What’s in
that union-
made bread?
Miss Oregon Donilee
McGinnis (center) is
the daughter of
Bakers Local 114
member Ron
McGinnis (in baker’s
whites) at Oreoweat
Bakery in Beaverton.
Also pictured are
McGinnis’ mother
Donilu, brother
David, Local 114
Business Manager
Terry Lansing (left)
and Local 114
Business Representa-
tive Gene Beaudoin.
Offspring of members
of Bakers Local 114
have won four
pageant crowns
There must be something in the
union-made bread produced by mem-
bers of Portland-based Bakers Local
114. Over the past two decades, the
offspring of four Local 114 members
have been crowned Miss America,
Miss Oregon and Miss Teen Oregon.
The most famous is Katie Harmon, Miss
America 2002. She is the granddaughter of union
member Adolph DiMarco.
The latest is Miss Oregon Donilee McGinnis.
She will represent the state at the Miss America
Pageant to be held Jan. 29 in Las Vegas. She is
the daughter of Ron McGinnis, a 13-year mem-
ber of the union who works at Oroweat Bakery
in Beaverton.
In 1984, Renee Bagley, the daughter of mem-
ber Clyde Bagley, was crowned Miss Oregon;
Minimum wage
increases in Oregon
and Washington
and in 1996, Kristen Cook, the
stepdaughter of Local 114 Busi-
ness Representative Gene Beau-
doin, was selected Miss Teen
Oregon.
Donilee McGinnis, 24, of
Scappoose, is a communications
major at Portland State University.
She first competed for the Miss Oregon title
in 2004 after being recruited by Katie Harmon’s
mother, a customer at a Gresham dress shop
where McGinnis worked. McGinnis placed in
On Jan. 1, 2007, Oregon’s minimum
wage increased from $7.50 to $7.80 an
hour — the second highest in the nation.
In Washington, the state minimum
wage increased from $7.63 to $7.93 an
hour — the highest in the nation.
the Top 10 that year, finished fourth in 2005, and
captured the title in 2006.
Her talent is tap dancing, and her platform is-
sue for the Miss America contest, which will air
on CMT on Monday, Jan. 29, is “Autism: Advo-
cacy and Awareness.” She selected that topic
Both states peg annual increases in
the minimum wage to the Consumer
Price Index to keep pace with inflation.
The federal minimum wage is $5.15
an hour (affective in Idaho). That wage
rate hasn’t increased in 10 years.
b h
m k
because her brother, David, 18, is autistic.
Donilee volunteers for the Autism Society of
Oregon, as well as the Autism Research & Re-
sources of Oregon. Last year she led an in-house
autism awareness training project for the Port-
land Police Bureau.
Bennett Hartman
Morris & Kaplan, llp
Attorneys at Law
Oregon’s Full Service Union Law Firm
Representing Workers Since 1960
Spotlight on
Safeway Stores
Non-Union Grocery Departments
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555 would
like our friends in the labor community to know that the grocery
departments at the following Safeway locations are Non-Union
and do not deserve your patronage:
OREGON
14555 T EAL B LVD ., B EAVERTON
1055 SW 1 ST A VE ., C ANBY
1525 W M AIN S T ., M OLLALA
20685 SW R OY R OGERS , S HERWOOD
15570 SW P ACIFIC H WY ., T IGARD
22000 S ALAMO R D ., W EST L INN
320 SW C ENTURY D RIVE , B END
14840 SE W EBSTER R D ., M ILWAUKIE
590 NE C IRCLE B LVD ., C ORVALLIS
3469 C RATER L AKE H WY , M EDFORD
5660 C OMMERCIAL S T . SE, S ALEM
5270 SW P HILOMATH B LVD ., P HILOMATH
1140 N S PRINGBROOK R D ., N EWBERG
W ASHINGT ON :
2615 NE 112 TH A VE ., V ANCOUVER
6700 NE 162 ND A VE ., V ANCOUVER
12909 NE H WY 99, V ANCOUVER
1725 P ACIFIC A VE ., W OODLAND
The members of UFCW Local 555 appreciate your support.
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