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September Featured Customer: Gabe Draws Stuff
by Callie Sleper and Gwyn Armour Slim Pig. Marching Band. The Tentacled Yak. Humpty Doggy. Quasi Rowboat at the Quackadero. Anthony the Ant. The Fiffer Feffer Feff. Fat Singer Joe Playing His Banjo. The names of Gabe’s pieces of art speak for themselves. Gabe has been...
August Featured Customer: Ted’s Path to Healing
by Patti Bitney Starke Every day, an estimated 22 veterans die of suicide. Many resources and supports have been put in place to reduce this number to zero. Although the state reports that homelessness among veterans has been significantly reduced, not reported are...
July Featured Customer: Janice at TPT
by Callie Sleper Janice began volunteering at TPT—Twin Cities PBS in downtown St. Paul 22 years ago. She has gone in every single day for an hour at a time, except on holidays or the rare day when her supervisor gives her the day off. Janice doesn’t care for days off....
June Featured Customer: Eileen at Emma Norton
by Patti Bitney Starke and Callie Sleper Eileen grew up in New York. She earned a full college scholarship and earned an accounting degree from Tri- State University. Following college, she accepted a position as a full-time accountant and, shortly after, she was...
May Featured Customer: Katie at Festivities
by Christen Conrad and Carol Rydell Before coming to Kaposia, Katie’s only work experience was in a center-based program. Now, Katie has a new job working for Festivities, a go-to company for customers planning special events. She works in a warehouse filled with...
April Featured Customer: Hector at Gutierrez Construction and Remodeling LLC
by Carol Rydell and Kathia Reynandez Hector Ivan Morell Mendez had many years of experience working in construction in Puerto Rico, but when he came to the U.S., getting and keeping a job was a challenge. With a language barrier and little support, Hector had some...
March Featured Customer: David at Lunds & Byerlys
by Susan Dahlby and Callie Sleper Sensational is a great word to describe David’s 25 years working at Lunds & Byerlys, an organization whose mission is to “create sensational shopping experiences for a lifetime.” Hired in 1993 to provide custodial services, David...
February Featured Customer: Nhia at Kowalski’s
by Callie Sleper, Don Bernstein, and Jeff Riman Kaposia and our supporters understand the importance of everyone being able to embrace their own personal genius with employment that means something to them. One of our customers who put his genius to work is...
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