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Hospital worker, 23, killed in car crash at Potrero and 24th

Glenn Achampon, a 23-year-old technician at San Francisco General Hospital, was killed in the early morning of Saturday, Nov. 23 when a car crashed into a building at Potrero Avenue and 24th Street.At about 2:13 a.m., the San Francisco Police Department responded to a collision. A vehicle with possibly two occupants collided with a building, according to the department. The car struck the building at 1170 Potrero Ave., according to Robert Sharp, a neighbor who lives on the block. Achampon, the victim, was in the passenger seat. There was no information available about the driver. Achampon, a contractor with AYA Healthcare, a travel nursing agency, was on a one-week contract in San Francisco, his girlfriend Kayla said. He was scheduled to head back to New York state, where he lived, on Friday. But Kayla said that Achampon’s employer mixed up his flight […]

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People We Meet: Neecia the social worker

We met Neecia while canvassing District 5 as part of our ongoing coverage of November’s supervisorial race. Though she was born and raised in San Francisco, most of Neecia’s family has picked up and left the city for one reason or another. “I’m like the last of the Mohicans,” says Neecia one late morning in July.  But she loves this place and her place in it, and won’t be leaving anytime soon. Neecia doesn’t own a car, but she likes that from her home between Lower Haight and Alamo Square, she has easy access to bus lines — or can just get up and walk. The baptist church she attends is nearby, and she likes going around the corner to the Emporium arcade bar. And it’s not far from the city’s Human Services Department, where she is employed as a social […]

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