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April 8, 1992...The Portland Observer...Page 5
E & M Sentry, New Kids On The Block?
L.I.F.E. Center Benefits
from April Food Drive
Continued from front page
The Low Income Fam ilies Emer
gency Center benefits from tri-county
libraries’ A p ril Oregon Food Bank drive
for local member agencies.
A collection barrel is located at
Tidal Wave Used Books. 216 N.E. Knott
Street, A p ril 1 to 30, fo r the collection
offoodstuffstobenefitclientsofL.I.F.E.
Center, a United Way social-service
agency at 2746 N.E. M artin Luther
K ing Blvd. The barrel is placed as part
o f the metro area libraries’ celebration
o f National Library M onth.
“ We hope to empty the barrel sev
eral times this month. Each barrelful
w ill feed many low-income or unem
ployed individuals in the Portland metro
area,” said board member Richard
Rickel.
C anned
goods
and
o th e r
nonperishable food can be dropped o ff
between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday
through Saturday in the collection bar
rel inside the store.
Tidal Wave Used Books is an out
let for discarded M ultnom ah County
L ibrary books, records and magazines.
For more in fo rm a tio n , contact
Charles Carter at the Low Income Fami
lies Emergency Center at 284-6878.
the way we started-anyw ay!”
As I entered the store earlier, I
witnessed Robert engaged in a personal
conversation w ith o ne of the customers.
I wondered i f the friendly attitude was
merely an outward showing or was it
from within?
They, both, began speaking sim u l
taneously.
“ The object is to make the people
fee, welcome so that they w ill want to
come back” , said Chris.
“ W e ll!", said Robert, “ That kind
o f relationship between customer and
employee makes for good PR. And it
works as a real good deterrent to poten
tial crim inals, entering the store. I f you
have a lot-o people speaking to you as
you go through the store, you are not apt
to take anything because by the time
every employee in the store, that you
pass, speaks to y o u -y o u w ill do one o f
two things: leave the store quickly and
quietly because everyone knows what
you look like or begin to feel good
because someone has been nice to you.
And sometimes that’ s all it takes."
Chris and Robert agreed that the
“ Be Nice To Your Customers” policy is
fast becoming a lost practice. Because
the larger you get the more impersonal
you get. As clerks, in the early stages o f
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their careers, they were taught “ Be nice
to your customers” . So--why should
they stop now?
The P O R T L A N D O B SER V ER
takes this opportunity to welcome E &
M SENTRY M A R K E T to the comm u
nity. May your business venture be a
successful one.
* * * * * T h is coupon is good O N L Y at E & M S E N T R Y .*****
E&M
909 N. K ILLIN G S W O R T H
This Coupon good for one “ FREE” loaf o f Western Bread.
Choice: Wheat or W hite
L im it: one (1) coupon per person/per purchase
Coupon Good: A p ril 9 - 1 8 , 1992
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“ Buy Freedom” Network Launched
Callers to 900 number aid needy in their communities
BY JAMES L. PATTERSON, JR.,
Indianapolis Star Staff Writer
A campaign designed partly to give
seed capital to veterans, m inorities,
welfare recipients and low-incom e en
trepreneurs has begun.
The Buy Freedom 900 N etwork is
the brainchild o f syndicated television
host Tony Brown.
Its premise is simple: Telephone
callers choose items for sale from cat
egories o f participating businesses na
tionw ide, and at the same time support
their com m unity through job creation,
scholarships or other activities.
The project is essentially a tele
phone marketing and investment ser
vice that allows buyers and sellers to
network, explained Brown.
He contends that justice fo r m i
norities and poor people is incomplete
without an opportunity fo r business and
property ownership.
“ New laws are not enough. The
emergency we now face is economic,
and it is a desperate and worsening
situation,” said Brown.
The Buy Freedom N etwork 900
phone system works a bit like discount
catalog shopping.
I t ’ s a telephone-based self-help
program designed to recycle profits
from calls into the hands o f the needy,
especially the poor and the young,
while providing inform ation to con
sumers who call 1-900-976-6670.
Callers to that number w ill have
access to a “ talking yellow pages” lis t
ing more than 500 businesses.churches
and groups nationwide. Firms from
Indianapolis and Gary are expected
among the early advertisers.
A portion o f profits from the cost
o f the calls (S I.99 for the first minute,
99 cents for each additional minute)
w ill provide loans to start and expand
businesses in areas where the calls
originate.
According to Brown, out o f every
S3 generated, SI w ill go to A T & T , S 1
to the businesses listed in the talking
yellow pages and SI w ill be gross
revenue.
Out o f that $ 1 gross, 50 cents w ill
provide loan capital.
The plan has a goal o f starting
50,000 businesses in five years through
the loan program.
“ Ifw e g o t lOpercentofpoorblacks
o ff o f poverty, it would do more for
blacks than 100 high-paying jobs for
the black middle class,” Brown said.
Annual Sickle Cell Benefit A
Huge Success!
Rickey Grundy was the featured
guest o f honor at the Portland S ickle Cell
Anem ia’s 8th Annual Gospel Musical.
The benefit was held at the New Hope
Baptist Church where the Inspirational
Sounds, Sermonettes, N W Interfaith
C hoir and the Voices o f New Hope
joined Rickey Grundy in voices o f praise.
R ickey received a hardy welcome to
Portland from Commissioner D ick Bogle
and Margaret Carter demonstrated her
support by her presence and contribu
tion. “ The musical was a huge success” ,
states M arcia T aylor, Executive Direc
tor for the Foundation. The Boeing Good
Neighbor Fund approved a $5,000 grant
and the employees o f Boeing boosted
that amount to $6,020 through payroll
deductions, which was presented to Mrs.
T aylor at the musical. T aylor states,
“ one o f the things that made the musical
a great success was the fact that several
individuals came forth to volunteer their
services, including an RN, a flig h t atten
dant, a homemaker, and a D.J.” The
Foundation is currently gearing up fo r a
cable telethon in September, which is
“ National Sickle Cell Awareness M onth”
w ith Rickey Grundy. Taylor is encour
aging everyone to be tested i f they haven’t
already done so, because “ Sickle Cell
Disease is a painful, disabling, inherited
blood disease, and one doesn’ t always
know all there is to know about one’ s
heritage.” Persons desiring to volunteer,
be tested and/or obtain additional in fo r
mation, should call (503) 249-1366.
Job Corps
Warren Rhodes is a clinical psy
chologist leaching at Delaware Slate
College. When he was 17 he was in
prison after fa ilin g in school, robbing
stores, dealing drugs and nearly dying
from a drug overdoes. What caused
Warren’sdramatic turnaround? Accord
ing to Rhodes, it was his desire to
change and the a vailability o f a slot at
Breckenridge Job Corps Center in Ken
tucky. Dr. Rhodes espec ially credits his
Job Corps basic education teacher: “ She
had faith in me and that gave me the
faith in m yself.”
Not all Job Corps participants be
come Ph.D. graduates, o f course, but
most come from sim ila rly troubled
backgrounds. The average Job Corps
enrollee isan 18-yearold m inority (30.5
percent are W hite) high school drop
out from a poor fa m ily whose annual
income is less than $5,500. He or she
has never held a fu ll-tim e job. Some
enrollees don’ t last very long in Job
C orps-about a third leave the program
w ithin the first three months. They may
be unable to adjust to strict discipline
and demands o f the program or they
lack m otivation. However, 84 percent
o f participants do succeed and are placed
in a fu ll-tim e jo b , in further education
or advanced training.
For most o f those who do stick it
out (the average stay is 7.3 months, with
some remaining two years), the re
wards fo r themselves and society are
calculable. They are more lik e ly than
peers who do not get Job Corps training
to hold a job; they make more money
and are less lik e ly to have to resort to
welfare or to be arrested. A comprehen
sive study done in the early 1980s
showed that fo r every $ 1 invested in Job
Corps. $ 1.46 is returned through reduc
tions in welfare, costs o f crime and
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graduates.
Job Corps has radically changed
since its beginnings in 1964. A major
overhaul has been underway in the last
few years. Improvements include mak
ing the program available to more young
women, focusing on computer literacy,
adding more counselors, providing ad
vanced-level training to expand earning
potential, linking Job Corps w ith other
programs (such as Head Start), and pro
viding an allowance to enable graduates
to readjust to life outside the Job Corps
centers. Program administrators as well
as advocates continue to explore ways
to increase the program ’s effectiveness.
Job Corps has 107 centers serving
62,000 youth aged 16 to 21, approxi
mately one in seven o f the most needy
eligible youth. M ost Job Corps partici
pants go to residential centers away
from their neighborhoods to participate
in a round-the-clock comprehensive pro
gram including basic education aimed
at gaining high school equivalency de
grees and jo b training in such fields as
carpentry, plumbing, landscaping, so
lar installation, culinary arts, building
maintenance, health occupations and
automotive trades. They also get inten
sive medical attention (from corrective
glasses to dental care), good meals and
personal counseling. They play team
sports, participated in student govern
ment, and build self-esteem.
Bread fo r the W orld w ill suppon
funding increases o f approximately $340
m illion for fiscal year 1993 as a part o f
an effort called the “ 50-50 Plan.” The
plan seeks to serve 50 percent more
poor youth by opening 50 new Job
Corps centers over the next decade. We
w ill also promote program im prove
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