Eric Oines is correct about Wolf's Den, it great. So was Black Mesa!
And about Aldi's. It is cheap quality food for neighborhood residents. Inner-City poor people pay considerably more for all their commodities than do wealthier residents of suburban neighborhoods. An example is gas, Bobby & Steve's on Washington Ave. charges usually a dime more per gallon of gas than the Bobby& Steve's on 37th and Central. The Holiday Station on Franklin was charging 13 cents more per gallon than a similar Holiday Station on 44th and Central one day last week. (I was low on gas so I bought five dollars worth on Franklin, then filled up at the one on Central.) The Cub in the Minnehaha Mall not only charges far more, but also has far lower standards for both its produce and cleanliness than the one on University and 694. Aldi's at least brings good prices to Franklin Avenue where many have fewer dollars to feed many hungry mouths. The seniors and handicapped living near by sometimes must chose between medicine and food, just one option for those people is not asking too much.
We might need cooperation between the Trade Unions and residents of poor neighborhoods. Perhaps the Unions should use their power in conjunction with the residents to force the stores in question to not discriminate against poor people. Perhaps then people would not shop at a "Cheaper" store. Poor people have to eat also, and they have far fewer options, perhaps our trade unions will remember their roots and some of their own less fortunate family members to be understanding of this situation. During Thanksgiving it might be easier to be thankful for what we have and less resentful of what some one else might need.
Now unfortunately on to the discouraging word:
Mr. Oines is unfortunately attempting to mislead in his statement about " Mr. Graham's innuendo about Mr. Sabri and PPL is false." Perhaps Mr. Oines was one of the outsiders brought in by PPL at the meeting in question, but I do not remember him there. (Though he could have been.) I do however remember Basim Sabri insisting that he was a member of the "CVI Development Team", making a real loud scene about it and sitting on the stage with PPL representatives. Sitting with Steve Walsh from Sabathani and Barb McCormick of PPL AS one of the "Development Team". We even got a picture of it. Now PPL might have got a little worried about that affiliation and afterwards sought to minimize it, but please do not say it was innuendo, there were well over a hundred witnesses.
Perhaps PPL was only using Sabri in an attempt at the takeover and misleading him about his role? Never intending him to be part of the "Team". BUT they certainly accepted Sabri as a member of the "Team" and used him as such on that night. A move I am sure PPL staff very much regretted after the 10 o'clock news showed him attempting to bribe Brian Herron. Like Mission Impossible I am sure PPL "disavowed any knowledge" of Basim after he was "caught" on camera.
To say there was no connection is as Mr. Oines says, " Tis phan'tsie".
Jim Graham,
Ventura Village, Phillips Community, Sixth Ward of Minneapolis
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- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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