Few solutions left for growing homeless camp on TV Highway February 09 2021
Campers off Highway 8 near Dairy and McKay creeks reveal gaps in resources for a large homeless population.
With snow on the ground and near-freezing air making the mud hard around a small, tarp-fortified trailer, James Matney stepped outside on his 39th day off heroin.
He has been camping on vacant private property off Highway 8, or Tualatin Valley Highway, near where McKey Creek splits from Dairy Creek in Hillsboro since early December, he said.
In exchange for a cigarette, he allowed Amanda Terpening, a services coordinator at Project Homeless Connect, to ask him questions so he could be included in Washington County s annual point-in-time count.
Fai still determined after tumultuous first few weeks in office
Washington County Commissioner Nafisa Fai says she s here to deliver results.
After a trying first three weeks in office, the Washington County Board of Commissioners newest member says troubling events nationally and locally have only strengthened her resolve to fight for justice.
Nafisa Fai says she watched in frustration as rioters supportive of former President Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol building one day after she was sworn-in.
As a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant all groups that Trump disparaged during his presidential campaign and four years in office Fai said it was disheartening to see violence aimed at elected officials in Trump s name.