PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – In a few years they’ve famous any other, Madeline Lovejoy, 19, and Baylee Hanson, 21, have brewed adult utterly a friendship.
And now they’re formulation to decoction something new.
With her family’s help, Lovejoy skeleton to open Vinny and Bay’s Coffee and Eatery in downtown Panama City.
“But we devise to be there, day and night,” a teen said.
That’s where she skeleton to sinecure people, only her crony Baylee Hanson, who have been sanctified with special abilities. Hanson has down syndrome.
“To me it was overwhelming and we was like happy and excited,” Hanson pronounced with a large smile.
Lovejoy pronounced she saw a need in a village for jobs her friends could be unapproachable of and she motionless to fill a need herself.
“I’m anticipating that we can lift recognition for how able these kids are and how amatory they can be,” Lovejoy said. “And we only wish it kind of brings a village together.”
Vinny, a other half of a coffee-shop-to-be’s namesake, is another crony of Lovejoy’s. He has autism.
Lovejoy pronounced that when she told Hanson about a plan, Hanson told her “all of her dreams” were entrance true. Hanson, a confident, go-getter, knows she’ll have a place to do what she does best.
“I consider I’m substantially going to speak to people and see how they’re feeling,” Hanson pronounced of her destiny in a business.
Lovejoy looks after Hanson and Hanson looks after Lovejoy.
“Working with a good crony of mine,” Hanson pronounced of Lovejoy, “it’s like awesome. Loving and caring person, she is.”
Together they’re mostly looking brazen to a place where a coffee is only as comfortable as a atmosphere.
“I entirely trust that God put us in this place, this is what he wants us to do and so we aren’t gonna fail,” Lovejoy said. “And that’s a good place to be.”
Lovejoy pronounced she has been impressed by a village support. They wish to open adult in downtown by June.
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