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6 street roots Jan. 7, 2011 HOROSCOPE Capricorn (Dec. 24-Jan. 19) N o w th a t the N ew Year is over, it's tim e t o change your w icked ways. A t least u n til February. Y ou can d o it. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Stop ju m ping t o conclusions and fin d a w ay t o ta k e care o f yo u r o w n shelf. Everyone else w ill be better fo r it. So w illy o u . Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20) It'S going t o be a b rig h t and sunshiny day. Not. It's going to be c old and w e t and dark. D o n 't le t your hea rt fo llo w . J Aries (March 21-April 20)) Find Some tim e to be d eligh tful, th e w e ath er outside is f r ig h t fu l— X-mas tunes still stuck in your head. They're bette r o ff dead. Revive yo u r life w ith som e n e w tunes and g e t yo u r jin g le on already. Taurus (April 21-May 20) O ne is the loneliest num ber. T w o is th e craziest. Being alone isn't all th a t bad. Enjoy it. Y o u'll be bogged do w n soon enough. Cynical, b u t true. Gemini (May 21-June 21) YOU are th e . w in d beneath som eone else's w ings. M ake sure th e p ilo t know s exactly w h a t's happening up there in th e cockpit. No need t o fo llo w som eone on dow n. You o n ly gots one life to live. Cancer (June 22-July 22) Try to avoid puddles, and going w ith o u t a m orn ing cup o f coffee, and y o u 'll be fine. Leo (July 23-Aug. 23) Now, I'm n o t going t o say it's been all’f o r nothing, b u t n o th in g is w h a t yo u 'll g e t if you d o n 't g o fo r som ething. Virgo (Aug. 24-Sept. 22) Y o ur futu re w o u ld be a w h o le lo t clearer i f th e stars could be seen. Take co m fo rt in th e unknow n. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Thank you, thank you, th a n k you. For being ju s t th e w a y you are. Perfecto! Scorpio (Oct.24-Nov. 22) It's tim es like these w hen I w ish I had som ething fu n to say.» But I d o n 't. So, w ell, try t o fin d som e peace in th e madness. Find yo u r inner bliss. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec.23) If you continue to sw im up stream th a n all you're The dark clouds have cleared fo r ‘Rain’ BY JOANNE ZUHL can. They knew why we were homeless and what I was doing about i t They knew that this too shall pass.” for h e r in te rv ie ^ io L to ta ik so mucTT kain says shé dèâlfe With â 161 Of 1,1 about herself, but to talk about her assumptions from people while shê’s customers. To say thank you to the people vending the paper, but what is most she’s known who have helped her, and to health challenges, and, of-course, the important, even more important then Street Roots, where she has. worked selling economy wasn’t helping her chances at selling the paper, is people acknowledging the newspaper for a little over a year. And a finding a Job, she says. ? her when she says “hi.” special thanks to Frank Cobb, another ' A year and a half ago, she found herself at She also often gets asked why she sells vendor, who, when she was just starting Sisters of the Road Café, where she read the paper. out, offered her some words of advice. about selling Street Roots in the Rose City “Street Roots makes me happy: It’s my “There was a point where I was selling Resource guide. She headed down to the breath of fresh air. I feel like I’m giving Street Roots, and ho m atter what I did it office to check it out back. I'm doing something, not only for. didn’t work,” Rain says, thinking back. “I “I went there and first thing I did was myself, but for society at large ... It’s about was busting my butt and it wasn’t working. read the paper,” Rain says. “And within two educating people about what it really means And then I see Frank, and he says, minutes of reading the first article, a smile to be homeless. They need to know what ‘Perseverance, patience. Stand there and came to my face,-and I knew I wanted to do poverty looks like, what it is. Out here, 56 smile. Do your best and it will get better.’ this.” percent of people who are homeless are And i f did! He would say, ‘Hang in there. She secured a subsidized apartment, and families, like me and my girls. We’re not Smile, more!’ Next thing you know, boom, she’s now waiting for her Social Security drug addicts. We’re not abusers. I don’t someone bought a paper for $20, and I Insurance to come through. She receives even smoke cigarettes or drink coffee.” knew that I’m going to make this work.” assistance on rent, she says, but the money ' The newspaper, and others like it around Today, Rain sells outside of Zupan’s on from sales keeps her utilities turned ón Eg thé world, are changing, the world for the Belmont Avenue, where she has come to:' mandatory in subsidized housing. It means better, says Rain. “You see it in myself and having clean clothes, toilet paper, food, and know her customers and make enough the fellow vendors. I’ve seen how far my life income to support her housing. She is a a cell phone to stay connected with her has come in the y ear and a half because of little shy, but inside is a great optimist — daughters, who she says were a t her sido Street Roots.” and a jokester, as her friends will tell you: through it all, keeping her focused on For the coming year, Rain says she’s But it wasn’t too long ago that she was getting back on their feet “It’s my kids that going to continue to survive — and sell homeless, divorced and unemployed, with' gave me the strength,” shé says, with Street Roots more often, two daughters, living in and out of shelters, emotions welling in her eyes. . “I’m going to hold my head up high,” sh e. trying to find work and stability. Rain has a “My girls have always been proud of me, pledges, “And I’m going to say ‘thanks’ hearing disability, and mental and physical and they knew I was doing the best that I more.” STAFF WRITER orraine “Rain” Duchalard, site down L VENDOR PROFILE Rain Duchalard - go in g to. g e t is a boljoyv.kind o f feeling. It's OK t o n ee d others; and fo r others to need you. It takes a village, r ig h t Find th e village Answers to puzzles on page 16 VENDOR WORK ADS person inside o f you and dance the n ig h t. Cassidy Morse: Looking fo r work. 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