Current Issue :: July 25, 2008 :: Contents
Cover Story
Now you see us...
An old church façade. A pink sunset over the Hawthorne Bridge. A warm plate of breakfast. A tired face emerging from a sleeping bag cocoon.
These photographs, mounted in rows on long white boards, narrate their photographers’ daily lives on the street. Five men, the students in Sharon Agnor’s art class at the Julia West House day shelter, have been working on the photo essays since last winter.
Act Now
Project Homeless Connect needs volunteers
Project Homeless Connect is a biannual event created to connect our homeless neighbors in Portland and Multnomah County with needed services. Approximately 1,000 people experiencing homelessness receive the services they need from this volunteer-based program. Project Homeless Connect is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Waterfront Park near the Burnside Bridge.
Editorial
When is a reporter not a reporter?
Columns
Miyuki Sese
The Addict’s Almanac
Memorial
God bless you and all your loved ones, Roger
Roger Gates captured the hearts and minds of Portland’s Northwest neighborhood, where he sold the paper for seven years. In the two days leading up to Street Roots finding out about his death, nearly a dozen customers called the office asking where Roger was. He was loved.
