MISSION \u2014\u00a0Petronilo \u201cPetro\u201d V\u00e1zquez took the stage at the Mission Economic Development Corporation\u2019s Small Business Expo on Wednesday with a story.<\/p>
About three years ago, V\u00e1zquez said, he started thinking about the little cafe his church runs.<\/p>
The church, strapped for money, was spending too much money on coffee beans.<\/p>
V\u00e1zquez, a math teacher at La Joya Independent School District with a passion for coffee, figured he could buy unroasted beans on the cheap in Mexico, roast them himself, and save the church some money while doing something he was passionate about.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La primera Feria de la Peque\u00f1a Empresa de Mission reuni\u00f3 a emprendedores para establecer contactos y competir por premios en met\u00e1lico, con las empresas locales como protagonistas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"post_views_count":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1698,111,825],"tags":[5315,5316,76,5319,5317,62,4801,5318,297,453],"class_list":["post-23236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-incentives","category-retail-real-estate","category-u-s","tag-bonampak-coffee-roasters-es-es","tag-elizabeth-davis-es-es","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-feria-de-la-pequena-empresa-es","tag-frutos-secos-y-vacas-es","tag-mission","tag-mission-economic-development-corporation","tag-petronilo-vazquez-es-es","tag-ruby-red-ventures","tag-small-business"],"acf":{"is_features_post":"","is_sponser":"","hide_author":"","hide_author_biography":""},"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n