Raymond Thornton, your Street Roots vendor at Peet’s Coffee at Northeast Broadway and 15th Avenue, received top honors with the 2012-13 Vendor Community Award from the North American Street Newspaper Association. Thornton has sold Street Roots for the pas ...
9 Nov 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Customers rally to restore a vendor’s pearly whites It’s been months since Raymond Thornton has felt comfortable smiling. “With my teeth missing or infected all the time, I was always guarded with my smile,” says Thornton, who started vending newspapers f ...
13 Aug 2013 - Alex Zielinski
By Jake Thomas, Staff Writer Raymond Thornton turns 48 this month, but there was a time he wasn’t sure he’d see another birthday. He spent three years on the streets, battling alcohol and substance addictions before he arrived at the Clark Center in 2011. ...
18 Mar 2013 - Jake Thomas