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VENDORS ALBERTA STREET NEWS PAGE 2 the Cover of the Paper Volume 14 Issue 9 September 2017 VENDORS ALBERTA STREET NEWS PAGE 2 the cover of the paper. Alberta Street Vendors All!! News vendors work as entrepreneurs – they buy as many papers as they ALBERTA STREET By Linda Dumont need for 50 cents per copy, then sell If you are reading this, them for the price of a donation. They NEWS you have probably also choose their location, and can Founder/Publisher/ met an Alberta work on any public sidewalk, or even Editor, Design and layout: Street News on private property if they get permis- Linda Dumont vendor on the sion from the owner. They keep the street, and pur- money they earn from paper sales. Writers: chased a paper. Our Alberta vendors face many Your support Maria B. barriers to employment. Some are for our vendors mentally or physically challenged John Zapantis is important, and Joanne Benger with mental illness and chronic health I would like to ex- problems, some have prison records Sharon Austin press my thanks to all and/or lack of education that make Lindsay Houston of our Alberta Street News customers. finding employment difficult. Vending Linda Dumont Many of you also help our vendors provides the flexibility to choose your Angelique Branston in other small ways that are so im- own working hours, so even if the Eliza Rossignoli portant. – buying a cup of coffee, or vendor struggles with severe physi- Carmxtli Ortiz simply stopping by for a chat. cal limitations, he or she can work in INSP News Service Alberta Street News is made pos- those small window of time when he Dond Ola Tilseth sible through donations and ads like or she feels ok. our back page city council ad but with Katherine Smyrk For those who are living with ad- the upcoming civic election, once Vivian Risby dictions, vending helps improve self more the future publication of the esteem. As one vendor, who was ad- paper is threatened. The September is- dicted to alcohol, said, “I can buy my Photos: sue could be the last issue for a while, booze. I don’t have to steal or panhan- Linda Dumont so if you see vendors selling the same dle to get the money for my beer.” Maria B. paper in October, that is why. It costs Over the past thirteen and a half John Zapantis roughly $650 a month for printing years we have lost many vendors. Mikayla Webster costs. More than 35 of our vendors have INSP Street News Service The one thing that distinguishes passed away. For some, vending was street newspapers from other daily, a job they could do even though they Cover photo: weekly and monthly newspapers is were very ill. We have had vendors that they are sold by vendors on the Vendors selling papers from wheel chairs, or street. Content, language, and size seated on their walkers. Nick Diklich, may vary. In this issue, stories about Deadline for October issue a Calgary vendor, sold from his wheel street newspaper vendors from dif- chair until he suffered a stroke and September 15, 2017 ferent countries around the world had to move into a nursing home. are featured. The countries they call Robert Champion lost his wife five Alberta Street News home differ, but the stories have many years ago and has not done well since. 9533-106A Avenue similarities – they reveal the struggle The last I heard, he was homeless, and Edmonton, Alberta, to survive; the struggle with illness, he has not been in touch for months. T5H 0S9 with addictions, with homelessness There have been some success sto- 780-975-3903 and other challenges. ries – vendors who have sold papers [email protected] For some, vending is a way to top then gone on to other employment. I up insufficient fixed income from Web: met an ex vendor recently, who told pensions, welfare, or part time em- albertastreetnews.org me she is working as a security guard. ployment; for others it is their only Another one is employed distribut- source of income. In some countries, ing papers with Metro. Writer John like Germany, vending is considered Zapantis sold street papers back in the THE VIEWS PRESENTED employment, and the vendors even 90’s and still does occasionally, but has ARE THOSE OF THE pay income tax on their earnings. gone on to support the paper through CONTRIBUTORS. Other newspapers, like the one in his writing and other initiatives. Athens, have a set price printed on ALBERTA STREET NEWS PAGE 3 Rose Gascon ing papers. They put her in the Real Change guest room – even though “they Seattle, USA) have basement,” By Lindsay Hueston, Real Change she says. But the If there’s any vendor who deserves generosity of Rose’s a cup of coffee in the morning, it’s customers knows Rose Gascon. no limits: she also Rose’s daily itinerary consists of stayed at a cus- commuting from Issaquah to Ballard, tomer’s apartment selling Real Change most mornings in West Seattle for at the Trader Joe’s there, commuting four months. back to Issaquah and working another Though Rose job at Ross Dress for Less at night. now lives in Is- “I have no time to sleep very long saquah, she sold — when I’m in Ballard before 11:30, at the Trader Joe’s almost 12, then I just pick my things, in West Seattle for and then it’s 12 already before I lay several months, down [at night]. And then at 5 I will and has switched get up and take shower before I go sell stores several my papers. But I am happy to be part times due to long of Real Change, because I see my life commutes from change. Loneliness to happiness, it’s Issaquah. Her always nice to be in.” customers, though, Rose has felt that loneliness several no matter where times over the past few years. Im- she sells, have migrating from the Philippines, she’s remained loyal and been in the U.S. “for six years on support her as she March 14!” sells. Before she immigrated to the “[They say to states, Rose lived in the Philippines me], ‘You know, and was an administrative secretary you make us happy “He is very nice, he was the one who for Dole — like the bananas. Then, if you are here with us. Every [person] trained me, and [taught me] how to she lived abroad with her husband, coming — ‘Rose, you okay? You want talk to the customers.” a chemical engineer and professor at coffee?’ They are very nice to me, just “It’s been really hard for me since universities in Oman and the United like that, and then I stop and I leave, my husband passed away. Your prob- Arab Emirates. and they drop me in my apartment, lem — nobody can solve your prob- “Seventeen years we stayed there, and I will change my uniform to go on lem if you have a problem. It was very until my husband had a high blood the bus again. That’s why I am happy hard for me when I came here and it’s stroke.” He passed away a few years at Trader Joe’s now.” good that I have a chance to join Real ago, and though Rose feels lonely Rose really enjoys the high level of Change. I see my life change because without him, she’s been struck by the community support at her selling lo- of selling papers … but I do love Real power of the community around her cations and the fact that the customers Change, because I see my life change. who have helped to fill in those gaps. and managers want her around. She I become happy.” “I have experience also of sleeping owes her success to a close friend who outside. Not very long, because the is another Real Change people care for me and they don’t vendor — “always guiding want me to live like that; one family in me where I stay because Issaquah, they have a big house – so he knows that I know how many times I’ve moved to another to talk nicely to people place because they say, you come to and sell my paper” — and my h ou s e .” former Real Change staff Rose stayed there for four months, member Alex Becker — and she met the family through sell- ALBERTA STREET NEWS PAGE 4 ly. I had devoted myself but no! You can knit with your to them and didn’t fully fingers! live my own life. Saving money has been good for me. Before, I was selling the Then, four years ago, magazine and doing well, but I I came with my mum spent this money on parties. I never VENDORS and sister to Mexico thought about saving… Here we City to celebrate the festivals. My never think about tomorrow. But mum returned home but, as fate you must have discipline – like the Camaxtli would have it, I couldn’t go. Now Japanese! I’m living my life by hook or by In the future I’d like to be emo- Ortiz crook, but I’m definitely living it. tionally stable, and physically too, In the shelter I’ve learned to value because I’ve had problems my kid- (Mi Valedor, myself as a human being, and to neys and heart. I would like to have motivate myself. house, a car and my own business Mexico City, Through the magazine Mi that I could share with my friends. Valedor I’ve learned more, like how I hope that it could happen very Mexico) to live with a lot of people.
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