The courier 10 22 2015

The Vol. 10 Edition 15 Free Thursday October 22, 2015

Goodbye My Friend!

Our Publisher Remembers Page 3 “Lefty”

Mel & Abe’s Customer Appreciation Day

Phenix City Barbershop Hosts Annual Event

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THURSDAY October 22, 2015

“Pops” Barnes For Mayor?

According to the street committee Jerry “Pops” Barnes is considering a run for Mayor. The Street committee has it that, if so, the folks from Flournoy and Calhoun are set to support him financially.

Robinson Running Again The Street committee has it that Todd Robinson, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2014 is considering a run for the At-Large seat on Columbus City Council currently held by Skip Henderson.

The Street Committee

Jail House Operator...

Inmate On The Mainline The Street committee has it that AT&T recently paid a visit to the Muscogee County jail to discuss a phone line that hasn’t been paid for in two years.

According to our sources the line is set up for inmates to make calls but goes directly to a local bail bonding business. Information has it that the telephone representative and the deputy with the jail got into an argument about the discrepency. As you know AT&T will ultimately get their money

Request for Bids/Proposals

RFB No. 16-0009 Recycle Trailers Due: October 28, 2015 – 2:30 PM Sandra Chandler, Buyer I

RFB No. 16-0014 Air Walls for Civic Center Due: October 21, 2015 – 2:30 PM Sandra Chandler, Buyer I A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference/Site Visit is scheduled for Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 2:30 PM. Vendors will be allowed a 10-minute grace period.

RFB No. 16-0015 Bibb Mill & City Mill Riverwalk Project Due: October 28, 2015 – 2:30 PM Della Lewis, Buyer Specialist

Sealed responses must be received and time/date stamped by the respective due date shown above, by the Finance Department/Purchasing Division of Columbus Consolidated Government, 100 Tenth Street, Columbus, GA 31901. To obtain specifications, visit the City's website at www.columbusga.org, notify the respective Buyer via email schandler@columbusga.org, fax 706.653.4109 or telephone 706.653.4105.

RFB No. 16-0015: Plans, specifications and bid documents are available for a nonrefundable fee of $125 from the Engineering Department, 2nd Floor – Government Center Annex, 420 10th Street, Columbus, GA, Telephone 706-653-4441.

Andrea J. McCorvey, CPPB Purchasing Division Manager

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A VIEW FROM A PEW THURSDAY October 22, 2015

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Goodbye My Friend!

Not long ago we reminisced about the fact that he, along with his wife Millie and their store “Millie’s Market” was the subject of my very first article in the inaugural issue of the Courier Eco Latino newspaper ten years ago March 24, 2005.

Over the years we grew to be great friends with an enormous amount of respect for each other. Each of us would spend time sharing our vision for our two cultures and how we hoped to contribute in making Columbus, Phenix City and Ft. Benning a better place for all of us. He noted during one of our conversations that he always appreciated the fact that although I published a Hispanic newspaper I never tried to speak for the Hispanic community. The fact that I put in place a publication that would allow the Hispanic community to be heard meant a lot to him.

On Tuesday October 13th I lost a good friend, the Hispanic community lost its most sincere advocate and this community lost a great citizen.

From the very first day I met

Harold “Lefty” Encarnacion he was all about his community.

He was for anything that would help Latinos in the Tri-City.

For years he would block off the parking lot in front of his store providing an annual soldiers and family appreciation day which was filled with music, games and food for the entire Hispanic community including soldiers from Ft. Benning.

Many may not know this but the initial conversation about hosting an annual Tri-City Latino Festival was held in 2007 almost eight years ago in my former office on Buena Vista Rd. Lefty had an idea about doing a big event that would showcase the Latin culture to the community with a parade, music, art and participants dressed in their native clothing.

It took a while but the event finally came into fruition three years ago and I know for a fact that he was ecstatic to see the support he received from the mayor, city manager, other city officials and the community as a whole.

One of his greatest accomplishments and at the same

time disappointments was being able to establish an FM Hispanic radio station, UNIDOS 107.7 for the Hispanic community. Housed out of his store on South Lumpkin Road the station attempted to provide music for the variety of cultures within the Hispanic community. Unfortunately it never became financially able to stand on its own but Lefty didn’t go down with out a fight. To the end he knew that for this community to have its own radio station was important.

I’ll miss my friend. We here at the Courier Eco Latino newspaper will be working hard to come up with a way to honor his memory for years to come. In the mean time we can all honor him by being the kind of man he was, short in stature but with a big heart always willing to give for his community.

I love you “Lefty”, you will be missed.

"The Broken Chain" We little knew that day, God was going to call your name.

In life we loved you dearly, In death, we do the same.

It broke our hearts to lose you.

You did not go alone.

For part of us went with you, The day God called you home.

You left us beautiful memories, Your love is still our guide.

And although we cannot see you, You are always at our side.

Our family chain is broken, And nothing seems the same, But as God calls us one by one, The chain will link again.

Wane A. Hailes

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By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist

“Feral” Facebook Comments Show Racism is Alive and Well

You can run, but you can’t hide from racism. I was preparing to write a column on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade agreement that President Barack Obama wants to fast track through Congress. I considered tackling the Planned Parenthood kerfuffle, as Republicans are targeting a most important women’s health provider for political purposes. But a friend sent me a link to a photo uploaded by Atlanta native “Geris Hilton” with a string of comments that simply turned my stomach, and I realized that the TPP would have to wait (it isn’t going anywhere until January anyway).

Hilton, whose legal name is Gerod Roth, worked at the Polaris Marketing Group in Atlanta, Ga. There he took a selfie of himself and a coworker’s child and posted it on Facebook. When one of his “friends” asked why the child was running around the office, Roth replied, “He was feral.” The dictionary defines feral as “relating to, or suggestive of, a wild beast”, and “not domesticated or cultivated – wild,” or “having escaped from domestication and become wild.”

Excuse me? Roth’s own daughter hangs out at the office at the end of the day.

She plays with the adorable boy whose innocent little face attracted the most “feral” comments from Roth’s intellectually challenged Facebook friends.

From one “friend”: “I didn’t know you were a slave owner.”

Others commented about selling enslaved people another suggested that Hilton “send him back,” because they are “too expensive.”

Sydney Jade is three-year old Cayden’s loving, caring and hard working mother.

Gerod Roth knew this, but he never corrected his “friends” who described the child as abandoned and worse. Jade, started using the hash tag #HisNameisCayden on Twitter to affirm her child’s humanity and to reject the caricature that Hilton portrayed. She has received an outpouring of love and support from cyberspace.

Thumbs up to company executives at the Polaris Marketing Group, who fired Roth about two weeks after his offending selfie and wrote about the incident and subsequent firing on Facebook. I am among those who think it should have taken less than two weeks, but

Opinion/Editorial

they deserve credit for taking action instead of hiding behind the “free speech” argument that many make to defend their racist employees. The Root reported that others who made offending comments about Cayden were also fired from their jobs. Yes! Gerod Roth is one of those pouty little racists who has now described himself as the “victim” in this matter. He “has been targeted”, he says. He whines that his remarks were taken out of context.

He posted an “apology” that was several paragraphs long attempting to “explain” how he happened to post the selfie in the first place, suggesting that young Cayden actually asked him to take the picture. He had neither the grace nor the good sense to say, “I’m sorry and I’m out of order”, and then shut up. Instead, he tried to cover his insensitivity up.

Next thing you know, there will be a group of folks rallying around Roth who some would describe as nothing more than a child molester for his callous exploitation of his coworker’s son. Those who railed against this incident will be told this occurrence is isolated.

The late, great writer Bebe Moore Campbell once wrote an essay about “race fatigue,” about the many ways she was tired of seeing, living, talking and writing about race. She wrote about ignoring slights she might once have challenged, tamping down an anger that might once have been volcanic. In that particular essay, she wrote about seeking a peaceful respite from race matters. We all seek that respite, those days when we don’t have to think about the indignities of both institutional racism and the micro-aggressions that are difficult to quantify. We seek, but we don’t find the respite when cyberspace reveals life as both gritty and grand.

While Roth is little more than gas in the wind, not even a footnote in our nation’s history, he merits attention, because there are so many more of him, lurking out there, fracturing peace because they are so hateful. Who calls a child “feral” and then describes himself or herself as the victim? And who, in the light of this kind of nonsense, says we live in a “post racial” space?

Julianne Malveaux is author and economist based in Washington, DC. Her new book “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available for pre-order at www.juliannemalveaux.com.

October 22, 2015

By Oscar H. Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist

A New Breed of Bigoted Politicians

Among the many windswept cliffs that stand guard on the shores of the island of Okinawa, one is known for its particularly gruesome history.

“Suicide Cliff” is located on the southern portion of Okinawa. It is so named because thousands of Okinawans took their own lives at the site as American forces advanced across the island in 1945 during the last months of World War II. Twenty five years later, flying low over cliffside memorials honoring the dead of various towns and villages who perished there, I was struck by the fact that so many people felt compelled to rush to their own destruction. I soon learned that for tactical reasons, and to further their own doomed war effort, the Japanese army had terrified Okinawan civilians with tales of extreme cruelties they should expect at the hands of the approaching Americans. The island’s people had their minds manipulated to the point that many chose to kill themselves rather than fall into the hands of a ruthless enemy.

Eventually, the people of Okinawa came to realize that these were “useless deaths” as the Americans turned out not to be the monsters portrayed by the Japanese army.

In the years since viewing this tragic site, I learned it is not unusual for people to be manipulated into a mass hysteria that makes them act against their own self-interest, or even to rush toward their own self-destruction. In this cycle of the U.S. presidential election, we have extraordinarily clear examples of the type of propaganda and demagoguery that leads to this type of madness.

Donald Trump is the poster child for destructive demagoguery. This bloviating bigot has pulled the Republican Party down to new lows and, in the process, dumbed down the national political discourse to a point where America is gnawing at its own flesh in an attempt to expel nonexistent horrors.

Echoing the likes of former Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama and the two Virginia senators, Harry F. Byrd Sr. and Harry F. Byrd Jr., Trump feeds his followers platters of noxious vitriol that are devoid of facts. In addition to demonizing Latinos and “Black Lives Matter” activists, Trump, a privileged White man who inherited his wealth from his father, once declared that the Pequot Indians

“don’t look like Indians to me.” This is a person who feels so entitled that he can determine what America is and who Americans are.

Like the thousands who followed a manipulative Japanese army to their hurried end on Okinawa, individuals who flock to Trump’s banner of bigotry and foolishness –eventually will see the senselessness of championing someone who makes extremely ill-considered pronouncements and whose campaign completely lacks sound policy ideas.

Fortunately for them, however, Trump will not be president of the United States.

Unfortunately, however, other Republican presidential hopefuls are mimicking his audacious and bigoted posturing because his followers are giving so much credence to this cartoon of an ugly American.

Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Huckabee may not be stoking the fires of the exact same bigoted causes, but they are ramping up their rhetoric to approximate Trump’s level of demagoguery. Just as George Wallace and both Senators Byrd relied on a strategy of saying the “Nword” louder than anyone else, this new breed of bigoted politicians base their strategies on attacking liberal targets of opportunity with more vigor than anyone else. And while there are varying degrees of bigotry among the Republican field of presidential candidates, they all seem to be willing to have the country selfdestruct rather than give in to its liberalization.

During the past seven years, most of them have urged their followers to reject the Affordable Care Act, with little regard for the fact that many of them cannot pay for basic medical needs. These Republican candidates have called upon their followers to oppose an increase in the minimum wage, despite the fact that many of those supporters are low-wage earners.

For those of us who refuse to swallow the venom of the likes of Trump, Cruz, Huckabee and Paul, we have a pressing obligation. We must do all that is necessary to prevent the forces of self-destruction from taking hold. We must not allow a group of hysterical bigots to determine the future of America. We must stand against those who are taken by a type of self-destructive madness and would throw America over a political cliff to drown in a sea of hatred and despair.

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Mel & Abe’s Barbershop Annual Customer Appreciation

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Request for Bids

RFB No. 16-0015 Bibb Mill & City Mill Riverwalk Project Due: October 28, 2015 – 2:30 PM Della Lewis, Buyer Specialist RFB No. 16-0018 Emergency Medical Supplies (Annual Contract) Due: November 4, 2015 – 2:30 PM Kevin Robertson, Buyer

Sealed responses must be received and time/date stamped by the respective due date shown above, by the Finance Department/Purchasing Division of Columbus Consolidated Government, 100 Tenth Street, Columbus, GA 31901. To obtain specifications, visit the City's website at www.columbusga.org, notify the respective Buyer via email krobertson@columbusga.org, fax 706.653.4109 or telephone 706.653.4105.

RFB No. 16-0015: Plans, specifications and bid documents are available for a non-refundable fee of $125 from the Engineering Department, 2nd Floor – Government Center Annex, 420 10th Street, Columbus, GA, Telephone 706-6534441.

Andrea J. McCorvey, CPPB Purchasing Division Manager

October 22, 2015

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October 22, 2015

Young Professionals On The Move

Nadine Haralson, provides up close and personal interviews with young professionals who are making a difference in our community. Join us each issue as we introduce, recognize, and celebrate those individuals in Columbus, Phenix City and Ft. Benning who are… “On The Move”

Davian Chester

His work has been featured at the River Center, The Liberty Theatre Cultural Center, Columbus State University, and at CVCC during their annual Art Shows.

Chester taught 7th and 8th graders about Graphic Design at the 2015 Technology Expo at Auburn University.

You can also see his work in local restaurants such as Chester's BBQ and The Black Cow, as well as local barbershop, The Nappy Root.

By Nadine Haralson The Courier

Davian Chester is an up and coming Freelance graphic designer and animator. He was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. He graduated in 2011 from Northside High school, now finishing up at Chattahoochee Valley Community College with studies in Graphic Design.

Chester’s work includes, portraits, comics, album covers, logos, animated shorts and other cartoons. He is a Graphic Design intern with CVCC and also works part time with Columbus Community Schools.

Davion provides numerous art projects during the school year and in the summer hosts Art Clubs at several recreation sites. You can see his painted wall murals at Forrest Road and Georgetown Elementary.

Davian has received numerous awards including The Most Outstanding Student in Visual Communications at Chattahoochee Valley Community College. He was also the recipient of the Most Outstanding Art Achievement Award his junior year in high school.

His goal is to become a Character Designer for major animation companies, and a children's book illustrator.

For now he is open to new freelance gigs until his next move.

"I believe my best skill is understanding and visualizing what my clients really want-- even if they have a hard time trying to explain it."

"All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

-Walt Disney

Davian Chester can be found on Instagram, Youtube, and Facebook under the name "Real Toons."

Ahkelia Copeland

explains Copeland.

By Nadine Haralson The Courier

Ahkelia Copeland, a native of Columbus, Georgia graduated from George Washington Carver High School, and continued her education at Fort Valley State University. Having a love for people and a strong passion to help those in her community, Ahkelia returned home to involve herself in various endeavors that would aide in the progress and growth of her beloved hometown.

With an entrepreneurial mindset, Copeland established herself in marketing and event management. Her freelance business, A&T Copeland Marketing and Event Production, prides itself as the go to company for large scale event productions, business and professional branding, search engine optimization, social media management, and administrative consulting.

“I wanted to turn my love for people and my city into a lean, mean marketing machine that would help various individuals, entities, and businesses needing a marketing plan, secure a place in this sleepy southern market”

success.

Having worked on several local political campaigns as a crisis manager, and numerous community organizations such as the Fountain City Classic Planning Committee, Cuff Links and Pearls N e t w o r k i n g M i x e r, Reach 4 Your Dreams Inc. and Overflo Ministries, Ahkelia has become known as the “Southern Belle Fixer”.

If you have plans to a t t e n d C o l u m b u s ’s upcoming Fashion Week, you can guarantee that she’s playing a major part in its

Although Ahkelia’s business is a very important part of her life, her ability to connect to the youth of this community is near and dear to her heart.

Being able to provide a variety of internships, job shadowing and volunteer opportunities to the Columbus area youth keeps Copeland motivated.

“Growing up in the AME Church I was afforded these opportunities” shares Ahkelia. “It developed me into the person I am today, and I just merely want to return the favor.”

For now, she will continue to grow her marketing company, and spread empowerment to females as one of the three founders of the organization, “Ladies taking the Lead”. As for the future, Copeland has recently launched her blog entitled “Here’s the Thing: A Professionals Insight to Professionalism”, and is scheduled to launch her business website December of 2015.

Anything is achievable for Ahkelia Copeland who lives by Winston Churchill’s quote; “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

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Celebrating the Life of H. Julian Bond

Atlanta (October 6, 2015)— Morehouse College will host a farewell tribute to one of its favorite sons, H. Julian Bond ’71 on Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 5:30 P.M. in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel. Dr. Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., dean of the MLK Chapel, will preside.

Speakers for the occasion include Morehouse College President John Silvanus Wilson Jr. ’79; Robert M. Franklin ’75, president emeritus of Morehouse College and professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University; former Georgia Governor Roy Barnes; Georgia Congressman John Lewis; veteran journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault; former Atlanta City Councilwoman Carolyn Long Banks; and a selection of peers, close friends and family members. The service is open to the public and an Atlanta University Center Combined Chorus will provide music.

Horace Julian Bond, known to most as Julian, was born in Nashville, TN; his parents were Julia Agnes Washington, a librarian, and Horace Mann Bond, president of Fort Valley State College (GA).

Bond's family moved to Pennsylvania when he was five years old where his father became the first African American president of Lincoln University (PA), his alma mater.

Bond graduated from the Georgia School, a Quaker preparatory boarding high school.

He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta and won a varsity letter for swimming. He also founded a literary magazine called The Pegasus and served as an intern at Time magazine. While a student at Morehouse, Bond helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), traveling throughout the south to organize voting registration.

As a founding member of SNCC, he served as commu-

nications director from 1961 to 1966. From 1960 to 1963, he led student protests against segregation in public facilities in Atlanta and Georgia. Bond graduated from Morehouse in 1971 receiving a degree in English; returning to the campus to complete his course work after a short break to follow his heart in hands-on civil rights activism.

“Nobody did it better than my father,” says Michael Julian Bond, Atlanta City Councilman.

“He was a young charismatic civil rights activist who became one of this nation’s most treasured statesmen. Many Atlantans have expressed their affection and appreciation for Julian Bond to our family. He loved this city and its people; this was his home.”

After his election to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, most of the white members of the House refused to seat him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. However, in 1966, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the House had denied Bond his freedom of speech and had to seat him. From 1965 to 1975, he served in the Georgia House and served six terms in the Georgia Senate from 1975 to 1986.

In 1968, Bond led a challenge delegation from Georgia to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and was the first African-American nominated as Vice President of the United States. He withdrew his name from the ballot because he was too young to serve.

Bond ran for the United States House of Representatives, but lost to civil rights leader John Lewis.

He served as the president of the president of the Atlanta Chapter of the NAACP, and was later elected Board Chairman of the NAACP in 1998. “From his days as a young activist to his years as both an elder statesman and NAACP Chairman Emeritus, Julian Bond inspired a gener-

ation of civil rights leaders,” said NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock. “From my days as a youth board member of the NAACP to my present tenure as NAACP Chairman, like so many of my generation and before, I am yet inspired by the depth and breadth of Chairman Emeritus Bond’s exemplary service: activist, writer, historian, professor, public intellectual, public servant and an unrelentingly eloquent voice for the voiceless. Many of the most characteristically American freedoms enjoyed by so many Americans today were made real because of the lifelong sacrifice and service of Julian Bond.”

As one of the organizers of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Bond became the first president of (SPLC) from 1971 through 1979, and served on its board of directors for the remainder of his life. “This country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice,” said Morris Dees, SPLC founder. “Julian advocated not just for African Americans, but for every group and every person subject to oppression and discrimination because he recognized the common humanity in us all.”

In the 1980s and ‘90s, Bond taught at several universities, including American, Drexel, Williams, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and the University of Virginia.

It was a SPLC report that revealed most states were not teaching about the civil rights movement – a problem that Julian sought to correct. Julian himself is quoted as saying, “At the University of Virginia, my students are often outraged to learn that they have never been taught about events in their own hometowns” says Dees about Bond.

The National Freedom Award was given to Bond from the National Civil Rights Museum in 2002; he received the Spingarn Medal from the

NAACP in 2009; he was awarded twenty-five honorary degrees, and a host of awards from organizations throughout the USA. His bibliography includes four books to his credit; he wrote a nationally syndicated column entitled “Viewpoint;” and many of his poems and articles have appeared in national newspapers and magazines.

Following Bond’s transition, letters and tributes poured in from friends, journalists, political and civil rights leaders who were lamenting the death of this iconic man of the movement.

Statements came from John Lewis, who said, “Julian was so smart, so gifted, and so talented . . . He was deeply committed to make our country a better country.”

President

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Obama referred to Julian as a “hero who helped change the country for the better.”

Julian’s family scattered his ashes to the sea after his untimely death on August 15, at the age of 75. The entire world will miss Julian Bond.

He leaves behind his wife, Pamela Sue Horowitz; his children, born to Julian and Alice Clopton Bond, his former wife, include Phyllis Jane Bond-McMillian, Horace Mann Bond II, Michael Julian Bond, Jeffrey Alvin Bond, and Julia “Cookie” Louise Bond; eight (8) grandchildren; his sister and brother-in-law, Jane Bond Moore and Howard Moore; his brother, James Bond (a former Atlanta City Councilman); and a host of cousins and beloved friends.

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Harold “Lefty” Encarnacion Recordada

By Cristina Richards Special To Eco Latino

Era conocido por todos como “Lefty” pero su nombre era Harold Encarnacion, pero cuando le llamaba o preguntaba por Harold su respueta siempre fue….easy is nobody here with that name…..calma aqui no hay nadie con ese nombre.

Para mi era divertido llamarlo por un nombre que no le gustaba y asi fue que empezó nuestra amistad, un día le preguntè porque no le gustaba su primer nombre y me dijo que la combinación no era Inglès ni Español era spanglish! Pensè que a lo mejor era zurdo o izquierdo pero no, Lefty era derecho….

Derecho como deben ser los amigos..una persona con un carácter de yo lo puedo hacer todo, no aprendió la técnica de delegar para poder descansar y disfrutar de la vida.

Su negocio y su familia fueron su razón de vivir trabajo fuerte junto con su esposa Millie para crecer su negocio y poder ofrecer a sus clientes todo lo que necesitaban o pedían.

Un hombre carismático con el que se podía conversar en broma y en serio que nunca dijo no a cualquier proyecto que fuera para el beneficio de la comunidad, un líder comunitario que no le gustaba ser llamado líder, hasta cierto punto tímido cuando se trataba de hablar en público, fue el pilar detrás de muchos eventos

comunitarios y dispuesto a dar la mano a quien lo necesitaba.

Un tanto “grumpy” a veces pero quien no lo es cuando eres dueño de negocio, con días buenos y a veces no tan buenos pero siempre trabajando y buscando la forma de agradar y darle el mejor menú y servicio a sus clientes. Quien no recuerda los sándwich cubanos y el especial Lefty que eran su especialidad, asi como el sabroso menú de arroz con guandules, mofongo con carne frita que Millies con ese sabor puertorriqueño nos deleito a muchos por tantos años.

Vamos a extrañar Millie’s Market y todos sus productos caribeños que nos ayudan a extrañar menos las delicias de nuestros países ya que estaban al alcance de nosotros a través del trabajo incansable de Lefty y Millie Encarnación.

Pero vamos a extrañar mucho más al hombre, al dueño, al amigo, al líder que se convirtió en eje de la comunidad al que nunca dijo no, al que siempre dio más de lo que tenía y quien sacrificó su salud por

su amor al trabajo y su responsabilidad de servir a la comunidad.

Yo personalmente voy a extrañar a mi gran amigo que siempre me apoyo en cualquier proyecto e idea, quien compartió conmigo mucho de sus planes y proyectos.

Ojala podamos honrar tu memoria siguiendo tu ejemplo y manteniendo vivo los proyectos por los que trabajastes y creistes.

Gracias Millie Carrion, por compartir a tu esposo y compañero con el resto de la comunidad Hispana, porque siempre fuiste parte de cada proyecto y por darnos tu tiempo y esfuerzo al igual que Lefty.

Amigo Lefty que Dios te reciba en su reino, oraremos por el descanso eterno de tu alma.

Tú solo has partido por delante de muchos de nosotros, un hasta luego es más apropiado hasta que nos volvamos a ver.

Descansa en Paz…Harold “Lefty” Encarnacion Tu amiga de siempre Cristina

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