Every Saturday afternoon, the community room of the Rockwood Station Apartments in Gresham bustles with activity. There are mothers with kids in tow, elderly folks with walkers and Gen Z 20-somethings all waiting for Tania Thorkelson to call out their number.
“We open it up at 12:30, and the people come and grab a number and go sit down and wait till their number is called,” she explained.
Thorkelson lives in the complex and for years has been one of the volunteers helping run the Urban Gleaners Free Food Market happening here…