Pamplin Media Group - Farm to Folk brings healthy food from Forest Grove to Portland homeless
View Comments Local volunteers whip up healthy meals for Portland's 'houseless' -- along with a dollop of human connection If it weren't for Gales Creek farmer Lise Monahan and a bitterly cold night last winter, teens Katy Schlesser , Sarah Ornelas, and Heather Monahan wouldn 't have been beating eggs, grating cheese, and chopping parsley in the Forest Grove Senior and Community Center kitchen on a hot summer afternoon . Monahan was driving her organic goat dairy wares home from the Portland Farmer 's Market last January when she stopped at a traffic light and saw a few people sleeping outside. Huddled beneath sleeping bags under a doorway on the sidewalk, they had just cardboard between their bodies and the frozen ground. Remembering someone had frozen to death in Portland just days earlier, Monahan stopped to ask if she could give the sleepers a ride to a shelter. But when she called to find which shelters were available, she learned they were all ful...