Friday, June 18, 2010

Love a Local Business (Kefa Cafe)

Intuit Small Business is sponsoring Love a Local Business, "Where praise pays your favorite local business."  Please vote for Kefa Cafe on Bonifant Street!

•Voting is easy.  Just share a few brief sentences about why you love the business.

•Your vote is like a raffle ticket. The more voes a business gets, the more chances they have to win one of three grants awarded each month that are worth $5,000.

•Your words matter! Our judges will review the 9 businesses who win between April and June to select one who will win the Grand Prize, small business grants worth $30,000.
 
Since 1996 Kefa Cafe has occupied a wonderful 1928 structure located at 963 Bonifant Street.  This organic coffee/tea and sandwich business has become a beloved neighborhood institution, offering not only drink and food but art displayed in the connected “Space 7:10” gallery, named for the clock on the wall perpetually stopped at 7:10.  Owned and operated by (L-R) sisters Lene and Abeba Tsegaye, the below photograph of them will appear in my new book, Downtown Silver Spring.
 
Please vote for them!
 
                                                      Photo Jerry A. McCoy, copyright 2010.

 






1 comment:

Carolyn M. said...

Lene and Abe have not only provided a neighborhood gathering place, they have become friends who have watched our kids grow up, listened to our life's ups and downs, celebrated with us and lent us a shoulder to cry on. Kefa Cafe has added to the quality of the lives of all their grateful patrons.