Vendors were asked what measures they've been taking while selling papers during the pandemic "What are you doing to keep customers safe?" Street Roots vendors respond: Dan Newth “When it’s windy, I can’t let the papers sit on a stand. So w ...
30 Sep 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Joe is grateful that Street Roots is printing again so that he can earn an income For Joe V., the five months of March to August without a print edition of Street Roots was tough. By June, he was actively lobbying the Street Roots staff. “I told them, ‘Lo ...
23 Sep 2020 - Pat Zimmer
After a five-month hiatus, vendors returned to selling the weekly paper on Aug. 26 On Wednesday, Aug. 26, Street Roots vendors lined up in front of the Street Roots office an hour before it opened. The first print edition of the paper since March was comi ...
9 Sep 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Schon Tell is working toward creating a nonprofit that would get people into housing Schon Tell wants to help people get housing. An ordained minister of the Universal Life Church, he is passionate about assisting marginalized people who are having troubl ...
3 Aug 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Josephine has learned to adapt and has stayed true to herself “Everything hit me all at once,” Josephine Allen said. Josephine had been living with domestic violence for more than 20 years. Through counseling, she finally began to understand her situation ...
15 Jul 2020 - Pat Zimmer
To Jamey, customers are like guests; they’re welcome in his life Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Jamey Mork has seen people come out of the woodwork to help. One of his favorites is a group that he believes is a family, that’s started cooking ...
8 Jun 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Oregon author Connie King Leonard’s YA novel draws from her own experience as a teacher with homeless students During the 2018-19 school year, more than 22,000 Oregon students, grades K-12, were homeless. They slept on couches with extended family or frie ...
28 Feb 2020 - Pat Zimmer
If Melissa could change one thing about the work world, it would be to accommodate the diverse ways people think and work It was during the real estate bubble in the mid-2000s that Melissa Bogolubov and her husband decided to buy a house. Rent prices in S ...
27 Feb 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Scott, a homeless-rights activist and Dignity Village co-founder, does trash pickup for Ground Score and graces Street Roots’ chalkboard with his art In the past couple of years, Scott Atkins has changed his life. He’s been doing things he never thought h ...
31 Jan 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Don wants to spend his summers operating a bicycle hot dog stand. In the meantime, ‘it feels good when I sell the papers.’ Don Peterson has a big voice and a dry sense of humor. Sometimes, he said, people just don’t get him. “I try to be the comedian,” he ...
27 Dec 2019 - Pat Zimmer