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Local businesses are the lifeblood of our community. The Mid-county MEMO offers this section to our business neighbors for news, advancements, promotions, expansions and other noteworthy events to be shared with the community. To ensure publication, please send submissions for each month by the 15th of the previous month; Business MEMO submissions for the September issue are due by Friday, Aug. 13. For best results, e-mail Darlene Vinson at editor@midcountymemo.com. You may also mail editorial submissions to: 3510 N.E. 134th Ave., Portland, OR, 97230. To call or leave a phone message, dial 503-287-8904. The Mid-county MEMO fax number is 503-249-7672.
Get rubbed the right way
Licensed Massage Therapist Ravin Garza will be offering free Chair Massages at Slim and Tone, Northeast 114th Avenue and Halsey Street. This offer is open to members and non-members alike.
Massages will be available on Mondays, Aug. 2, 9 and 16 from 4:40 to 6 p.m. and on Tuesdays, Aug. 3, 10 and 17 from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Call 503-255-1843 to schedule an appointment.
Special events on tap
Mondays are special at 9-Ball Sports Bar on Northeast 113th Avenue and Halsey Street. The talented staff serves a $5 all you can eat special each week. Monday, Aug. 16, will feature authentic Hawaiian style food, and live Hawaiian music and entertainment by Bradah Waltah. Wear your favorite Hawaiian shirt and join the fun.
When the professional football season begins again, attention turns to Monday Night Football, and the all you can eat buffet continues with the appropriate tailgate-type fare.
On Saturdays throughout the remainder of the summer, 9-Ball will host a casual cruise-in. Bring your hot rod, cruiser, motorcycle or other classic from 3 to 7 p.m. and enjoy great drink specials, a barbeque and your favorite rock ‘n’ roll music.
9-Ball is open seven days a week from 11 to 3 a.m. To find out more about these and other upcoming events, call 503-251-0130.
SnowCap executive assumes added responsibilities
Assistant Director Lorie Wageman of SnowCap Community Charities has been selected to represent the agency at regular meetings of the Oregon Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. According to Wageman, ORVOAD consists of voluntary and state government organizations with disaster relief roles. Its functions include animal control, building repair, child care, clean-up, clothing, communication, counseling, damage assessment, disaster welfare inquiry, financial assistance, food, human relations, mass care, sheltering, transportation, volunteer staffing and bulk distribution. The Oregon chapter of the organization convenes its membership and other agencies following a disaster to discuss how they will work together cooperatively in the event of crisis. The members independently meet relief and recovery needs within the cooperative framework the organization makes possible.
“ORVOAD coordinates planning by many voluntary agencies responding to a disaster so they provide more effective service with less duplication when a disaster strikes,” says Wagemen. With SnowCap since 1986, Wageman is a knowledgeable resource regarding the stocking and distribution of emergency food supplies, logistics of working with volunteers, and safe food handling procedures for perishable and packaged food products. Among other responsibilities, Wageman supervises the training and recognition programs for 200 volunteers.
Clamity Jae’s crosses over Halsey
Clamity Jae’s, a Mid-County bar, restaurant and nightclub, will move across the street in September to occupy the building at 10805 NE Halsey St., formerly occupied by Gateway Bar & Grill and for nearly eight years before that, a Tillamook Ice Creamery and Restaurant.
Oregon Restaurant Concepts or ORC, a privately held corporation, owned and operated Tillamook Ice Creamery and Restaurant and its successor, Gateway Bar & Grill. ORC also owns and operates five other area restaurants; two Tillamook Ice Creamery & Restaurants, two Big Red’s Restaurants, and the Yamhill Grill in Newberg.
In September 2003, working closely with property owner, retired dentist Dr. William Angelos, an extensive inside and outside remodeling was completed, converting the building from the Tillamook Ice Creamery & Restaurant to the Gateway Bar & Grill, which opened in November.
ORC closed Gateway Bar & Grill in March after six months of operation. “ It (Gateway Bar & Grill) didn’t work for us,” says ORC’s Kevin Dinsdale. “We are a restaurant owning and operating company. We are not a bar owning and operating company. We were losing money and paying a lease. It became more economically feasible to close down.”
Clamity Jae’s owners, brother and sister Jack and Rhonda Bailey, began negotiation with Dinsdale and Angelos two months ago and last month completed an agreement that’ll have Clamity Jae’s moving across the street in late August.
Dinsdale admits that Oregon Restaurant Concepts will continue to pay a small portion of the lease for “a couple more years,” but is relieved to be out from under the expensive, long-term lease. “We’re off the hook for everything else,” he says.
The Bailey’s plan many improvements before opening at their new location “We’ll be bigger and better than ever,” says Jack Bailey. “We’ll have more parking, more television monitors, more satellite sports packages, more space for the bar, more space for live entertainment and more pool tables. Dr. Angelos was great to work with,” continued Bailey. “He made it happen for us even though a national chain wanted the space. He could have gone with them, but he went with us, someone already in the neighborhood. He is a real Gateway booster.”
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