County apologizes for closing girl's lemonade stand
by KGW.comPosted on August 6, 2010 at 4:21 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Multnomah County chair Jeff Cogen personally apologized Thursday to the mother of a seven-year-old girl whose Last Thursday lemonade stand was shut down by county health inspectors.
Julie Murphy, 7, of Oregon City set up a lemonade stand during the popular art fair on NE Alberta Street on July 29.
Multnomah County health inspectors were patrolling at the street fair and forced the entrepreneurial girl to shut down her stand because she did not have a food handler's license.
On Thursday, Multnomah County chair Cogen said that, although the health inspectors were following the rules, there's also a place for exercising judgment about applying those rules.
"I don't think shutting down a seven-year-old's lemonade stand is where we want to be as a county," said Cogen.
Cogen called Julie's mother on Thursday to apologize.
Cogen himself had a lemonade stand as a kid, he told KGW, and his kids have, too.
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by KGW.comPosted on August 6, 2010 at 4:21 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Multnomah County chair Jeff Cogen personally apologized Thursday to the mother of a seven-year-old girl whose Last Thursday lemonade stand was shut down by county health inspectors.
Julie Murphy, 7, of Oregon City set up a lemonade stand during the popular art fair on NE Alberta Street on July 29.
Multnomah County health inspectors were patrolling at the street fair and forced the entrepreneurial girl to shut down her stand because she did not have a food handler's license.
On Thursday, Multnomah County chair Cogen said that, although the health inspectors were following the rules, there's also a place for exercising judgment about applying those rules.
"I don't think shutting down a seven-year-old's lemonade stand is where we want to be as a county," said Cogen.
Cogen called Julie's mother on Thursday to apologize.
Cogen himself had a lemonade stand as a kid, he told KGW, and his kids have, too.
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