PARK STREET CAFE

Hi everyone. I haven't been posting in awhile because I have been busy volunteering at the Aging Office kitchen to help with meals for senior citizens and I have started volunteering at Park Street Complex.

My friend Sydney took these pictures of some of the cafe:

I am learning skills at the cafe to help me find a job. Here are some of the things I do:

1. Cleaning: I make sure the cafe is clean and there are no messes. I wipe down the tables and all the stainless steel in the kitchen.

2. Prep food for the lunches that are served here. I cut vegetables and make things like salad. I also made grilled cheese

3. Bake things. I helped make cookies I am learning how to measure the ingredients, put them all together and mix the dough and putting them on a cookie sheet (Heather said it's called a 'half sheet') and put them in the oven. The cookies came out really good and we sell a lot of them at the cafe.

I am learning things like you always have to wash your hands before you start working you have to sing "Happy Birthday to Me" two times and then you are good.

I like working at the cafe because I like working with Heather and Michelle and seeing some of my friends I don't get to see, like Regina, Charlie and Matt.

I like learning new skills, this will help me find a job.

Sean



**Side Note: Hi this is Michelle, Sean's job coach and friend. I help him write the blog. I just wanted to add a little about Park Street Cafe, most do not know about this hidden treasure but we are working hard to get the word out.

Park Street Cafe is located in the Park Street Offices where the old Stourbridge Primary School was located. Community Vocational Services and it's consumers are utilizing the kitchen at the Park Street Complex on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays as a training ground for our consumers to learn restaurant skills. Skills such as food prep, serving, cleaning and menu development are just a few of the things they are learning.

The Cafe is open M,W,F from 11:00-1:00 for lunch and offer a variety of lunch foods as well as serving the senior menu in cooperation with the Aging Office. Consumers work from 9:00-2:00 learning skills.

Feel free to stop by and have a bite to eat with us!

Michelle