September 23, 1999

Sandwiches for the Homeless in San Francisco

High school students at Branson School in Marin County, California have conducted a volunteer effort to feed homeless people in San Francisco's United Nations Plaza every Saturday, for the past seven years, but were recently forced to cease and desist, and later move  to an area out-of-sight of City Hall by seven police officers acting on orders to shut them down because of an expired permit.

Please help them in their effort in any way you can, by means of a monetary donation (the students are organizing a trust fund to help ensure their effort continues), donating food or time, or in other ways that may occur to you.

The school can be contacted at the following numbers:

Checks should be made out to “Branson School Community Service Department” and mailed to this address (please make a notation on the check that the donation is for the &“Homeless Sandwiches” project):

Branson School
Attn: Charlie Wilkins
P.O. Box 887
Ross, CA
94957

Scott Ostler's Columns on BolognaGate

Cops Protect S.F. From Sandwiches

(September 16, 1999)
Scott spends his whole column on describing what took place September 11th at U. N. Plaza, where seven police officers forced the ten Branson students to stop serving the homeless.

The P.B.&J. Posse

(September 17, 1999)
Scott prints several short quips from readers regarding the incident.

Is ‘Sandwich Gang’ Full of Bologna?

(September 22, 1999)
An update on what happened after all the media attention, along with some more serious feedback from readers to Scott.