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In the heart of this holiday season comes a feel-good film about a business brimming with heart.
“Brewing Possibilities” takes you inside GET Café, the Main Line’s most inclusive coffee shop, where neurodiverse and differently-abled adults make artful lattes, work the grill and run the register. These aren’t make-work positions, they’re real jobs.
Regal Noye talked in gibberish and ran around in circles for years.
Today, he’s a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Radnor High School just starting his freshman year at the University of Tulsa where he’ll study environmental policy.
On a scholarship.
You read that right.
Regal’s journey – from challenged and challenging child on the autism spectrum to standout Radnor student – was so improbable, his mother just wrote a book about it.
When doctors at CHOP diagnosed Matthew Cramer with “classic” Autism Spectrum Disorder, his mother, Julie, a physician herself, had to excuse herself.
“I was retching,” the Merion Station dermatologist tells SAVVY. “I was absolutely sick to my stomach.”
“It’s not cancer,” her husband, Warren, had reassured her. “It’s not the end of the world.”
“It sort of is,” Julie countered. For a long time, she couldn’t even say the word, autism. “I used the A word instead,” she says.
Ten years later, Julie says the full word without flinching. More than that, she’s eager to share her son’s remarkable journey.
Dream kitchens up in flames.
New bathrooms down the drain.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars, given in good faith, gone.
Employees summarily fired, their paychecks bounced. A lease broken, rent skipped.
The flood of fuming allegations against Element Kitchen & Bath in Paoli (and formerly Devon) beggars belief.
Did this really happen? Here?
No bargain basement remodeler, Element – until it up and vanished – operated out of a splashy showroom in the heart of Paoli at the beautifully renovated KingsHaven Design complex.
