San Mateo County’s First Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin to be Honored at a Celebration of Poetry Reception

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 31, 2014 Contact:  Supervisor Warren Slocum, 4th District, San Mateo County V: 650.363.4570   F:  650.366.6720   E:  wslocum@smcgov.org Alternate:  Marci Dragun, Legislative Aide V:  650.599.1021  C:  650.576-7658  E:  mdragun@smcgov.org

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan

Special thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, for their generous donation of $5 M to help build the new Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto! The Center recently was awarded a $7.3 M federal grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in a competitive process – 3,000 applications were received and Ravenswood was one of 26 successful applicants. These two gifts will help leverage the funds needed to complete this amazing project.

Shutterfly Sponsors Friendship Park

Shutterfly is generously funding the redesign and rebuild of Friendship Park, one of the only parks in the North Fair Oaks Community. It is a very exciting project that will add needed greenspace and a recreational area for kids and adults. Shutterfly was honored for their commitment to this project at Design Day on January 15th.Kaboom, a nonprofit organization that helps develop parks in under-represented urban areas, helped facilitate the development of this park and introduced Shutterfly to the group and this project.

Supervisor Pine elected Board president; calls for “more risk taking, innovation and efficiency” in 2014

Supervisor Dave Pine will serve as president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in 2014. He was elected president by his four colleagues at a meeting Tuesday evening at Burlingame High School.  Pine, in a brief speech, said that for the most part, “the Great Recession is in the rear view mirror” and pointed to a low unemployment rate and high median family income as signs of good news in San Mateo County.

Amy Buckmaster

Amy Buckmaster is first woman in over 100 years to lead the Redwood City – San Mateo County Chamber of Commerce as its President.