TACOMA, Wash. — Something sweet is brewing in Tacoma.
A coffee shop is turning its misfortune into a way to thank the community for its support after vandals smashed out their front door and windows.
Quincy Henry and his wife Whitni are the owners of Campfire Coffee—a shop that focuses on making the outdoors more accessible to everyone.
Quincy told KIRO 7 that their shop has been vandalized not once – but twice in the last week.
“Last Wednesday, we woke up to a text. Normally the staff needs coffee, or they need milk, but this time we got a text message from our opener that the door had been busted,” Quincy said. “Everything was intact inside but the door was shattered.”
Two days later, it happened again.
“That one made it a little different because now it’s not just a random act of vandalism. This is somebody that’s targeting us specifically,” Quincy said. “It feels invasive, it feels a bit scary.”
Quincy told KIRO 7 it was taking a while to hear back from the insurance company and they created a GoFundMe to help cover the costs. What he didn’t realize was how quickly his customers would rally in support of their business.
“Instead of sitting here and saying ‘woes me’, we want to use that energy for good.”
The Henrys say they’ve reached more than four times their goal and plan to use the excess money to pay for hiking boots and running shoes for children in the community, as well as books about the outdoors.
“It’s a way to show whoever did this that you can break windows but you can’t break the community, you can’t break our spirit, you can’t break our mission, you can’t break our dedication to the mission, so we are going to double down on that and since the community is so eager to help, we just want to take that and flip it right back,” Quincy told KIRO 7.
He says he can’t wait to see what good will come from everyone’s support.
“I stay up at night now thinking of how many people we can pack into this shop and on the sidewalk right in front of these windows that were busted and hand out shoes and books,” he told KIRO 7.
He hopes the person or people who vandalized his business see the chain reaction their decision caused.
“I want them to walk by or drive by and see what they caused. They caused something good,” he said.
Quincy plans to keep the fundraiser open through the end of the month. The more money raised, the more he can pay it forward to the community that helped him.
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