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Vendors
Street Roots • June 1 -7, 2018
with me,” he said.
Nathaniel has been a welcome addition at
many Street Roots vendor parties and field
trips, part of the ongoing health and
wellness program. The events are a way to
build community, and also to thank vendors
BY HELEN HILL
C O N T R IB U T IN G W R IT E R
for their work. Nathaniel is still talking
about his trip to the zoo when he
athaniel’s friendly, booming voice
got to see a Siberian tiger.
has brightened the front desk
Nathaniel has never had
vendor office almost daily since
a girlfriend, and he thinks
January. He sells Street Roots outside the
he would like one, he said.
Hillsdale Library.
“I’d like to go on a date and
“Street Roots gives me bus tickets to go
maybe walk around a park.
to work,” he said. “I have to go to work.
We would be home by 11
People know me there.”
p.m.,” he said.
Nathaniel was born and raised in
Southeast Portland. He is a recent graduate
of the Community Transition Program
serving special needs students following
high school. CTP supports young adults as
they transition into the community and seek
to live independent, integrated lives.
“I studied animals and wildlife at CTP,”
Nathaniel said. “My favorite animal is a
leopard, because of the spots.”
Nathaniel lives with his mother and
father, two sisters and three dogs named
Charlie, Freckles and Cloe. He has 14
cousins and he is “Uncle Nathaniel” to 10
nieces and nephews.
“They love to roughhouse and spend time
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Answers to Page 15 Puzzles
The dark
window
BY DAVID SAMSON
STREET RO O TS VEN D O R
rowing up in Portland, I never
expected to live underneath the
Hawthorne Bridge. But now, in
the morning, 5:30 a.m., I look through
the dark window north on the on-ramp
of the Hawthorne Bridge, the majestic
gateway to all things. So cool, so
Portland. But we look through the
window from the underside, dripping
with cold dark slime on this night
It’s like a telescope, looking down
into the darkness of the cards! Misery
is locked away in the shadows of
industrial grit and grime. What a sore
in the city’s social fabric and spiritual
health! So large no amount of cannabis
or tech money can hide it
It’s the embarrassing result of the
city’s 10-year plan to end homelessness,
a battle they have shoved off on the
city’s departments of transportation
and parks and recreation. It forces us to
add armed park rangers, now forced to
Self-portrait (with Bettyjo) by David Samson
deal with human rights issues that
neither department is meant to handle
or cover! It’s like sending a geological
businesses into disaster. This
continues to be a priority.
survey team to Iraq. Sure, the trucks
management posture has given our
Take a walk to the dark window,
look nice but they have zero ability to
beautiful city the underbelly of a
looking up from beneath the
do anything, just like the police of our
warzone, complete with internment
Hawthorne Bridge. Take the loud
beloved Portland.
camps and debtors prisons like they
alleyway full of garbage and excrement.
Yeah, sure it looks pretty good up on
propose for Wapato. It is the worst of
Consider it your chance to see the
top in the sun. But just underneath an
many bad ideas that have cost us
results of millions of tax dollars. Take
ugly truth lies, spreading to new parts
millions with zero results. We’ve gotten
the stairs down. It might not be the
of the city with every sweep, and
nothing but shrugs and excuses as
lowest place in the city, but it’s the best
pushing local neighborhoods and
further assurance the housing crisis
view of the truth.
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