Lew-Port Coffee Café branching out

Lewiston Porter Sentinel, December 16, 2006

Lewiston-Porter Chapters Coffee Café students of Ashli Dreher’s classroom are shown at a visit to the Town of Lewiston Senior Center on Monday. The students are Andrea Sirianni, Jennifer Martin, Ryan Comerford, Nicole Sobieniak and Laura Welder. They are shown here with Dreher, back row, third from left; Senior Center Director Jeanette Collesano, back row, left; and Senior Center Nutrition Site Director Phyllis Violanti, back row, right. (photo by Terry Duffy)

Lewiston-Porter students participating in Chapters Coffee Café are branching out in their food service training to visit even more sites.

The remarkably talented students from Ashli Dreher’s classroom manage the café every Monday morning from 10 a.m. to noon inside the Lewiston Library.

Now, the students are expanding their café expertise through visits to Niagara University’s Clet Hall; the Tim Hortons restaurant on Military Road; and the Opportunities Unlimited’s Experience Center. The students with developmental disabilities are gaining vocational work experience at all the sites they visit, learning about customer service and restaurant operation. Dreher said all the participants in Chapters Coffee Café have a lot to offer.