Me on KTVU

Every first Tuesday in August, Matthew and I host our Neighborhood Watch National Night Out potluck event for our neighborhood. We've been doing this for 14 years now. About 50+ people gather to connect with each other and chat about house or neighborhood issues. I always request a fire truck to come so that the kids can climb on it and get fireman hats. If a truck isn't available, the city usually sends a community service person or a police officer.

Just the kids bring our numbers to 30+

This year we had over 150 of these events throughout just our city alone. This year a fire truck couldn't come due to the shortage of trucks battling the fire in the North Bay so I didn't expect anyone from the city to come this year.

Reporter Azenith Smith from KTVU interviewing me. 

But I was wrong. 

KTVU showed up and wanted to interview the main organizer of our event. I didn't want to be interviewed for so many reasons: had no make-up on, busy overseeing the potluck, did not want any attention to myself, introvert etc. 

The Chief brought a few of her officers: Officer Angela Maniego (far left), who looks so darn young! I had a nice chat with her and how she decided to not go into nursing like all her Filipino family members but into law enforcement. 

Apparently I was told that the new police chief was going to come to OUR event. It being her first public event since being hired as the Police Chief at the end of July. They wanted to know my thoughts about her.. specifically her being the first-female-openly-gay police chief in our city.

Matthew and I with Police Chief Kim Petersen along with Dianne Jones, one of our neighbors who is running for School Board.

Mind you I didn't know we even had a new police chief .. much less a female-openly-gay one so I was quite honest that I did not know a new police chief was hired. But the reporter kept pushing for my opinion on the matter. I answered that it didn't matter of a person's gender, sexual orientation, or race, if he/she is qualified they should get the job.  In fact, I praised the fact that we have a female mayor and superintendent so it's fantastic that we have strong women in these high city positions. She continued to ask what my concerns were about our neighborhood and the city. It was quite an in-depth interview.

Matthew had a great opportunity to chat with Officer Jessie Hartman who is also a Christian!

But of course, about 5 words got onto TV. You can check it in the link below:

KTVU clip & article