Team 1 was led by LION and GREENCARD. They will be patrolling the Asian Heritage Festival.
Team 2 will be at the "Play Day at Duboce Park" festival, where we were invited. This is a fundraiser for children's programs. We were able to have a booth, which we set up to educate people about who we are and what we do, and to also get new recruits for those that were interested. We also put out candy for the children. REN of San Jose and SCORPION had a team of nine Guardian Angels for this event.
First we arrive at the SFGA's HQ on time for a prebrief and team assignments. We also discuss upcoming events.
Next we post up outside HQ before departing to our events, this is a normal exercise that we perform as it gets everybody focused and team members are assigned. We use radios for communication and have two first-aid techs for each team.
We march out to our assignments in formation.
Team 2 arrives to set up the booth at the "Play Day at Duboce Park" event. We hand out fliers, talk to everybody who is interested and give out candy to the kids.
Team 1 arrives to assist in anyway they can, then moves on to the Asian Heritage Festival. They make a very strong presence, focused, in formation and ready to patrol.
Team 2 will now do our community service, talking to everybody we can to discuss what we do and why we do it. We also send out a team of four to patrol the perimeter. We do this every hour to ensure that the kids and families are safe.
We also had the privilege to take a picture with some of the entertainers.
It's now time to pack it up and assist Team 1 at the Asian Heritage Festival. We take our booth material back to HQ. While we were unloading our stuff in front of HQ, a person comes up to us and hands us a flier of a missing person. This was a 15 year old girl. Our younger Angels immediately recognized her and went on Facebook to verify it was her, and it was. They will follow up with friends and the community to help find her. Hopefully soon we can provide an update to this.
We now head out to the Asian Heritage Festival to help out Team 1.
We arrive and post up waiting to connect with Team 1.
This is a festival where there is a lot going on, so we stay focused. We meet up with Team 1 and patrol the festival for a few hours. A local Radio Station 106KMEL had a booth near where we were posted and asked if they could take a photo of us.
This was a good patrol as nothing really happened. There were a few drunks, a few people yelling at us, and your usual people who really do not understand what we do, so they disrespect us. Other than that, we all arrived back to HQ safe.
*On another note, we received a call from Gemini, the LA Chapter Leader, that one of the members, Richard Garcia, had passed away. Gemini also invited us to attend the funeral. Since it was a short notice, we were not able to attend but were able to pay our respects to him, by wearing black ribbons on our colors over our hearts for our brother, who died of natural causes. Also, before we even headed out into the streets to these events, we said a prayer honoring our brother and also his family. We dedicated this day to him. Rest in peace brother.
San Jose Guardian Angels would like to thank the SFGA's for everything they have done for us and also the Contra Costa GA's and the Richmond chapter leader SHADOW for all their support. Just another BRICK IN THE WALL Brothers and Sisters.
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