BENTON HARBOR
A Labor Of Love
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nd G rland Hall re
proud of there pi ce, wh re "you
can buy your we k' gro ry."
Th re re Black party tore nd
and candy tore and convenienc
tore but, in Garl nde' word , "
grocery tore i a pi c where you
can purcha e an entire me l."
What eperate Hall nd Hall
Produce from mo t other Black
store i "if you take away the beer,
wine, and hard liquor from the e
store, they would be forced to
close, they'd have no options." in
Garlande' mind.
Doe this mean they're making
big bucks selling poison to their
own kind? Not according to Gar­
rande. It's an illusion that they
make a lot of money. "No more
than ten percent profit can be made
from liquor sales. Only the state of
Michtaan. who rezulates licuor
Does this mean they're making
big bucks selling poison to their
own kind? Not according to Gar­
lande. It's an illusion that they
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By ERNICE BROWN
City offici I aid they will think
twice before they give out any more
revolving 10 ns to busine e unle
they have proper collateral.
The city has given out five
revolving loans to busines e and
they all went went out of bu ines or
filed for bankruptcy. Receiving
loans were: Phase II lnc., S90,OOO� R
Murphy Career Fashions, S32,OOO;
C.J.' Rib Shack, SI0.000; Art's
Skating Rink. S28.000; and Cheats,
S20,OOO.
There are one outstanding revolv­
ing loan and the others are in the
process of being re olved, according
to City Manager Steve Manning.
Manning aid the loans for Chears
and CJ.'s Rib Shack has already
been paid back to HUD.
MA ID th city ha
communicated with HUD on how to
re olve the debt owned by Art'
Skating Rink.
He aid the city h receiv d a
check for $10,000 from the ale of
the Phase 11 building and the money
will be sent to HUD, leaving the city
owing 80,000, which has to be paid
by March, 1992.
"In the pass, what we were doing,
was taking anybody that was ound­
ing good, looked good, and went to
the bank and couldn't get a loan, we
were loaning them money," Marr­
ning aid. "It turned out the bank wa
right, we shouldn't have loaned them
the money."
"We're trying to be nice guys and
give people the opportunity to do
business and we end up getting
burned," Commissioner Charles
Yarbrough said. "For here on out it's
going to very difficult for me to agree
on giving anybody money for
revolving loan unless they h ve
when financial con ultant and:
friend w rned against investing:
their avings after he retired from:
Michigan Bell Telephone Company:
after twenty-four years? Sure,.
everybody told them it w n't a:
good, sound, and logical invest-:
ment but they wanted to be a pan of:
the northside community, "We'
wanted a busines on the:
northside," Oarlande aid. .
Has it paid off? "It's not a good:
inve tment because our own people I
don't patronize us." Oarlande said·
theorically and georaphically it:
would be a uper investment if it:
. weren't for the failure of Blacks to
understand buying.
make a lot of money. "No more
than ten percent profit can be mad
from liquor ale. Only the tate of
Michigan, who regulate liquor
ale , profits from the ale of hard
liquor." A busine must make thir­
ty- even percent profit in order to
break even. Ten percent on Liqueur
ales only means that busines e
must charge more for other things.
"OTHER THI GS" are the
real value of eHing hard liquor,
according to Oarlande. "Mo t of
that liquor traffic buy other-thing ,
that's where the money i made."
Why did the Hall open a
grocery store on June 30, 1986
orne type of ecurity to put up."
In other busine s the city com­
mi sion granted the state a four
months extention in order to insure
completion of the lease document
and securing of financing for proper­
ty located at the comer of Colfax and
Marke t for the new Department of
Social Services building.
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till
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By BERNIC! BROWN
Trash pickup in the aty of Ben­
ton Harbor is still a problem, said
Benton Harbor Finance Director
Michael Vance.
Some commercial establishments
in the city are having their trash
uled as re idential establishments,
without any additional charge, ac­
cording to Vance. He also said, there
are some places that is receiving
more than once a week pickup.
"I think we need ome kind of
direction on how to deal with this
matter," Vance said.
, He said the carriers will continue
their routes to pickup trash until the
commission come up wi th a sol ution.
"What it appears, - at least for the
last eight years, the city has been
picking them up (trash) under
residential contract at no addi�ional
cost to them," Vance said.
Churches get .in· spirit
general funds, we 'should get out of
trash pickup business". Wysinger
said.
"Everybody in the city pays a mil­
lage for trash pickup, residential es­
tablishments and commercial
establishments", said Mayor Wil­
liam Wolf. "I don't think you can cut
the commercial establishments out
as long as they are paying for that
service."
"I don't think you can dis­
criminate by taking out on their taxes
and don't take out on the residential
area, it has to be done across the
board," Wolf said.
BY MARY GOLLIDAY
Mt. Herman Zion Baptist Church
will have their Christmas program
Sunday, December 22, at 3:30 p.m.
Rev. David McIntosh is the host
pastor.
place, four 2nd place and one 3Id
place out of 19 contests and now
they have won 1st place in the
National contest.
Santa reads
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The Michigan'
Citizen
New Hope Baptist Church will
have their Christmas program
Sunday, December 22 at 3 p.m, Rev.
. Gregory Kirksey is the host pastor.
Zion Baptist Church will have
their Christmas program on Sunday,
December 22 at 3 p.m. Rev. C.
Mitchell is the host pastor.
WOLF SAID IF the problem is
the trash bags, then they should be
limited to the same amount of bags
as residential areas.
The city recently awarded bids to'
Waste Management of Michigan,
based in the Dowagiac and Industrial
Sanitation of Benton Harbor to col­
lect trash. Waste Management is
paid S27,500 a month for unlimited
trash pickup in the residential area
and Industrial Sanitation is paid
$1,545 a month for trash pickup at
municipal buildings and government
buildings.
. The commission requested that
City Manning Steve Manning,
Vance and the City's Attorney Scott
Smith get together and bring recom­
mendations back to the commission.
WHY AREN'T
YOU?
Congratulations Darron Davis, a
Muskegon Hts. 1991 graduate who
has earned a Varsity Letter as a
reserved running back this fall at
Tennessee State University.
Davis played in 11 games, carried
the ball 40 times for 132 yards,
scored two touchdowns and caught
eight passes for 81 yards. Way to go,
Darron.
RESIDENT ARE now paying
.about $17 a year for trash pickup.
"Some point we will be better off­
under a current contract or future
contract, making trash pickup man­
datory for residential and billing it
through the water system," Vance
id.
Commissioner George Wysinger
stated that maybe the city should go
back to picking up trash like they
used to, when the city owned their
own trucks and was picking up at
commercial establishments. •
. "If this is going to drain our
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