Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | On a search to find meaning
Street Roots vendor and avid longboarder Sheamus Kirk may be new to both longboarding and Street Roots, but he approaches both with passion and commitment. Most recently from Florida, he came to Portland and settled into working at Street Roots soon after. “When I first came to Portland, I was staying in the Connect program,…
Housing
Empty churches to serve as family shelters in East Portland
National housing nonprofit Family Promise is partnering with local churches to open shelters in East Portland by March 2022, according to Beckie Lee, board chair of Family Promise of Metro East. Family Promise hopes the new shelters will replace the gap left by their affiliated East Portland shelter Daybreak, which closed in 2017. “The reason…
News
Vaccination efforts continue in Multnomah County through community collaboration
Facing the drastic rise in cases and state restrictions that don’t preclude large groups of people from congregating, Oregon’s public health experts are getting creative in their efforts to get vaccines to demographics with lower vaccination rates. Thousands of people in Multnomah County remain unvaccinated from the coronavirus, despite the vaccine’s open availability in major…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | MoJo program provides new opportunities
The whiteboard is covered in pale red and blue sentences – “I am a living miracle,” and below that, “Good morning all.” I’m in the basement among the boxes of Street Roots archives in a makeshift classroom where Gary Barker gathered Street Roots vendors all spring for Mobile Journalism classes – the MoJo program. One…
