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Committed to cultural diversity
February 19, 1997
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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