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June 26, 2013
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Week Review
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Sponsored by
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Williams Avenue Uplift
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photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Bill McGee will oversee operations o f the latest New Seasons
Market slated for opening this September at North Williams
Avenue and Freemont Street. Finishing touches to the new
building are being made, and a jo b fair for potential new employ
ees is slated for Friday at Portland Community College's Cascade
Campus.
C lassifieds
C alendar
F o o d
neighborhoods.
Iftwo people (seeking a job) are
equally qualified, we like to give
someone a chance to work where
they live,” McGee says. For in-
stance, one o f the workers lives
three blocks from the new store, yet
currently commutes daily to a New
Seasons outlet in W ashington
County-
Mary Lou Keeran, staffing man-
ager for New Seasons, says the
company does not release specific
data about the diversity of its work
force, but the hometown grocer is
known to be inclusive in terms of
race, ethnic origin, gender and age.
Keeran says New Seasons is
d o in g em p lo y m en t o u trea ch
through groups such as the Urban
League of Portland, New Avenues
for Youth, and neighborhood asso-
ciations.
The company also relies on word
of mouth from their own employees.
“A happy staff tends to promote you
among their own circles,” she says.
For the Williams Avenue store,
Keeran says such approaches will
tend to reach people from inner north
and northeast Portland rather than,
say, Washington County,
c o n tin u e d
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Last Thursday Group Resigns in Protest
cease its sponsorship of the event
because it objects to new permit
demands from the city of Portland.
Though the volunteer group will
not assume responsibility for pro
viding am bassadors to monitor
rowdy behavior, pay for portable
The popular northeast Portland toilets and the collection of garage
event Last Thursday on Alberta and recyclables, the 16 year old
Street faces an uncertain future. The event will continue on as usual,
group Friends of Last Thursday officials said.
announced M onday that it will
The loss of support comes after
the city added a number of new
regulations to the festival, such as
15 certified security guards, musi
cians complying with city noise or
dinances, port-a-potties every other
block and most recently a 9 p.m.
shut down and smaller street clo
sure.
The festivities are still scheduled
to last until 10 p.m. on Thursday, but
will not have the sponsoring group
involved.