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contribution is enough to get the
speedbumps in place and hopefully
slow down the traffic, especially
for the sake o f the young children
living and playing in the area.
M ayor Vera Katz com m ended
N ature's neighborly act, recogniz
ing it as a worthy grassroots effort
o f a business cooperating w ith a
neighborhood to work out com
m unity issues.
N ature’s on Fremont with the prob
ature’s Northwest has been
lem. He sought their assistance in
receiving a large inflow o f
this m atter since they were part o f
shoppers. In proportion to
the o f traffic issue. Mark Cockraff,
this inflow has been an increase
the M arketing C o o rd in ato r for
traffic to the area. This was a p ro b
W ild O ats/N ature’s NW and Bar
lem to the neighboring residents
bara Fitch, the Co-D eveloper o f
who had experienced an increase
the store heartily agreed to work
in traffic. The city had put in
together to cover the rem aining
speedbum ps on 15lh Ave. as a cor
expense that had not been raised
rective m easure which only served
by the Irvington residents. Their
to reroute traffic to 14th A ve, the
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next available through street.
John Svicarovich expressed his
concern for the com m unity by
speaking to city officials. They told
him about the Purchase A Speed
Bump program . In order to jo in , a
neighborhood would need a 2/3
m ajority vote to qualify and the
speedbum ps w ould be placed in a
minimum three-block interval area.
W ithin the Irvington neighbor
hood near the N atu re’s store, there
w ere 72 land ow ners w ithin the
three-block corridor. O f that num
ber, 52 land ow ners had agreed to
participate in the program to ac
q u ir e
th e
m u c h -n e e d e d
speedbum ps from the city.
The overall cost to the Irvington
area residents in the program was
$12,000, or $170 per household.
Based on the financial hardship im
posed for some o f the families to
participate, John Svicarovich ap
pro ach ed the a d m in istra tio n at
Susan “Kim” Jones, 23, worked
with youth at Wedgwood. She lived
on campus at the seminary where she
just recently began c lasses after gradu
ating from Texas Christian Univer
sity. Friends said she loved mission
ary work and had a ready smile and a
personality that lit up a room.
“We are not angry and we have
peace that God is in control," said
Ms. Jones’ mother, Stephanie Jones.
"She was a joy and a delight.”
A bagpipe led the funeral proces
Bv H erbert H arris , J r .
1 . 1 have a positive self Image.
2. I believe in myself
3 . 1 define my purpose for living.
4. I th in k p o sitively w ith
understanding and faith that I
can realize my purpose.
John Svicarovich received a check from Carly Curtis (Store Mgr. at
Nature’s Northwest on NE. 1 5 “ and Fremont) for the purchase and
placement of traffic calmers that would slow down traffic considerably
around the health food store.
and enrolled in the Reserve O ffic
e rs’ Training Corps.
He graduated w ith a degree in
accounting in 1978 and im m edi
ately jo ined the A ir Force. A fter
four years in the service, he took a
jo b as operation m anager for the
S am bo’s restaurant chain. He was
in Charge o f three Sam bo’s in Syra
cuse, U tica and D eW itt, N.Y.
M unson said the restaurants
w ere m aking $1,000 an hour, but
controversy over the name o f the
chain did it in. G roups such as the
N A A CP labeled the nam e racist.
The chain changed the nam e, but
its popularity waned. Munson, who
is part A frican-A m erican, w hite
and N ative Am erican, says the res
taurant chain was the victim o f
political correctness.
M unson was hired for a jo b at
the Sheraton in D allas, Texas. But
Lombard.
He was 8 years old when his fa
ther, a laborer, longshoreman and
union w orker, disappeared. His
heart-broken mother gave up the
Harlem restaurant and moved to
South Brooklyn. He said it was home
to gritty shipyards and shady charac
ters, a tough place for any child to
grow up. But Munson was befriended
by Italian-American longshoremen.
He ran errands for them, he said, and
they looked out for him.
The longshorem en becam e his
fam ily after his m other fell into a
deep depression. She died o f a
broken heart, M unson said. At 13,
he was orphaned and hom eless.
An Italian family in Brooklyn took
him in. He slept in a boiler room.
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place at a Methodist church, is said
to have blossomed after transferring
“The next thunderstorm we have,
we know who’s going to be running
the lights and sound,” he said.
Twelve Affirmations To Live By
M ichael T. M unson, w hose
nicknam e is “T ennessee Red,” has
opened up a BBQ R estaurant at
736 N. Lombard St.. Portland, OR.
by the name o f T ennessee Red.
M unson has tw o other restaurants
in Portland, on S.E. 11“ and on
S.E. 82nd.
M unson said his love o f cook
ing goes back to the days w hen his
m o th er co o k ed in h er H arlem
kitchen in New York C ity, “The
thing that stuck w ith me was the
smell and the sound o f the cutting
board,” he said, “ w hen I got in the
K itchen I began to identify with
the sm ells.”
When he was a child his family
opened Four Com ers in Harlem, a
popular soul food restaurant, he said.
M unson’s life has taken a lot o f
turns from growing up in New York
C ity to opening his restaurant on
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to the Cassata Learning Center, an
alternative school with a self-paced
environment He was a devoted Boy
Scout who had developed an interest
in the audiovisual arts and wanted to
pursue a career in film and sound
production.
He was videotaping the band and
attending to the sound system when
gunfire erupted.
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purpose, seeing it clearly in
my mind.
6 . I alw ays focus on the
positive.
7. I have confidence and
courage to be inner-directed.
on his w ay to Texas, he learned he
had relatives in N ashville, Tenn.,
and decided to pay them a visit.
As it turns out, the c h e f at the
Sheraton in N ashville w as ill and
he w as ask ed to fill in. T hat
tem p o rary a ssig n m e n t in 1982
so o n b e c a m e p e rm a n e n t and
M unson d isc o v e re d how m uch
he lo v ed to cook.
9. I always do it now.
1 0 . I have a plan for my
success.
1 1 . 1 persist in my efforts with
an unshakable faith in my own
ability.
8. I have control of my mind,
my body, my instincts and my
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Restaurant Opens In North
Portland
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sion for Sydney R Browning, a 1991
seminary graduate and the children’s
choir director at Wedgwood. Brett
Cooper, a friendofM s. Browning’s,
recalled her “unique Sydney wis
dom" for the standing-room-only
crowd.
“As long as you thought she was
funny, she was OK with any other
opinion” o f her, he said.
1 2. I execute my plan and
produce desired results.
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