Scott Pickel News Today

A Grand Island company is distributing Kenyan coffee in the United States. It’s guided by a mission to provide Kenyan farmers direct access to the U.S. coffee market, allowing many to earn a living income for the first time.

Coffee, really? Upend his life to sell Kenyan coffee? In Nebraska? Laban Njuguna daydreamed about the idea as he hauled grain for farmers in the Grand Island area.

KEARNEY — David Cantral is excited. Cindy Walker is ecstatic. As Cantral and Walker feel relief, pride and gratitude. Both were among the 350 people involved in the Grand Island Meridian Moderna COVID-19 double-blind clinical trial this summer and fall. Cantral, a pulmonologist at both Kearney Regional Medical Center and CHI Health Good Samaritan, has seen suffering from COVID firsthand since the pandemic began last March. He said his vulnerable medical patients “are very anxious to l...