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News In Brief
E & M Sentry, New Kids On The Block?
Rites of Spring”
The next Sisterhood Luncheon for
African-American women is scheduled
for April 10, 1992 al 11:30 a.m. at the
Clco-Lillian Social Club, 3401 N.E.
W illiams.
As you may already know, the
Sisterhood Lunchconsarc simply a time
for sisters to get together, share infor
mation, cat and enjoy being in the com
pany o f other sisters.
If you have any questions and/or
comments, please call Jo Ann Allen at
282-7973.
On Saturday, April 24 from 6:00 -
8:00 p.m. Key Largo - 31 N.W. 1st (in
Old Town)
Local designers and shop owners
will be presenting the first in a series o f
fashion shows. “Rites o f Spring” will
feature styles from: Suzanne’s Custom
Clothes, Just James, Sheba’s House of
Elegance, XTZ, Carolyn Locke D e
signs, and Ethnocentric.
Reciept Of Award
Betty L. Campbell.
Principal Boise/Eliot
School
“ Mommy, My
Ear Hurts!
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Legacy Hospitals Hold
Free Health Seminar
“ Mommy my ear hurts!” will be
offered W ednesday, April 8, 7-8:30
p.m. at Emanuel Hospital & Health
Center, Portland Lorcnzcn Conference
Center; on M onday, April 13,7-9 p.m.
at Meridian Park Hospital, Tualatin
Community Health Education Center;
on Tuesday, April 14,7-9 p.m. at Mount
Hood M edical Center,G resham , View
point Room. Space is limited, so pre
registration is required by calling 335-
3500.
Outstanding Teaching Award Betty
L. Campbell, Principal Boise /Eliot
School received an outstanding award
o f excellence. Teacher of the year.
Urban Talent to
Relocate
Harley Akers
Matrons Club
The M atrons Clubs Spring Fashion
Show will be held at Bethel AM E
Church Saturday, April 25, 1992 at
4:00 p.m.
Requested donation is $5.00. A p
petizers will be served. Fashions for
men and women from “Just James Shop
will be featured.
The Urban Talent Association has
announced that it has moved to a new
location,4926 N.E. 17 th (and) Alberta.
Urban Talent is a talent promotion and
managem ent organization representing
actors, models, m usicians and com edi
ans. It is at this time actively seeking
talentof all ages andelhnic background.
On Saturday, April 18th, they will be
holding modeling auditions in the audi
torium o f the Portland Com m unity
College Cascade Cam pus, located at
705 N. Killingsw orth, from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. People o f color are encouraged to
apply. For more information, call U r
ban Talent at 287-8065 or 286-3076.
PDC’s Low-Rate Fix-Up Loans For Rundown
Rental Properties Are Pushed As Part of
Neighborhood Pride Campaign
The Portland Developm ent C om
isión (PDC) is stepping up an effort
nake low-interest loans available to
air deteriorating multi-family rental
ipertics in the City as part of its
ighborhood Pride campaign.
The loans arc available through
iC’s Rental Housing Preservation
jgram (RHP) and are made at below -
lrket rates to ow ners o f substandard
ital housing in North, Northeast and
lUtheast Portland where in some places
c concentration of such properties has
graded neighborhood livability.
“W c want to get the word out to
ntal property owners that PDC oflers
ans at low enough interest rates to
akc the needed repairs pencil out for
icm financially,” said Randall Mullen,
DC’s director of housing. “ Similar to
ur homeowner programs, R H P’s goal
is to spark a turnaround in distressed
neighborhoods and to ensure an ad
equate stock o f safe, affordable rental
housing for a growing C ity.”
PDC is the C ity’s urban renewal,
housing and economic developm ent
agency. The rental rehab program has
been in operation for the past decade,
helping property ow ners renovate over
3,900 rental units. For multi-family
properties containing fiveor more units,
PDC offers 3% financing at fixed pay
ments for up to 25 years.
Interested rental property owners
arc urged to call the RHP staff at PDC
to learn more about the program. M em
bers o f the staff can be reached Monday
through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 823-
3269. Inform ation packets arc avail
able at PD C ’s Eastsidc Office, 1425
N.E. Irving St., Suite 200.
Whats Inside...
NEWS............................................................................
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NEWS AROUND TOWN.................................... —
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ENTERTAINMENT.....................................................
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SPORTS..........................................................................
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RELIGION...................................................................
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CLASSIFIEDS/BIDS...............................- .................. PAGE 11-12
BY MATTIE ANN CALLIER-
SPEARS
Almost thirty years ago, in 1963,
w hile atten d in g R o o sev elt High
School in North Portland, a young
man was having problems in school. ...
So, he was advised by his counselor,
Mr. Fall to begin working at the North
Portland A lbertson’s for four hours
each day to work off some of that
unharnessed energy. He continued to
work: can y ing groceries, being cour
teous to custom ers, working the reg
ister, stocking shelves, following di
rections and more.
It was from these meager begin
nings that Robert L. Malone came.
“Even though it began as a kind of
punishment; because I couldn’t par
ticipate in my sports anymore after
school, working in the store became a
career focus for me. Before — my life
was going no place that was good. I
was getting into trouble and every
thing. O ft times, kids don’t want to
hear w hat their teachers and counsel
ors have to say; but, if it w asn’t for my
counselor, I don ’ t know where I would
be today," Robert reminisced.
M eanwhile, ten years later, an
other young man, Chris E. Ehlers,
was coming up in the small com m u
nity o f Tualatin by working in the
local grocery store on a part-time
basis.
“ I grew up in a small town but I
also knew, in my heart, that if I stuck
to it (working in the store), I would
make something out of this," Chris
shared.
Little did these men know that
their lives would be tightly woven
together or that their paths would
cross.
Robert labored dutifully at the
St. John’s A lbertson’s until he was
transferred to the A lbertson’s Store
on North Killingsworth, in 1967. He
had gone from Grocery Clerk to V a
riety Manager. He served in that ca
pacity for one and a half years; then,
he became S tore D irector, in the same
store, for seven years.
Robert left A lbertson’s in 1982.
He w as em ployed by W A CK ER
SILTRONICS where he served for
four and one half years as Section
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Robert I. Malone
Supervisor until 1986. During his em
p lo y m e n t
w ith
W ACKER
SILTRONICS, Robert received exten
sive training in the management field
which included acomprchcnsi ve stretch
in Germany.
In the interim, Chris was receiving
management training through the United
G rocerschain. He served as Store M an
ager o f the Ferguson Thriflway; and
then, he was transferred to the Thriflway
on forty-second.
The A lbertson’s store, on North
Killingsworth, was purchased by Tom
Conklin who also purchased the old Big
“ C ” , on th irty -th ird , and the old
Thriftway, on forty-
second.
In 1987, Robert
returned to the gro
cery business. He
w ent back to 909
North Killingsworth
to find that the store
was sporting a new
name, a new owner
and brand new fea
tures.
A couple years
following R obert’s
a rriv a l-C h ris was
transferred to the
K illingsw orth SE N T R Y M A R K ET
from the 42nd and Going SENTRY
MARKET. Mr. C onklin’s instructions
to Chris were, “ I want you to go in there
and turn things around. Create ways to
make the business work.”
The courtship begins.
Chris meets Robert and Robert
meets Chris. The two of them have
com c-up through the ranks o f the food
chains to this juncture.
In March of 1992, Chris E. Ehlers
and Robert L. M alone, jointly, pur
chased the SENTRY M ARKET from
Tom Conklin.
“ It’s just like a marriage,” said
Chris.
“This is a
marriage that is
going to w ork,”
R o b e rt a d d s
while throwing
in a little humor,
“as long as he
(Chris) stays on
his side of the
bed.”
T h e new
owners tossed a
coin to see how
they would di
vid e th e p er-
centage. It came up 50/50.
“We don’t want this store to be ju st
any ordinary store but one that will be
a more viable unit in the com m unity”
Chris expounds. “W e w ant to make the
customers feel welcome. It is our hopes
to become known as one of the friend
liest stores around.”
Robert recalls the length o f time
that he has been in this same location.
“ I have been in this store for twelve
years. I have given balloons out to at
least three generations. W e even have
the same telephone num ber that we had
when I first came here in 1967. It is so
ironic that, when I did decide to make
such an important move, this was the
store that was chosen.”
They both agree that it will take a
lot o f work to put their program into
practice.
“ In just this short period”, says
Chris, “I have heard nothing but posi
tive feed-back from the customers. And
I hope to keep it going.”
An important aspect to their new
plan is to create a situation whereby all
employees can qualify for the BONUS
PROGRAM. This program , once imple
mented, will enable each employee to
purchase stock in the store, thereby,
becoming eligible to be a co-partner.
Community O ut-Reach is the Key.
Robert has been spending time in
Neighborhood M eetings and at com
munity Forum s so that he can hear the
voices of the people. Here he found that
he has a direct line into the needs of the
people.
They, Chris and Robert, want the
community to be proud o f them. They
want to work closely with the churches
and the schools and other community
groups.
I asked them “Why are you check
ing, also? Isn’t that a bit much? Is it
because you don’t have enough help?’
Robert hastily responded, “We are
donned with aprons because we don’t
want people to think that ju st because
we are now owners that we are now
going to sit down and take-it-easy. We
w ant to be good role models as well as
being good owners; and, we take turns
in everything.”
Chris agreed and added, “This is
Chris E. Ehlers
The Holiday Project is a national
non-profit organization made upof thou
sands o f volunteers who visit people
that spend Christm as/Chanukah, Eas
ter and other holidays confined to hos
pitals, nursing hom es and other institu
tions.
Right now, The Holiday Project
needs volunteers to visit the residents of
Portland area nursing homes on Easter
Sunday, April 19, 1992, at 1:00 p.m.
The visits will be scheduled for about
one hour at various locations. For more
information, please call the Holiday
Project at 234-1750, leave your name
and number, and Holiday Project vol
unteer will return your call.
Each year, more than two million
people spend their holidays confined to
institutions. For many of them, rela
tives and friends have moved far away
or arc no longer living. Life for some of
these people is often a lonely experi
ence. At the same lime, many other
people look for ways to make their
holidays more fulfilling and to recap
ture the true spirit of the season. The
Holiday Project provides a unique op
portunity that fulfills bolhof these needs.
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Public Service
Announcement
Portland Fair Share’s Annual Rum
mage Sale fundraiser will be held on
Saturday, April 25, from 9-4 p.m. at St.
Tim othy’sLutheran Church, S.E. 145th
& Powell. Baked goods, children’s
clothing and house and garden plants
are among the many items for sale at
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Black United Front
March On Racism
Volunteers Needed For
The Holiday Project
Easter Visit
bargain prices!
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photo by Veronica Green
Community residents banned together this pas, Saturday lor the Annual match on racism. There were more
than 200 people took part and many more turned out to watch the proceedings.