Tuesday through Friday mornings in the commons, coffee is being offered to students by Sonny Varela, senior.

Varela said that she saw lots of opportunities to make money for school funding, and her answer was a coffee stand.

She presented her ideas to Matt Johnson, assistant principal, who then talked to the other administrators and the school board.

She saw coffee as the answer because everyone buys and loves coffee and she knew that the money could be used for the school and not spent at another store.

Although the coffee stand just got started, they are wanting to expand to offer different drinks.

They are wanting to also offer iced coffees, hot chocolate, and teas.

Until the end of first semester, the coffee was free, but donations were accepted.

This semester there will be a charge. Varela and her team are still deciding on a price for the coffee, but are wanting it to be in the price zone of 50 cents to a $1.

Varela and her team are using the money that they have earned from the donations to buy more coffee and update their equipment, but soon they are going to use the money for different parts of the school.

Varela doesn’t work the coffee stand alone.

She works with a whole board of members who include Savanna Muellner, Lily Mahoney, Peter Winslow, Peri Johnson, Kyle Ross, Tanner Dickson, Qays Abu-Saymeh, Sam Copeland, seniors, and Bennett Junkins, junior.

It takes 30-45 minutes to make the coffee.

The materials that they have for the coffee stand include a coffee maker, cups, lids and stirring straws.

The coffee stand also provides coffee creamers and sugar.  The supplies were provided by the administration, and anything that wasn’t available at the school was bought.