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February 9, 2010

Community center dream lives on even after 20 years of struggling

  • The extreme green project has attracted a diverse group of people to help remodel an old gas station in Portland, but the Delta Sigma Theta sorority is still short of its $700,000 goal.
    • By THOMAS BOYD
    The Oregonian

    PORTLAND — The moment things changed forever in the June Key Delta House project didn't come when the remodeling of an old gas station in North Portland began in mid-January. The moment things changed forever for the small group of African American women in the Delta Sigma Theta sorority came more than two decades ago, when the idea for a home and community center took root at a monthly meeting.

    A dozen of the sorority sisters donated $100 each to start a fund and search for a permanent community home. Then June Key, who worked for Portland Public Schools at the time, bought an old Arco gas station at the corner of Albina Avenue and Ainsworth Street in 1992 with the understanding the sorority would pay her back.


     
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