Matt Kenevan provides firewood to bars, breweries and homeless camps.
MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. — Experiencing his very own severe realities, a Twin Cities function planner fired up his log splitter.
“It’s remedy, is what it is,” Matt Kenevan says.
The owner of The Beer Dabbler was compelled to cut his team by roughly two-thirds as celebration immediately after function cancelled throughout COVID-19 shutdowns.
But a person only requires so a great deal firewood to heat his house. That’s when Matt took his log splitting remedy on the highway.
This winter season, the Mendota Heights resident has shipped cost-free firewood to a lot more than two dozen bars and eating places for use in their patio firepits – about 40 trailer hundreds and counting.
“Watching my mates that owned bars and places to eat, they ended up hurting,” Matt suggests.
1 Friday he shipped two cords of firewood to the Handsome Hog cafe in St. Paul, which plans to reopen for business enterprise on Feb. 1 right after a shutdown of quite a few months.
“It’s very nuts the selling price of every thing striving to keep an out of doors location open up in the winter, and we just take pleasure in all the assist we can get,” Dylan Howe, the restaurant’s assistant basic manager said.
Matt has also begun providing wood to homeless camps – which includes the St. Paul campsite of a partner and spouse named Lyle and Samantha.
“It assists hold heat you know, to have a fireplace going,” claimed Lyle, who declined to give his very last name.
Matt has been accepting donations of logs from tree trimmers – and welcomes financial donations to aid include the price of gasoline and other shipping and delivery expenses.
He can be achieved by emailing: [email protected]
Matt is confident his have small business will bounce back again and desires to assistance others do the similar.
“It will make me sense superior. It normally takes my views absent from some of the tough realities of lifetime,” he suggests.


