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Minority & Small Business Week
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September 30, 2015
M ark W ashington / the P ortland O bserver
Pastor Dwight Minnieweather welcomes patrons to ‘A Heav-
enly Taste,’ a new soul food restaurant located at the Mira-
cles Club, a non-profit and alcohol-free social club serving a
diverse community at 4200 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
The café is open seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., except
on Sundays when they’re open 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Soul Food Café
Builds on Community
‘A Heavenly
Taste,’ opens at
Miracles Club
Happy Birthday!
Jayden
and Alayah
Love, from your family
Talunaka
Washington
From your Dad
and Family
A new soul food café is
bringing more than just good
food to northeast Portland
it’s providing a safe facility
for families and building re-
lationships. Pastor Dwight
Minnieweather, a local leader
who has led a variety of social
justice and community service
projects, recently launched
the café separately from his
Straightway Services program.
The Straightway program pro-
vides midnight basketball and
summer jobs to young adults
and high school students in
partnership with the Portland
Water Bureau.
The café also provides com-
munity services opportunities,
and also allows high school
students and young adults the
work experience they’ll need
in the future to become suc-
cessful and responsible adults.
Providing services has been
a lifelong dream for Min-
nieweather who works tire-
lessly on several different proj-
ects including overseeing the
preparation of hot meals every
Thanksgiving and partnering
with Les Schwab every year to
distribute many toys and small
gifts for kids of all ages, most-
ly from low income families of
all races for Christmas. Every
Wednesday Liberation Chris-
tian Church distributes week-
ly foods boxes in the Miracles
parking lot from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m.
Straightway Services has
exceeded its expectations in
our community and has been
able to implement additional
outreach to include services for
the homeless, the prison popu-
lation and addicted adults who
need transitional housing. Min-
nieweather also attends gang
violence enforcement meetings
to make sure that young adults
will be treated fairly and has
an opportunity to get second
chances.
We honor Pastor Min-
nieweather continue services
in our community and we’re
proud to support his efforts in
our Minority Business Special
Edition.