Citizens Housing in Contract with Altenheim, Inc.
Maja Brugos
The Altenheim, Inc. is currently in contract with a new developer, Citizens Housing of San Francisco. Citizens Housing is a nonprofit organization that develops affordable housing throughout the Bay Area.While both the proposal and the contract are.

Burckhalter Neighbors News
Maureen Dorsey and Sparky Carranza
Burckhalter Neighbors, a neighborhood association of residents around Burckhalter Elementary School, has been one of the active forces behind the residents' response to the Leona Quarry Development. Since 1996 we have been monitoring the mine and the.

Year-Round Earth Day on High Street
Meredith Florian
If you drive too quickly up High St. from MacArthur, you might easily miss a quiet takeoverthat is budding on the median strip a revolution of color, form, and fragrance created by adedicated group of gardeners. Led by Family Therapist Karen Las.

The Importance of Being Earnest at Mills College
Shauna Jones
"In matters of grave importance," writes Oscar Wilde, "style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."Certainly the expert on style, Wilde remains as fashionable today as he was in his owntime regardless of his degree of insincerity. Judge him for yo.

Onions & Orchids
Peter Bond
Dear readers: This writer does search for individuals and businesses worthy of inclusion in this column, but he relies mostly on input from others. So please e-mail your ideas for Onions & Orchids to bpbond\@aol.com.Onions (again) to the managers o.

Does the Postal Service Serve You?
(Yes or no, the Metro will print your replies.)
NoThe answer to that question is NO, NO and NO. Our neighborhood can't seem to maintain a good postal carrier. We had a person for about a month or so, and the mail would always be there by 3 p.m. or so. Then recently, we got another new one. Mail is not delivered until 6 p.m.

"the best preparation would be creating that personal family plan and getting sometraining."
"contrary to what we see in the movies, people do not run from Godzilla"]
Civil Defense By Sheila D'Amico Gordon Laverty's Leona Heights column in last month's Metro, in which he talked about hisneighborhood's disaster planning, provided a timely reminder about the need to prepare foremergencies.