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THE BEE
COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS
THE BEE's "want ads" are called "Community Classifieds".
An important innovation is that classified ads placed in THE BEE may also be available at the special Community Classifieds website, at the HotLink below!
In addition, Community Classifieds now offer the additional service of in-column photographs of vehicles and homes for sale. The photos can not only appear in THE BEE, but on the website as well.
Community Classifieds appear each month in THE BEE, and can also reach up to a half million additional readers by being published in any combination of the 24 other newspapers in the "Community Newspapers" group of Carpenter Media, including the weekly Clackamas Review, Oregon City News, Lake Oswego Review, and West Linn Tidings; the monthly Sherwood Gazette, and Southwest Community Connection; the weekly Gresham Outlook and Portland Tribune; and the other newspapers in the group.
To get information or place your classified ad by phone, here's the number to call: 503/620-7355!
Now, click on the logo directly below, and read the Carpenter Media online "Community Classifieds"!
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INNER SOUTHEAST PORTLAND'S
BUSINESS NEWS!
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| Sheldon Penner cooks and entertains at pancake breakfasts for crowds huge or small; he’ll be serving free “breakfast for dinner” for all comers at the February AHB meeting, on February 20 at SMILE Station in Sellwood. (Courtesy photo) |
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| Kevin Minkoff, a veteran East Portland CPA who bills himself as “not your ordinary bean counter” will present, at the February AHB meeting, the details and implications of the new IRS tax regulations this year. (Courtesy photo) |
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‘AHB’ restyles for networking; serves free pancakes for all
By ERIC NORBERG
For THE BEE
The 34-year-old Southeast-Portland-based “Association of Home Businesses” – better known as AHB – has widened its focus, and now offers a way for professionals of all sorts to network together for mutual advantage. Small business entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, side-hustlers, and those who work from home either for themselves or an employer – all are welcome. There is no classification exclusivity, either, because professionals can always gain from networking with their peers.
A good time to explore whether this nonprofit organization would be a good fit is the monthly meeting coming up on Thursday, February 20th, at SMILE Station in Sellwood (S.E. 13th at Tenino). That’s the one with free pancakes flipped onto your plate by Sheldon Penner of ChrisCakes Northwest (it’s “breakfast for dinner”), along with sausage, scrambled eggs, coffee and Tang, and his unique brand of entertainment.
Penner, based locally, takes his pancake machine as far east as Minnesota to host group breakfasts – and you may have seen him on TV, a couple of years ago, serving pancake breakfasts at Clackamas Town Center to dozens of residents of that county who had fled destructive wildfires. At this meeting on February 20th you can eat all you want.
There will also be a brief program on the newest IRS tax changes entrepreneurs need to know about before filing this year, from a local CPA who is never boring – Kevin Minkoff. It’s all free, and open to anyone interested in checking out AHB. The evening starts around 6 p.m. and is usually over a bit after 8.
AHB has always served a supper of some sort at its monthly “third Thursday evening” meetings, but – except for February – each one this year will be a potluck, with the people who decide to attend bringing along something to share.
This unique and well-established local business association charges $60 a year for membership; guests are always welcome – and, at least for the time being, the door charge for each monthly meeting has been done away with too. For more about this nonprofit, go online – http://www.ahboregon.org
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| In this photo from a previous WCBA dinner meeting at KeyBank in Woodstock, members were gathered at a number of tables for a meal, networking, and voting for the year’s new Board Members. Here, the current President – Chris Love of John L. Scott Real Estate – is seen at rear left. (Photo by David F. Ashton) |
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Woodstock’s biz assn. invites all to dinner and more, at annual meeting
By ERIC NORBERG
For THE BEE
The WCBA – the Woodstock Community Business Association – has been part of the Southeast Portland business community for some thirty years, but it is not widely recognized that the City of Portland also considers it the business association for the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood too, making it one of the widest-area business associations in Inner Southeast. Permanent seats on the Board are assigned to both for the Woodstock Neighborhood Association, and the Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood Association.
Each February, WCBA holds its annual meeting – its venues in the past have included the Reed College dining hall, Woodstock Wine and Deli, Double Mountain Brewery, and Key Bank. And this year, it is once again at Key Bank, 46th and S.E. Woodstock Boulevard, open to businesspeople in both neighborhoods, and serving food from local businesses. As with all its monthly meetings, it takes place on the second Wednesday evening of the month.
The evening starts at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 12th, and will include updates on the nonprofit’s activities, a raffle with prizes donated by local merchants, time for networking, an opportunity to renew or begin a membership, and for those who are paid members as the evening comes to a close, an opportunity to vote for the 2025 Board. Many of the current Board Members are running for re-election, but the bylaws of WCBA provide for more Board Seats than are currently occupied, so any member can run to join a Board devoted to benefiting local businesses and the local neighborhoods.
No RSVP is necessary. The evening should end before 8 p.m. More information online at – http://www.woodstockbiz.com
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| This newly-opened store, combining new urban street fashions and haircutting, can be found in Brooklyn, on S.E. Milwaukie Avenue. (Photo by Rita A. Leonard) |
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‘Urban street fashion store and barber shop’ combo opens in Brooklyn
By RITA A. LEONARD
For THE BEE
“Pre Voc” is the provocative name of a shop with an unusual business combination: A new urban street fashion shop, and also a barber shop. It opened in the Brooklyn neighborhood just before New Year’s, and you’ll find it at 3619 S.E. Milwaukie Avenue, six blocks south of Powell Boulevard.
Pre Voc boasts three owners – who came from across the metro to open their new Brooklyn business. The first is Jose Vasquez, a clothing designer from Wilsonville; the second is Valentin Lopez, a sports clothing designer from Gresham; and the third and potentially most versatile is Pablo Lopez, who not only designs clothing such as Cream & Caution T-shirts, sweatshirts, sneakers, and socks – but he also operates the barber shop at the rear of the showroom. Presumably you can ignore the fashions and still get a haircut from him, if that’s what you’re after!
The owners feature brand new urban street fashions for discriminating shoppers, and plan to display new stock as it becomes available. The owners told THE BEE that they have a store motto: “Stay cautious, because that’s the lifestyle we live. Love and prosperity to you all. And may every dollar you spend with us come back to you multiplied.”
Pre Voc is open every day from about 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (“About” those times – because there will be some fluctuation, say the three owners.) The shop’s telephone number is 801/205-4343.
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Oaks Park announces plan for new “drop tower” ride: The nonprofit organization that operates Oaks Amusement Park on the Willamette waterfront north of the Sellwood Bridge has applied to the Portland Permitting and Development Department for a variance to allow the installation of a 147-foot “drop tower” ride, and to permit lighting of the tower in excess of what the current zoning there allows. The city posted the proposal for comment on December 26th and gave a January 16 date – the very day of the deadline for this issue of THE BEE – as a deadline for public comments on it. The application was submitted to both the SMILE Land Use Committee and to the SMBA for comment, among others, before New Year’s, so there was an opportunity for local reaction to be submitted to the city for the proposed new ride.
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