Despite pandemic, new coffee shop opens to help youth battling homelessness
Wildflyer Coffee is giving young people a paycheck and the training they need to turn their lives around. Author: Kent Erdahl Updated: 7:59 PM CST December 15, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS Opening a coffee shop during both a global pandemic and a statewide pause of indoor dining is less than ideal, but even a slow opening week at Wildflyer Coffee is a blessing for the baristas. Four years prior to this, I was homeless, said Val McKenzie, who recently started working at the new shop in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis. Now I ve got my own apartment. It s great. I love it.