{"id":22073,"date":"2020-03-24T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/a-bite-of-normalcy\/"},"modified":"2020-03-24T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:00:34","slug":"a-bite-of-normalcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/a-bite-of-normalcy\/","title":{"rendered":"A bite of normalcy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Volunteer Jason Kellogg, a regular Carver’s employee, looks over orders on Tuesday before sending them out. Kellogg said working at Carver’s is helping get him through the coronavirus pandemic because it provides social interaction and purpose.<\/strong>
\nMcKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aside from the mostly barren tables, customers stopping by Carver\u2019s Bakery Cafe might not notice the business has been closed for a week.<\/p>\n

Scents of bacon, pancakes and coffee linger in the cozy space as owner Law Thyne or any one of his volunteer staff greet people with the question: \u201cBreakfast on me this morning?\u201d<\/p>\n

After Gov. Jared Polis closed all restaurants to in-person dining on March 16 in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus, Thyne was emotional and unsure what he was going to do next.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that take-out options were available, but that didn\u2019t really seem like the way to handle this at the moment,\u201d he said. \u201cI realized that trying to help and support the community that had been so generous to me for the 16 years I\u2019ve owned the place \u2026 would be a little more helpful and positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

So on March 17, Thyne opened Carver\u2019s with shorter hours and a limited menu available by pick-up. He also decided to offer all meals free of charge, an effort to support the community and those facing hardships right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe initial thought was to provide financial support so that someone didn\u2019t have to pay for a meal, as well as nutritional support for people to know there\u2019s something other than just ramen to get through these times \u2014 that they could get a real homemade meal,\u201d Thyne said.<\/p>\n

Since offering the free meals, Thyne estimated he serves about 40 people per day, ranging from children who are out of school and people who lost their jobs to Carver\u2019s regulars who weren\u2019t ready to give up their breakfast routines.<\/p>\n

One such customer, Sydney Burkhalter recently lost her job as a server when Devil\u2019s Thumb Ranch closed for the season. She was impressed when she saw Carver\u2019s offering free meals to the community, but noted the best part of the service is a moment of normalcy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so nice to have a reason to get out of the house and get fresh air,\u201d Burkhalter said.<\/p>\n

As Burkhalter waited for her eggs and toast, Thyne came over, introduced himself from six feet away and urged her and her friend to apply for unemployment benefits if they need them. He suggested they try to log in to the website at odd hours, when it isn\u2019t so overloaded with other people out of work.<\/p>\n

Interactions like that, conversing with customers, sharing knowledge and checking in have become the driving force to continue the service, Thyne said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this has really become, and what I didn\u2019t understand when we started, is the amount of emotional support we\u2019re giving to people,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can add a little normalcy back into our lives again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Volunteer Jason Kellogg echoed the sentiment. As a regular employee of Carver\u2019s, Kellogg said he enjoys the social interaction and purpose of serving.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s given me something to do,\u201d Kellogg laughed. \u201cIt\u2019s keeping me sane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, the staff at Carver\u2019s are working on a mostly volunteer basis, including some new faces who joined the effort after losing their restaurant jobs, but generous donors are supplying some funds.<\/p>\n

While meals at Carver\u2019s are free, should a customer have the ability or desire to pay, Thyne is splitting all donations 50\/50 between his volunteers and the Grand Foundation\u2019s emergency fund.<\/p>\n

So far, people have donated over $2,000 to be split between the volunteers and the fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo know that we can be a conduit between supporting the community and helping out has been unbelievable,\u201d Thyne said. \u201cIt\u2019s been so much more than I thought, I had no expectation that we would be able to raise that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thyne has also received almost $900 from the Fraser Valley Rotary Club for operations so that he can continue serving meals daily through April at least. He added that anyone wanting to donate to the operations fund for Carver\u2019s should do so through the Rotary Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will allow me to extend this, hopefully throughout this entire time, but it just depends on how many customers we get,\u201d Thyne said. \u201cWe don\u2019t plan on stopping this anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Volunteer Jason Kellogg, a regular Carver’s employee, looks over orders on Tuesday before sending them out. Kellogg said working at Carver’s is helping get him through the coronavirus pandemic because it provides social interaction and purpose. McKenna Harford \/ mharford@skyhinews.com Aside from the mostly barren tables, customers stopping by Carver\u2019s Bakery Cafe might not notice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 14:55:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22077,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions\/22077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}