Cabin 12 | Victoria | Cedar Hill Rd. At Lang
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 09:43 AM
http://www.timescolo...4245/story.html
It was the product of desperation. Judd himself was maybe a week and half from the street after his old restaurant job went south March 10. So he launched a Facebook group, raised $10,000 from friends and relatives who kicked in $20, $50, $100 apiece.
He hired 15 people who had, like him, found themselves living in the margins. Judd vowed to foster a workspace built on mutual respect and trust.
“We refitted an entire kitchen, created a front, hired a staff and built a restaurant with virtually nothing. We did it by asking people to come and help us build a better workplace, and they came,” Judd wrote. “We learned how to grout, and tile, and plumb. We painted and painted and painted. We scraped and scoured and somehow, amazingly, in three weeks we managed to create something incredible out of almost nothing at all. We did it by offering pride and something to work for.”
But this was a shoestring operation, and the shoestring snapped when the vandal hit early Friday, just after midnight. A $1,000 window bill is enough to sink you when you don’t have a thousand bucks. Judd was in the front room and saw it happen.
#2
Posted 21 April 2009 - 10:02 AM
#3
Posted 22 April 2009 - 09:57 AM
#4
Posted 22 April 2009 - 10:12 AM
The name is actually Cabin 12.
woops! Sorry about that.
Mods? Can someone edit the title for me?
#5
Posted 25 April 2009 - 08:48 AM
#6
Posted 25 April 2009 - 09:43 AM
When he told me about it I had that feeling of half exasperation and half pride. My friend had just got out of jail after a bad encounter with coke. He's clean and sober but has lost everything - a good paying job, marriage to a wonderful woman, house... all gone. I've been trying to give him a leg up with some work around my family property and he goes and splits his first paycheck down the middle with strangers! His rational? "I've been that drunk asshole before, I thought this was a good way to pay back the universe."
Actually, on second thought, pride outweighs exasperation.
This little story about Cabin 12 is more than just a story about a random act of vandalism, and a bunch of people whose heartstrings got tugged. It is a story about self-sufficiency, hope, redemption, and how to pull together. It trickles outward - from saving a restaurant and a handful of jobs, to helping the Mustard Seed feed families in need, to giving my friend a chance to contribute to his own redemption.
Stories like this can have a lot of power if we let them. They can make a difference to who we are as a community. Well done Jack Knox.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Posted 27 April 2009 - 05:20 PM
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Posted 23 May 2009 - 05:38 PM
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Posted 30 June 2009 - 11:09 PM
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Posted 01 July 2009 - 01:10 PM
#11
Posted 01 July 2009 - 02:48 PM
#13
Posted 13 August 2009 - 12:48 PM
#14
Posted 25 August 2009 - 09:47 AM
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Posted 25 August 2009 - 10:18 AM
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Posted 25 August 2009 - 11:31 AM
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Posted 25 August 2009 - 01:01 PM
#18
Posted 27 August 2009 - 02:28 PM
I had the Jack Knox and am still full.
We were the only ones there for probably a good 45 min. I do hope they can stay afloat.
#19
Posted 27 August 2009 - 02:30 PM
#20
Posted 27 August 2009 - 05:15 PM
me and my friends tried to go there for dinner last night but found they have some rather odd hours. They don't open till 8pm!
'k. that cinches it for me. I'll make sure to visit.
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