Happy
Thanksgiving
‘City
of
Roses’
Volume XLVI • Number 47
www.portlandobserver.com
Wednesday • November 22, 2017
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Linda Colbert is thankful to
pick up some free groceries
and clothes to help her family
through difficult times on
the opening day for a new
permanent food pantry and
clothing depot on Southeast
122nd Avenue and Stark
operated by the Portland
Police Bureau’s Sunshine
Division.
Help Moves East
Sunshine Division expands to meet growing need
by d anny P eterson
t he P ortland o bserver
The increasingly impoverished popula-
tions of east Portland are getting some re-
lief this Thanksgiving season as a non-prof-
it dedicated to food and clothing services
has opened a second location.
A bustling crowd of Portlanders got out
of a downpour and huddled inside as the
Portland Police Bureau’s Sunshine Divi-
sion newest location opened last Wednes-
day from a storefront at Southeast 122nd
and Stark.
Sunshine Executive Director Kyle Cam-
berg said the expansion was only made
possible thanks “to the generosity and
continued commitment of our donors and
partners.”
On opening day last Wednesday, Tani-
sia Clark, along with a dozen or so other
volunteers, helped each patron, one at a
time, pick out two bagfuls of clean clothes
from a rack of puffy winter coats, shirts,
pants, and blazers, and then sent them to
the food section where each patron stocked
up on several bags of groceries from neatly
C ontinued on P age 5