It’s not over ‘til the zaftig goddess sings.  Until December 31 you can have your donations matched 50 cents on the dollar!  And if you’re a new donor you’ll be matched an additional 1:1 thanks to the Collins Foundation - so for every dollar you donate, we’ll receive $2.50!


Our office at 618 NW Davis st. will be uncharacteristically open on Saturday and Sunday, December 30 and 31 to recieve your generous donations.  We are at 80% of our goal now; with your help, we’re sure to meet it over the next two weeks.


They money we make over November and December supports our work all year.  Thank-you so much for your touching love and belief in us, and all of your creativity and passion for helping others!

Tickets for this year’s Winterfolk concert, Saturday, February 3, are now on sale!  Winterfolk will again be held at the historic Aladdin Theater, and Utah Phillips, amazing national story-telling treasure and ‘Golden Voice of the Great Southwest’ is once again headlining.  The fabulous lineup (pictures of musicians at right) will be: Mary Flower, Dan Wetzel/Kristin Granger, Tom May, Mark Ross, Utah Phillips, Kate Power/Steve Einhorn, and the Casey Neill Band. Thank-you to these great performers who are generously donating their time, and to our Director Tom May!

Winterfolk Tickets are now available at Ticketmaster outlets, the Aladdin Theater (503) 233-1994, and both Music Millennium stores (801 NW 23rd Ave. and 3158 E. Burnside).  Tickets cost $26 advance and $28 on the day of the show, plus there may be fees: the Aladdin box office charges $1.00 for cash/check transactions and $2.00 fee for Visa/MC; Ticketmaster charges $4.00-$7.00; there are no fees at Music Millennium. The theater is intimate so get your tickets early!

Guitar Raffle tickets are on sale now for $10, both at Sisters’ office at 618 NW Davis, and lovely Artichoke Music at 3130-A S.E. Hawthorne Boulevard!  The raffle is as important a fundraiser for Sisters as Winterfolk itself, and we thank Artichoke for their wonderful participation in the raffle this year. The guitar is a brand new L-00V Woody Guthrie-style guitar hand-crafted by John Greven. To learn more about this beautiful guitar, Click here to learn more. You can also see this beauty at John Greven’s website. Thank-you John and Artichoke Music!

Today, December 15, is Customer Appreciation Day at Sisters!  Did you know that Customer Appreciation Day is the only free meal day we serve?  One day out of the year, we show our customers how much we appreciate them by serving an extra-delicious, free meal, served to them with volunteer help instead of asking them to barter-work.


The rest of the year, people must pay for a meal with $1.25, meal coupons, 15 minutes of barter work, or food stamps; except if they cannot pay and are too disabled to work or cannot work due to child-care responsibilities.  Even then, most of those meals are paid for through the barter work of other customers who donate their time for those less fortunate even than they.  Aren’t our customers amazing and truly worthy of appreciation? 

Check out this week’s issue of Willamette Week and their Give! Guide. Readers can win prizes and incentives when they donate to Sisters Of The Road or other nonprofit groups, until December 31.

At right, that’s Richard Meeker and Mark Zusman, lo these many years ago, orchestrating the birth of their illustrious weekly!  This year, everyone who donates through the Give! Guide will receive:

• discount coupon for American Apparel
• a cup of joe at Stumptown
• a tin of Powell’s After Reading Mints
• a booklet of Music Millennium New Year’s coupons
• and, while they last, a copy of WW’s Finder magazine

Give $250 or more and:

• Publisher Richard H. Meeker will personally deliver a pound of coffee, a six-pack of beer, and a bottle of fine wine from E&R Wine Shop!

Make the biggest gift and get:

• dinner for two with Meeker and WW’s editor, Mark Zusman, at your favorite restaurant!

All donors have an equal shot at:

• deluxe edition of the Johnny Cash box set (a $300-plus value from Music Millennium)
• chef’s dinners for two at clarklewis

So Give! Give! Give!  Thank-you Willamette Week!

If you’re planning on grocery shopping this Saturday, consider heading out to Food Front Co-op Grocery (2375 NW Thurman St.) and saying ‘hi’ to Sisters’ volunteers who will be tabling Saturday morning, December 16, from 9-11am.

It’s a great store, if you’ve never been, and they also sell our blue Meal Coupons to give to panhandlers.  Horay tablers!  Horay Food Front!

Bolt Fabric Boutique on Alberta in NE Portland is auctioning off a bodacious, frilly white blouse with adorable red skull patterns at their store through December.  It’s sooo cute!

Go to Bolt, possibly the hippest fabric store ever, and make yer bid known.  Thanks Gina Cadenasso - you’re the rockenist!  Bolt is at 2136 NE Alberta St · Portland, OR 97211.  (503) 287.bolt.

Steve Einhorn and Kate Power

Mary Flower

Casey Neill

Tom May and his trio

Kristen Grainger and Dan Wetzel with their band True North

Mark Ross