11 a.m. Wednesday, March 31, in S.F.
UFW founder’s March 31 birthday marked as Caltrans chief Jose Medina, Dolores Huerta and farm worker supporters unveil Cesar Chavez Street signs on 101
Cesar Chavez St. signs will be unveiled for the first time on Route 101 Wednesday as Caltrans Director Jose Medina joins United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta and 200 union supporters observing the legendary farm labor leader’s March 31 birthday. Chavez would have been 72 on Wednesday.
The road sign unveiling by Caltrans comes four years after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to rename Army Street in honor of the UFW founder. Voters upheld that decision in November 1995 by rejecting Proposition O, a citywide measure that would have reversed the supervisors’ action.
Huerta and Medina speak before 200 farm worker activists at a UFW-sponsored Cesar Chavez Breakfast Celebration set for 8 to 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Holiday Inn. From there, they will drive to Route 101 for the sign unveiling at 11 a.m.
Who: Caltrans Director Jose Medina, the UFW’s Dolores Huerta and 200 farm worker supporters.
What: Honoring the legendary UFW founder on his birthday by unveiling the first Cesar Chavez Street signs along Route 101.
When: 8 a.m. breakfast and 11 a.m. sign unveiling on Wednesday, March 31, 1999.
Where: Breakfast at Holiday Inn, 50 Eighth St. (at Market); sign unveiling at the old northbound Silver Ave. on-ramp (now permanently closed to traffic) from Bayshore Blvd. (parking available along Bayshore Blvd., just south of Silver Ave. overcrossing of 101).
A sign for southbound traffic will also be placed on Wednesday morning just north of the Cesar Chavez St. exit from Route 101.
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