September 30, 2015
Minority & Small Business Week
of
SCOOP HEAVEN
Ice cream shop
brings year-
round cool
A small ice cream shop is
bringing year-round cool to a
corner of northeast Portland.
Patricia A. Trice and her hus-
band Fred have been running
A Scoop of Heaven since 2007
from their shop in the corner
behind the U.S. Bank on North-
east Killingsworth and Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
“God gave me a vision, not
once but three times of an ice
cream shop as a future busi-
ness,” says Trice. “I shared the
vision with my husband and
we both prayed about it and
waited on God.”
A spell of good luck and
help from the community also
guided her and her husband to
making their dream a reality.
The shop, which was origi-
nally called Nana’s Ice Cream
Shop, went through a series of
hurdles with the City of Port-
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Patricia A. Trice and her husband, Fred Trice Jr., bring A Scoop of Heaven to ice cream lovers from their shop in the corner behind the
U.S. Bank on Northeast Killingsworth and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.