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cleveland.com - Calico Jack Coffee Roastery to open in Mentor
MENTOR, Ohio—In 2018, Chris and Charisse Barbian, and their nephew Austin, bought a popcorn machine at Goodwill. They modified it to reach higher temperatures and used it to roast coffee. The new hobby was a distraction for Chris, a mechanical engineer, who was undergoing chemo/radiation treatment for cancer.
Chris, 54 has beat three Stage 4 cancers -- throat, lung and osteosarcoma -- and has been cancer-free since Fall 2020.