Julia Ammons, co-owner of Essence Kitchen & Bar in Chino Valley, uses the restaurant more as a tool for community building than a business. Ammons hires students from the Chino Valley High School culinary program to work there and offers free veterans luncheons every other month. She has also made the restaurant into an all-encompassing family business experience, as many family members work there, and she says that those who are hired become extended family members. For the veterans … [Read more...] about Julia Ammons Demonstrates the Essence of Serving the Community