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
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
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
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
Dorothy plans to continue school as she pursues her dream of opening a business Dorothy Pepper was addressing thank-you letters to donors at the Street Roots office before her interview for this profile. She has been a Street Roots vendor for just over a ...
10 Feb 2021 - Kat Wasula
‘The whole objective the whole time was to get her off the sidewalk,’ says her husband, Max This periodic column follows Street Roots vendors Max McEntire and Deanna Handley as they seek stability and a place to call home. The following essay is in the wo ...
10 Feb 2021 - Emma Nathanson
Theodore, a gardener and an inventor, is a caregiver for his uncle Theodore Sears’ familiarity with Street Roots began 10 years ago, much like many Street Roots vendors, as a customer. After buying that first paper, “I got started selling papers right awa ...
3 Feb 2021 - Robin Havenick
Street Roots hosted a broadcast of President Joe Biden’s inauguration so vendors and houseless neighbors could watch On the morning of Jan. 20, Street Roots set up computer monitors to broadcast the inauguration of President Joe Biden in the front windows ...
27 Jan 2021 - Pat Zimmer
Melissa misses the customers she interacted with regularly before the pandemic Melissa Hansen’s roots run deep in the Pacific Northwest. She has spent time in Troutdale, Portland, Seattle and Alaska. After living for 20 years in Alaska, she settled in Sea ...
20 Jan 2021 - Jessica Hamilton
Marla is grateful for her husband and their family Marla Duby rushed into this world. She was born prematurely and weighed only 1 1/2 pounds at birth, then quickly dropped down to a mere 15 ounces. She was given 24 hours to live. “I had a lot of nurses pr ...
13 Jan 2021 - Jessica Hamilton