“Be good. Be green. Be glam!” This is the fitting motto of Potrero Hill resident Suzanne Agasi’s Clothing Swaps, in which people swap clothes, shoes and accessories that they no longer use.  Clothing Swaps enable participants to recycle items they no longer need and refresh their wardrobe at little cost. “We wear 20 percent of our clothes 80 percent of the time,” said Agasi.

Le Sanctuaire, the sanctuary in French, is a hidden oasis on Potrero Hill where patrons are privy to the healing hands of skin care specialist Rebecca Whitworth.  While her facial treatments and proprietary blend of organic essential oils and masques have long been the focus of local raves, Whitworth is now receiving global acclaim.

According to public health and social service experts, persons with HIV/AIDS often don’t seek treatment for the disease for a myriad of reasons, including ignorance of their status and mistrust of the public health system. Understanding those reasons is of particular importance to Potrero Hill and Bayview residents, since San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) research indicates that the City’s sickest AIDS patients live in Southeast San Francisco.

 Advocates for In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) – which provides Californians who are blind, disabled, or over the age of 65 with assistance to enable them to live safely at home – celebrated a recent court victory that rolled-back state budget cuts to the program.  But supporters say that new labor requirements and increased co-payments for IHSS participants will make things harder for the independent contractors who provide the service, as well as their clients.