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KGW News, Oct. 31, 2013 When her Greyhound bus pulled into town 6 months ago, Maria Castillo got off with two bags and dream. “Start over, start a new life,” said the 42-year-old. Castillo had been homeless in San Diego when a social worker offered her a one-way bus ticket to Portland. “They said come […]
By Denis C. Theriault, The Portland Mercury, Oct. 23, 2013 I got lucky, they said as they helped me with my things. I had picked a good weekend. Relatively speaking. Sure, it’d be chilly—and it already was by the time I was dropped off with my two big Ikea bags, holding a tent and a […]
By Denis C. Theriault, Portland Mercury, March 01, 2012 It was about 9pm on a blustery, rain-soaked Tuesday night — and, yet, thanks to a horde of Mardi Gras revelers, Old Town was unusually festive. Precisely what happened next isn’t exactly clear, but the basic inflections of the story, told by a handful of different […]
By David Stabler, The Oregonian, Friday, February 24, 2012 Hours before they bedded down Tuesday night under the Morrison Bridge, Carter “Joe” Hickman and Albert “Allen” Dean, sought shelter at an Old Town homeless tent area, said Ibrahim Mubarak, who runs the shelter. They were turned away for lack of room — an increasingly common […]
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