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MEET: LINDA MEREDITH
Editor, International Netsuke Society Journal



By Cathie Hehman

Linda calls Bellingham, Washington, home, but for the past three years she has been living in San Francisco. She found the invitation by a widowed friend to join her in California irresistible, as this is her home state and she loves “every region within its borders.”


Oct 03, 2009 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

Meet new BCNA Board member
Mary Lou Licwinko

by Cathie Hehman, resident
The Commons

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Mary Lou grew up in Washington, DC and moved to California at age 12 when her father was transferred by the Defense Department. She has a BA degree in English from Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California and a Masters Degree in Health Services Administration, MHSA, at the University of Michigan.

Jul 23, 2009 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

Good Just Isn’t Good Enough

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Pam Mees at her quilting frame


About 3600 years ago, they say, people in China and Egypt began doing what Pam Mees has been having fun doing in her Gateway townhouse for the past four years. And two years before that in Santa Fe. And before that in Australia. And before that in Great Britain.



Mar 18, 2009 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

S.A.V.E. EAMON DOYLE


Cathy Fiorello, resident
The Gateway



Eamon Doyle lives on Treasure Island, works on the Embarcadero, and volunteers in the Mission. He has The City covered.

And he wears many hats.
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Eamon Doyle is on the left.



Mar 18, 2009 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

Barbary Coaster Runs for Supervisor
District 3

If you’re concerned about protecting open space for recreation, preserving our historic waterfront, rising crime, excessive spending and cuts in city services, so is Mike DeNunzio!

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Mike DeNunzio, Candidate
Supervisor, District 3


San Francisco needs serious fiscal reforms.
As the “signature district” of San Francisco, District 3 is the economic engine than runs the City! Within our borders are the hotels, restaurants, Union Square stores and financial district firms that generate jobs and tax revenues that fund the City's budget.

May 30, 2008 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

MEET LINDA SCHWARTZ

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She says of herself that she's "volunteered up to my eyeballs." And when you meet her, you'll think to yourself, "If only everyone were this civic minded, what a wonderful world it would be."

For 40 years Linda and her attorney husband lived in the small enclave of Piedmont in the Oakland Hills. Then once children were gone and life became simpler, Linda had a wish. She wanted to live

Sep 23, 2007 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

GETTING TO KNOW: Karin Eisele

Across the street from the United Nations office in New York stands a building housing an organization you probably never heard of. Neither had I until last week. That organzation is the IIE, or Institute of International Education.

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Recently, over 400 women in Yemen applied for IIE’s Women in Technology (WIT) program.

Founded just after World War I by two Nobel Peace Prize winners, IIE is a global organization—in fact, one of our country’s largest and

Aug 18, 2007 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

GETTING TO KNOW: Dan Beltramo

DRILL DOWN: Male. Handsome. Foodie. Nerd. Truffle hunter.


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If you passed Dan Beltramo in the produce aisle at Safeway you’d never guess what lies beneath his gentlemanly manner and winning smile. Make no mistake, he’s that: gentleman. But he’s so much more.

I first met Dan last year. At the time I was running my own opinion poll on our Barbary Coast News website, and my polling software left much to be desired. Dan offered to improve the usefulness and visual appearance of the Opinion Poll which appears on our Home page.


Dan is a sort-of Renaissance Man. Consider that he’s not only deeply passionate about decision analysis and statistics, but he also stirs up a mean bagna caôda (an Italian form of

Aug 01, 2007 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

Getting to Know: Nancy Spivey

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Movie stars have them. Politicians have one of their own. Why shouldn’t we have one? For a reasonable hourly fee, Nancy Spivey can put some backbone into that New Year’s resolution of yours to start exercising. For, you see, Nancy Spivey is a personal trainer.

You’ve probably seen Nancy Spivey out and about the neighborhood. When she’s not playing tennis, she’s helping

Jul 08, 2007 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | 2 Comments

GETTING TO KNOW: Lee Radner

By Diana Taylor-Folberg

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You’ve seen him. Swimming. Attending meetings. Shopping at Safeway. He’s one of us—a resident of Golden Gateway Center, an active member of the Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association, and President of FOGG (Friends of Golden Gateway). Lee Radner is just one of the many

May 30, 2007 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | 3 Comments

LOCAL MAN MAKES VERY GOOD!

Writing is pretty straightforward. You just sit there
staring at a blank sheet until the little drops of blood
pop out of your forehead.
— Author unknown


R.C. Staab, resident of Barbary Coast and president of Golden Gateway Commons’ Building I Homeowners’ Board, is, among other things,

Jul 06, 2006 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

ANATOMY OF A VOLUNTEER

To paraphrase Edmund Burke’s well-worn line: All that is necessary for the triumph of bad developments over neighborhood interests is that good men do nothing *


What is it about a person who raises his hand when someone says, “Who’ll take charge of this?” Why does the volunteer give up his dinner hour, sit in uncomfortable chairs for long hours, and drink some unidentifiable liquid

Jun 08, 2006 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

ABOUT CENTRAL POLICE STATION

Maria Matson, Chair
Safety Committee


The current man in charge at the Central Police Station is Capt. Jim Dudley. For 26 years he’s been on the force—starting as a patrol officer; then an investigator; head of Park Station, the Tactical Company and Homeland Security; president of SAFE’s board of directors. And now Captain of the Third District Police Station—one of the largest

May 24, 2006 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

"MOTHER OF WAG" HONORED!

March 7,San Francisco — Calling her "The Mother of WAG" (Waterfront Action Group), Supervisor Aaron Peskin drew attention to the many accomplishments of Diana Taylor, our own Barbary Coast activist and guiding light. For not only did she co-found WAG but also she is most certainly the Mother of the Barbary Coast having guided the delicate beginnings of our neighborhood organization. Acknowledging Supervisor Peskin's tribute to her work in the Barbary Coast, Taylor said, "...Healthy communities make for better futures for our children."


Mar 07, 2006 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | 1 Comment

BC RESIDENT, DIANA TAYLOR,
HONORED BY SUPERVISORS

San Francisco, March 2, 2006 — Diana Taylor, co-chairman of WAG and Chairman of the Barbary Coast’s safety committee, will be honored March 7 as part of Women’s History Month.


Mar 02, 2006 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | 1 Comment

GETTING TO KNOW: Kate Van Ness, Queen of Bling-Bling

Kate Van Ness
Gliding in from a day’s work at Moxie, Kate Van Ness looks elegant. (She always does.) She’s dressed in a pale grey sweater, skirt and jacket with stunning coral beads at her neck. You notice things like this when you talk to Kate because her business is bling-bling.




Jun 01, 2005 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

GETTING TO KNOW: Fred Allardyce

Fred Allardyce
He's analytical. And a dreamer as well. He sees potential in interesting ideas and finds comradeship in other analytical dreamers. Who else do you know who has a Parking Guide?





Jun 01, 2005 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

VOICES FROM THE BARBARY COAST

Q: WHAT'S YOUR OPINION OF THE 733 FRONT STREET CONDO CONVERSION?

At the March 23, 2005 Zoning Administrator's public meeting, Administrator L. B. Badiner approved an off-street parking variance, (allowing only 34 parking spaces for the 71 residential units) at the 733 Front Street. That building, in the process of conversion from office space to combined first-floor retail and second-to-seventh-floor residences, has no parking provision for the retail spaces. (Current zoning requires one parking place per residential unit.)


Apr 01, 2005 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | 1 Comment

GETTING TO KNOW: Diana Taylor

Diana Taylor
Many GGC residents know Diana Taylor as the tireless tour de force behind WAG. But Diana, who always seems to radiate a calm confidence, is a woman of many layers and even more surprises.






Mar 01, 2005 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

GETTING TO KNOW: Tom Flynn

Tom Flynn
The first time I met Tom Flynn he was seated in a wheelchair at a table in the dining room pouring over the latest issue of The New Yorker—a favorite pastime he says.




Jan 01, 2005 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | Add comment

VOICES FROM THE BARBARY COAST

Q: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE EMBARCADERO-BROADWAY HOTEL PROJECT?

Katrinka McCollum
KATRINKA McCALLUM (GGC-III): Now as I walk to work along the Embarcadero to Levi Plaza, I pass the low-slung, red brick buildings… what are they [Stanford Hotel people] thinking by putting a seven-story, YELLOW building here?

A LOCAL RESIDENT: A high-rise along the waterfront will only give the city a walled-in feeling. We don’t want a jungle of high rises punctuated by windy,

Jan 01, 2005 | Email story | Filed in: ABOUT PEOPLE | 1 Comment

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