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A variety of affordable snacks displayed at Sweetwaters.

Sweetwaters

Modern American café.

Good for breakfast, quiet study time. Offers free Internet.

Price Range: $2-6.00

Interesting Fact: sells about 15-20 pounds of coffee everyday.

If you are looking for a place to do homework or somewhere to study, Sweetwaters is perfect. There’s free Internet, comfortable seats and affordable drinks and refreshments.

“I recommend the Ginger Lemon tea,” –Emma, Sweetwaters employee

“Ginger Lemon tea is the best thing to have, whether you’re sick or not, and it’s at a great price,” – Poom Boonsin, CHS sophomore.

“The tortilla soup is so delish,” – Maggie Thompson, CHS senior.

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Alternative diets are popping up everywhere, and there is an overwhelming list of restrictions – meat, eggs, dairy, and fish are the most apparent.

Nikolas Solem, Community High School junior and pescetarian

Each individual has their own motivations for why they take up an alternative diet.  “My conscious influence was watching documentaries and my sub-conscious influence was my girlfriend being vegetarian,” says Nikolas Solem, a Community High School junior.  Colleen Chavis, a CHS junior, was similarly influenced.

Chavis discovered a video showing animal slaughter in the meat industry. “They were shooting cows in the head with nail guns”.  This traumatic image was what drove Chavis to become a pescatarian, someone who is a vegetarian with the exception of eating fish.
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