Prescott-Oakland Point Artist Gina Telcocci announces permanent installation
The San Francisco Arts Commission announced a new public artwork installation by Prescott-Oakland Point artist Gina Telcocci for the Potrero Branch Library, which opens on Saturday, March 6, 2010.
Gina Telcocci’s artwork incorporated local plants and other materials based the form of here and past here on the nut of a California Buckeye, a native tree that was an important resource for the Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribe who once occupied the Potrero Hill area, will be suspended in the open atrium of the new renovated Potrero Hill Library located at 1616 20th Street & Connecticut in San Francisco.
“Gina Telcocci’s artwork encourages reflection on the unique cultural and natural history of Potrero Hill,” stated District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell. “It is a beautiful work of art and a wonderful symbol for neighborhood.” For Gina website, click here.
On a different topic, we may be losing our Saturday mail delivery. Reading the article, I found some interesting information.
Moving the mail:
How much mail: 584 million pieces of mail were handled daily in 2009. That's down from 716 million per day in 2006.*
Payroll: Every two weeks, salary and benefits total $2.1 billion.
Vehicles operated: 218,684
Address changes: 43.8 million were processed last year.
Additions: 923,595 new delivery addresses were added to the mail system last year.
*Based on total volume of mail divided by the number of workdays in a year.
Fun facts
Transport: The post office moves mail on planes, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, subways, hovercraft, streetcars, bicycles, human feet and even mules. Those mules carry mail to Indians living at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Because some of that mail is food, the post office at Peach Springs, Ariz., has freezers to store it until delivery.
Oldest post office (in the same building): Hinsdale, N.H., 1816.
Smallest post office: Ochopee, Fla., 8 feet, 4 inches by 7 feet, 3 inches.
Floating post office: Post boat J.W. Westcott delivers mail to ships passing in the Detroit River. The boat has its own ZIP code, 48222.
Longest rural route: Route 1, Fordsville, N.D., 176.5 miles daily to serve 174 mailboxes.
