When Laurie Kent asked husband, Allen, to cut out a silhouette of North Dakota to create office decor for her new accounting job, the couple had no idea that this simple wall hanging would mushroom into Made with Love by Laurie, a full-time family business which now sells signs all over the country.
The group of women who meet every Tuesday at Red River Coffee Co. laugh and visit like old friends. You’d never guess that, until three months ago, most of them had never met. Or that their group is just one of numerous “Friends Brew Coffee” groups gathering at coffee shops across the community nearly every day of the week. Even more surprising, they were brought together through a social media post by a stranger many of them still haven’t met.