Weekend of Activities Pays Tribute to San Francisco’s Historic
St. Paulus Lutheran Congregation

150 Years of Service Celebrated with Worship, Music and Community Gathering

19 May 2017 – San Francisco, CA: Like the legendary phoenix, an historic San Francisco congregation is emerging from the flames to chart a continuing and progressive path of service as it looks to the future. Saint Paulus Lutheran Church celebrates its 150th anniversary this weekend with music, worship and community.

Tonight / Friday, May 19: 7pm: a concert of music characteristic of Saint Paulus Church will be presented by music director, Dustin Hart the current location for St. Paulus, 1541 Polk Street, San Francisco.

Saturday, May 20, 5:30pm: A formal banquet including a reception and dinner will be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough Street, San Francisco. During this event, special acknowledgement will be given to past church and church school personnel of St. Paulus. A short video will pay tribute to the work of St. Paulus. The high point of the evening will be presentations and remarks by representatives of five organizations to whom St. Paulus has made gifts of $30,000 – LSS, the San Francisco Night ministry, Santa Maria y Marta Lutheran Church, Sojourn Chaplaincy at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the SF Interfaith Council. The Bishop of the Sierra Pacific Synod will provide official church recognition of the St. Paulus Anniversary and receive a gift of $150,000 for denominational expression, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in American (ELCA). There will be displays, handouts and opportunity for conversation following the dinner.

Sunday, May 21, 10am-3pm. The weekend will culminate with a festival worship service beginning at 10am at St. Paulus’ current location, 1541 Polk Street, San Francisco. Following the service, St. Paulus will host an open house until 3pm.

About St. Paulus San Francisco:

One hundred and fifty years ago a group of rebellious Lutherans from an adjoining Lutheran church convinced a just fired Lutheran pastor to form a new church in San Francisco. Jacob Buehler did and named it Saint Paulus Lutheran Church. Since then, the church established a Lutheran Day School that has educated thousands of San Franciscan children until 1990. After building a 1000-seat Gothic church building at the corner of Gough and Eddy that narrowly endured the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906, St. Paulus was the location of a hospital and shelter for over 10,000 in the aftermath of the disaster.

The landmark edifice was featured in the 1958 Hitchcock movie, Vertigo, and was the site of the extraordinary ordination of the first three gay Lutheran pastors, an event covered around the world with still an ongoing social and religious impact. After a spectacular and tragic arson fire in 1995, St. Paulus’ historic sanctuary burned to the ground. And yet, St. Paulus continued to host, feed, guide, and provide for homeless in San Francisco, spending six years as a storefront church in the Fillmore. Now, the historic congregation enters its fourth year as a storefront church on Polk Street, but is eagerly anticipating the construction of a new Saint Paulus Church facility in 2018 at the corner of Gough and Eddy Streets.

Public Safety Campaign for Alaska Airlines Bay to Breakers

www.baytobreakersSF.com

Race Organizers & City Officials Stress Safety and Sobriety for
106th Running of Historic Race on Sunday, May 21

16 May 2017 – San Francisco, CA: This year’s Alaska Airlines Bay to Breakers Race on Sunday, May 21, marks the 106th running of one of the world’s best-loved sporting and celebratory events. More than ever, City officials and Race organizers are serious about keeping the Race free from alcohol abuse and nuisance behavior.

“Bay to Breakers has always been a great time for everyone,” said San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott. “In years past because of binge alcohol consumption, there was a negative impact of our neighborhoods and we don’t want to see that repeated. That said, we hope that everyone will come and have a great time again, absent any alcohol.”

To emphasize the point, a special campaign website is active at www.baytobreakersSFcom with public transit information, rules and regulations and links stressing this year’s campaign. The public safety message is also being magnified via a campaign on Facebook and Twitter.

“Last year’s running of Bay to Breakers was a success,” said Chief Scott. “We urge registrants and spectators to come out this year, and to remember the first rule: to have a great time, and remember to preserve our race, the neighborhoods, and our beautiful City. We look forward to seeing everyone on race day having a fun and safe time.”

Golden Gate Global CEO Ginny Fang Named to IIUSA Board of Directors

10 May 2017 — San Francisco: Golden Gate Global today announced that its founding CEO, Ginny Fang, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Invest in the USA (IIUSA). Since 2005, IIUSA has been the national membership-based not-for-profit EB-5 industry trade association. The election took place at IIUSA’s annual Advocacy Conference in Washington, D.C.
 
“I am honored by the trust put in me by my colleagues at IIUSA,” said Fang. “The EB-5 program is an important tool for both increasing foreign direct investment and creating American jobs in communities across the United States. I look forward to working with IIUSA and all of our regional center partners to expand, improve, and more successfully promote the benefits of the EB-5 program.”
 
Fang completed her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College, and earned a master’s in public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where she continues to serve as a Board Member for the Alumni Association. She previously was the founding Executive Director of the ChinaSF economic development agency and has been named to the San Francisco Business Times’ “40 Under 40” list of rising business stars.
 
“Through founding, operating, and leading Golden Gate Global to industry-leading success, Ginny has demonstrated practical and effective leadership and is deeply vested in the successful future of EB-5,” said Willie L. Brown, Jr., former Mayor San Francisco and Golden Gate Global principal. “IIUSA membership made a great choice in selecting Ginny, who will be a tireless advocate for their interests.”
 
“I have always been impressed with the impact that IIUSA has had with lawmakers, members, and other industry stakeholders,” said Fang. “I am excited to work with everyone at the organization to move the EB-5 industry forward into its next chapter.”
 

###

For media inquiries, please contact:

David Perry & Associates, Inc / (415) 767-1067 / news@davidperry.com

About Golden Gate Global

Golden Gate Global is a leading EB-5 Immigrant Investment Regional Center based in San Francisco, and is licensed by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to help facilitate EB-5 immigrant investment into high-economic-impact projects in multiple regions in the United States. The company is founded upon its distinguished executive leadership, successful project partners with demonstrated records, and noteworthy projects with exceptional economic opportunity and return.

media contact: David Perry & Associates, Inc. (415) 676-7007 / news@davidperry.com

“Rosie the Riveter” Contingent To Help Open the San Mateo County Fair:

Share History Making Stories In Senior Day Salute to Elders

Saturday June 10 Opening Day Parade: 10 am
Tuesday June 13 Senior Day: 11am – 10 pm
Seniors 62 and older receive free admission

www.sanmateocountyfair.com
hashtag: # SMCF2017

10 May 2017 – San Mateo, CA: Seniors who remember the Summer of Love will also have an opportunity to hear first hand stories from a contingent of the WWII era “Rosie the Riveters” at this year’s Senior Day Salute to Elders Tuesday, June 13 — “Senior Day” at the San Mateo County Fair (www.sanmateocountyfair.com). Senior Day is sponsored by the Health Plan of San Mateo and the Daily Journal. “The Rosie’s,” as they are commonly called, will also help to open the fair as participants in this year’s Opening Day Parade Saturday, June 10.

“We are so honored that the Rosie’s will be a part of this year’s fair on two occasions,” said Dana Stoehr, CEO of the San Mateo County Event Center & Fair. “Anytime the Rosie’s are present is a special time. They enliven and inspire us with their spirited smiles and stories, not to mention their historic contribution.”

A contingent of original WWII “Rosie the Riveter” ladies will ride in convertibles during this year’s Opening Day Parade and will return for a special forum on Seniors Day. These homefront veterans, aged 90 to 97, are ongoing volunteers at the World War II Homefront Memorial National Park in Richmond, California situated next to where they, among thousands of other “Rosie’s,” worked to build ships, jeeps and other military vehicles in the early 1940s.

The Rosie’s will be present for Seniors Day from 11am – 3pm and will speak at a Salute to Seniors Forum at 11:15am and 1:00pm.

The San Mateo County Fair — “Where Tradition Meets Innovation” — is The Peninsula’s premier, community event for family fun and entertainment: June 10 – 18, 2017. Visit www.sanmateocountyfair.com often for regular updates, contest rules, schedules, promotions, and information.