Boulevard Bites

by Toni Locke

### The SF Chronicle recently featured David Hull, longtime Florida Street resident and chief librarian at the San Francisco Maritime Museum Library. Hull announced a major show of maritime paintings by William Coulter, opening spring 2006. Reminds us that Oakland, too, is a major seaport. ### When Tim Chapman, Dimond Web Master, called Public Works to complain about a dangerous sidewalk on Lincoln Ave., he was referred to their point man on trees, Dan Gallagher. In the course of conversation Gallagher observed, "You have a newspaper in your area." "The Metro," said Chapman. "I always like it better when I get an orchid, not an onion," said Gallagher. ### Karen Lassen, praised in a past Metro for her role as organizer of the Fairy Godmother project, which donated money to worthy community action such as the creation of Nicol Park, fell last month while distributing Metros on upper High Street and broke her leg. How unfair! Her leg is healing well. She has moved to Berkeley but comes back regularly to work on the upper High Street median. The Fairy Godmothers still gather around a dining-room table and chose projects to support.