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If you grew up in the Bay Area you'll remember the slew of DJs that were on WiLD during the 90s and 00s: Jose Melendez, Greg Lopez, Strawberry, Jazzy Jim, Majestichris, and so forth. Not sure how many CDs were made, but there's plenty here to get a feel for the era. Mixcloud won't link to searches, so head up the the search bar and type in wild 107.7 or 94.9 if you want a trip down memory lane or experience an piece of Bay Area radio history for the first time.

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The Salvation Army has applied for a permit to build an eight-story drug rehabilitation center in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood for people who are recovering from drug addiction.

The charity aims to demolish its property at 850 Harrison St. and replace it with a high-rise that would serve up to 220 people who have completed the first step of drug treatment.

Currently, the lot houses a one-story commercial kitchen and parking lot where the Salvation Army trains homeless people in the culinary arts.

Part of the nonprofit’s the Way Out program, a fundraising initiative and treatment apparatus with the goal of expanding drug treatment access in San Francisco, the planned treatment program in SoMa is geared toward providing job assistance and eventually transitioning clients into independent living.

The charity is lobbying the city to help fund the programs and others that it believes can help people recover from addiction.

Darren Norton, a divisional commander with the Salvation Army, said the Harrison Street project project is in its very early stages.

“We’re exploring things with the city to see if it's something they would approve,” he said. “We don’t want to go to our donors and get them excited if it's not going to meet the city’s requirements for housing.”

Fatal overdoses are occurring at a record rate in San Francisco, with 473 people dying due to drugs over the first seven months of this year, according to preliminary data from the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.

The planned rehabilitation center will not take people directly from the street who are homeless and suffering from addiction, Norton said. Rather, these will be people who have graduated from a treatment program and are now moving to extended supportive, transitional housing.

If approved and constructed, the facility will feature support, training and amenity spaces on the first two floors and the eighth floor. Floors 3 through 8 will feature five-bedroom, five-bathroom suites that can house 10 participants each. The participants will also share kitchen, dining and living spaces.

The planned complex will also include a two-bedroom guest suite, shared lounge and classroom space for the Salvation Army’s programs.

There will also be a commercial teaching kitchen on the ground floor, which the Way Out plans to use for its culinary program. Most of the building’s roof will feature solar panels.

The SoMa neighborhood is home to a large number of drug treatment, homeless services and low-income housing complexes.

This has led to pushback from some locals who believe the neighborhood is being forced to shoulder too much of the burden of addressing San Francisco’s most pressing issues.

At the same time, the proposed project would be located just a stone's throw from other Salvation Army facilities, including its South of Market Corps Community Center and the Silvercrest Residence, an affordable apartment complex that reserves 40% of its units for low-income seniors.

I'm looking at potentially switching from Comcast to Frontier Fiber in the South Bay. Advertised service is 1gbps symmetrical.

I'm a little wary of Frontier as a provider. Can anyone recommend or share your experience of their fiber service?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3051399

I'm so friggin excited to have this store so much closer than Daly City, and on my route to Costco!

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CCAS DIRECTOR BETH WARD

We come to you with a heavy heart and a plea for help that we believe only a caring community like ours can answer. Our shelter is facing a critical situation – we are at full capacity, with more animals coming in each day, and space is running out faster than we can create it.

Today, our animal care and medical staff have advised me that due to the high volume of dogs currently in our care and the number of new animals coming in each day outpacing those being adopted, rescued and returned to their families, we’re now faced with the impossible dilemma of having to make euthanasia decisions based on time and space. Sadly, this means that there is a potential that healthy/treatable animals may be euthanized to help make space for the other animals in our community needing help.

We have been messaging over the last year that our shelter is experiencing overcrowding due to our adoption rate not being able to keep up with the incredible flow of animals needing help coming into our shelter. We also know that the animal rescues in our region are experiencing similar challenges – they’re filled to the brim and their resources are being stretched. For months, we've navigated through the challenges of overcrowding, strained resources, and tirelessly dedicated staff who have given their all to care for these innocent lives. But today, we stand at a crossroads, faced with an unimaginable decision: unless we act quickly, we might have to make the heartbreaking choice to euthanize some of the dogs and cats in our care.

Our hearts ache at the mere thought of having to make such decisions. We firmly believe that each of these pets deserves the chance to find a loving home, to experience warmth, comfort, and the joy of companionship. We know you believe that too.

To that end, we need your help to get 50 large breed dogs out of the shelter through adoption, foster, and transfer immediately.

This is our heartfelt call to action. We're urging our community to step up and make a difference. We're asking you to open your hearts and your homes to the pets in our shelter. Adoption, fostering, volunteering – every gesture counts. If you've been thinking about adopting, or possibly fostering - permanently or temporarily - now is the time.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

You can access all of these services at www.ccasd.org

• Adopt – pets available for adoption can be viewed on our website. Our Martinez shelter is open Tuesday-Saturday 10AM-5PM (10AM-7PM on Wednesday). All pets are currently free to adopt.

• Foster – sign up to become a foster home for one of our shelter pets.

• Volunteer – sign up to volunteer and help socialize and care for the pets in our shelter.

• Help Reunite Lost Dogs – If you find a healthy friendly dog, try to hold onto that dog and help to search for their family. If you’re able to hold onto a lost dog while you look for the owner, you increase the possibility of that dog being reunited with their family. File a FOUND REPORT on our website and notify the lost animal social media sites, like Fido Alert, and post a notice on your NextDoor page. You can also place flyers in your neighborhood. By helping the dog find their family you will also help CCAS provide support for the sick, injured, or in danger dogs that are coming to us every day.

• Spread the Word - Share this message far and wide. You never know who might be looking for a new furry family member or thinking about fostering.

Contra Costa Animal Services must be able to help the animals in our county that are sick, injured or in danger, and to help care for lost pets while we work to reunite them with their families. The team at CCAS is focused on life saving and supporting our community needs. The needs in our community right now are overwhelming and the resources for families to spay/neuter their pets and obtain basic veterinary care are becoming less accessible and financially out of reach for many, which is contributing to more pets coming into the shelter.

We acknowledge that our shelter, like many across California, has been facing a relentless challenge. But we believe in the power of community, in the kindness and empathy that can turn the tides. We're all in this together, and together, we can make sure that no animal is left behind.

What do y'all think? Personally wouldn't mind, as I go to that area all the time for Target since it's on the 38 route.

I think this circus is in Spanish but the language is probably not that important. There will still be acrobats and a guy jumping through a ring of fire.

So I tuned into Live105 for the first time in a couple of weeks this afternoon, and I'm delighted to hear an actual live person announcing something about some upcoming concerts at Chase Center.

Nice! That's an improvement from edgy echo voice guy.

Then she says "This is Megan Holiday" and I go wait a minute that sounds familiar...

So I spent a couple of years living in LA and one of my favorite radio stations there was KROQ, which is has a similar alt rock format to Live105.

So I listened a lot to KROQ's stream while Live105 was off the air.

And the host for KROQ in the same afternoon timeslots is... Megan Holiday!

I mean it doesn't take much time to read copy about upcoming events in different markets, and Ms. Holiday does a good job of localizing the announcements, i.e. she's not just dryly reading the copy.

No real point, I just thought it might be interesting to fellow listeners in the Bay Area.

Just posting this because I didn't realize it! It was shut down for several years due to Covid and actually taken over as a Covid vaccine site, but now it's back.