Portland mayor’s Sunday routine: Pick up trash, report derelict RVs, repeat

Published on: 04/17/2026

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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson picks up garbage along northbound Interstate 5 near the Delta Park exit on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Wilson uses his weekly Sunday drives to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson during his weekly Sunday drive around Portland on April 12, 2026. Each week, Wilson uses his 2023 electric Ford F-150 to load up roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson uses dictation on his phone to send a message about a homeless encampment along Marine Drive in Northeast Portland during his Sunday drive on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Wilson uses the weekly drives to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson collects garbage near a homeless encampment along Marine Drive in Northeast Portland during his Sunday drive on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Wilson uses the weekly drives to load his 2023 electric Ford F-150 with roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson points to a site he is tracking on his phone during his Sunday drive around Portland on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Every Sunday, Wilson drives around the city in his 2023 electric Ford F-150, loading it with roadside garbage, tracking homeless encampments and making unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. An RV sits along Marine Drive in Northeast Portland on April 12, 2026. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson called in the site during his weekly Sunday drive, which he uses to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson stops at WinCo Foods to speak with management in Northeast Portland during his weekly Sunday drive on April 12, 2026. Wilson uses the drives to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson during his weekly Sunday drive around Portland on April 12, 2026. Each week, Wilson uses his 2023 electric Ford F-150 to load up roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson photographs a site he is tracking from his pickup truck during his weekly Sunday drive around Portland on April 12, 2026. Wilson uses the weekly drive to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson picks up garbage along northbound Interstate 5 near the Delta Park exit on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Wilson uses his weekly Sunday drives to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson visits Fred Meyer on Southeast Division Street and Southeast 147th Avenue during his weekly Sunday drive on April 12, 2026, and speaks with store director Robert Curtis. Wilson uses the drives to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson loads a garbage bag into the bed of his 2023 electric Ford F-150 in Northeast Portland on April 12, 2026. During his weekly Sunday drive around Portland, Wilson collects roadside garbage, tracks homeless encampments and makes unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson picks up roadside garbage in Northeast Portland on April 12, 2026. Wilson uses his weekly Sunday drive around Portland in his 2023 electric Ford F-150 to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson carries brochures and information to hand out to people camping outdoors along the Springwater Corridor Trail near Southeast 106th Avenue and Foster Road on Sunday, April 12, 2026. During his weekly Sunday drive around Portland, Wilson collects roadside garbage, tracks homeless encampments and makes unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson visits a site with burned structures frequented by unhoused people near the Springwater Corridor Trail at Southeast 106th Avenue and Foster Road on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson talks with Urban Alchemy outreach workers at a site with burned structures frequented by unhoused people near the Springwater Corridor Trail at Southeast 106th Avenue and Foster Road on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson unloads roadside garbage from his pickup truck into a dumpster outside City Hall on Southwest Fifth Avenue on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Wilson uses his weekly Sunday drive around Portland to collect roadside garbage, track homeless encampments and make unscheduled visits to local businesses and residents. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson shows an earlier photo on his phone of a homeless camp along the Springwater Corridor Trail near Southeast 106th Avenue and Foster Road on Sunday, April 12, 2026.

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson was driving along Northeast Weidler Street in the Gateway neighborhood last Sunday morning, touting recent improvements to an area he said was once overrun by tents and lived-in cars, when he saw a dilapidated RV out of his side window.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/04/portland-mayors-sunday-routine-picking-up-trash-reporting-derelict-rvs.html

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