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Published: November, 2014 Holiday Lights PIER 39 PIER 39 invites you to join some special friends from the Disneyland Resort at the annual PIER 39 Tree Lighting Celebration on Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23. Experience the magic, sing songs, give hugs to the Disneyland friends and welcome the holiday season with two days of […]
By Georgia Lambert Published: November, 2014 People and projects involved with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge swept up four trophies at the “Excellence in Motion” transportation awards ceremony in Oakland on October 22. In all, 17 unique trophies featuring an actual ball bearing with moving parts were presented by members of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission […]
Published: November, 2014 November 1 6PM – 10PM – Night Sailing – OCSC Sailing, Berkeley, 510-843-4200, www.ocscsailing.com Learn to enjoy San Francisco Bay under moonlight! This course is designed to teach you the navigational skills necessary to safely sail our local waters at night. If you’re a non-experienced sailor, this is also a great opportunity to see what night sailing is all […]
By Paul Duclos Published: November, 2014 A typography broadside written by Beatrice Warde about the power of type has gone viral of late. But that’s not where we spotted it. Serendipity led to its discovery on the Sutter Street storefront of Argonaut Book Shop, which has been reduced in floor space due to escalating rents in […]
By Deb Self Published: November, 2014 Soaring and gliding gracefully over the water, pelicans are a familiar sight around San Francisco Bay. Two types of pelicans, the California brown pelican and the American white pelican, live here. They arrive and depart at different times of year, but both are here now. California brown pelicans (Pelecanus […]
By Bill Picture Published: November, 2014 Five cleaning companies were recently recognized for completing San Francisco’s Custodial Green Cleaning pilot program, the first program of its kind in the nation. As part of this program, the five companies—Metro Maintenance, CMSC Janitorial / Maintenance Services, Aim to Please Janitorial Service, Japan Janitorial Service and Signature Home […]
BC Staff Report Published: November, 2014 In October, the heavy lift vessel Tern arrived in San Francisco and picked up the Port of San Francisco’s Drydock #1 for towing to a green-certified ship recycling facility near Shanghai, China. The drydock’s departure represented the last phase of 15 years of efforts to find a final resting […]
By Mallory Johnson Published: November, 2014 Graceful, stunning, and mysteriously alluring—these are just some of the qualities that make the Pacific sea nettle a favorite among Aquarium of the Bay visitors. One look at them and it’s hard not to get lost in the hypnotic lure of these mesmerizing creatures. Simply going with the flow […]
By Captain Ray Published: November, 2014 During the past two months in my role as an instructor trainer for US Sailing, I’ve conducted two instructor evaluation courses. I thought it might be interesting for me to explain just what potential instructors go through in order to teach sailing for the US Sailing Association. There is […]
By Matt Larson Published: November, 2014 Colin McDermott has been at the helm of many boats in his career, but now he’s at the helm of the Ferry Division of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. He has been director of operations there for the last two years, and before that, he was […]