Happy Bento operator sees silver lining in illness crisis

Deanna Cornelius projects the calm and the kindness you’d expect from a person with a background of feeding children, seniors and the ill, and who runs an operation called The Happy Bento.

But there is fire in Cornelius’ soft voice when she says, “The solution, I think, is staring us in the face. We have to keep the (local) farmers going.”

For now Cornelius is doing her part by restarting a dinner delivery service that makes good use of local produce. It is also a move made out of business necessity; much of The Happy Bento’s work normally comes from school-lunch clients, and schools are closed.

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