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O ctober 15, 2014
Page 7
Visit follows
campaign rally
with vice
presdient
vice president left. "I don't know if
he's done this before."
Malek explains she only had a 10
minute notice that the two unique
customers were headed her way that
aftern o o n . The secret service
blocked her from entering until she
convinced them she was in fact the
Jeff Merkley got a boost in his re- owner.
election campaign when Vice Presi­
A fterw ards both B iden and
dent Joe Biden came to town last Merkley entertained local custom­
week and they made a stop at a ers and tried out ice cream samples,
popular ice cream shop on North­ until about after 5 p.m., when both
east Alberta Street that's already men took to their motorcade and
received plenty of celebrity atten­ headed to the airport.
tion from the likes of Oprah, Martha
Stewart, ABC's "The Chew", and
The Wall Street Journal, to name a
few.
Merkley and Biden took off from
the Oregon C onvention C enter
around 4:20 p.m. Thursday after
Biden gave a rousing speech in
support of the D em ocrat’s race
ag ain st R epublican c h allen g er
Monica Wehby.
They drove through North Will­
iams Avenue to Alberta Street. The
motorcade stopped a lot of traffic,
including bike traffic, but it also
caused dozens of locals to stumble
out of *shops with their cell phones
in hand ready to record the excite­
Good-bye,
ment.
short-term fixes.
"Jeff [Merkley] has been brag­
ging about this place for the last 20
minutes," Biden said as he entered
Salt n' Straw's Alberta location.
Biden being a chocolate fan,
elected a scoop o f C hocolate
Woodblock and a scoop of Double-
Fold Vanilla, two unique Salt n' Straw
flavors.
M e rk le y ’s
first
c h o ic e,
Marionberry, was out of season,
but he quickly settled on another
favorite, Stumptown Coffee and
Bourbon.
"He seem ed quite at home,"
owner Katie Malek said after the
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