Good morning!

Great news from the weekend: Mission Local won the award for General Excellence from the Online News Association. More to come on Upstart. It came with a $5,000 prize, which is especially nice and helpful – as are all of you. Thank you for your support and to all the new members that keep signing up.

Sunday night in the Mission: My husband goes out to pick up a fried chicken sandwich and runs into the aftermath of the stabbing below. Luckily we live nearby so I could be at Delirium quickly. The victim survived the incident.

BTW, the fried chicken sandwich from Cauliflower diner on 16th Street, Mark reports, was huge and juicy but missed on crispiness. He knows his chicken sandwiches.

Enjoy your lunch,

Lydia

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