Rudy Dory, president of Newport Ave. Market, grew up in the grocery business. His folks owned a small mom-and-pop operation in a little town called Maxwell, Calif. Dory’s first job was sorting bottles for his father.

After serving in the Navy, Dory moved to Eugene in 1968 from California and started working for Albertsons, one of the nation’s largest retail food and drug chains. He moved up the management ladder and learned the business well enough to launch his own store.

In December 1976, he opened his first grocery store in La Pine and sold it in 1995. It is now a Ray’s Food Place. Then Dory came into management at Newport Ave. Market, which was under a different name at the time, in 1983. Two years later, he bought it with a partner. He took over the business independently in 1991 and renamed the store Newport Ave. Market.