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SAN FRANCISCO - 2008 Celebration of Achievement
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Master of Ceremonies Ben Fong-Torres, Walden House Board Member Dianne Fong-Torres, CEO Rod Libbey & COO Vitka Eisen get ready for the big event. |
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SF Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi accepts this year's Community Partnership Award and Erica Hess from Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc. accepts this year's Corporate Partnership Award. |
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Celebrants celebrating! |
MATIER & ROSS San Francisco Chronicle August 13, 2007
Just in time: Eight new arrivals to San Francisco's Walden House drug and alcohol rehab center decided to take a stroll across the Golden Gate Bridge the other day when one of them spotted a woman clinging to the platform's outside railing and looking distraught.
They tried talking her back over, but without success. Then, just as the would-be jumper let go with one hand, a Walden House client reached over and grabbed her windbreaker while two others pulled her back over the railing to safety.
The cops arrived, and she was whisked off for psychiatric observation.
"They were buzzing for quite a few days," says Jori Schlecht, a onetime client who now runs the 815 Buena Vista West center.