Street Roots vendors work hard in the summer. It’s not easy. Being homeless in the summertime isn’t any fun. Longer periods of daylight are a welcome sign for many Portlanders, but for many people on the streets it can mean going long stretches of time wi ...
10 Jul 2014 - Israel Bayer
The Jade District, the neighborhood center located around Southeast 82nd Avenue and Division Street, is literally boxed in by major transportation corridors: Southeast 80th Avenue to the east, outer Southeast Powell Boulevard to the south, 93rd Avenue to ...
10 Jul 2014 - Luann Algoso an...
Ly Tran* is washing dishes when I arrive at her house. She wears a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants with neon green lines running up the leg, her short black hair bobbing up and down as she wipes dry a plate. Her quiet demeanor contrasts with the slew of br ...
10 Jul 2014 - Samantha Lew
• Tons of food generated by the Waterfront Blues Festival to benefit Oregon Food Bank since the festival started in 1988: 800 • Amount raised in last year’s Waterfront Blues festival: $1.3 million • Number of meals they could buy with that money (estimate ...
5 Jul 2014 - Street Roots Staff