June 5, 2006

MC Weekly: Several plaques overlooking the gas station’s soda machine hang in silent testimony to better days for Mehdi Shahbazi. The plaques are Triple Crown awards, handed out by Shell Oil every year to its best gas station dealer from King City to Santa Rosa. Shahbazi was, Shell Oil officials acknowledged from 1986 through 1989, the best in this area. But now, Shahbazi, his wife Valerie and their two children are hanging on to the gas station by their fingernails. Since November, Shell Oil and its representative, Peninsula Petroleum, have been trying to remove Shahbazi from the Marina Shell station that he’s run for more than 20 years >>> Read
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