Senior Escort: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
CITY UNIONS HURT NONPROFITS' SERVICES Editor -- I was very pleased to see The Chronicle editorial on "City Hall and Labor Gang Up on Nonprofits" (Sunday, July 5). We need to find a way out of the squeeze that elected officials and unions are putting on nonprofits. In recent years we have seen that some city employee unions will seek wage increases to the point that services provided are drastically reduced to pay for the increases in salaries. The Senior...
Senior Escort: Arresting Hunger
Anna Maria Hernandez and four of her nine children received a basket of food yesterday from policemen Leroy Lindo (left) and Michael Lewis. Nearly 1000 food baskets were distributed to needy families by the San Francisco Police Officers Association and the city's Senior Escort Outreach Program. Working with radio station K101, the officers group and volunteers collected food at Safeway stores throughout the city this month. POA President Bob Barry said public response was...
Senior Escort: CADETS AT CAPE MAY BASE TO MOURN CLASSMATE
While more than 80 Sea Cadets will graduate Friday from the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, they will also mourn the death of a 16-year-old trainee who died four days earlier during a routine training exercise.It is still unclear what killed Shawn D. Jackson of Horsham, Pa., who was attending a two-week training session at the Coast Guard Training Center. Jackson was pronounced dead at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital in Cape May Court House. Coast Guard officials reported that...
Senior Escort: Wealthy 'Indigent' Is Identified
The elderly "indigent" who was carrying $80,000 in cash when he collapsed on a North Beach street was identified yesterday as 88-year-old Chester Louie. San Francisco General Hospital officials said Louie was in good condition last night following surgery for a subdural hematoma, an accumulation of blood inside the skull.When Louie collapsed Saturday afternoon outside the Central Police Station on Vallejo Street, $80,000 in well-worn bills and 28 bankbooks were...
Senior Escort: Seniors Fight Police Plan To Change Escort Service
Dozens of angry senior citizens packed a San Francisco Police Commission meeting last night to protest a police proposal to turn over senior escort services to private agencies. The reaction was prompted by a budget-cutting proposal from Chief Anthony Ribera, who recommended that the 15-year-old Senior Escort Program be discontinued after June 30.Instead of the $2.1 million escort program employing 45 workers, the city would pay $300,000 to a private agency for ``senior crime prevention...