Pat and Cathy Wyatt (pictured above) opened Carpe Diem Coffee Shop in 2003 in downtown Canton, Ohio when gas was well under $2 per gallon and Finding Nemo was in the movie theatres.
Located at 215 Market Ave. N, the shop offers a variety of coffees and coffee drinks from bold Italian roast to a salted caramel latte and/ or a flavored coffees like Red Velvet Cake.
Also, the shop has frappes (like a coffee milkshake), fruit smoothies, a selection of hot and iced teas year ‘round, decafs, espressos and cappuccinos.
Pat and Cathy and team love what they do and put everything into providing a warm comfortable, friendly space to enjoy coffee with friends, grab a quick lunch, or simply as a place to unwind and catch up on a good book or magazine all by yourself.
The shop is in the middle of Canton’s modest downtown area just a few blocks from America’s First Ladies Museum and the Canton Classic Car Museum. Canton is also home to the popular NFL Hall of Fame and the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum.
As you read this there are big happenings in Canton. One of them is a Senior amateur hardball tournament being held at the Thurmond Munson Memorial baseball stadium in South Canton.
The tournament has brought together six teams from across the country to play in this competition for teams made up of 80-year-old and older players. Now in its third year the octogenarian tourney is led by Canton resident George Hughes and he named the event the Donna Hughes Memorial Baseball Tournament in honor of his late wife.
Many of the 80+ players from San Antonio and San Diego beelined to Carpe Diem Coffee shop before and after morning games. “You can’t be a Joltin’ Joe without a cup of joltin’ joe,” said one player, who added “Carpe Diem is also great motto for what we’re doing.”
The Canton tourney is an offshoot of the Mens Senior Baseball League that organizes amateur baseball (not softball) leagues, teams and tournaments nationwide for the Boys of Summer for the past 40 years.
Canton's 80-year-old baseball tournament winners (below).
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