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.V / • • •*<**•• wv. y. *«• »* Volume .VW 1 1, Num ber S Committed to cultural diversity February 19, 1997 B (Flie |3nrtlattb ODbseruer /<T n m n tu n itü vLta I e n h a r Innovative Canadian Brass to give Portland concert The Canadian Brass, the talented and entertaining brass ensemble, will appear in concert on Thursday, March 6, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. The concert is presented by the Oregon Symphony. Graduation guide dogs for the blind Informal graduation exercise swill take place at the campus of Guide Dogs tor the Blind, Inc.. Boring. Ore., On Saturday. March I, at 1:30 p.m. The 4-H young sters and other volunteer puppy raisers who helped to raise the Guide Dogs will be at the ceremony to present the dogs they have raised to the new graduates. A demonstration of guide work will follow the ceremony and there will be tours of the campus. Guide dogs for the Blind is located at 32901 S.E. Kelso Road in Boring. For more information, call 503/ 668-2100 Oregon Youth Conservation Corps turns ten; seeks aiumni 1997 marks O Y CC’s tenth anniver sary. A campaign "A Ten Year Legacy; Sharing the voices” will culminate A u gust 7 & 8 when OYCC alumni are invited to participate in a celebration at the State Capitol. Anyone who has participated in an OYCC project is asked to contact the Salem office (530 Center Street NE, Suite 300, Salem, Oregon 97310 or 503-373- 1283) Peninsula Park Community Center reconstructive surgery February 20, 1997; 7:00 - 9:00 pm; Peninsula Center. Join us to talk about renovation plans for the center & the park. Learn about and give PP&R stal your thoughts on 3 options for center and pool improvements. W e’ll divide into smaller groups to talk about the park improvements and to brainstorm options for maintaining the Center’s programs and role in the community while it is closed for renovation. Women In Trades Fair ‘9 7 Women! Learn about high paying, exciting jobs in the trades.Free Admis sion Free Parking Free Childcare (over 2 yrs old) All Ages Welcome! Workshops Exhibits W om en's Workclothes Fash ion show! Saturday, May 3, 1997; Port land Community College Cascade C am pus 705 N. Killingsworth. For more in formation call (503) 281-0495 ext. 271. limpie Subs And Salads opens at Walnut Park limpie Subs and Salads has opened in the Walnut Park Re tail Center located at the cor ner of N.E. Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd. and Killingsworth Street. The store will occupy 1,360 sq. ft. at the retail center and its opening brings the cen ter to 100 percent occupancy. fhe store makes fresh sliced sandwiches, cookies and fresh baked bread Submarine and deli-type sandwiches have become best sellers as consumers seek out health fast- food alternatives to hamburgers and fries. I he Walnut Park Retail Center opened in 1995 with eight retailers. I he Portland De velopment Commission (PDC) worked with a community leasing panel to select retailers for the Center. Restaurants franchises are desirable tenants as they meet a community need and invite community-based ownership. PDC researched potential franchises and Blimpie's indicated their interest in the space. After agreeing to lease conditions at Wal nut Park, the chain advertised for a store owner in the community and found North east Portland residents Alvernon and Bonnie Bagley I lie Bagley’shavecom pletedatrain- ing program with the Blimpie chain This is their first business venture together. As with other tenants in the Retail Center, PDC provided a business loan to the fran chise to assist with tenant improvements, Alvernon & Bonnie Bagley, Owners of Blimpies at Walnut Park. inventory and working capitol U.S. Bank also assisted with some financing through five foreign countries The chain is based in stores with four under construction. There the Small Business Administration. New York and is ranked as the number two are eight stores located in the Portland met Blimpie International is 33 years old, national submarine sandwich chain in the ropolitan area ( including Clark County ) w ith operates 1600 restaurants in all 50 states and country. In Oregon the chain operates 12 two more under construction. B Arts and Humanities Week The banners are Hying in downtown Portland, but the action will be on the Lewis & Clark College Campus as the College invites the public tocelcbrate the arts and humanities during the College's “signature Year" with the unwrapping of two major academic buildings, the open ing of a new art gallery and other events, Feb. 21 to March I . SUBMISSIONS: Community Calendar information will he given priority if dated two weeks before the event date. The Walnut Park Blimpie store will be open 10am-12am Sunday through Thursday and from It) a.m .-3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. King Food Market faces liquor license fight L< ee P erlman that alcoholic beverages are clearly its big like Safeway and I red Meyer ” O f the he King Food Market will face a gest stock in trade. Seven floor-to-ceiling alledged drug sales she says, "You think I rough time renewing its liquor coolers in the small store are devoted to beer could survive here 10 years, and people license this year, with restric and wine, and two are given over to malt w ouldn't know that was going on?" As to the tions on its sales privileges probable liquor and fortified wine, cheap high-alco selling o f fortified wine and malt liquor she and a loss of license possible. hol content beverages favored by street gangs. says, “ It’s not against the law, and I'm not On February 10 Multnomah County Dis The processing of the store’s 1997 license the only one doing it If everyone else would trict Court judge L.ewis Lawrence found is awaiting a recommendation from the Port stop selling them, I'd do it too.” Arouny Chandra, a clerk at the market, land Police Bureau. Rho and her hus guilty o f selling a bottle o f St. Ides malt This, and the Bureau Í Í band John bought the liquor to Jonathan Gotchall, a 20 year old o f L icenses recom King Market proprietor Elaine market in 1987. In painter, without first checking his identifi mendations, will then 1990, following re cation. She was fined $350. Rich Miller, an be fo rw a rd e d to Rho sees it as the latest fusal to sell liquor to inspector for the Oregon Liquor Control OLCC. There, Miller case o f harassment against an intoxicated black Commission, says the store at 3510 N.E. says, the store could m an, a p h y sic a l her store by regulators Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, will prob face m andatory re struggle with employ ably face a penalty o f either a 30-day suspen strictions on its license determined to "get" her. ees ensued following sion o f its package store license or a fine of for the first t i m e . ________________ which the man died. $1950. Gotchall was work I he incident set off It is the store's second conviction on this ing as a "decoy” for OLCC in a "sting' protests against the store, although the cause charge in the last two years, according to operation, a test o f how a license holder o f death turned out to be a heart attack Miller On two other occasions charges were responds to a request (bran illegal sale. King caused at least in part by cocaine made but could not be proven when the Market proprietor Elaine Rho sees it as the Since then Rho has sat on the board o f the under-age patrons, a sailor and a transient, latest case o f harassment against her store by King Neighborhood Association, and counts did not show up for trial Instead, the store regulators determined to "get" her King president I red Stewart among her received letters o f warning. “My employees, all three, say it didn't supporters. She sponsors a baseball league, According to Mike Sanderson o f the Port happen, and if it did, it was an honest and makes regular charitable contributions land Bureau o f Licenses, there have also mistake,” Rho says (At her trial Chanda to the House o f llm oja and St. Andrews been some concerns expressed about young said she didn't recognize Gotchall, but did Catholic Church Stewart supports Rho’s men. some apparently gang-affiliated, con sell liquor to a white man who “ looked like allegations that she is being unfairly tar gregating in the store's parking lot at night. he was 16 ")"W echeck i.d.s for anyone who geted, and says other outlets, including There have at times been allegations o f drug looks like they're under 29 They’re targetting Safeway, have created more neighborhood dealing on premises. Finally, there is the fact the little stores like me, never the big stores problems. by T 77 Free concert on history of spirituals Here Comes The Show Boat February 22, 1997. 2:00 P.M Mali nee - 8:00pm. Location is J.B. Thomas Junior High School, 645 N.E. Lincoln, Hillsboro, OR. For additional informa tion contact: Ron Outcalt, Home: 357- 9254 Photo by Harold Hutchinson S inger Dorothy Butler will form a program called “The tory of the Spiritual" in Chapel on the University per States in churches, colleges and universi His ties, including U niversity o f Southern the C alifornia, Loyola M arym ount, Seattle of Portland U niversity and Reed College campus. The free program, open to the general public, is set for 4 p in. Thursday, Feb. 20. It will include a narrative, traditional spirituals and music o f black composers. butler has perform ed professionally as a soprano soloist throughout the United She has perform ed sacred classical con certs for the Old Church Society ol Port land as well as appeared on cable televi sion. A native o f A rkadelphia. A rkansas, she was inspired by her father Jay Lee Tate, who encouraged her to sing in church and school. Miller says the sling operation was di rected against the King Market not because it is small but because it had a history o f liquor sales to minors violations, which Safeway and Fred Meyer do not. Even so, he says, this store and other targets received advance warning of the operation, and an invitation to train its clerks in proper sales procedures. Stewart is unimpressed. “ I asked how many sting operations they'd directed against Elaine before they caught her, and they wouldn't tell me," he says. “ I f a cop followed you around every time you drove some where. I guarantee that sooner or later he'd catch you com m itting a violation." He charges that one police officer told Rho, “ However long it takes, w e’re going to get you." Miller says Gotchall was the only decoy sent to the King Martket. Sanderson says the King Market has re ceived less regulatory attention from city bureaus than other small package stores such as the Seven Star Market, C athay Mar ket, Dekum Market and C raigo’s. In part this may have been because o f her husband John's prominence in the Korean Grocers Association, which has aggressively de fended the rights of its members before regulatory bodies John Rho gave over man agement o f the King Market to Elaine two years ago. Former Capitol Dairy Queen employees sought f you remember working for Christine Hammond says that findingthem the Capitol Diary Queen in SW is proving a challenge. Portland way back in 19 8 4 - “ We are looking for anyone who worked and also remember that you didn’t for get Douglas B Crites or the Portland Capitol paid-the Bureau of Labor and Indus Dairy Queen on 66th and Capitol Highway tries' Wage and Hour Division may be in 1984 and wasn't paid," said Hammond holding a check for you. “ We have a list o f names and the wage The bureau just received a $8,400 par claims so that we can verify the employ ees by tial payment on a judgment against the name and social security number The pay- defunct fast-food employer, and is now checks range from $2.34 to $526 " trying to locate 58 former employees. Inquiries should be directed to Susan Dix Wage and Hour Division Administrator at 5O3-73I-4O74 ext 246 in Portland I Child Care Enhancement Project enters second year he Child Care Enhancement Project, a program of the Al bina Ministerial Alliance, en ters its second year of operation success under its belt. Since 1996, 16 child care providers in the “ Enterprise Zone" of Northeast Portland have T met all criteria to receive funding for p r o g r a m enhancements and assistance. Funded by the Multnomah/Portland Enter with Community Commission. TPIC/Urban prise League "One-Stop", and various local foun dations. this multi-year project will enhance the supply and quality of child care in North and Northeast Portland, Ihe project recruits child care providers and trains them in early childhood education and business management C( I Palso works with employ ers and train ing programs to ensure that newly employed parents and parents in job training are sup- ported by the eh ild care they need to secure and maintain employment. Hie Enterprise Com mission recognizes that child care is an essen tial element o f economic development of the Northeast Portland community Interested persons may call a Resource and Referral specialist at 253-5000, Ext. 5. V
