Clementina Cares

June 2nd 2008: Our neighborhood in the news
Booming SoMa area ‘lives ... in the alleys’
The Examiner reports today on a number of issues and developments impacting our neighborhood with a particular focus on life in the alleys.

November 27th, 2007: ClementinaCares on the Small Screen!
Founding members of ClementinaCares, Lisa Hasen and Foster Weeks describe recent victories and challenges in the progression of our downtown San Francisco neighborhood on the NEN (Neighborhood Empowerment Network) TV program.

November 26th, 2007: ClementinaCares in the news
Helping SoMa Reach its Full Potential
An article in the City Star newspaper about the transition of the Yerba Buena neighborhood to that of a cleaner, safer place, featuring ClementinaCares, Inc. and a lot of info by the "Special Guest Colmunist", our very own Foster Weeks. Click over to Page 4 for the article.

November 16th, 2007: ClementinaCares In the Spotlight on Channel 7 News!
Local neighbors work to clean and revamp parts of SoMa
A recent television broadcast on ABC TV Channel 7 highlighted the changing mindset of residents in the South of Market Area towards that of their community – beginning with cleaner streets – as demonstrated through neighborhood janitorial contracts. The show featured interviews with Dome, LLC and Foster Weeks from ClementinaCares.

July 30th, 2006: Tehama Street Mural Event
Mayor Newsom and Supervisor Daly both attend
The day that we created the Tehama Street Mural was somewhat upstaged by politics but our neighborhood nevertheless got some great publicity and a bunch of photos in The Fog City Journal and a response article at the Beyond Chron local website. Plus, it was great to have both Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Chris Daly there in person to bear witness to our efforts to improve our neighborhood. In the Fog City Journal article, once you get past the (now outdated) political reporting, there is a nice bit about the mural's history:

"Our network team is in this building," Cingular director of public relations Lauren Garner told the Sentinel.
"We spent a lot time painting over the graffiti and when Sharon and Laura approached us to do the mural we knew it was a perfect solution because we really wanted to be a good corporate neighbor with the community because we work here as well."
Sharon Anderson, a six-year resident of Tehama Street, related mural history.
"My neighbor Laura Weil saw the wall and saw that it needed to have something here in this open space, so we've been talking for a couple of years about what to do and how to do it," Anderson opened the press conference.
"At some point I realized, 'Hey, I'm an artist - I can do this.'
"But we needed a lot of help so between Laura and I... we just began slowly getting the Tehama Street Neighbors Association involved and we approached Cingular.
"So between Cingular, Tehama Street Neighborhood Association, we came up with the mural which features shapes and forms from the neighborhood.

We've also put up a number of photos of the event on our blog.