Street roots
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Sept. 28, 2012
Stronger
By Holly Cat Sheriff
You can’t love
Can’t feel
Can’t cry
Can’t heal
You just go along, in your evil way
Pretending, it’s not this way
Wannabe, so hot
There’s a lot of things your not
You went too far
Your never coming back
I have something you won’t
Something you lack
I can love
I can feel
P H O T O B Y K R Y S T IN A W R IG H T
A new kind of food c a rt
I can cry
And I can heal
S TA FF REPORTS
entral City Concern, the city’s largest low-income housing and
social service organization, has partnered with My Street
Grocery, a new mobile grocer, to bring affordable, healthy food
directly to Central City Concern’s tenants.
The program launched Sept. 24, with its cart open for business at
Northwest Broadway and Couch, near the majority of Central City
Concern’s buildings.
“Poverty contributes greatly to poor health” said Ed Blackburn,
CCC Executive Director, in a statement on the new program. “Healthy
nutrition is a significant factor in supporting the well-being of our
clients, especially those dealing with chronic conditions such as pain,
depression and diabetes.”
“Bringing My Street Grocery to our population will give them an
important opportunity to address their health challenges through
healthy nutrition, a great non-pharmaceutical option,” said Geoff
Sittler, Occupational Therapist for CCC’s Old Town Clinic.
My Street Grocery is a community mobile grocer with a mission to
increase fresh food access for all. My Street Grocery pop-up markets
are now found in 12 locations throughout the Portland Metro area. The
markets sell fresh, seasonal produce, staple grocery items like milk,
eggs, and bread, as well as meal kits that include all of the whole
ingredients and the recipe card to prepare a at home. Markets are
always open to the public, and accept cash, credit and debit cards, and
food stamp cards.
“We believe that eating well is an important and fun step toward a
healthy, happy lifestyle. Central City Concern’s mission to provide
clients with pathways to self-sufficiency marries perfectly with our
goals,” said Amelia Pape, co-founder of My Street Grocery.
Central City Concern and My Street Grocery first came together
through their involvement in Portland State University’s Social
Innovation Incubator. Central City Concern has been working with the
SII to launch a new social enterprise that will employ its formerly
homeless clients in the coffee industry.
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