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Our friends with North Beach Neighbors have launched an exciting initiative to support local restaurants called North Beach Delivers. Each week, one North Beach restaurant is highlighted and equipped with a team of volunteers to provide free Thursday dinner delivery to local residents. So far, the project has generated almost $10,000 for North Beach restaurants, while avoiding fees charged by delivery companies (Caviar, GrubHub, Uber Eats, etc.). This service has now expanded to the Barbary Coast neighborhood! This week, North Beach Delivers is partnering with Bask Restaurant for a great menu of tapas and sangria. Just place your order by Wednesday night to have dinner delivered for free on Thursday. Visit North Beach Delivers to learn more, place your order, and support our local restaurants!

The Job Forum is providing free virtual job skills workshops and job search coaching sessions to help out-of-work San Francisco residents. Please spread the word!

• The April 30 workshop features two recruiters who will cover how to interview confidently and succeed in today’s digital interview processes. Their company is still interviewing, hiring and onboarding.
• On May 6, the Free Virtual Networking Session will offer individual coaching for job hunters in a virtual setting, as has been offered in regular evening group meetings since 1952. These sessions include networking and coaching advice from businesses such as Google, Salesforce, facebook, Visa, UCSF, Autodesk, Nektar Therapeutics, Zillow, Splunk, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America, and help job hunters succeed in finding their next career positions.
• On May 7, the Job Forum will host a digital workshop on How to Get to a Resume That Best Sells You — Now — or What’s Ahead.

Visit the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce website and The Job Forum website to keep up with the many events offered for Bay Area job hunters, solo business consultants, and entrepreneurs and small businesses, as well as job resources, including regularly updated lists of companies that are still hiring.

Please contact Janet Beach if you have information about companies that are hiring or might be willing to donate to the Job Forum, or if you or someone you know would be interested in volunteering.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided an update to the Port of San Francisco on the Grand Princess quarantine. The Grand Princess has completed 14 days of quarantine at this time and the CDC has NOT observed any COVID-19 or influenza like illnesses on board and has issued an “all clear.” The vessel does not pose a risk to the health of the public or the surrounding community. Princess Cruise Lines will complete an additional, voluntary, bow-to-stern, top-to-bottom disinfection of the entire vessel.

At the completion of the post-quarantine disinfection the Grand Princess will leave its current location south of the Bay Bridge and return to the Port of San Francisco’s Pier 35 on Tuesday, April 7 to provision and disembark medical personnel and contractors. Non-essential crew aboard may also be disembarked for repatriation if Princess Cruise Lines is able to secure appropriate transfers. Provisioning of the vessel is expected to be completed within 8-10 hours. If non-essential crew are to be repatriated the vessel may stay in port for 2-3 days to accommodate airport transfers as needed. She will then leave the Port of San Francisco and may return periodically (every seven to 10 days) for the next 60 days for provisioning.

All crew and personnel remaining aboard the Grand Princess will be required to comply with existing local and state Shelter-In-Place orders and be restricted to the vessel while in port. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will detain all crew onboard the vessel while it is at berth. For urgent situations and departing crew, CBP will issue paroles.

Metro Stevedore, the Port’s cruise terminal operator, will be responsible for the shoreside management of the terminal and vessel e.g. security, provisioning, and harbor services. Metro was the stevedore for the successful disembark operation at the Port of Oakland.

The health and safety of our community and the public is the top priority of the Port of San Francisco. We are working closely with Princess Cruise Lines, local, state and federal officials to ensure our community remains healthy and safe.