[...]Daphne Weaver shopped for back-to-school clothes not at a mall but in the Sunnyside Environmental School cafeteria. Nothing sparkled like new. But plenty of perfectly good, gently used shirts, pants, jackets and shoes were sorted by size.

The annual back-to-school swap, hosted by the Sunnyside Swap Shop Co-op in [...]

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A win-win deal for church, community

by Rebecca Koffman, The Oregonian Thursday October 02, 2008, 12:04 AM

BRENT WOJAHN/THE OREGONIAN Karen Hery, coordinator of the Sunnyside Swap Shop Co-op in Southeast Portland, plays with 20-month-old Henry Ehn in the cooperative's outdoor play area.

Karen Hery moved to Portland from San [...]

[...]If you’re looking for some good news in these all-too-depressing economic times, check out what’s been going on over the past few months on the corner of Southeast 35th Avenue and Yamhill Street.

In a once decaying space in the grand old Sunnyside United Methodist Church, for 12 hours a [...]