is so loud that I can’t think. I can’t work. I can’t even talk on the phone,” said Andrew Solow, who lives in the Inner Sunset neighborhood. “What they are doing is bad for people and it’s illegal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solow said that he chose to leave San Francisco and live in a hotel during Outside Lands because he had detected noise levels of 70 decibels at his home during the festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solow and resident Stephen Somerstein filed an unsuccessful appeal to the San Francisco Planning Department in 2019 when the city extended the permit for Outside Lands for another 10 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit the AIDS Memorial Grove at Golden Gate Park’s eastern end and you’ll see tall redwoods, green ferns, an open field and evidence of lots of loving care. Descending into the grove is like entering a different world, a calmer place than the hustle and bustle of the street above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tom Jensen first came to the National AIDS Memorial Grove in 2002, he had no idea how much it would change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan was to come and work off [to] the sidelines,” Jensen said. “I didn’t really want to be with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-described introvert, Jensen had just lost his longtime partner, Bobby Hilliard, to AIDS. He decided to volunteer at one of the Grove’s monthly work days. Jensen says that his grief was so strong he was worried he would “start calling in sick days if I didn’t make a move to engage in life and take my grief somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing 1980s style clothes stand on a hiking path in the woods. The two are hugging, one slightly leaning into the other.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-2048x1440.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1920x1350.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Jensen and his longtime partner Bobby Hilliard on a hike in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tom Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Jensen didn’t anticipate taking on a leadership role, he knew that he could contribute to the Grove. He grew up learning about plants from his father, and when Bobby started taking botany classes, Jensen went on field trips with him all over California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen proved so useful that first day he was asked to be on a committee. And the Grove and its community made such an impression on Jensen that he’s currently serving his second stint on the board of directors for the National AIDS Memorial, which includes the Grove, the AIDS Memorial Quilt (which will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt35\">displayed in Golden Gate Park on June 11-12 in Robin Williams Meadow\u003c/a>) and numerous educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just such a huge family,” said Jensen. “I was transformed by being here and by getting involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco in the 1980s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen moved to San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in 1978. He described it as “a playland and a wonderland,” full of “freedom and liberation.” He felt like he was part of a community and a generation that could change the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within four years, death was all around him as San Francisco’s gay community began to feel the impact of the AIDS epidemic. It was common to see people he worked out with at the gym looking like “emaciated old men” in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were covered with Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions and walking on canes and in wheelchairs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between \u003ca href=\"https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D12/D293F286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1981 and 1994, more than 15,000 San Franciscans died of AIDS\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/00001477.htm\">By 1988, the CDC had recorded more than 80,000 cases of AIDS\u003c/a> in the United States. Of those, more than half were fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community advocates for and supports itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s gay community was hit early and hard by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, as were intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs who depended on blood transfusions. White gay men received the most media attention, but the disease has always disproportionately affected communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homophobia and racism shaped how the federal government and public health institutions responded. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/\">President Ronald Reagan didn’t publicly mention the disease until 1985.\u003c/a> Meanwhile his administration cut funding for federal public health organizations, including what was then known as the Centers for Disease Control, which published \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5021a1.htm#:%7e:text=Twenty%20years%20ago%2C%20on%20June,homosexuals%22%3B%20two%20had%20died.\">the first report on what would come to be known as AIDS in 1981\u003c/a>. The media dubbed the disease the “gay plague,” and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/\">White House spokesperson joked about it when reporters brought up the skyrocketing death rate\u003c/a> in press conferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3.jpg\" alt=\"Orange flowers sit in the center of a stone circle. Around the flowers names are carved into the stone, spiraling outward.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1778\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-800x741.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-1020x945.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-160x148.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/CircleofFriends-AIDS3-1536x1422.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Circle of Friends is a centerpiece of the Grove. The names of those who have died of AIDS-related complications or who have been affected by AIDS are carved there. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many of these people may not have died if our government and a majority of society had cared more about them,” said Steve Sagaser, a senior program manager with the National AIDS Memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, early in the epidemic, people with AIDS were largely left to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s how the response to AIDS in the first decade happened,” Jensen said. “People making food for their neighbors and having that grow into \u003ca href=\"https://www.openhand.org/\">Project Open Hand\u003c/a>. It’s just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/103422/rebel-girls-from-bay-area-history-ruth-brinker-aids-activist\">Ruth Brinker\u003c/a> [founder of Project Open Hand] saying, ‘Everyone in my building has AIDS’ and making dinner for 12 units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-act-up-changed-america\">Activists pushed the government to act faster\u003c/a>, fund research and develop treatments, but it took years of in-your-face advocacy to get the federal government to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A different way to grieve\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sagaser says that in the 1980s many people in San Francisco were experiencing “loss after loss at such a rate that it was impossible to complete the grieving process for one person and you’d already lost another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1987, against this setting, a small group of San Francisco residents, including several with backgrounds in landscaping and architecture, started talking about the possibility of having a dedicated space to grieve those who died from AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founders of the Grove envisioned “solace through life and plants,” said Jensen. They wanted an alternative to a cemetery or a church — something in nature, with life running through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1988, the group asked the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for some land to use for the memorial. The city offered the de Laveaga Dell, a 7.5-acre bowl-like valley that budget cuts and neglect had led to degeneration into an overgrown, swampy mess. But the Grove’s founders saw potential there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landscape architects and designers volunteered their time to craft plans for the Grove. They aimed to create a space with the sanctity of a cathedral but that was welcoming to everyone. After a collaborative process the planners agreed on a design that highlighted the dramatic contrast of light and dark in the valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also created spots in the Grove that lent themselves toward individual reflection but made sure the Grove could also accommodate groups. Plants and trees were chosen so there would always be something blooming, no matter the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sagaser calls The Circle of Friends the “heart of the Grove.” It’s a circular flagstone area where close to 3,000 names are carved, spiraling outward. Close to 80% of the names are of individuals who died from AIDS, while others are people who have been affected by the disease. Sagaser says the Grove gets around 100 requests a year for new names to be carved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 21, 1991, volunteers broke ground on the Grove. It took them three years to remove trash. In 1996, Bill Clinton signed legislation, championed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, granting the Grove national memorial status. It is the nation’s first and only federally designated memorial to those who have died of AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about remembering the [people] who have died, but remembering the activism that was associated with it,” Sagaser said. “The activism was necessary because [the] government wasn’t doing anything about it because it was hitting a group of people who were already demonized or stigmatized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the federal designation as a national memorial, the Grove receives no federal funding. Its operating costs are covered by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/\">National AIDS Memorial nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Grove\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The volunteer energy behind the Grove hasn’t dropped off since shovels started digging in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4.jpg\" alt='A group of five people lean into a hillside, working with the plants in the ground. A sixth man walks towards us wearing a shirt that says \"volunteer.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers at a work day in July 2015. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every year, nearly 2,000 volunteers contribute about 4,500 hours of work, according to Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. That adds up to over a quarter of a million volunteer hours in the Grove’s 31-year lifespan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant portion of that labor occurs during the Grove’s work days. They happen every third Saturday and still follow the same format as the first one in 1991: Breakfast at 8:30, welcome and announcements at 9:00, several hours of work, and then a healing circle at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To close out the day, everyone gathers at The Circle of Friends. They join hands, ring a Tibetan bell, “and then we say out loud the names of people we’ve lost to AIDS or people who just need that healing energy,” Sagaser said. “It’s our tradition. It’s been happening for 31 years. We never miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg\" alt=\"A group of about fifty people stand in a circle holding hands in a brightly lit grassy area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every volunteer work day at the AIDS Memorial Grove ends with a healing circle where participants link hands and say the names of loved ones lost to AIDS. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An ever-evolving space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Grove has gradually grown from its original 7.5 acres to 10 and has added features to recognize the breadth of people affected by the epidemic. In 2017 the Hemophilia Circle was dedicated to honor those with the blood disease who have died from AIDS. Tainted blood transfusions were an early spreader of HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grove is never complete, by design. Tending to the space is part of the healing process for volunteers. The work offers people a way to move through their grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like the garden, the epidemic has changed over the years. Life-saving treatments now allow HIV-positive people to live long, full lives. But new cases still occur, and access to preventive drugs and treatment are unequal. Communities of color have always been most affected by the disease, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html\">recent CDC numbers show that more than half of new cases are among Black and Latino people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still work to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the Bay Curious series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915065/take-a-very-curious-golden-gate-park-walking-tour\">A Very Curious Walking Tour of Golden Gate Park\u003c/a>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit the AIDS Memorial Grove at Golden Gate Park’s eastern end and you’ll see tall redwoods, green ferns, an open field and evidence of lots of loving care. Descending into the grove is like entering a different world, a calmer place than the hustle and bustle of the street above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tom Jensen first came to the National AIDS Memorial Grove in 2002, he had no idea how much it would change his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My plan was to come and work off [to] the sidelines,” Jensen said. “I didn’t really want to be with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A self-described introvert, Jensen had just lost his longtime partner, Bobby Hilliard, to AIDS. He decided to volunteer at one of the Grove’s monthly work days. Jensen says that his grief was so strong he was worried he would “start calling in sick days if I didn’t make a move to engage in life and take my grief somewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915795\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing 1980s style clothes stand on a hiking path in the woods. The two are hugging, one slightly leaning into the other.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-800x563.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1020x717.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-2048x1440.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Tom-Bobby-1920x1350.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Jensen and his longtime partner Bobby Hilliard on a hike in Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Tom Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Jensen didn’t anticipate taking on a leadership role, he knew that he could contribute to the Grove. He grew up learning about plants from his father, and when Bobby started taking botany classes, Jensen went on field trips with him all over California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen proved so useful that first day he was asked to be on a committee. And the Grove and its community made such an impression on Jensen that he’s currently serving his second stint on the board of directors for the National AIDS Memorial, which includes the Grove, the AIDS Memorial Quilt (which will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt35\">displayed in Golden Gate Park on June 11-12 in Robin Williams Meadow\u003c/a>) and numerous educational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just such a huge family,” said Jensen. “I was transformed by being here and by getting involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco in the 1980s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jensen moved to San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood in 1978. He described it as “a playland and a wonderland,” full of “freedom and liberation.” He felt like he was part of a community and a generation that could change the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within four years, death was all around him as San Francisco’s gay community began to feel the impact of the AIDS epidemic. It was common to see people he worked out with at the gym looking like “emaciated old men” in a matter of weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were covered with Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions and walking on canes and in wheelchairs,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between \u003ca href=\"https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D12/D293F286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1981 and 1994, more than 15,000 San Franciscans died of AIDS\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/00001477.htm\">By 1988, the CDC had recorded more than 80,000 cases of AIDS\u003c/a> in the United States. Of those, more than half were fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The community advocates for and supports itself\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s gay community was hit early and hard by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, as were intravenous drug users and hemophiliacs who depended on blood transfusions. White gay men received the most media attention, but the disease has always disproportionately affected communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homophobia and racism shaped how the federal government and public health institutions responded. \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/full-story-nancy-reagan-and-aids-crisis/618552/\">President Ronald Reagan didn’t publicly mention the disease until 1985.\u003c/a> Meanwhile his administration cut funding for federal public health organizations, including what was then known as the Centers for Disease Control, which published \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5021a1.htm#:%7e:text=Twenty%20years%20ago%2C%20on%20June,homosexuals%22%3B%20two%20had%20died.\">the first report on what would come to be known as AIDS in 1981\u003c/a>. 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But the Grove’s founders saw potential there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landscape architects and designers volunteered their time to craft plans for the Grove. They aimed to create a space with the sanctity of a cathedral but that was welcoming to everyone. After a collaborative process the planners agreed on a design that highlighted the dramatic contrast of light and dark in the valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also created spots in the Grove that lent themselves toward individual reflection but made sure the Grove could also accommodate groups. Plants and trees were chosen so there would always be something blooming, no matter the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sagaser calls The Circle of Friends the “heart of the Grove.” It’s a circular flagstone area where close to 3,000 names are carved, spiraling outward. Close to 80% of the names are of individuals who died from AIDS, while others are people who have been affected by the disease. Sagaser says the Grove gets around 100 requests a year for new names to be carved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sept. 21, 1991, volunteers broke ground on the Grove. It took them three years to remove trash. In 1996, Bill Clinton signed legislation, championed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, granting the Grove national memorial status. It is the nation’s first and only federally designated memorial to those who have died of AIDS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about remembering the [people] who have died, but remembering the activism that was associated with it,” Sagaser said. “The activism was necessary because [the] government wasn’t doing anything about it because it was hitting a group of people who were already demonized or stigmatized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the federal designation as a national memorial, the Grove receives no federal funding. Its operating costs are covered by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aidsmemorial.org/\">National AIDS Memorial nonprofit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteers are the lifeblood of the Grove\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The volunteer energy behind the Grove hasn’t dropped off since shovels started digging in 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915799\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/VolunteerDay-AIDS4.jpg\" alt='A group of five people lean into a hillside, working with the plants in the ground. 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That adds up to over a quarter of a million volunteer hours in the Grove’s 31-year lifespan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A significant portion of that labor occurs during the Grove’s work days. They happen every third Saturday and still follow the same format as the first one in 1991: Breakfast at 8:30, welcome and announcements at 9:00, several hours of work, and then a healing circle at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To close out the day, everyone gathers at The Circle of Friends. They join hands, ring a Tibetan bell, “and then we say out loud the names of people we’ve lost to AIDS or people who just need that healing energy,” Sagaser said. “It’s our tradition. It’s been happening for 31 years. We never miss it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11915796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11915796\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg\" alt=\"A group of about fifty people stand in a circle holding hands in a brightly lit grassy area.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/healing-circle-AIDS2-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every volunteer work day at the AIDS Memorial Grove ends with a healing circle where participants link hands and say the names of loved ones lost to AIDS. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National AIDS Memorial)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An ever-evolving space\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Grove has gradually grown from its original 7.5 acres to 10 and has added features to recognize the breadth of people affected by the epidemic. In 2017 the Hemophilia Circle was dedicated to honor those with the blood disease who have died from AIDS. Tainted blood transfusions were an early spreader of HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Grove is never complete, by design. Tending to the space is part of the healing process for volunteers. The work offers people a way to move through their grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like the garden, the epidemic has changed over the years. Life-saving treatments now allow HIV-positive people to live long, full lives. But new cases still occur, and access to preventive drugs and treatment are unequal. Communities of color have always been most affected by the disease, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/statistics.html\">recent CDC numbers show that more than half of new cases are among Black and Latino people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s still work to be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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