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June 2 4 , 1992...The Portland Observer...Page 3 $ äßtack > Sentry Supermarkets Invest In Northeast Portland iteti/n, - &MwfotwM Children Services Division T Community Care and Bethel Church Volunteers JNETEENÍ Robert M alone Robert Malone and Chris Ehlers have purchased the Sentry Supermar ket on N o rth e a s t P o r tla n d ’s Killingsworth Avenue. Both Ehlers and M alone worked at the store under the store has earned the respectof the community for remaining in the neighborhood when other grocers had fled crim e problems. Ann Gardner, business assistance manager for the Portland Developm ent Commission, applauded E&M Sentry for investing in the community. “Grocery stores around the coun try in many inner cities aren’t really viable,” Gardner said. “E&M Sentry provides a service to the community and em ploys the people who live there. W e were pleased to be able to support this young business.” Ehlers credited United Grocers, O regon’s largest w holesale grocery cooperative, with helping the new busi ness get started. “United G rocers’ support was cru cial,” Ehlers said. “They believed in us and the com m unity.” M alone began his career as a box boy in the store when it was owned by Albertsons. Ehlers also entered the gro cery business as a box boy for Ferguson’s grocery stores. The new owners are active in neigh borhood associations and strive to em ploy minority youths at E&M Sentry and Chris Ehlers Superm arket. They recently instituted an em ployee bonus program designed to create a sense of pride and ownership in the store, Malone said. Em ployees earn points for such things as stopping shoplifters, and maintaining prom pt ness and safety. Bonuses will be distributed based on points earned. Ehlers and Malone said they were p leased that Sentry S uperm arkets’ Board o f Directors accepted them as the new ow ners and decided to con tinue Sentry Superm arkets’ investment in the community. “Sentry is a good place to be and it’s a really big name in the com m u nity.” M alone said. "One reason for Sentry’s popular ity in the com m unity is the group’s Saver Shield program," M alone said. Customers earn Saver Shield stamps with every $5 purchased and can trade them for weekly bargains far below retail prices. E&M Sentry extends the prom o tion by doubling Saver Shields for se nior citizens and offering double Saver Shields to all its customers every T ues day. “The reaction this community has to Saver S hields is o u tsta n d in g ,” M alone said. “W hen we purchased the market, staying with Sentry was im portant because the Saver Shields give us a way to thank our loyal custom ers.” PGE African American Network Marks Anniversai Brenda Davis, Willie Richardson, Lanita Duke, Spokes Person Lanita Duke Maceo Pettis. Branch Manaaer Community Care and Bethel Church Volunteers Celebrate Juneteenth Juneteenth refers to the date June 19th. It is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the United States as the actual day of emancipation of You will get an argument about I Juneteenth on the celebration date-the | Emancipation Proclamation was signed- -Jan 1-1863-butittook the mule and its rider 2 years to get the news to Okla- homa there was no fast way to get the news out to the nation that freedom o f the Black American Slaves had been 5 declared. They had also helped to build I American with their blood, sweat, and the slaves in 1863. I I 1 This day is celebrated by picnics, dancing, singing, barbecues and the infamous “red pop" • I tears. It is never mentioned that there I was a Black Navigator with Christo- (strawberry soda). Emanuel Hospital kZJ & Health Center Ip h er Columbus when he crossed the | ocean and landed in the W est Indies. Also that Benjamin Banneker in- 1 vented the Time Clock and laid out the ■ architectural design f6r our nations Capital-W ashington, DC. per order of [ President Thomas Jefferso n -it is also noted that people fro m -W est In d ie s- Puerto Rico, South A m erica-H aw aii, C anada Et The Indians-N egotiated themselves into slavery thinking that this would be a good way to survive-as well as other races-w hen my ancestors got the word that there were to be no more slaves June—19th—1865 there was picnics-B ar-B -cues-D ances-Fishing- -Baseball Games, Gunny Sack R a c e s- Horse R a c e s-th is went on for 3 d a y s - stores even had Juneteenth sa le s-it was always called J uneteenth because it was tne last teen Day o f June—the Menu was phenom enal-G recns-Com bread-N eck B ones-R ibs-C hickcn-B acon R inds- B a rb Q D e e r-T r ip e - C h itte r lin g s I A Lutheran- Affiluwd C enter o< Canng & Excellence I 71 Juneteenth Celebration! Continued From Front Page Newscaster Pete Schulberg: Afri- an Americans across the country are elebrating a significant historical mile- tone. O ne hundred twenty seven years go Abraham Lincoln signed the Eman- ipation Proclam ation, freeing the laves, and today Portland G eneral •lectric’s African American network narked the anniversary with a cultural unch and display. People were treated to ethnic foods ind information about contributions nade by minority Americans. The Af- ncan American network at PGE was form ed to foster better cultural under standing among em ployees there. Mark Johnson, African American Network: The work com m unity itself is m ore relaxed and everyone feels a part o f it and can contribute on an equilibrium and not feel as if they have to hide any aspect o f their culture. Newscaster: PG E also has Asian American and Hispanic American net works within the community. munity Friends, a community based organization, held its 2nd teenth celebration at the Texas 2 restaurant last Friday. Good 1s, good music and good food helped to made this year's celebration xess. Also a moment of silence was held in honor o f those who ht tor our freedom. and ended around 1 o ’clock the next morning with the breakup of the dance or “suppers.” In the afternoon there were various activities, the biggest be ing the baseball gam e, “ tie dow ns” [calf roping], individual games and eating. One o f the biggest parades was annu a lly h e ld in B re n h a m , Texas...Brenham ’ s parades were routed through the heart o f the dow ntow n area and witnessed by very large mixed crowds. Holsey Johnson, a sixty year old farmer, regularly attended these celebration in Brenham and recalled that it was so crow ded “you couldn’t walk on the streets.” The parade was composed of blacks from the surrounding com m unities who would prepare their own floats. Mrs. Eloise Holmes, a retired school teacher who grew up in Brenham, Texas, re called that “ ...each community would decorate floats and they would select children from that com m unity to ride on these floats.” Accompanying these ten or twelve floats were men on horse back and a brass band. The parade had a king and queen. The queen wore the title “The Goddess of Liberty,” and was selected by a money raising contest, in which several “nice looking girls” would solicit donations. Each one carried shoeboxes for this purpose and raised sums which ranged from $600.00 to $1,000.00. The King was selected by the queen. Source and Comment “'F ree at Last!: A Study of Afro- American Emancipation Day Celebra tions,” Ph.D Dissertation, Indiana Uni versity, 1974, 82-85, 88-91. From an authoritative study by W illiam H. W iggins, Jr. based largely on the “oral records and lifestyles of the many mem bers of the black masses,” supplemented with “ written records.” The quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are from interviews, tape recordings, and corre spondence which appear in an appen dix to the dissertation. Cf. “Em ancipa tion Day.” P1 I I I I I I I I wí&iW:"x-:;x::"í:::¥x*X':::’x%:::xV5x-:vX<<<%:>íXv:<v:'AÍ<<'X*X"X,í ' i “ « -, T I I I I I I I I I you to get these I I Pork Neck Bones I I $.69 lb. I 25 lb. Sack of Sugar I I $6.99 I I Punch Drink I I $.99 Gallon I Watermelon I I $.10 lb. I ~"E&MSehtry Celebrates Juneteenth!! While Items last, bring this ad with good prices: Greens 4 bunches $.99 I Blackeyed Peas-S w eet Potato Pie-W a- termelon-Cantaloupe-Com on the Cob- Peach Cobbler came out here to P ort land, Oregon June 30 1944-didn’t real ize that there was no celebration so a group of us got together-in Vanport est V anport-Bagley Down W ashington- Mcloughlin Heights and the Chicken Shack Restaurant and Mr. Collins Pool Hall and celebration began until this date-1992. It is time for all o f our young people to be proud to be called American b e cause America is part o f us and we are part of Americas citizenry. Each slave was promised a mule and 40 Acres o f land upon being set free. O f course this com m itm ent was never fulfilled. I hope in the next year celebration that we will be able to get rides and have a Big T im e-C ab le Television Covered our G ala Festivities but we were never able to get copy o f the tapes I believe it was either 83 or 8 4 .1 did not know at that time in the 40’s the Organization that I put together called Com m unity Care would still be participating in the Road o f the Freedom Trails various stores Mom & Pop Stores participated in the Juneteenth Celebration et C om munity Care was the benefactor, also More 4 Less participated they were one o f the largest stores o f course. The Portland Observer Newspaper and The Oregon Journal N ew spaperkept a write up track of Community Care and the Juneteenth Celebration. Western Family Coffee I $3.89 39 oz. I I Portland Rose Bacon I I $.99 lb. I I Ruthies Rib-it-Bar B I Cue Sauce 16% I $1.39 I E&M Sentry Market located at North Killingsworth 285*6352 Western Family Bleach | $.68 Gallon I
