Java Jo House
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EAST LIVERPOOL - Three sisters born and raised in East Liverpool had a dream. Their goal was to own a coffee shop downtown that would provide a comfortable place for customers to slow down in a fast paced environment.
Java Jo House on East Fifth street is approaching almost one year in business. The shop originally opened its doors December 2010 during the event "Christmas in the City." A lot of dedication and hard work went into the creation of Java Jo's.
When the three owners, JoAnn Garcia, Teresa Hissom, and Patricia Hissom first purchased the house for the new shop, it had been abandoned and in desperate need of attention.
"This house was in much disarray," said Teresa. "The ceilings were collapsed and the kitchen looked burned down."
Recruiting the help of Garcia's husband, the three sisters spent years discussing how to transform a run-down condemned house into the next hot spot coffee shop.
"We figured we either wanted the shop close to East Liverpool Hospital or Kent State. We didn't want a store front," said Garcia.
Source: The Review
Artist in Residence: At home with Deborah Weinstein
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Deborah Weinstein rolls out the welcome mask in the living room of her North Toronto house.
The mask is from Cape Town, an acquisition from her recent African safari.
“It is a welcome mask — it welcomes and blesses the visitor,” said Weinstein, who is president, co-founder and partner, with her sister Judy Lewis, of the public relations agency Strategic Objectives, established in 1983. “It is supposed to be vintage,” she said of the purchase. “I got it in a store in the market.”
The herd of miniature elephants on the fireplace mantel is brand new, from Victoria Falls, in Zambia.
The ostrich eggs on the two side tables came from an ostrich farm in the Cape of Good Hope in Cape Town. “They feel just like blown glass or porcelain,” said Weinstein. “People wire them and use them as lamps.”
The pottery from Peru and the baskets on the coffee table are from Panama. “I got them after an amazing trip to the rain forest,” she recalled. “One of them is a coming-of-age basket for a woman aged 12 or 13.”
Source: Toronto Star
