Vendors
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INNENOXUAM
VENDOR PROFILE
Bill Whicher
Stu Sugarman
C Constitutional
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'rights lawyer and
civil liberties
champion Stu
Sugarman passed
away March 28. His
passing came as a
surprise for many in
the activist and social
justice community,
which is remembering Sugarman as a
friend to the underdog, a lover of nature
and an inspiration to all.
He was also a customer of Street Roots
vendor Marlon Crump, who remembered
his friend this way:
“Stu Sugarman has been a great
supporter of myself and Street Roots. Stu
was also a true friend. He never failed to
pass me with a warm smile, even on a wet
and rainy day. He once gave me his own
umbrella to stay dry. He was greatly
admired and respected by his loved ones
and peers. Rest in peace, Stu Sugarman.
May: God guide you on your journey.”
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ill Whicher has a career that reads
like the economic headlines, only
more personal.
He was born in Portsmouth, N.H., and
grew up racing sailboats and water-skiing at
the family lake house.
Bill attended University of New
Hampshire for two years, enlisted with the
Navy for six months and was honorably
discharged for a medical condition. When he
returned home, he found a job at
Montgomery Ward. There, he met
someone, got married and had three boys.
To support his young family, he looked
for better jobs. He entered the Navy’s
civilian apprentice program, which serviced
submarines and required four years of
training.
During his apprenticeship, the Cold War
ended and the Soviet Union broke up.
Bill said: “The same month I
graduated with high honors, I got
laid off from the shipyard along
with several other hundred. It was
’92. Downsizing. I was on
unemployment, and I had three
little kids at home.”
Bill found jobs assembling
printing presses and laying
fiber optic cable. He also wired
and designed control panelsfor .
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seven years.
He most enjoyed his work as a technical
support person at a manufacturing
company.
“That was an interesting job,” he said.
. “We provided technical support for solder
reflow machines. It was nothing to pick up
the phone and call China, Hong Kong or
Mexico.”
During that time, the dot-com bubble
burst and manufacturing took a downturn.
“I was there 11 months and the bottom
fell out of the electronics industry right
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afterward, he and his wife divorced.
After a couple of years on his own, he
met his fiancée, and last year, they moved to
Portland for the weather and to be near his
fiancée’s daughter.
On a typical day, Bill sells Street Roots on
the Portland State University campus, at
Starbucks in the morning and near the food
court in the afternoon. In between shifts, he
helps his fiancée, who is disabled, move
from the Salvation Army Female Emergency
Shelter to the library, where she is more
comfortable and out of the rain.
Selling Street Roots gives Bill the
flexibility to help his fiancée and provides
money for public transportation.
“Right now my focus is my fiancée,”
Bill said. “With us being homeless, I
haven’t been able to get to work
because I can’t leave her alone. She’s
in crutches, and so I help her out.
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around early 2000,” he said. “I was the last
one hired, and I was the first one to go. We
had four people in our department, and two
of us had to go. Just was not enough work.”
Bill found a job framing and roofing
houses and apartment buildings. He worked
eight years for the company, moving up to
lead foreman.
Then the housing market crashed
in 2008.
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