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residents as they walk through the
doors of the city’s one and only
non-profit grocery store.
The store, located at 4632 N Tren
ton St., is the only retail merchant
with a cash register within one mile
of the neighborhood, which is home
to nearly 3,000 individuals— half
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East Portland Teachers Strike
Reynolds District schools
close for labor dispute
.Talks between the Reynolds School District and
teachers union ended without an agreement Monday.
The Reynolds Education Association started pick
eting at schools in the east Portland suburbs at 6 a.m.
as a last-ditch, 21-hour negotiating session failed to
break the impasse over salary and working conditions.
Union president Joyce Rosenau told reporters that
the district backed away from what had appeared to be
progress during the all-night negotiations.
Meanwhile, Superintendent Joyce Henstrand said
the dispute appears to be about money, and the sides
are "at least $4 million apart."
The district had already canceled classes for Mon
day because of the strike threat. There are three weeks
of classes remaining in the school year.
Tensions were high outside the negotiating room
as two middle school teachers complained that they
had been struck by cars leaving the district property.
Gordy Smith, 40, a Reynolds Middle School reading
teacher, said he was picketing near an entrance to the
school when a woman in a minivan drove quickly
through, sideswiping him near his knee.
The incident happened about 15 m inutes after
another one involving a different m iddle school
teacher and two parties to the negotiation talks. A
car allegedly driven by a school-district law yer —
with A ssistant Superintendent Tony Mann in the
passenger seat — may have bum ped into a fem ale
teacher who was looking into the car as it passed
by picketers.
Fairview Police Chief Ken Johnson said no police
reports were filed, only informal complaints to a school
resource officer.
"Our bigger concern is that they're illegally block
ing the driveways, creating these risks," he said.
—Associated Press