Top 5 Coffee Shops in FXBG INSPIRE | by ZACH CHAMP COFFEE IN THE BURG There is no shortage of Coffee in Downtown Fredericksburg! Did you know that the residents of the City of Fredericksburg have enjoyed coffee from local shops since at least 1730 when the first ‘London-style’ coffee house was opened near Sophia Street where …
Stafford psychologist pens book for children on managing anxiety FREE LANCE-STAR | by ADELE UPHAUS-CONNER In her work for the past 20 years, psychologist Arezoo Khanzadeh has asked her patients three questions about the problem they’re dealing with: “Is this solvable?” “Do I have the means to solve it?” “Is the timing right to solve it?” She …
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Visit us and other Fredericksburg-area restaurants the week of January 15-24, 2021 to take advantage of their amazing specials. Also, stop by the Fredericksburg Visitor Center (across from the Marriott near us) to purchase discounted gift cards to these same great restaurants. This is an easy way to support small business and try out new …
The date was over a year ago when we felt compelled to really push our mission through the shop. It still feels like a dream but the reality is that in less than a month KatoraFXBG will have two locations. Our OG shop which started it all on Caroline street in beautiful downtown Fredericksburg and our …
THE TALON | by ANNE JOHNAKIN, EMILY IMES, AYNSLEIGH ESCHER Overall rating: The drink ordered was an almond milk latte with vanilla syrup. The three of us can’t have dairy, which is why we used almond milk. We chose to drink a vanilla latte because, in the grand scheme of corporate coffee, a very popular …
POTOMAC LOCAL | by SUSIE WEBB FREDERICKSBURG — Behind the glass windows of Katora Coffee lies much more than a cup of coffee and hot tea. Within its graffitied walls are two co-owners who risen above countless obstacles to create a community-oriented space. April and Christian Zammas opened Katora Coffee at 615 Caroline St. on Dec. 11, …
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FREE LANCE-STAR | by ADELE UPHAUS-CONNER For upwards of four years, Christian Zammas and his family were homeless, living in hotels across the country. Zammas, who owns Katora Coffee in downtown Fredericksburg, is a professional chef and cooked in restaurants in St. Louis, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Manhattan and Raleigh, N.C. But in the hotel rooms where he, …
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MANAGING YOUR DOCTOR | by DR. PATRICK NEUSTATTER I’m tempted to lead with some bad joke, like Christian Zammas is exchanging hard drugs for soft. It is true. He has gone from using hard drugs to peddling soft one(s) – caffeine. All brought about by a sort of epiphany that has motivated him to gather …
Katora Institute of Higher Education will be a life skills epicenter based on helping people discover and nurture their own sense of purpose through the exchange of ideas and physical aid. [su_button url=”https://goo.gl/forms/pbPNG9HFC3T0JwvG3″ target=”blank” background=”#8CC53E” center=”no” icon=”icon: google” title=”Interest Submission Form”]Interest Submission Form[/su_button] Our Mission It is our mission and dream to connect as many …
THE FREE LANCE–STAR | by EMILY JENNINGS Christian Zammas held out his arms. Scars covered both, but his left arm looked especially harrowing, with an angry patch of red from wrist to elbow. “They told me if I’d waited any longer to come in that they would have had to amputate my arm,” Zammas said. …