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(07-30) 09:40 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Jerry Garcia may be most closely linked in many people's minds with the Haight-Ashbury, but the Grateful Dead front man and San Francisco native actually grew up in another neighborhood - and the supervisor who represents that area wants to make sure he's remembered there.

Supervisor John Avalos introduced a resolution Tuesday that would let the city install commemorative street plaques in front of 121 Amazon Ave., where Garcia lived with his parents until he was 5, and 87 Harrington St., where he and his brother lived with their grandparents after his father's accidental death. Both homes are in the Excelsior district - which is also home to the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in McLaren Park, site of the annual Jerry Day.

The resolution is chock full of amazing historical facts about Garcia - whom it calls "a reluctant cultural icon of psychedelic music and the hippie movement that helped define San Francisco in the 1960s" - including quotes from Hunter S. Thompson and Bob Dylan and references to the Acid Tests, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, the Wall of Sound speaker system and the UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead Archive.

"Garcia's childhood was surrounded by music: His father, Jose, was a swing-band leader, his mother played piano, and Garcia said he learned to love bluegrass and country music through his grandmother, Tillie's, habit of listening to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights," it states. "Commemorating the childhood homes of Jerry Garcia will celebrate Garcia's unique contributions to the social and cultural life of the city and help promote the significant role the Excelsior District played in the formative years of this unique San Franciscan."

The resolution, which will be considered by the Board of Supervisors in September, directs the Department of Public Works to complete the process for reviewing and permitting the installation of plaques outside Garcia's homes and place those addresses on the city's official list of commemorative sites.

- Marisa Lagos

More time to talk: Those free cell phones for the homeless and other people hurting for money just got a little freer.

Assurance Wireless, which began issuing no-cost cell phones to low-income Californians last year as part of the federally funded Lifeline effort, this month expanded its program to include unlimited voice minutes and texts. The change is crucial.

Until now, the program capped service at 250 talk minutes and 250 texts a month - but for anyone looking for a job or trying to connect with family or friends in desperation, as often happens in the street, those minutes and texts run out fast.

"This is a big change, and a very good one," said Bevan Dufty, who as San Francisco's head of homeless initiatives pushed hard for the free phone program last year. "It's going to make a big, positive difference in people's lives."

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July 28th, 2014 @ 10:33am

Home improvement measures can be great methods for enhancing the overall value of your home, or to take advantage of a home equity line of credit opportunity. As long as they're done with careful consideration and research, they're generally successful in establishing equity and garnering a greater resale price on a property.

A significant element of that research is in choosing the right contractors and service providers. There are a lot of scam artists out there, and not being duped has as much to do with knowing what to look for as it does knowing who to choose. Some signs of an impending scam are obvious, while others are very subtle. Either way, they should draw red flags.

The less subtle scammers will generally present themselves in an overly aggressive, often pushy manner. If your first and only manner of contact is via cold call or they're dropping by the house because they were "in the area," that's probably not the beginning of a beautiful professional relationship.

There are certain traits and proof legitimate businesses and contractors will present, often without request. Illegitimate service providers can't or won't provide things like in-state licensing, proof of insurance, accessible contact information, written contracts or customer references.

If you're skeptical of a prospective service provider, try looking up their contact information or calling the phone number they list. If those lead you to a rented mail drop box or a voice mail service, that's not a promising sign. Similarly, if a contractor can't produce a contract upon request, or isn't willing to draw one up and return with it, that should immediately call into question the validity of their enterprise.

Remember, most successful businesses have more formal ways of marketing themselves. This is especially true of contractors that provide services fostering interaction with their customers and word-of-mouth recommendations. Chances are, the good ones will present themselves without showing up at your door or calling you. Anyone who can't produce customer references is probably hiding something.

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Inside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights there are still construction workers working away while outside it looks like weeds are taking over.

But spokespeople for the CMHR say they're not worried because everything is on schedule for the inside and what's outside is supposed to look that way -- for now.

With just under two months left until opening day on Sept. 20, Corey Timpson, the museum's director of exhibits and new media, said workers are no longer constructing the building, but are busy installing the wiring and other infrastructure to be able to run video machines and screens that will enhance the experience of visitors.

Timpson said most of the exhibits have already been constructed elsewhere and just have to be set up inside the museum.

"There's a 60,000-square-foot facility in Toronto and until three months ago it was still full of our stuff and we have 47,000 square feet of exhibit space," he said.

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