Vendor Profiles
Vendor profile: Making a pitch for new beginnings
By Erin Fenner, Contributing Writer Darryl Goeas, 48, is homeless for the first time in his life. “It’s been kind of scary,” he said. In August, he moved from Reno, his home for 13 years, looking for work. When a job fell through, he was left in Portland’s city center, not knowing where to sleep…
Vendor profile: Volunteering keeps vendor connected
By Cole Merkel, Staff Writer Every Thursday, Street Roots vendor William Adams helps make bologna and cheese sandwiches for Operation Nightwatch, a hospitality center he has been a community member of for more than three years. He began making the sandwiches five months ago. “I walked into it,” William says. One afternoon there was a…
Opinion
What better time of year for us to list our ‘gratefuls’
by Melissa Favara, Contributing Columnist So, we had a spontaneous deep bedroom cleaning today. We sorted clothes for Goodwill and hand-me-downs for little Maret down the street; we excavated year-old New Yorkers and dust cattle from beneath our bed; we even found a dusty pacifier down there — as our Ramona, the owner of the…
A room with a view: One year on in housing
By Leo Rhodes, Contributing Columnist Dec. 7, 1941, is a day that will live infamy, as President Roosevelt put it. Coming from Arizona, this day was and still is a big date as the USS Arizona became the first ship to sink into Pearl Harbor that December morning. In the Northeast corner of Arizona is…
