The Stick in the Mud coffee house is now co-op owned and will be renamed Café Vosino
A beloved Sooke coffee house closed its doors Sunday but it will re-open after about 400 community members banded together to purchase the business through a co-op.
Coffee shop regulars O’Conner, Jim Meunier and Bernie Klassen started a campaign to save the Stick when they learned of the plans to close in April. Last minute donations came flying in with more than $16,000 raised on Saturday alone, said O’Conner, adding that the co-op has now raised about 70 per cent of the funds needed.Shop employees working Sunday, many of whom had purchased a co-op membership, were overjoyed to learn of the decision.The co-op is still welcoming new members and investors to help pay for the first three months of operational costs when the café re-opens.
All 15 current staff members will be offered the chance to work for the café when it reopens, said Meunier, who is a director with the Sooke Community Investment Cooperative.The hope is that the cooperative will eventually transition into a fully worker-owned co-op, Meunier said.
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