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Street Roots • Aug. 14-20, 2015 Vendors Page 6 VENDOR PROFILE Only Time w ill Tell by Don Grubb Maddy BrowibClark Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Pain long forgotten, lesson learned, Joy or Sorrow BY CHRISTINE MENGES STAFF WRITER addy Brown-Clark has always been surrounded by music. When she was a baby, Clark’s mother and her mother’s cousin would dance around while cradling her in their arms. As she grew older, music continued to play an important role in her life. Her father collected jazz and blues records, and played them often. In addition to loving music, Clark has also always loved to write. One way she combined her interests was during her senior year of high school, when she was a regular music performer on a TV news talk show in Spokane, Wash. Nowadays, Clark can be found mostly in downtown Portland, especially near the library, her favorite place to be. “Move the library. I hang out there all the time. I check out all these library books and keep checking them out over and over again so I can get through them all/ she said. Clark also still likes to perform, singing and playing guitar with a friend and collecting tips from pedestrians. Clark says that being part of Street Roots has given her a sense of belonging, both within the organization and in the greater community. “I like it because you get to relateto a lot oFdifferent people. Some of them wifi *sidp “It^reaUy sad to see people lying down and talk to you and stuff and get to know on the streets, sleeping in cardboard and your riame,” she said. sleeping bags and stuff,” she said. But homelessness is often isolating, she One thing she wishes people understood says, and finding other vendors within is that homelessness is not a choice, that Street Roots has offered Clark a chance to circumstances have made people homeless, connect with people with similar and that if they had another option, they experiences. would definitely take i t Additionally, Clark believes that Street In one of the short stories Clark has Roots also helps educate people about written, titled “Under The Bridge,” she homelessness. created a character named Street Angel who Past, Present, Future lost opportunities, choices await,J Onward with hope, this is for sure. M Yet by Nala Sloping Shoulders naturally impeccably upright, yet somehow bent forward in a walk embracing life yet closed was homeless but was an advocate for the homeless, and designed a system where the government would use vacant buildings as shelters. - “So I would like to see something like that done, any kind of old buildings that they want to get rid of, or that don’t have anything going on in them, use them to house homeless people in Portland,” she said. o CENTRAL C ITY COFFEE iMnkwM. ¿bo-good. Sourcing & roasting craft coffee to benefit programs at Central City Concern. IN STORES New Seasons Market, Whole Foods, Foocl Front Cooperative Grocery, Green Zebra, Chuck's Produce and Will Leather Goods, L p s 9 6 i 2 £ 8 9 8 2 £ 6 1 8 2 £ L S p p s L 6 i 9 £ p 2 s 6 8 L 9 S 6 £ 9 1. p L 2 8 6 8 L p 9 Ï 2 £ S 9 2 p 8 6 £ S Z 6 8 £ Z 9 9 I. 2 s z p t 2 £ 9 8 p 6 AT YOUR OFFICE Interested in serving Central City Coffee at your office? Get in touch w ith us and we can help you make that happen. 503.226.7387 ON OUR WEBSITE Buy Central City Coffee online and have it shipped directly to you o r a friend. Follow our Fafcebook page fo r updates and specials. bsm / zr centraldtycoffee.org. 1acebobk.com/CentralCityCoffee coffee@cceoneerri.org f/z
