A Missouri grandmother says she was frightened she could end up in legal trouble after county health officials told her to stop serving free homemade breakfasts without a permit, but she told Fox News Digital she has no intention of giving up the morning tradition that brings her tiny community together."I'm not gonna stop providing for my community," Kathy Kite of Harrisburg, Missouri, told Fox News Digital in an interview Tuesday."I wouldn't stop feeding my children, I wouldn't stop feeding my family.
I'm not gonna stop feeding my community cause they are my family….This is bigger than that.It's about love and appreciation because they appreciate what I do."Kite has been cooking a free breakfasts for her neighbors and friends since May.
In July, she received a letter from the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services Department that said she needed to obtain a food permit or face possible legal action.YOU SHOULDN’T NEED A PERMIT TO PRAY IN YOUR OWN HOME — THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD AGREEMissouri grandmother Kathy Kite prepares breakfast for her friends and neighbors.(Kathy Kite)"I got the letter in July, it upset me, because I didn't understand what I was doing wrong," Kite said.
"It hurt my feelings, and it upset me because I knew at that point I was afraid I was gonna go to jail because the letter stated that if I didn't stop making breakfast for my community, that I was facing fines and jail, and so I posted it on Facebook and people responded." The Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services Department denied that their letter threatened jail time, in comments to Fox News Digital.Kite said that after the local gas station where she works stopped serving breakfast following COVID, regular customers kept asking for it, so she invited them to her home and began cooking breakfast for them, herself.Kite said that what began as an early-morning breakfast for a few regulars quickly spread across the town of fewer than 300 people.More ...