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Sentry Supermarkets Invest
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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.
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This day is celebrated by picnics,
dancing, singing, barbecues and
the infamous “red pop"
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I tears. It is never mentioned that there
I was a Black Navigator with Christo-
(strawberry soda).
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& 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
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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.”
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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.
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