FRISCO Day is an annual event held in spring to help all San Francisco Unified School District graduating seniors enroll in college, learn about financial literacy, develop support systems and build relationships with other students to help them complete the transition to college.
FRISCO Day (FRIday = Successful College Opportunities) started in April 2011 with more than 3,000 students participating at four locations: City College of San Francisco (CCSF) hosted all students who were CCSF bound and for students who were not yet sure of their educational plan, California State University (CSU) bound students went to San Francisco State’s campus to learn about the CSU system, University of California (UC) bound students visited UC San Francisco Mission Bay to learn about the UC system, and other two-and four-year public and private college bound students attended workshops delivered by the College Bound Network held at the Fort Mason Conference Center.
This year, students will go to CCSF (those students CCSF bound and for students who were not yet sure of their educational plan), University of California San Francisco Mission Bay, UCSF (those students who plan on going to a UC) and St. Mary’s Conference Center (for students who plan to attend a CSU or other 2 or 4 year colleges).
Why is it called FRISCO Day?
Click here for an article on the students who named FRISCO Day.”
North Beach News has the deets on this police call in North Beach from the other day.
“We had multiple reports yesterday of an incident at DiMaggio that led to some of the ROTC kids crying on the playground. Checking with Captain Tacchini at Central Station, he tells us “The incident involved a neighbor who was complaining about the apparent noise being caused by a group of young girls participating in ROTC practice in the park. The neighbor was aggressive and intimidating and causing fear and disruption to the girls’ practice session. Officers responded to calm the situation and make sure nobody was in harm’s way.”
OK then.
You’ve heard of NIMBYs? Well this is what one of them looks like, just as you’d expect, with a beret and everything:
How loud is too loud? Take a listen to get an idea of what the drill team does.
More deets:
“Today, our regular threatening neighbor (the man with the glasses) charged at one of the teams and demanded our personal information and even tried to take a picture. After a series of arguments and trying to get through to the man, the police got involved. A local…I guess…volunteer? who uses the grounds saw the commotion and called 9-1-1. The police came, and guess who was wrong? The man…he was charged for harassing a group of youth. (It really makes an impression when all of GDT are in tears)”
Here’s the sad story from the dude what lost his stuff at the Subway Sandwiches on Polk and Sutter:
“(3/25/2012) I was in the Subway sandwiches place at 1199 Sutter at Polk and then walked outside to get a taxi for some people I was with. I had accidentally left my phone and wallet on the table. When I returned about 30 seconds later my stuff was gone. Here is the surveillance video of who took it. Please message me or email me at racejohnson@gmail.com if you recognize her.”
Now, I say girls, I mean, I can’t tell how old they are, something betwixt 14 and 24. They act like high school students AFAIAC.
Now, if you want to completely ignore flight crew that’s your choice, but it might be tough to fly. And when the Captain asks you to leave, it’s time to leave. Otherwise you’re going to get arrested for trespassing. And if you injure the cops taking you off your flight, well, you’re just making things worse for yourself.
Don’t be “reverent” and “respectful” – it’s not necessary. Just make the effort to pretend to listen flight crew and you’ll be fine. (And, oh yes, if you want to say “sir,” say it once at the beginning of the exchange. Don’t use it as a crutch word, just saying.)
Honest.
Anyway, if you want to call this thing “pilot error,” well then be my guest but you’re wrong.
“Deshon Marman, 20, a defensive player for the University of New Mexico and graduate of Lincoln High in San Francisco, was arrested and removed from US Airways flight 488 Wednesday after police said he ignored an airline employee’s request to pull up sweatpants that exposed his underwear below the buttocks.”
“Deshon Marman, 20, a defensive player for the University of New Mexico and graduate of Lincoln High in San Francisco, was arrested and removed from US Airways flight 488 Wednesday after police said he ignored an airline employee’s request to pull up sweatpants that exposed his underwear below the buttocks.”
“On nearly the final day of the school year, America’s favorite principal – Iqbal Theba who plays “Principal Figgins” on the hit TV show, Glee - will join students and educational leaders in San Jose & San Francisco as he launches new technology to provide affordable college and career planning and a national challenge to help students reach their dreams.”
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Welcome to the 415, Iqbal Theba!
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2011 — On nearly the final day of the school year, America’s favorite principal – Iqbal Theba who plays “Principal Figgins” on the hit TV show, Glee – will join students and educational leaders in San Jose & San Francisco as he launches new technology to provide affordable college and career planning and a national challenge to help students reach their dreams.
“Kids at Glee’s McKinley High have dreams, but I want to help all teens across America, in the real-world,” said Theba, who also serves as Honorary Principal of SuperFutures.com.
The jobless rate among youth stands at over 20% and the average student is now taking about 6 years to complete college due to poor planning (CollegeBoard). Some 70% of parents say their #1 concern is their child’s successful transition to the ‘real world’ (SuperFutures).
Theba will join nationally known financial education expert/innovator Jennifer Openshaw (Oprah, author, Women’s Financial Network founder); Dan Rosensweig, CEO of Chegg.com, the #1 online textbook rental company; and school officials in unveiling the nation’s first online guidance counseling community designed with Harvard experts to help young people build skills to succeed at a fraction of the cost of independent college advisors.
Theba, who thought, “Oh, no, I’m stuck with construction,” will also share his own struggle of finding his passion and launch a new national challenge encouraging real teens to begin to create their dreams over the summer break by leveraging their creative talents.
San Jose
Kipp San Jose Collegiate
1790 Educational Park Drive, San Jose
San Francisco Lowell High –In the Carol Channing Auditorium (approx. 1,000 students) 1101 Eucalyptus Dr, San Francisco Between Eucalyptus & Middlefield
Well there’ll be a cavalcade of stars (including hat lady Jan Wahl and area billionaire Gordon Getty) judging the live performances of nine high school seniors at Club Fugazi at 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Boulevard in North Beach on June 6th, 2011.
All the deets, below.
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The deets:
SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTS CHOSEN! THE STEVE SILVER FOUNDATION AND BEACH BLANKET BABYLON SELECT NINE HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS TO COMPETE FOR THREE $10,000 CASH SCHOLARSHIPS
FINALISTS TO PERFORM LIVE AT CLUB FUGAZI ON MONDAY, JUNE 6th
SAN FRANCISCO (May 9, 2011) – Jo Schuman Silver, producer of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, announced today the selection of nine Bay Area finalists for the Steve Silver Foundation and Beach Blanket Babylon “Scholarship for the Arts.” One winner in each category will be presented with a check for $10,000 towards their college education. The nine high school seniors who will perform live on Monday, June 6th are:
ACTING
JESSICA CHANLIAU – Marin School of the Arts at Novato High School, Novato
TAYLOR EDELHART – Lowell High School, San Francisco
ANYA RICHKIND – Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco
DANCING
MADELINE BAGBY – Castilleja School, Palo Alto
DARIUS DROOH – Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, San Francisco
ALEX LYASHEVYCH – Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, San Francisco
SINGING
JILLIAN BUTLER – Liberty High School, Brentwood
ZACHARY PISER – Piedmont High School, Piedmont
CARA WODKA – Fremont Christian High School, Fremont
“Every year I’m impressed by the talent and caliber of the entries we receive, and this year was no exception,” said Schuman Silver. “Narrowing the field down to just nine finalists was not an easy task.”
Master of Ceremonies for the evening is Star 101.3′s Don Bleu. The celebrity panel of judges scheduled to appear include: San Francisco Ballet’s Principal Character Dancer & Choreographer Val Caniparoli, singer and actor Franc D’Ambrosio, KGO Radio’s Jerry Friedman, Composer Gordon Getty, San Francisco Opera’s General Director David Gockley, KMEL’s Chuy Gomez, California Shakespeare Theater’s Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone, American Conservatory Theater’s Artistic Director Carey Perloff, ABC7′s Don Sanchez and KRON4/KCBS Radio’s Jan Wahl.”
(I don’t know about ticket availability or anything at this point – they’ll be tough or impossible to get, one might imagine.)
