A12 THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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‘Talk to us, and hear our story’
Redmond couple
living out of a vehicle
remain positive
Faces of
Homelessness
Who are the real people
impacted by skyrocketing
housing prices, decisions
about homeless shelters
or plans to sweep informal
camps? The Bulletin wants
to offer insight by telling
their stories through the se-
ries Faces of Homelessness.
Every two weeks this year,
Bulletin reporters will intro-
duce readers to a different
homeless person. We are
here to tell their stories.
BY JOE SIESS
CO Media Group
Redmond couple Tammy
and Calvin Edgerly, and their
dog, Dixie, loaded into a Pon-
tiac Grand Am a few months
ago, eventually pushed the car
into a parking lot, and find
themselves living unhoused for
the first time in their lives.
The Louisiana natives, who
hope to return to their home
state in spring 2023, made the
trek to Central Oregon in 2017
to be closer to Calvin’s brother.
The Edgerlys lived on the
brother’s ranch until a recent
falling out.
Despite being homeless,
Tammy and Calvin remain
positive.
To survive, the couple relies
on Calvin’s supplemental secu-
rity income, food stamps, and
money they earn from picking
up cans. For a short time, they
used their vehicle to deliver for
DoorDash, an online food de-
livery service.
But two months ago, their
car broke down. The couple
of 11 years managed to get the
vehicle to the parking lot next
to the American Legion Park
in Redmond, which is where it
remains.
During their sojourn in the
parking lot, the Edgerlys have
experienced scorn for living
the way they do. They’ve also
experienced kindness they say
has humbled them.
At one point, a man came to
the parking lot and handed the
couple $200. Sometime later,
the same man returned and
gave them $600.
“We didn’t know his name,
he didn’t say anything, he just
gave us money and left, and
we haven’t seen him since,”
Tammy said. “Kind of like a
guardian angel.”
Calvin hopes for an oppor-
tunity to shake the man’s hand
and thank him face-to-face.
He said overall, the commu-
nity has been supportive.
“The police are really, re-
ally nice to us. They have been
great; they come over and
check on us,” Calvin said. “The
sheriffs are great, everybody
has been good.”
While the couple feels per-
fectly safe in the parking lot,
for the time being, they still get
their fair share of people who
come around to express disap-
proval.
“Those people who want to
judge us, why don’t they come
to talk to us and really sit down
and hear who we are?” Calvin
said. “Talk to us, and hear our
story, before you judge me.”
Tammy said her message to
people who might judge her
and her husband is to view
them as human beings and not
as a “plague” or bad people.
“We are like everybody
else…we are human beings just
like everybody else. Just be-
cause we are homeless, doesn’t
change anything,” Tammy said.
“Walk in my shoes. I would tell
them to walk in my shoes. It
could happen to them any day,
just like it did us, or anybody
else.”
One thing about being
homeless for the first time,
Tammy said, is that it is very
eye-opening and life-changing.
While on the street she said she
has learned a lot from others
in similar circumstances, mak-
ing powerful friendships along
the way.
“It has definitely changed
us,” Tammy said. “It humbled
us.”
For Calvin, he said even
though he is homeless, he is
willing to help anybody out the
best he can.
“That is what you are sup-
posed to do out here. Help peo-
ple out,” Calvin said. “If you
are broke down on the side of
the road, I’ll come help you, I
don’t care even if I’m homeless.
I don’t care. Even if you have a
How to help
For suggestions on how to
help the region’s residents
experiencing homelessness,
contact the Homeless Lead-
ership Coalition by email at
info@cohomeless.org.
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Calvin and Tammy Edgerly at their home, a Pontiac Grand Am, in a parking lot in Redmond.
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Calvin and Tammy Edgerly in a parking lot where they live in Redmond.
million bucks, I don’t care. It’s
just who I am.”
Tammy and Calvin have
searched for housing in Red-
mond during their time in the
town, however, they were dis-
suaded from getting a place of
their own because of the ex-
cessively high housing prices,
and the long waiting times. The
couple also does not want to
spend all of their time working
just to pay sky high rents.
“If we really, really wanted
to, we could get a place here,”
Calvin said. “But we are going
to be so stressed out working
all the time, we are not going
to take any time for us and do
what we want to do.”
If everything goes as
planned, Tammy and Calvin
plan to buy a new vehicle, and
drive back to Shreveport where
their three adult children live.
Calvin’s step-children live with
the couple’s four grandchildren.
“We miss our family, our
kids; we’ve got grandkids we
haven’t seen,” Tammy added.
“We feel like we need to go
back.”
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