Issue 183, Spring 2008 - Telegraph Hill Dwellers

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GINO & CARLOSince 1942At a party on Green Street last December honoringthe late restaurateur and baseball coachDante Benedetti, Soto Mare owner GiGi Fiorucciunveiled this Jasper Alley Mural depicting thosewho had played under Dante’s tutelage.548 Green StreetSan Francisco, CA 94133 (415) 421-0896HELP THE ‘HOODShop Locally26 Issue #183 • Spring 2008
Tel-Hi 118 years old continued from page 25programming in the summer). At the academy, inaddition to receiving tutoring in school subjects,these students enjoy a range of other activities fromcreative writing to sports to organic gardening andcommunity service learning projects.Tel-Hi also offers an Expanded LearningProgram at nearby Francisco Middle School where150 youth in grade 6 through 8 experience afterschool activities such as cooking, biking/bike repair,comedy, and film making, all aimed at fostering enthusiasmfor learning.Back at theLombard Streetsite Te-Hi providesa quality Statelicensedand accreditedyear-round preschool program for42 children betweenthe ages of 2 1/2 and5. Tuition for thismuch in-demandprogram is on a slidingscale based onincome, with 1/3 ofthe students on statesubsidies. Because ofTel-Hi’s Well Baby Clinic.the pre-school’s reputation, it has a rather dauntingwaiting list for admission.Tel Hi has never limited its activites to its fourwalls. Griffith and Ashe lobbied against a proposedplan to make passage across the city easier by flatteningTelegraph Hill. They opposed smoking on streetcars, fought successfully the quarry owners who weredestroying the Hill’s eastern slope, and tried to getthe city to reduce density in neighborhood housing.Fast forward and you’ll find Tel-Hi still takingup neighborhood causes. Consider the case ofthe demolished North Beach Place, the subsidizedand low income housing development at Bay andPowell. It was Tel-Hi, along with the Telegraph HillDwellers, that faced down development interests tochampion what is now a new facility of 342 modernunits dedicated to low and moderate income housing.Many of the former residents of the complex havehad a chance to return. Tel-Hi has set aside places inall its programs for residents of North Beach Place.For example 60 percent of the slots in the center’sYouth Leadership Development Program are filledby young people from the complex. Tel-Hi also runsa teen center onsiteat North BeachPlace. The programoffers 50 teens accessto homework support,tutoring, computers,and enrichmentactivities afterschool and duringthe summer.Mirroring thesettlement housetradition of its roots,Tel-Hi both dependson and serves thelocal Community.The generosity ofneighbors, as illustrated, for instance, by the financialsupport locals provided at the center’s May 10 fundraiser,“A Taste of Tel-Hi,” helps keep the center’sdoors open and the impressive programs alive andgrowing. But Tel-Hi looks for more than donors; itencourages donor/participants. Community membersvolunteer in the various programs, teach classes,organize fundraising events, help in the garden andmore.In turn, the community at large makes use of theTel-Hi facility. THD’s own Planning and ZoningCommittee uses the center’s utility room to meet, ascontinued on page 31Issue #183 • Spring 2008 2 7
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