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Street Roots vendor profile: A father-daughter team

John is proud that Tabetha is selling Street Roots, and she is grateful for her dad's support John and Tabetha Smith are a father-daughter vending team. John has been a vendor for about a year. He sells at the Starbucks across from the Pixie Project ...

3 Jan 2020 - Helen Hill
Life on the Streets: Family – a subject too painful for words

Losing family and friends as a result of homelessness can be more devastating than losing housing For the past year, Street Roots’ Life on the Streets series has dealt with the many issues people living in extreme poverty may experience. Our vendors have ...

27 Dec 2019 - Helen Hill
Street Roots vendor profile: Dreams of running a business

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
Street Roots vendors share their gratitude and hopes for the new year

They're grateful for support, shelter, life and opportunities Marty Sledge: I am grateful for being alive and having friends and family that are supportive. It is a blessing to have a place to come and have some soup. John Smith: I am grateful to ...

27 Dec 2019 - Street Roots
Street Roots vendor profile: I want to give the world a hug

Pops is proud to be earning money through Street Roots, as well as by making and selling bracelets James “Pops” Duby is a father, a vendor, an entrepreneur, a poet, a husband and a friend. He earned his name Pops because he parents 15 or so kids on the st ...

20 Dec 2019 - Jessica Hamilton
Remembering Lori De Tie and her zest for life

A memorial for Lolo is planned at the Street Roots office Lori De Tie: March 26, 1976- Dec. 2, 2019 Lolo was born in Portland on March 26, 1976, to Mary K. Hoskinson, weighing 6 pounds, 10 ounces, and 21 inches long. She was speaking 26 words before she w ...

20 Dec 2019 - Street Roots
The house that Vern – and you – built

DIRECTOR'S DESK | Vern didn't like to branch out – until he found a safety net at Street Roots The gingerbread house that Vern built resides on the Street Roots office counter next to where vendors buy newspapers each day for a quarter each. Th ...

20 Dec 2019 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots vendor Tina is college bound

Her experience at Street Roots has inspired her to study journalism Street Roots vendor Tina Drake is going back to college. And she wants everyone to know that homelessness doesn’t have to stop anyone from moving forward. “If you put your mind to it, yo ...

13 Dec 2019 - Helen Hill
Street Roots vendors get ready for their close-up

Photographer Alan Borrud periodically sets up a mini-studio at the Street Roots office, aiming to capture ‘a photo they feel good about’ If you’re a regular reader of Street Roots, you’re familiar with the gorgeous portraits of vendors we feature each wee ...

6 Dec 2019 - Street Roots
Life on the Streets: Public transit

Some Street Roots vendors say they’ve seen TriMet inspectors profile homeless people Ever since Portland’s TriMet made the decision in October to ramp up fare enforcement on MAX trains and add nine new inspectors, there’s been a lot of concern among those ...

29 Nov 2019 - Helen Hill