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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
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