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This year’s SFPAL Golf Tournament was PAL’s most successful since the annual golfing event was started in 2002. This year’s event drew 109 golfers who fought against a blustery wind on a bright, sunny day. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and SF Police Chief Greg Suhr were the star attractions at the event in Harding Park on Thursday, May 24. As the event’s […]
Longtime Seahawks volunteer Greg and Sophia Isom are turning over the reins to the football and dance/cheer programs after more than three decades of service.
PAL was recently the focus of a nonprofit profile in the San Francisco Business Times. In the question/answer interview, Executive Director Lorraine Woodruff-Long gave a frank and lively overview of PAL’s challenges and successes.
The decision to make the move to the AYFL was emotional and difficult, but it will allow PAL to expand its programs and include more San Francisco kids.
When she took over as executive director of PAL three years ago, Woodruff-Long set out to revamp the PAL volunteer program, in big ways and small — in short, to make PAL more volunteer-friendly.
Something was missing from Steve Symanovich’s life … until he became a PAL soccer coach. A tale of how one soccer Dad signed up for the PAL referee clinic and transformed his life overnight!
Early graduates of the Summer Cadet Academy say the program changed their lives, as they look to embark on careers in law enforcement. Meanwhile, many elect to stay in the PAL program until they get a job with law enforcement or “age out” at 21.
Plenty of dads coach their kids’ sports teams, but few have achieved what Bernard Sandoval has. He coaches three PAL sports —baseball, basketball and soccer—and does it year-round.
