| Founder of Peet's Coffee dies at 87
(08-31) 10:57 PDT BERKELEY - Alfred Peet, who founded Peet's Coffee & Tea and opened its first store 41 years ago in Berkeley, died Wednesday at his home in Ashland, Ore., the company said today. He was 87. Mr. Peet opened the coffee roaster's first store in 1966, followed by outlets in Menlo Park (1971), Piedmont Avenue in Oakland (1978) and another Berkeley store across from the Claremont Hotel in 1980. He retired in 1983. Mr. Peet was born in Alkmaar, Holland. He cleaned machinery and did other odd jobs at his father's coffee roastery in Alkmaar before World War II. After the war, Mr. Peet became an apprentice at Lipton's Tea in London, then moved to Indonesia to work in the tea business there. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1955 and went to work at a coffee importer, E.A.
A young mother learned early why knowing about breast cancer is important
KIMHaag is not typical. A 30-year-old is supposed to have only a 0.4 percent chance of getting breast cancer anytime in the next 10 years. Tell that to Kim, who was 29 and five months pregnant when she felt a marble-sized lump in the nodes under her right arm. Lumps in breasts aren't all that unusual in pregnancy, her doctor told her. Don't worry. Daughter Skylar was born in February 2003. She's now 4 ½, loves being the center of attention and insists on "the pretty bow" for her hair, though her mother has no idea which bow that is until Skylar leads her upstairs. With her doctor's reassurance and a new baby, Kim thought nothing more of her lump until the October after Skylar's birth. That's when, by chance, she saw a TV program about the path of cancer: "They were describing exactly what I felt under my arm." She did a breast self-exam and found another lump there.
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