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Community Coffee Pledges Over Five Million Cups of Coffee to the Relief Effort

BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- With manufacturing and distribution systems up and running, Community Coffee Company's primary focus has been to donate coffee to relief organizations, service all customers open for business, and ensure the well being of its displaced employees.

In the first four days following the catastrophe, Community Coffee employees, working with numerous volunteers and relief organizations, including the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Second Harvest, the U.S. military, and local police, provided over 3,000 pounds of Louisiana's favorite coffee to 140 shelters throughout the Gulf Coast Region. In addition, throughout the month of September, CC's Coffee Houses will collect donations for the Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund through drop boxes at each location.

"We are proud of our employees for working closely with local volunteers and relief organizations to provide comfort to those impacted by this natural disaster," said Matthew Saurage, President of Community Coffee Company. "We encourage hurricane relief organizations in need of coffee, as well as employees who have not contacted the company, to call us at 1-800-525-5583."

As a fourth generation family-owned South Louisiana based business, Community Coffee Company's thoughts and prayers go out to all friends and neighbors impacted by this natural disaster.


Source: Community Coffee Company

CONTACT: Greg Schwarz of Community Coffee Company, +1-225-368-4587, or
gschwarz@communitycoffee.com

Web site: http://www.communitycoffee.com/

Hurricane Katrina Helps Coffee Growers

Associated Press

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Hurricane Katrina may have destroyed about 1.5 million sacks of coffee stored at warehouses in New Orleans, raising the global price of coffee and benefiting coffee growers across the world, officials said Friday.

"There were about 750,000 sacks of coffee in New Orleans certified by the New York Board of Trade and private importers had a similar amount," said Gabriel Silva, head of Colombia's National Coffee Federation.

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Coffee as health food

Science has spoken, and the verdict is to please keep passing the java. Not only does coffee help give people that much-needed jump-start so many of us desperately need, but our beloved dark beverage evidently has health benefits, too. The latest research shows about two cups a day provide the body with more cancer-fighting antioxidants than any other food.

Coffee lovers owe University of Scranton chemistry professor Joe Vinson for one more reason to keep drinking coffee. Coffee, he told the American Chemical Society’s annual convention in Washington, has more antioxidants than vegetables, fruit, and grains, hands down.

“Coffee wins the antioxidant race,” he said. “Nothing else we eat or drink comes close.”

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