Julie Sabatier

Feb 3, 2025 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jenn Chavez |Mia Estrada |Lillian Karabaic

"Everyone thinks of every ice resurfacer as though it's Zamboni. Mine is an Engo," said Tanya March, who drives the Engo at the Lloyd Center Ice Rink on Dec. 18, 2024. In our “At Work With” series, OPB talks with Pacific Northwesterners about their interesting jobs and asks them your questions about what it’s like to do what they do.

Feb 1, 2025 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jenn Chavez

Yovana Benancio works with families experiencing homelessness to help them meet their basic needs and connect them with stable housing. Benancio stands outside the Path Home building on January 9, 2025. In some ways, people experiencing homelessness are very visible in Portland. But according to Yovana Benancio, families with children are often hidden. “No one knows the true number of the families and children that are in Multnomah County that are experiencing homelessness,” she said.

Jan 20, 2025 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Noah Thomas

Jory Olson stands on Mt. Hood with his two Siberian cats, Lewis and Clark. It’s pretty common to see people including their dogs in outdoor recreation activities, but a cat? That’s a different story. Oregon Field Guide producer Noah Thomas recently met some cats who go with their people on all kinds of adventures in the great outdoors. He joins us to share their stories, and we hear from some Evergreen listeners with adventurous cats.

Dec 9, 2024 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jane Hu

Tracy Kim Townsend rests in a seating area inside Project Circle on Oct. 23, 2024. Townsend co-founded the psilocybin service center and would like to see access to the drug expanded in Oregon. Oregon law allows psilocybin therapy in licensed service centers. But what if you’re too sick to go to one? Could a licensed psilocybin facilitator come to your home and provide therapeutic services for you there? Oregon law says no. But a group of facilitators are now fighting to change that.

Dec 2, 2024 | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Kate McMahon

Grammy award winner Jon Cleary on the piano at the OK Theatre, Enterprise, Oregon, February 2023. The town of Enterprise, nestled in the northeastern corner of Oregon, has a population of about 2,000 people and it’s pretty isolated. (You have to go 60 miles to get to the nearest traffic light.) Ten years ago, Darrell and Christi Brann bought the 100-year-old OK Theatre in Enterprise and began reimagining it as a live music venue.