street roots
6
Aug. 29, 2014
Making
an honest
dollar
♦ Humber of public skateparks in
Portland: 7
BY SARAH HANSELL
S T A F F W R IT E R
• Estimated number of skateboarders in
Portland: 27,260
• Cost of tine for skateboarders under
age of 18 not wearing a helmet: $25
• Humber of participants in Portland
Sunday Parkways events in 2013:
85,480
• Number of Sunday Parkways events
held in 2013:4
• Years of operation of Sunday
Parkways: 7
rank Quiroga’s ultimate goal is to
open a Native American restaurant
that features the dishes his auntie
taught him to make — Indian tacos, fry
bread, deer meat, buffalo and seafood.
“I want to ... have a story of each tribe’s
background and history with a picture of
tribe members and their regalia,” he said.
Frank is a member of the Alaskan Native
Tlingit tribe and hopes they will help pay for
culinary and business management classes,
and provide start-up money to open a
restaurant.
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V E N D O R ,P R O F IL E
• Total number of organizations,
.
businesses and neighborhoods Sunday
Parkways worked with in 2013:488
• Humber of volunteers for 2013
Sunday Parkways: 870
- ,
• Total number of volunteer hours for
the events: 4,655
• Total cost of 2013 Portland Sunday
Parkways: $439,999 -
• Humber of mti^B-Ling.doilxgiy...........
service has gone since its founding in
2009:12,000
• Humber erf deliveries made by B-Line
since 2009:10,000
• Carrying capacity of a B-Line delivery
bike: 800 pounds
• Pounds of organic produce delivered
by B-Line since 2009:400,000
City of Portland; Portland
Parbs and Recreation; Portland Sunday
Parkways 2013 Report, City of Portland,
B-Line
Frank Quiroga
"(It’s) more than likely if I can give them
a good proposal and show them the plans,
step-by-step plans, of how I’d run the
restaurant,” he said.
His wife and brother both support his
idea.
“(My brother) really supports me and
thinks it’s a good idea, and when I get
discouraged about thinking it might not
happen, h ekeeps reminding me to just stay
positive and keep working on it and it’ll
eventually happen,” he said.
Currently. F rank jinci his wife pf .eight
years don’t have ,a place to live. They use
Frank’s income from selling Street Roots to
get a hotel every night they can. The couple
and their five-year-old son used to live with
Frank’s mother-in-law. Two months ago,
however, she moved to North Dakota to be
with her ailing mother. They gave her
temporary custody of their son because
they didn’t have a place to stay.
“He asks to be with us and it’s hard for .
us to explain that we’re homeless,” he said.
“He does (know), but I don’t think he really
understands.”
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Frank lost his job as a certified flagger,
partly because he could no longer use his
mother-in-law’s vehicle for transportation.
So he and his wife moved to Portland — and
away from temptation.
“For a long time I hid from (from m y'
wife) that I was using drugs. She found out
one day, and I really loved her, so I quit,” he
said.
That was17 sformonths ago, and he hasn’t
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“It’s not worth losing her or not being
able to talk to my son,” he said.
Being in Portland, however, definitely
makes it easier for Frank to stay sober. “Up
there I knew too many people and too many
temptations,” he said.
Frank lost stable housing for Hie first
time at a young age. His m other died when
he was 11, leaving him and his younger
brother to live with his grandmother.
“The money my grandma was getting for
taking in me and my brother was barely
enough to keep one of us in school clothes
and whatnot, so I pretty much went to the
streets and let my brother get the better
lifestyle and better upbringing,” lie said.
He stayed with friends and relatives, and
checked in with his grandmother about once
a month. He fell in with the wrong crowd,
he said.
“Honestly, the only good thing l ean say
about that is I got that all out when I was
real young, so by the time I hit 17, 1 8 ,1
realized that wasn’t the way to go and pretty
much worked odd jobs from there.”
Now he works selling Street Roots hoping
to eventually work toward getting an
apartm ent and fulfilling ,his goal erf opening
his own restaurant
“That’s one of my main reasons for
selling Street Roots, to help provide for both
of us,” he said. “It keeps me busy so I don’t
get tempted and fall back into old ways. It
actuallyfeels good to make an honest |
dollar.”
Frank sellá Street Roots outside World
Foods in the Pearl District.
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