Coffee cart develops life skills for Ringgold students
By KRISTIE LINDEN
klinden@yourmvi.com
It’s no secret specialty coffee drinks are popular among high school students and teachers alike. Now, at Ringgold there’s no reason to leave campus for a treat.
Lynne Hawkins’ lifeskills and Catherine Lutes’ multi-disability support classrooms have been running the RAMS Perk N’ Go coffee cart since just before Thanksgiving and it is extremely popular.
Lynne said the district has planned to build a cafe in the high school’s media center but it’s still in the construction phase.
In the meantime, Lynne had a cart and storage bins that used to belong to a Wendy’s restaurant and an idea.
She reached out to Eric Clark, owner of the Perked Up Cafe in Charleroi because his son Haden is a freshman in the class.
“In early September we started talking back and forth through Haden,” Eric said. “Then we had a meeting, a brainstorming session.”
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