Government scolds are insisting that a woman who opened her home to a few friends and neighbors stop offering them breakfast.
Because she hasn’t obtain official permission to be a good neighbor, and, of course, subjected herself to the government inspections that officials like.
It is the Center Square that has the details about “small-town Missouri resident Kathy Kite.”
The grandmother has been warned by her local health department to stop being a nice neighbor, and now the Goldwater Institute has taken up her cause, giving the government a deadline to respond or face a lawsuit.
“Citizens should not be required to get the government’s permission before offering passers-by some coffee and a bite to eat while they socialize,” Dave Roland, of the Goldwater Institute.
The report explained how the situation developed several months ago: A local convenience shop stopped serving breakfast and when Kite asked about that, the store employees suggested she do it, and sent some locals her way.
“I said, OK, come on over, guys. I’ll make you breakfast,” Kite told the Center Square. “So the next morning, I got up at like 4 o’clock in the morning because they come at like five.”
Currently, she’s been making about two dozen servings, for about eight or 10 people, six days a week. Without charge.
She does take donations.
“My mom and dad were raised in the Depression, and so we were raised hearing the stories of how they went hungry,” Kite told The Center Square. “My mom once told me, she said, ‘You never know when you’re entertaining an angel. So if someone comes to your door, you welcome them in, and you give them something to drink. If they’re hungry, you feed them.'”
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