It’s just a way to keep everyone together.” “We haven’t done it yet this year, but every year, we do a big cookout somewhere with food from here and just hang out. Most of us have worked together for five to 10 years,” Morton said. “The staff, we’ve all known each other for a long time. Just as family is at the center of her business, Morton likes that she and her staff have a strong bond too. “On the logo, if you see the word ‘kitchen’ in script, that’s her mom’s handwriting.” “She remembers the dining area was always overlooking the kitchen, so that’s why you can see the kitchen from here,” Collins said. She named it “Fanie’s Table” after her mother, who recently died. For Morton, one in particular is a reminder of her childhood home.Įlon University junior Liam Collins, social media manager of Michelle’s, said that Morton modeled one of the private event spaces after her childhood dining room. “The next step would have been serving lunch, but when this building came open, it was fit to serve dinner too, and there was a banquet room as well.”īut these banquet rooms serve as more than just event locations. “We needed to move out of our old location to grow,” Morton said. The ambience on the other side of the room has the warm glow, rich smells and cloth napkins of fine dining. Half of the restaurant stayed true to its previous takeout and catering business complete with a country-chic aesthetic.
Michelle Morton, owner of Michelle’s, opened the restaurant in 2005. To learn more about Little Pink Houses of Hope, click here.BURLINGTON - As a takeout and catering cafe during the day and an upscale restaurant at night, Michelle’s Kitchen & Table is where family values and fine dining collide.
"God had way bigger plans for me than letting me go." "Thirteen years after they told me I wasn't going to make it, I'm still here," she says. In addition to providing retreats, Patten-Coble is focused on raising the funds needed to cover the one expense Little Pink Houses doesn't pay for: transportation to their getaways. "It was life-changing," she says, "especially for my children, who became friends with other children in the same situation." Charlotte-area youth track coach Toshika Hudson-Canon, 43 - who was diagnosed with stage-two breast cancer in January and spent a week at a beachside home on Emerald Isle, N.C., in August with her three kids and husband - found the getaway was relaxing and transformative. The retreats are exactly what cancer patients - and their families - need during their healthcare battles. Little Pink Houses of Hope Jeanine Patten Coble with Courtney Provost during a retreat in Mystic, Connecticut, in September
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Jeanine Patten-Coble created if offering free vacations for Breast Cancer families. "Walking alongside them as they create priceless memories is such a privilege." "We create an environment where they no longer feel so isolated," she says. Over the past 12 years, she and a network of volunteers with her nonprofit - Little Pink Houses of Hope - have provided vacations, with food and activities like zip-lining, for nearly 2,000 families. "For many of our families," says Patten-Coble, 53, "this could possibly be their last vacation." RELATED: 8 Years After Dying Patient Pleaded with Nurse to Adopt Her Son, the Boy Is Thriving: 'I'm Grateful Every Day'
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The Burlington, N.C., resident convinced property management companies and private homeowners across the nation to donate homes, townhouses and condos for free weeklong retreats where breast cancer patients, along with their husbands and kids, can escape the daily burden of medical appointments and worries over healthcare bills. "As I was turning to run back to where we were staying," the former high school history teacher recalls in this week's PEOPLE, "I realized, 'You've got to create a place like this where cancer patients can relax.' "Ī year later - after Patten-Coble had successfully completed her chemo and radiation therapy - her beachside reverie became reality and has gone on to impact thousands of people.
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