Kayla Mildon, a 2007 Forest Lake grad, has had the dream of selling coffee from a food truck for the better part of a decade. But it was really the last three years that it’s taken shape.
Now, Mildon, the owner of White Pine Coffee, expects to start serving coffee and more soon, potentially within a few weeks. Mildon has always been drawn to white pine trees. It was the tree she and Ben planted together for their wedding, and her choice of business name is a reference to that and her love of those trees.
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