rage o • cornano uoserver • January 19, 1989 AT OUR NEW SENTRY OUR PRICES FIT YOUR POCKETBOOK. No matter how small your pocketbook is, you'll find that Sentry's prices are just your size Our everyday prices are competitive, and w e also offer special Saver Shield values to our regular customers. The more you shop with us, the more you s^re. So get started! Strong Ambition Drives Ortiz Brothers’ Growth BAYTOW N, T E X A S -A fte r w ork ing 14 years for a major Houston insulation com pany, Tino Ortiz quit his vice president position to pursue a lifetim e dream of operating his own business. He obtained a $35,000 loan from the Sm all Business Administration, and with a staff of five employees, he launched Ortiz Brothers Insulation Inc. in Baytown, TX. The year was 1980, and despite a sliding, sluggish Texas economy, Ortiz Brothers m anaged to record sales of $396,000 its first year in business. By 1987, Ortiz Brothers had 100 people on its payroll and reached $3.2 million in sales, with major clients including Anheuser-Busch Inc., Stan dard Oil Chemical Company and Dixie Chemical Company. "I was convinced when w e started that the com pany would do well, and it has," said Tino Oritz, president of the firm. “ It's getting bigger all the tim e, and I don’t see things slowing down. Sentry “Quality, service and performance-- that’s what I believe in, and th e y’re the keys to our success,” Ortiz said. VW M M ARKETSV Local Poet Published COMING JANUARY 90th. T.J.’s * 9 SENTRY 909 N. Killingsworth (formerly Albertson’s) 7 am - 11 pm The Prejudice Spirit fry Linda D. After recovering from the blow, I felt saddness for this person because the chances of their realizing how detrim ental the prejudice spirit is may never be revealed due to the strength of that seed which was planted in his heart and mind probably since birth. Through this prejudice experience, I learned to protect myself from at tacks by such forces. Instead of absorbing such a force, I instantly use my understanding and release this situation. I send peace to people of this nature. Wattley I do not care who you are or what position you hold in society. If you are able to allow the prejudice spirit to live within your being, you are definitely headed down a deadly road. Anyone who is able to hate a person because of the color of their skin definitely is a person who lacks spirituality. One of the strongest forces that rule our world today is the spirit that is prejudice. Anyone who is able to carry such a spirit within their being is rob bing themselves of experiencing the best that life offers because this spirit is a destructive and limiting force that does not permit you to see and expe rience the totality of God’s love. God has made each living thing and person to teach us more about the Creator of the universe. All is connected and there is no separa tion. Though many have attempted division of the human race, it cannot be accomplished as long as God rules this world. Recently, I came in contact with the prejudice spirit. As this spirit en tered my zone, I felt something like a sharp dart go through my whole body and it carried with it a coldness that seemed like it could be death. Shocked by the experience, I was thrown off-balance, for a minute. I thought for sure I would be ill. I could not help but wonder why anyone would want to live with such a beast within them for surely they, too, must be ill and extremely unhappy. There is no way the true blessings of God could shower them, for God does not deal with limited thinking and false judgement. v 2121 S"W Broadway Portland. OH 972V1 Cleo’s Cafe 3041 N. W illiam s 284-7150 Ethnic Cuisine Southern Style H O U S E S P E C IA L T IE S C h itte rlin g s • M eatloaf M ix G reens • Beef Stew C a tfish • And M any O ther Southern D ishes To be prejudiced actually reveals how a person has no control over his or her life. If there was control, any normal person would prefer to carry those spirits or forces that edify God's world. But to the contrary, a prejudiced person makes it clear that God does not count in their life, having found God in error in His choice of creating the human race in different colors. How should we deal with prejudice situations? First, we must realize a person in a prejudice state has a serious identity problem, and a strong need to feel supreme. Instead of realizing he or she is a child of God, they prefer to create a world of their own where they are gods over the human race. If you want victory over prejudice, you must ever be aware of who you a re -a Divine Child of God. Remem ber, everyone did not love Jesus, and the possible difference in his skin color may be one of the reasons. But like Jesus, we can rest assured, greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. A m e ric a n Heart A ssociation InO reaon In cluding : C leo's Zesty R ibs In Sauce — H O M E -C O O K E D D E S E R T S — Come See 'LuberuT For Down Home Cookin’! MEMBERS a QUESTS LaFayette F. Keaton of North Portland has just had original poetry published in Love’s Greatest Treas ures, an anthology of today's love poetry. The poem is entitled Letters to my Love, and the main subject is love and affection. The Am erican Poetry Association seeks to discover and encourage poets like LaFayette F. Keaton by sponsor ing contests that are open to the public and by publishing poems in widely distributed hardback volumes. LaFayette F. Keaton has been writing for tw enty years and his favor ite subjects and ideas are expressing appreciation of spouse. Poets interested in publication may send up to 5 poems, on any subject or theme, no more than 20 lines in each poem, name and address on each page, to the Am erican Poetry Asso ciation, Dept. CN-6, P.O. Box 1803, Santa Cruz, C A 95061. All poems selected for publication are also entered in the American Poetry Association’s Poetry Contest, which awards over $11,000 in prizes to 152 winners. Free copies of “ The Poet’s Guide to Getting Published” are given to all poets who send poetry. Ortiz Brothers specializes in in dustrial insulation projects. One of the materials the com pany most fre quently uses is calcium silicate, an asbestos-tree, blanket insulation used to control extremely hot temperatures. Calcium silicate is used on heated piping, boilers, tanks, vessels, etc., operating up to 1200-degrees Fahrenheit. The material has been used exten sively on various projects Ortiz Broth ers has com pleted for the Anheuser- Busch brewery in Houston. The relationship between Ortiz Brothers and Anheuser-Busch de veloped in 1984 at the w orld’s largest brewery organization’s “ Partners in Economic Progress” program. “ Partners” is Anheuser-Busch's minority econom ic developm ent pro gram , and periodically the company conducts one-day seminars in cities throughout the country to inform minority business people about the purchasing procedures and needs of Anheuser-Busch’s varied operations. Floyd E. Lewis, director of Corpo rate Affairs at Anheuser-Busch and coordinator of Partners in Economic Progress, says businesses like Ortiz Brothers are an integral part of the program. “ Tino Ortiz has established a solid reputation, and it’s businesses like Ortiz Brothers that have enabled the ‘Partners’ program to work and grow,". Lewis said. 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