Jeff Hale, one of the founders of the Someday Cafe, has died of leukemia. Lisa remembers him:

... I saw him a number of times after (he and his partners sold the cafe), including one time when he gave a wonderful short lecture on coffee cultivation and roasting at the Someday Cafe. He had already started a successful business and was always brimming with plans; the last one he told me about was a business to sell coffee he would buy from farms practicing sustainable agriculture practices. ...