You can mix all kinds of things, but you can use in-season items when you're changing up the menu like that.Ī: The response has been amazing. You can mix strawberries and basil and lemon in a scone. You don't have the pressure of making the same thing, and having to have something that day. Q: How do you keep up with an ever-changing menu?Ī: There's a cool thing about always changing the menu, you can use fruits and different things that are in season. I bake muffins, scones, caramel rolls it's an ever-changing menu. The kitchen is about 3 feet by 5 feet, well maybe a little bigger because it fits a stove. Q: What were the challenges of opening a coffee shop?Ī: Setting your alarm for 2:15 in the morning to get up and be here at (3 a.m.), because I do all the baking here. But my main beans for all of our coffees and iced coffees and things come from Colorado. I also serve a couple of different blends from a company in Rapid City, and then I'm starting to get in 12-ounce bags of coffee from a company in Minnesota to sell retail. I have a family that lives in Colorado, a roaster there, and I fell in love with their coffee beans. Q: Tell us about your coffee, do you roast coffee beans yourself?Ī: I don't roast beans myself. I love the idea of people just kind of going back in time to simpler ways and just slowing down a little bit. I bought it in 2018 and then just took a year to gradually fix it up, but it just came to my mind when I was traveling back from Colorado. There was this coffee shop has been here for many years, and it was sitting vacant at the time.

Q: When did you open, and how did you get involved with running a coffee shop?Ī: I opened in December of 2019. We're not there yet so we need to be advocates.For 5 Questions this week, the Herald speaks with Cathy Tweten, who owns 'We should be at a day when we treat depression no different than a sore throat, heart disease or cancer. 'We've come a long way to destigmatize depression, suicide and other psychiatric diseases-but we're not there yet,' he said. That message also was emphasized by Altru Health System President Eric Lunn, who encouraged walk participants to become advocates for those who are grappling with mental illness and open up conversations on the topic. 'That prevents more suicides than we'll ever know about.' How are you feeling? What's going on?' and don't avoid it because that is what prevents suicides,' Dewald said. 'What I hope happens today is somebody here knows someone and they go and say, 'Let's talk. Through events such as the walk, Dewald said the group hopes to bring depression and other mental illnesses out of the shadow of stigmas that often prevent people from openly discussing suicide. 'When you look around today, you'll see lots of happiness and people remembering,' said Mike Dewald, a TEARS member and manager of Altru's Psychiatry Center in Grand Forks.

While some tears were shed at the event, not all were rooted in sadness but accompanied laughs as people celebrated the lives of their lost family members or friends. Money raised through the annual walk stays in the area and provides resources such as online mental health screening tools, suicide prevention communication training and comfort care kits for suicide survivors.

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