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Street Roots vendor profile | Moving forward and learning from her past

Racheal has a roof over her head, but she hasn't forgotten how hard it was to survive on the streets Before Racheal Dulaney’s mother died of cancer, she made Racheal promise to leave her abusive marriage. If she didn’t, her mom said, she’d come back ...

31 Mar 2021 - Pat Zimmer
Kaia Sand | Hints of federal progress offer new hope for rectifying old failures

OPINION | The Biden administration’s child tax credit creates a floor on families’ poverty. Can we keep going? On cold concrete we lie on freezing rain and snow We hide behind our blankets, dirty tarps and tent The small and cruel can see we are weak and ...

31 Mar 2021 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots vendor profile | ‘I try to pay it forward now’

Belinda is grateful for the community and friendships she’s built through Street Roots B elinda Estermyer is one half of a sister duo selling papers for Street Roots. She and her sister, Karen Fleming, moved to Portland from Missoula, Montana, and had pre ...

24 Mar 2021 - Jessica Hamilton
Opinion | ‘I don’t have much money, but I pay for good water’

Street Roots partnered with Portland State University researchers to include vendors’ voices in a statewide study on perspectives and experiences surrounding water The Oregon Water Stories Project is an interdisciplinary team of Portland State University ...

17 Mar 2021 - Sanya Cowal and Clare McClellan
Street Roots vendor profile | A poet who has lived on the streets

Today, ‘life is good’ for Eileen, who has had an apartment since 2019 As a poet, Eileen Vizenor has built a body of work spanning the past few decades of her life. Some of her early work explores life in Portland as a homeless woman. But now that Eileen h ...

17 Mar 2021 - Robin Havenick
In memory of Daniel Campbell: A Street Roots vendor who touched many lives

‘He had a purpose and a legacy,’ writes friend and fellow vendor Dorothy Pepper Street Roots vendor Daniel Campbell died Jan. 1. In his December 2020 vendor profile, Daniel talked about how much writing and poetry meant to him and how he looked forward to ...

17 Mar 2021 - Dorothy Pepper
Street Roots vendor profile | Looking forward to cooking for friends again

Before he suffered an injury, Brian worked in his family's restaurant Brian Alton is a Portland native, but he misses the beach. “The coast is more laid back,” said Brian, who used to work at his family’s restaurant at the coast. “People aren’t rushi ...

3 Mar 2021 - Kat Wasula
Street Roots vendor profile | Conquering his fears

Vern was nervous to venture into a new space to sell papers, but he’s glad he did Two years ago, Vern was a smiling face around the Street Roots office, but he only sold papers across the street at Starbucks. That’s because Vern hadn’t left the block on N ...

24 Feb 2021 - Pat Zimmer
Street Roots vendor profile | Eager for the pandemic to end

Paulette has been selling the paper for decades and loves it Longtime vendor Paulette Bade didn’t let the February weather dampen her mood. Living in senior housing qualified Paulette to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and she was both unfazed by the rai ...

17 Feb 2021 - Jessica Hamilton
Kaia Sand | Vendors needed assistance, and you stepped up — again

OPINION | Thank you for getting income to our vendors when the storm prevented them from selling papers This past weekend, we put out a call to build an emergency income fund for the more than 200 active vendors who missed sales during the snowstorm. We a ...

17 Feb 2021 - Kaia Sand