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• Number of mental health
professionals responding in person
to students and community
members in the first day after the
Reynolds High School shooting: 98
• Humber of deaths caused by
firearms (includes suicide) in the
U.S. in 2013:31,672
• Humber of homicides in the ILS,
in 2013:16,259
• Humber of homicides using a
firearm in thè Ü.S in 2013.: 11,078
Rebuilding a
foundation
with friends
BY SARAH HANSELL
C O N T R IB U T IN G W R IT E R
hen Lòri Lematta first started
selling Street Roots in March, it
was to meet her immediate needs
— bus tickets, phone minutes, a driver’s
license, vet trips for her 10-year-old
dachshund Susie.
Now, however, Street Roots gives her a
little more than a small income.
“Street Roots and my customers keep me
going,” she said. “I wish they knew how
much I appreciate them. They’re my
foundation right now.” ;
Street Roots is one of th e stepping stones
on the way to Lori’s ultimate goal of
working in peer support through
therapeutic art. Right now, she is 1
volunteering at four organizations, gaining -
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• Humber of lay people Outside In
has trained to administer the
overdose treatment naloxone in ;
Multnomah County since July,
2013:768
• Humber of overdoses naloxone
was used to treat/reverse in
Multnomah County since July,
2013:327
» Humber of opiate-related deaths
in Multnomah County in 2011:153
• Humber of opiate-related deaths
in Multnomah County in 2013:112
• Total economic impact from the
Oregon beer industry : $2.83 billion
for Oregon’s economy
• Humber of people employed by
Oregon’s beer industry: 29,000
• Barrels of beer consumed by
Oregonians in 2012: 2.79 million
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• Humber of grape clusters for a
bottle of Willamette Valley wine: 13
• Bottles per acre of grapes
planted in the Willamette Valley,
depending on spacing: 1,513-2,118
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experience in just that. She is teaching art
at the women’s day center Rose Haven, art
journaling at Old Town Clinic, and doing
office work at Young Audiences.
“It just helps me in my mental health and
alcohol recovery,” she said. “It’s just my
process.”
Art has been a part of Lori’s life since
longer aligned with the organization’s, and
traditional gallery, where she would find
she was a little girl.
she decided it was time to head back to the
artists to show. The other gallery would
“When I was a little kid I wanted to be an
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But mental and physical health issues,
struggling with mental illness and
But I always had an eye for art, so I would
including her alcoholism, stood in the way
homelessness, and a place to show their
buy other people’s art and go to museums
of employment, and not long after she left
work.
and just learn about it through osmosis.”
her last job, her house caught on fire.
Street Roots helps her earn a little bit of
She went to community college, but after
“I just couldn’t take care of myself
income for the things she needs while she
a year, she moved to Los Angeles to learn
anymore and ended up being homeless,”
waits for housing, volunteers, takes classes
about the world.
she said.
and goes to meetings — working to get
“After going through the whole book of
Now, Lori has been living in a clean and
closer to her ultimate goals.
‘What Color is Your Parachute,’ it said I
- sober facility at Central City Concern for
“My customers are really important tp
should be a postal worker. So I threw the
more than seven months, and has been
me, especially with my depression,” she
book in the garbage and said, ‘OK, what do I sober for about a year. Her next step is
said. “Seeing my customers and even the
really like?’ And I said, ‘I like music and
hying in her own space. She’s currently on a people walking by, they reflect happiness to I
art.’”
waiting list for housing.
me.”
She signed up for an entertainment
It’s her art that helps her through some
You can find Lori outside of the Pearl
business .temp agency and worked her way
of the darker times in her life. If her dream
Bakery, from 6:30 to 8:30 in the mornings.
up at Island Records. However, when her
came true, she said, she would curate two
company was bought out, her values no
connected galleries. One would be a more .
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