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Message of Elmo 4.17 – 4.21
Hey Kids! is a weekly feature looking at what’s coming up for families and kids of all ages. VISIONS AND MIRACLES Families have been confounded by visions of Elmo at Mission Playground. Though...
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New Mission Play Area and Fields Open
Though the ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for Mission Playground this morning was canceled, that didn’t stop strollers from rolling in, kids and adults from testing the new playing fields and a...
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SNAP: Play Time
I took this photo of children playing in the water at the new Mission Playground an hour ago, while walking home along Valencia Street. Lots of families were there. Happy to see that there are tables...
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SNAP: Marshall Elementary’s Playground Gets a Facelift
The Mission District’s Marshall Elementary School hosted a dedication ceremony Tuesday morning to thank developer Avant Housing LLC and Devcon Construction for resurfacing and painting the cracked...
View ArticleResidentes Celebran la Reinauguración del Área de Juegos de la Misión
El sábado pasado, un grupo de alrededor de 75 personas de la comunidad, con todo y familias sonrientes, llegaron a la reinauguración del Área de Juegos de la Misión. Los niños jugaron bajo las fuentes,...
View ArticleCampos Pushes for Parks Bond
At a town hall meeting at the Mission Recreation Center on Wednesday, District 9 Supervisor David Campos let a small, mostly graying crowd of 24 know that he has always voted to raise funds for parks...
View ArticleShaky Ground Delays Mission Pool’s Opening
During Mission Playground’s renovation this year, construction crews working in the men’s locker room of the clubhouse discovered that the ground underneath them had become liquefied, a state where...
View ArticleSuelo Inestable Retrasa Inauguración de Alberca de la Misión
Este año, mientras se llevaba acabo la remodelación del Área de Juegos de la Misión los equipos de construcción que estaban trabajando en los casilleros para hombres en los vestidores descubrieron que...
View ArticleAfter Apology, Meeting and Protest on Pay to Play Soccer Fields
After the awkward and disastrously weird incident at the Mission Playground last Thursday between neighborhood kids and DropBox employees, the S.F. Latino Democrats will be hosting a meeting at 518...
View ArticleRec and Park Retreats on Soccer Field Permits
UPDATE, 12:09 p.m. Oct. 16: The Recreation and Parks Department has confirmed that, effective immediately, no adult permits will be issued for use of the soccer field at Mission Playground, though...
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Staffing Cuts at Mission Playground
Just as Mission Playground at 19th and Linda streets begins community planning for a $7.5 million comprehensive restoration, the city’s strained budget has slashed staffing and put the available hours...
View ArticleUS Tennis Open Serves Money to Mission
While Rafael Nadal and Fernando Gonzalez battle one another Saturday at the U.S. Open, a small group of fledgling players at the Mission Playground are unaware that their experience has a connection...
View ArticleWoman Arrives Home to Burglary in Process
En Español Two men threatened to sexually assault a woman inside her home on the 700 block of Shotwell Street early Tuesday morning, according to the San Francisco Police Department. Around 1:15 a.m....
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Hey Kids! 1.14 – 1.19
Photo by Briget Huber Hey Kids! is a weekly feature looking at what’s coming up for families and kids of all ages. “I believe the day will come when all God’s children, from bass black to treble white,...
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Shotwell Residents Ambivalent About Newsom’s Sit/Lie Plan
En Español The 21st street corridor between South Van Ness and Folsom streets has a reputation for drug dealers, prostitution and the chronic alcoholics who sometimes get in fights and have been known...
View ArticleMission Playground – Ideas?
En Español It is a fact of civic life that a meeting about playground art held on a cold Tuesday night in an unheated clubhouse tucked away behind a soccer field and a closed-down swimming pool is...
View ArticleSunday Mission Walk 03.21.10
A great day to play with bubbles, lounge around and lose your keys. En Español
View ArticleMission Playgrounds at Top of the Class, But Dolores Park Fails
En Español If you haven’t noticed, your neighborhood park probably looks much better than it did two years ago. And, with notable exceptions, the Mission District has some of the nicer parks in the...
View ArticlePetitioner Fights ‘Pay to Play’ in Mission Soccer
Update When an argument breaks out in October, 2014 between newcomers and longtime players, Park and Rec explains its policy. Mission Playground formally reopened to ceremony and community love two...
View ArticleGroup of men attack woman relaxing at Mission Playground
Police report that a group of three men attacked a 41-year-old woman at Mission Playground at 3:45 p.m. on Monday, sending the woman to the hospital in non-life-threatening condition. The woman was...
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