The Daily Grind Cafe

A coffee shop: you may go there first purely for coffee, or food, or some tasty drinks, but after a while, this place become very special. It becomes a community that can always brighten your world. There is a place called The Daily Grind in New Philadelphia, and the local people make it a valuable community.

The Daily Grind Café is a wonderful, locally owned business located in the center of New Philadelphia. The location is very convenient for people who working in the downtown area because of its centralized location. The café originally opened in 1995, but it used to be Miller’s Bakery, and Aberth’s Bakery before Miller's. The shop still looks like how it was in those days.  

      

Daily Grind is not luxurious, but very simple. It has large glass windows in the front of the shop, and unfinished walls inside where you can see the original brick. One of the walls is painted red and black, the color of the New Philadelphia High School. The décor is warm and charring. I like to sit near the window and feel the nature light, and this is a good spot to watch the town move on a daily basis. Sometimes, I choose to sit against the wall and enjoy the noisy atmosphere. It also has a long coach where you can feel like you're sitting in your own living room. Daily Grind has a very special atmosphere that you cannot find anywhere else.

Daily Grind is a fantastic place to hang out with friends, or just take a break from your hectic, everyday life. The customers stop by this coffee shop because it’s local, convenient, and social as well as the quality foods. You can see many different people here, and most are familiar faces because they are from the local area. Many people choose to meet with friends here. They typically grab a sandwich and a cup of coffee and talk to friends for an hour or two. Some people just find a quiet corner to read a book. Students can come here and study, as this is an extremely productive environment. Bible study group often meet here because it's convenient and comfortable.

Heading to Daily Grind cafe is the perfect way to socialize. A local coffee shop is a place you can looking for something, anything to hold onto. People return to local coffee shop frequently. Here, strangers become familiar. The coffee shop culture can encourage community and connection. I feel lucky to have Daily Grind café in our community because it’s a peaceful and loving place. Daily Grind cafe is a bridge connecting our local community.

Blog #2: The Daily Grind

Have you ever walked into a place, and felt a rush of what it means to be present, to have time stop still, and to have everything bad in your day disappear even if only for a moment?

To walk in somewhere and everything pleasant hits you like a ton of bricks?... There are so many beautiful smells, and yet you can tell each one apart instead all of them warping together to make one smell.  The vast variety of people is as wide as the ocean, and yet in that environment it registers as normalcy.  The scene that rests upon your eyes is something so unique, different, beautiful, and wrong in so many good ways, however it feels so good to see it every time you go there?

If you have ever walked into such a place consider yourself lucky, because these special little, hole-in-the-walls seem to be vanishing faster than we could say, goodbye."  This certain place I am talking about though is the charming coffee shop on West High Street in the heart of New Philadelphia, Ohio.  

The Daily Grind.  

I get a little chuckle from people when I tell them this place is practically my second home, but it's true.  I can remember for as far back as I can remember going to The Daily Grind.  I come here all the time whether it be for meeting up with someone, reading a book, going for some alone time (Ironic, right? In a coffee shop?), for breakfast or lunch, to stop in quickly just to get my drink and leave, and to go in get my drink and sit for hours.  

The Daily Grind may be a coffee shop that sells baked goods, plays fun old music, and has cute decor, but it is far more than that.  

It's a staple.

A staple that ties the past with the present, and the elderly with the young.

This darling coffee shop used to house itself originally in a former shoe store on 2nd street when they first opened in 1995.

More than twenty years ago!

For anyone that has simply walked in can tell the retro vibes are really there.  Before The Daily Grind moved into its spot on High Street the community was going into Millers Bakery, and even before that it was Aberths Bakery!

You see, The Daily Grind holds a beauty that so many places don't.  It unites so many different kinds of people in one place, and yet it doesn't phase anyone that walks in.  It is one of few places in the community that brings us all together.  

Blog 2

 The Cross Caffe

The Cross Caffe is located in Strasburg Ohio, not on Wooster Ave. but on the next street over. It is a locally owned by the minister of a church in the area. The coffee shop advertises itself as a safe place for kids and adults and offers space for both. The special thing about this cafe is that all profits from sales are given to various charities in 3rd world countries, specifically to creating Hope Boarding School in Nicaragua. They also hold community events such as book reading and signings with authors. The shop also has a bible study and is often used by small groups from churches or schools.          

I really like the concept of this coffee shop and in fact it's the only one I know of that does what it does, and I would love to see more like it. I greatly admire what they do and how they do it. The way they provide good food and drinks and friendly, homey environment where people can socialize or have bible studies or something different. They provide a great place for the local community and by doing so help build and support communities around the world. I think this is very important because I feel as Americans being among the most fortunate people in the world it is our responsibility to freely choose to help those less fortunate either here or in other countries.

 To learn what others think I talked to a resident of Strasburg and student here at Kent State Tusc. I find that what he said did an excellent job of summarizing everything great about this place. This is what he said: “I think it's a really cool place because I can get my daily coffee and support a good cause at the same time. I also feel I am contributing to a place that is a good safe hangout for students from the school as well as a place for bible studies and church service where people can learn about God.”

Overall, I would say that there is a specific purpose in mind for the shop and it does a really good job of accomplishing them. The idea of this coffee shop as a nonprofit is something that is very uncommon but something that if it happened much more frequently could only seem to make things better I think.

Blog Post 2: Dennison Depot Museum

Dennison Depot Museum

Dennison Depot Museum

The Dennison Depot Museum is in the small town of Dennison in Tuscarawas county Ohio. It honors the many men and women who have passed through the town via railway, whether they worked for the railroad or maybe happened to be traveling to New York. Dennison Ohio is very well known for their part in the railroad industry. The Dennison Depot was originally built in 1873. Thousands upon thousands of men and women have passed through Dennison just by stopping at the Depot. In fact, the Dennison Depot was one of the locations for a WWI Red Cross Canteen. It is widely known for its role in WWII though. The Dennison Depot was a main stop for soldiers being sent overseas or out west for training. The friendly faces they would see, handing them a sandwich or an ice cream, were locals. How awesome is that? In fact, my great Grandmother was one of these friendly faces working the Canteen. Clearly, this place has such beautiful history. The Depot fell into shambles when the railroad industry slowed down. It really became a forgotten treasure. In 1984, the Depot was bought by the Village of Dennison from Conrail. The city restored the Depot to its’ original beauty.  It reopened in 1989. From then on, many hard workers have helped to preserve stories, souvenirs, pictures, and even videos, and have turned the Depot into a beautiful museum.

Museum

                                        

 The Depot Museum is located on a Historical Landmark and is a must see! It has a train attached that is part of the museum. The museum displays what it was like to travel by railway in the 1940’s. It shows everything from the clothes worn to the food being eaten on a rail car. It even tells of other historical events that have taken place in Tuscarawas County. For example, the Great Flood of Tappan. WOW, is this a story to hear! I don’t have time to tell it so you will have to go to the Dennison Depot Museum to see and hear of this magnificent story! I hope everyone (especially young students) take the time to visit this Historical Landmark. It preserves the history of this county and that is so important.

Blog #2

Jones Equipment

     Jones Equipment is located down in a valley in scenic Freeport, Ohio, surrounding by beautiful country side. This business is a farm equipment dealer as the name somewhat states. This business is very involved with the community and helps numerous farmers with getting the job done and making life easier on their part.The business was started by Tom Jones in 1968 and has since grown into a larger dealership, which now employs at least 10 people. All of this information is coming from close observation being involved with the company.

   



    Jones Equipment has mostly been into the hay and beef production industry as well as tractors and skid loaders, along with refurbished tractor and equipment parts. They offer full machine shop services and much more. More recently, a venture has been made into the tillage and seeding industry, with vertical tillage tools such as the Kuhn Krause Excellerator, and conventional disc harrows, along with field cultivators and numerous other pieces of equipment.

7300 Disc Harrow

Jones has been a staple in the Freeport community for many years, serving my family and relatives with machinery, along with assisting many neighboring farmers and friends to get their jobs done. All of the employees are dedicated to providing excellent customer service and quality work with pride to insure that they have satisfaction of their customers.

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Historic Roscoe Village

Roscoe Village is the epitome of local history for Coshocton. Roscoe shows us a view into the past that you wouldn’t get anywhere near Coshocton. Roscoe preserves the old way of doing things such as blacksmithery and craftsmen shops with their own loom. It is my honor to be friends with a modern-day blacksmith that was trained in Roscoe’s still functioning blacksmithery.

“Roscoe Village has preserved 202 years of history as a small community of hardworking people through generations of people like myself, and because of the efforts of these people Roscoe is a monument to a life left in the dust by technology. It is my pride and pleasure to present the art/trade of blacksmithing to audiences who never would've known of it otherwise." --- Thomas Stonebraker 10:51 2/13/18.

My Friend Thomas A modern-day blacksmith. Picture property of Earl L Miller formal citation at the end of post

Roscoe also has a functional Canal Boat that is pulled by horse power (literally) and a history museum where local history is even further preserved.

The Historic Roscoe Village is a homage to the past that would otherwise go overlooked and forgotten until it eventually faded from our minds. Luckily Individuals like Edward Montgomery have put their money into preserving the historical importance of places like this.

Picture Citation (contains a link to the source website)

 Miller, Earl L. “February 6 Roscoe Village.” Nan Miller Times, www.nanmillertimes.com/february-6-roscoe-village.html.

Blazin’ Burgers

            Blazin’ Burgers is a locally owned burger restaurant with locations in both Dover and Strasburg, Ohio. Most employees are hesitant to tell you they have the best burgers in town because they were voted the best burger by Times Reporter Readers, not just once but six years in a row. Both locations have a fifties theme going with checkered floors, a working jukebox and posters of things from the past. The Dover location focuses more on past sports teams. The bar top is covered with player cards and past newspaper clippings of the Cleveland sports teams wins throughout history. Whereas the Strasburg location seems to turn the focus to past movie actress, Marilyn Monroe, and past musician, Elvis Presley. There are many posters on the walls of both as well as some restaurant puns about mountain dews and burger condiments. Both locations stress that their food is not categorized as “fast food”. As a server there, I can tell you we get the food to the customers as quickly as possible, but we believe the quality is more important.

Most people enjoy the Blazin’ Burger’s lively atmosphere. Both restaurant locations are staffed with friendly people that make the entire experience a pleasure. Blazin’ Burgers’ believes in large portions and offer a food challenge for customers that can really eat. Their challenge is to eat a triple burger (one pound of burger), a large order of fries, and a milkshake that is around twenty ounces; and you have to eat it in ten minutes or less. 

When it comes to contributing to the community, Blazin’ Burgers provides gift cards for local raffles. They also have a promotion with the Dover High School football team. The promotion is that if you buy a discount card from the team, you can use that card all year to get a large french fry for the price of a small. A good deal in my opinion because the fries are the best, since I’m not a burger person. Blazin’ Burgers also has seasonal specials. Right now, with Lenten going on, they offer a fish sandwich for those who can’t eat beef during this time. Sometimes, around Thanksgiving, they serve a turkey burger to show their festive side.