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team members in charge of the operation
that serves Oregon medical personnel.
More and more heart went into
Heather’s intuitivie cooking, but underlying
some of her experiences were struggles
with addiction. A few years back while
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trying to get clean, Heather said she was
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given incorrect dosages at a methadone
clinic, which left her in a week-long coma.
regon native Heather Duffield will
What followed was a year-long recovery of
most likely be one of the cheeriest
souls you encounter on an early
relearning how to walk and perform other
morning in downtown Portland. Heather basic motor skills. Heather has been
typically sells Street Roots in front of the
trying to reach stable points in
U.S. Bancorp Tower on Southwest Fifth
her life so she can get back to
Avenue and Oak Street. “It’s more
focusing on what she loves.
important to me to get the smiles and the
She recently got into
hellos,” she says.
housing in a downtown
Heather has been selling Street Roots
Portland apartment
since September, a way for her to
through the help of
supplement disability income and become
Central City Concern. She
more independent. Before selling Street
is learning how to cook
Roots, Heather had made the rounds
creatively in her kitchen
working in various restaurants and kitchens
with two burners and a
in and around Portland.
microwave. Heather is
Heather watched her grandmother’s
cooking techniques while growing up,
always lucky to consume the delicious
meals made when visiting her
grandmother’s house in the Roseway
neighborhood of Northeast Portland. “Her
roast and potatoes and gravy were the best.
My grandma used to make homemade jam
and pies, I grew up on that.”
Today, Heather talks about food like an
art form. She recalls with enthusiasm the
various jobs she has held in the food
industry, all different opportunities to learn
more about her passion.
“I got my first job when I was 18 at
Round Table Pizza, I worked there two
years.”
After that, Heather worked in various
restaurants and kitchens, eventually
working her way up at Oregon Medical
Association’s in-house catering department,
first as a prep cook and later as one of the
nothing but optimistic.
“It’s a stepping stone, I’m very grateful
for what I have.” Heather hopes to
someday open up her own food pantry but,
in the meantime, she will be using friends’
ovens to make pies and other delicacies for
family functions, with one of her
grandmother’s pie recipes being a family
favorite. If you see Heather downtown
selling Street Roots make sure to say hello
for some morning cheer and cooking
inspiration.
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As it went through the sheer beauty
It moved me to wonderment that Earth
Would vanish of the power of the
Creator would be flowing through me
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Where the outside world disappeared
Hence a storm rider came into being
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