Coffee With a Cause backs up name with action

By ROSE COX
Anchorage Daily News

Elaine Hamrick believes that if every person in Anchorage performed just one kind act each day, it could mean the end to hunger and homelessness in this city. But she's not content to wait around for that, and she's unwilling to accept the status quo in the meantime.

"In our country we have so much," she said. "Isn't it crazy that in this day and age there are people who are homeless?"

Last year, she and husband Kenneth Hamrick purchased a drive-up espresso shop, Coffee With a Cause, for the sole purpose of donating the net proceeds to Alaska Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity.

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