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Celebrate spring with a tour of San Francisco's garden blooms
Spring in San Francisco is more a change in attitude than solar inclinations. With the average temperature hovering around 60 degrees year-round, extremes of hot and cold are rare. As Goldilocks said to the three bears, "it's just right" hereabouts. And the sublime rise of San Francisco springtime is an ideal time to experience the city's perennial favorites in greenery scenery.
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Low-cost airline Spirit Air comes to San Francisco
Beginning May 25, low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines offers daily service from San Francisco to New York, Atlantic City, Orlando, Myrtle Beach, Fort Myers, and Cancun, Mexico.
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Hostelling International sponsors April edition of Bands That Rock
HI-USA Golden Gate Council is proud to sponsor Bands That Rock, a series of monthly shows at 330 Ritch in San Francisco, featuring the Bay Area's hottest emerging bands. Hostelling International members get in free!
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Call for entries: HI-USA International Exchange Program
Application deadline: April 28, 2006
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San Francisco Rising: Celebrating the Great Quake
The story is familiar to every school child in the San Francisco Bay Area. On April 18, 1906, at 5:12 a.m. the city of San Francisco and the surrounding countryside were shaken by a powerful earthquake. Buildings toppled, streets buckled, and a train was thrown from its tracks. Fires quickly broke out, and the ensuing conflagration grew into a firestorm that destroyed much of the city, killed thousands of people, displaced tens of thousands more, and dramatically altered the lives of Northern Californians.
















