Oakland First Fridays hopes to resume in December

of Oakland's first Fridays, art and community events say they hope to bring it back next month. The popular street fair on Telegraph Avenue was canceled last week. Organizers say it was because of money problems. Now they say they're not giving up on December yet, and they're actively trying to raise money for a final celebration this year. Well, a successful year for wildlife advocates who are trying to save one of California's most endangered reptiles. The San Francisco Garter Snake Head Start program says they've released more than three dozen young snakes into the wild. The hatchlings were born to wild snakes last year, but they were hand-raised at the San Francisco Zoo before being released to repopulate areas where their numbers have declined. The garter snake is severely threatened by habitat loss and illegal wildlife trafficking. The advocates are hoping this program will help the population recover and eventually become self-sustaining. It's what happens in the wild after the release. Do they survive? Do they find food? Do they find partners to breed with? And then do their offspring survive? So true success is you being able to walk away and no longer sort of contribute to that population and they're able to self-sustain without you needing to be there anymore. Now the program's already raising a new class of hatchlings to eventually be released next year.