At 15th and Julian streets on Thursday morning, a large group of people gathered on the sidewalk under the shade of a large apartment building. A woman wearing a construction vest uttered with a bullhorn, the first and last names of residents from Friendship House. Members of the crowd said, “Here,” one by one as their names were read out loud.
A man who did not want to be identified stood in the patio area of his Julian Avenue home had no idea what was going on. The man, wearing a baseball cap and surgical mask, was waiting for a social worker.
“It’s just a fire drill,” explained Mark Garcia, who has been a chef at the indigenous-lead addiction treatment center Friendship House for the last 14 years…