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Local coffee shop finds new home inside Lake Charles Regional Airport
VIDEO: Local coffee shop finds new home inside Lake Charles Regional Airport By Ashley Joseph | May 11, 2021 at 7:10 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 8:10 PM
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A local coffee shop is making a return in a new location.
Life post-Hurricane Laura is coming full circle for Common Grounds Sit & Chill Coffee House owner Michele Williams. Her coffee shop, which was previously located in Downtown Lake Charles, is now taking on new life at the Lake Charles Regional Airport.
Serving others is the spice of life for Williams.
The project Gilliam references is a documentary called “Common Grounds,” a semester-long project for Gilliam and several fellow Center for Politics interns. The project team includes Gilliam; second-year students Molly Hayes and Miranda Hirts; third-year government student Sean Piwowar; and School of Education graduate student Victoria Spiotto. All were interns at the Center for Politics this semester.
The documentary, now in editing, will have three parts: individual interviews with students of widely differing political beliefs; a small group discussion bringing some of those students together; and the final scene at Beta Bridge.
“We invited students who were extremely committed to what they believe, at either end of the political spectrum, and who were not going to compromise on things that were important to them,” Piwowar, a government major, said. “Even though their beliefs were very different and they were not necessarily going to compromise on those, they could exp
Good Samaritan Ministries’ Empty Bowls Project returns for its 12
th year on Thursday, April 29, and like last year, the event will follow a drive-through format. Bowls will be available from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the GSM Food Warehouse, located at 305 Clark Street.
“Back in early January when we had to make a lot of decisions we were still in the middle of a virus surge,” said GSM Executive Director Leesa Stephens. “So our board felt that going ahead and doing another drive-by type event would be the easiest to manage. We usually start getting calls in December, people wanting to book a bowl painting party, but we only had two calls – one in December and one January. We felt that was a signal from the community that they recognized things weren’t really the same.”