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Lemonade stands get reprieve
OregonLive ^ | Updated: Thursday, August 05, 2010 | Helen Jung

Posted on 08/06/2010 4:35:36 AM PDT by Bad~Rodeo

No need to jack up the price of a glass of lemonade. Turns out kids won't have to shell out $120 for a health permit to run their lemonade stands after all.

Multnomah County's top elected official apologized Thursday for health inspectors who forced a 7-year-old girl to shut down her stand last week because she didn't have a food-safety permit.

Chairman Jeff Cogen also said he has directed county health department workers to use "professional discretion" in doing their jobs.

Inspectors told Julie Murphy and her mother, Maria Fife, to stop selling lemonade at the monthly Last Thursday arts festival in Northeast Portland last week. State law technically requires that even lemonade stands have temporary restaurant licenses, which cost $120 for one day.

Cogen said the inspectors were "following the rule book," but should consider that food-safety laws are aimed at adults engaged in a professional food business, not kids running lemonade stands.

"A lemonade stand is a classic, iconic American kid thing to do," he said. "I don't want to be in the business of shutting that down."

Cogen talked with Fife for five to 10 minutes to apologize.

Fife said she appreciated his apology after the furor and her daughter was happy because "she's starting to see it had some effect."

Fife also said a radio station has offered to sponsor a lemonade stand for Julie.

The mother and her daughter had gone to Last Thursday because it seemed like a fun place for Julie to open her first lemonade stand, said Fife, who lives in Oregon City.

But after 20 minutes of selling lemonade made from their gallon jugs of bottled water and Kool-Aid packets, a health inspector asked for their license. They didn't have one, and the inspector warned them to stop or face up to a $500 fine.

Initially, vendors at other booths encouraged them to stay, but the inspector returned with another woman. The crowd surrounded the two inspectors, who felt threatened, Cogen said. Fife and her daughter, who left the street fair crying, packed up and


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To: Bad~Rodeo
But after 20 minutes of selling lemonade made from their gallon jugs of bottled water and Kool-Aid packets, a health inspector asked for their license. They didn't have one, and the inspector warned them to stop or face up to a $500 fine.

Revenue tickets. Next time hire some illegal immigrants to sell your lemonade. No prosecution will come down.

21 posted on 08/06/2010 8:20:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Bad~Rodeo
Multnomah County's top elected official apologized Thursday for health inspectors

"We're sorry this got press..."

22 posted on 08/06/2010 8:23:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: calex59

“Anyone who thinks this 7 yo should be forced to buy a license has sh** for brains”

So true.


23 posted on 08/06/2010 10:20:00 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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24 posted on 08/06/2010 5:09:47 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo (We've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive-Ronald Reagan)
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To: VictoryGal
Sadly,

law and order republicans are contrary to liberty. That is demon-strated (like my misspelling? I think I will copyright it) time and again on issues of this nature. Where authority is concerned many Freepers are strangely compliant. It's weird and contrary to the Boston of Paul
Revere.

25 posted on 08/08/2010 2:41:50 AM PDT by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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To: Bad~Rodeo

County appologizes, but city commissioner said she thought they were right to shut down the stand.

“City Commissioner Amanda Fritz said she and Mayor Sam Adams will present a plan for Last Thursday in the next two weeks. She declined to discuss details, though she noted that vendors at Last Thursday don’t pay vendor fees, which she said is “different from any other street fair” in Portland.”

“She added she believes the health inspectors were right to shut down the lemonade stand.”

“When you’ve got 15,000 people, it’s no longer a neighborhood event, it’s a regional event,” she said. “The county has the responsibility to fairly enforce the rules on permits and food handlers’ permits.”

What a dipstick. But remember where this is happening.


26 posted on 08/08/2010 7:10:03 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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