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Bay Area Reporter - December 1, 2005
Cynthia Laird, c.laird@ebar.com
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SF Public Library
Beginning today, Project Open Hand's 20 years of service will be highlighted in a history exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library. The exhibit's opening on World AIDS Day serves to highlight the history of Project Open Hand, which began delivering meals to people living with AIDS in 1985.
The "Compassion in Action" exhibit includes a selection of photos, memorabilia, media clippings, and other items documenting Project Open Hand's early years as one of the first grassroots efforts to care for PWAs. The exhibit also includes video clips from an oral history project the agency compiled, as well as client obituaries.
The exhibit at the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center on the third floor of the main library, 100 Larkin Street, will be on display through February 2, 2006. For more information, visit http://www.sfpl.org/news/exhibitions.htm.
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Every Penny Counts
This morning at 10 a.m. the Wells Fargo History Museum in downtown San Francisco will host the AIDS Emergency Fund's annual Every Penny Counts event. Throughout the fall, students at 45 Bay Area schools have been collecting money for AEF. Volunteers are collecting and counting the coins and today's event will announce the total amount raised and challenge businesses and individuals to match that amount during December. Students from John Yehall Chin Elementary School will be on hand, said AEF Executive Director Mike Smith.
The museum is located at 420 Montgomery Street.
Since 1994 the Every Penny Counts schools collection effort has raised more than $500,000 in support of people living with HIV/AIDS.
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World AIDS Day in San Jose
The Metropolitan Community Church in San Jose is hosting a commemoration of World AIDS Day this evening (Thursday, December 1). There will be a civic ceremony at 6 p.m. in the Rotunda at San Jose's new City Hall, 200 E. Santa Clara Street, followed by a candlelight walk to MCC-SJ, 67 N. 7th Street, where an interfaith gathering will take place. The Reverend Michael Ellard, senior pastor at the church, invites community members to attend the event.
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World AIDS Day gift
Amid commemorations of World AIDS Day, the Black Coalition on AIDS has announced it will accept a $100,000 gift from the family of the late Johnny McGee, who bequeathed the donation to the agency following his death earlier this year.
"We are grateful to Johnny McGee and the McGee family for their generosity, concern for the community, and faith in the stewardship of the Black Coalition on AIDS," said Donyale John, board chair.
The coalition will formally dedicate its Johnny McGee Health Screening and Testing Center in Mr. McGee's honor.
Mr. McGee, 56, was a financial analyst for the federal government and worked in San Francisco. He lived in Oakland.
BCA is also co-sponsoring its second annual "Songs for Healing" service at San Francisco General Hospital and is holding an open house at its offices, 2800 Third Street in San Francisco, today (Thursday, December 1).
For more information about BCA, call (415) 615-9945 or visit http://www.bcoa.org.
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MCC-SF events Sunday
Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco is marking World AIDS Day with two events Sunday, December 4.
At 4 p.m. the church will host a community forum entitled "Deconstructing Meth" to focus on the problem of crystal methamphetamine in the gay community. The forum, to be led by Joshua Love, a sexual health educator and member of MCC of the Rockies, is described as a consciousness raising experience about living with, working with, and responding to crystal meth.
Later that same evening, at the 7 p.m. worship service, Love, who's the son of MCC Executive Director Cindy Love, will recount his own personal journey through crystal meth addiction and HIV seroconversion in a talk entitled "The Valley of Meth."
The events are part of a new campaign by MCCSF senior pastor the Reverend Dr. Penny Nixon and congregants to bring healing and awareness to the issue of crystal meth.
Both events take place at the church, located at 150 Eureka Street in the Castro.
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