September 27, 2006
Minority & Small Business Week
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‘Reflections’ Anchors Northeast
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from MW
Gloria moved to Portland,
where she started and man
aged a construction business
for 13 years.
In 1995. McMurtry and two
others joined in establishing
Reflections, the first business
inthe newly built Walnut Busi
ness Center on the corner of
Northeast Martin Luther King
Boulevard and Killingsworth
Street. Located on the other
side of their building is the
Northeast Precinct of the Port
land Police Department.
W hen W alnut Park first
opened. Reflections was a cof
fee shop, a bookstore and a
gifts and flow er shop. The
bookstore is now called Talk
ing Drum Bookstore.
Her business also serves as
When Walnut Park first
opened, Reflections was a
coffee shop, a bookstore and
a gifts and flower shop.
a m eeting place for every
thing from new authors to lo
cal musicians, and a variety of
business groups.
Seated in the core Portland's
African-American community,
Reflections has always been the
place to go for community resi
dents, young and old. However,
with a gentrifying process going
on. Gloria has to review both her
menu and her goals. Each year,
the area is seeing more African
is her due diligence, dedica
tion and hard work on a con
tinuing road to success.
In a business world consist
ing of Wall Marts, Starbucks,
M cDonalds and many other
large chain stores, McMurtry
proves her winning formula.
At the same time, she mentors
generations of black women
who dream that “someday,"
they too might become a busi
nesswoman.
Reflections Coffee House
continues to be the great place
it has always been. Thanks
Gloria for the extraordinary
hot coffee or tea, good food,
great books and quality les
sons in business management.
Americans leaving and more
whites moving in. As her clien
tele changes, so must her ap
proach to doing business.
With her many years of busi
ness experience as well as
sales and management. Gloria
will have no trouble “going
with the flow .” Despite any
challenges that she may face
Ron Weber is a regular
w ith n o rth e a st P o rtla n d 's
ever-changing environm ent, contributor to the Portland
one thing is unchanging. That Observer.
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Best o f Portland ( W illa m e tte W eek)
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M aster’s Degree in business
administration.
Black E ntrepreneurs of
Clark County host monthly
business round tables and net
working sessions each month,
working to expand em pow
erment and close opportunity
gaps through advocacy, con
tacts, fellowship and the ex-
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Natural Healing
Tara Herrick is a purveyor
of natural, energetic healing.
Her business draw s on her
diverse background to d e
liver individualized care anda
com passionate ear.
H errick holds a M asters
Degree in psychology and is
the ow ner o f T ara’s Heal i ng
at 3769 S.E. Mi I waukie Ave.
She m oved to the location
after starting her business in
the N ortheast A lberta Arts
District.
Her services include Reiki,
a relatively new form o f en
ergy work called Holographic
Repatteming. and discussion
groups for parents. Reiki
(pronounced r a y ' key) is a
gentle, hands-on, energy
healing therapy often used to
treat stress and pain.
H errick said she took the
lunge into her ow n private
practice afterdividing her days
between a part-tim e practice
a full-tim e jo b in research.
She said her business has
grow n alm ost entirely from
satisfied clients who make re
ferrals.
For more information, call
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African American Business Support
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tage Center - a $68 million
development project intended
to institutionalize jazz in San
Francisco, creating a mixed-
income, mixed-use develop-
ment project contributing to
the revitalization of the his
toric Fillmore Jazz District in
San Francisco.
Wells Fargo launched its
African American Business
Services program in 1998 to
provide outreach, education
and increased access to capi
tal among African American
business owners.
For more information, visit
the w ebsite at w w w .w ells
fargo.com /aabs.
Success?
W e’re all about that.
As president of the Portland Community College District, I embrace our role as an
engine of economic development. Minority-owned businesses are a key component
of our local economy, and we support these minority enterprises by:
•
Working closely with minority businesses as vendors. During our bond
construction activities PCC insisted on utilizing qualified and available
minority-owned businesses.
•
Building a skilled workforce
through our many college
degree and certificate programs.
•
Offering concentrated, short
term job readiness training.
•
Providing direct services to
businesses, such as our Cus
tomized Workforce Training
program, our Small Business
Development Center, and the
many other services of our
Extended Learning Campus.
•
Having the largest English
language acquisition program
in the area.
•
Investing in areas of the com
munity that need economic
stimulation.
Dr. Preston Pulliams, District President
Portland Community College
Portland
Community
College
We’re all about
your future.
www.pcc.edu
Portland Community College is an Affirmative Action. Equal Employment Opportunity Institution
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