National Coffee Break Day is marked every January 20. There is no shortage of coffee references in past Voice articles, and we selected two with little in common except coffee.
Students in town. Antonia Cruz relates how she set up a coffee group for AU students in Toronto. “There I was, on a cold rainy Saturday in Toronto, sitting alone at a table in a local coffee shop waiting patiently for four complete strangers to arrive. ‘What have I gotten myself into?’, I wondered.” Volunteer Venture: The Toronto Coffee Group Diaries, March 2, 2005
Hungry in the dark. When the power went out in Ontario and several U.S. states in August 2003, Teresa Neuman found herself suspended between moving out of temporary digs at Carleton University and moving into her permanent home in Ottawa. “Needing to find some dinner, I ventured out into the streets. Ottawa’s skyline was completely dark; the lights from Gatineau across the river beckoned seductively.” Worth a Second Look – My personal experiences during the blackout of 2003, August 27, 2003.
