Despite veterans’ access to vouchers and funding, finding landlords willing to rent to them has been a challenge With approximately 360 Portland-area veterans still in need of housing, city and county officials are pleading with landlords to consider taki ...
24 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
How a gang member from Texas came to lead groups of inner city kids and veterans on fly-fishing adventures Chad Brown stood waist deep in the brisk current of the Clackamas River, just a few hundred yards upstream of the Estacada Bridge. On this temperate ...
14 May 2015 - Emily Green
Veterans use their military uniforms to create artwork and heal hidden wounds A group of Portland-area veterans is preparing to dismantle the uniforms its members wore while serving in the military – first, by shredding the fabric with scissors and box cu ...
3 Apr 2015 - Emily Green
Former Marine and member of Portland’s Veterans for Peace chapter, Dan Shea knows the lasting effects of the Vietnam War all too well. In 1977 his first child was born with a number of birth defects that he believes were the result of his exposure to Agen ...
10 May 2014 - Emily Green