Longmont restaurant owner hits the road to make hospital patient’s wish come true

LONGMONT, Colo. — A Longmont restaurant owner is driving to Montana this weekend to personally deliver baked potatoes to a patient who listed visiting his establishment as one of their wishes.

Eddy Ellson, owner of Big Bear Baked Potatoes, received a message through his restaurant’s website from a hospice nurse in Montana asking if he could share his recipe or send food to a patient named Kristle, who wanted to visit his restaurant but was too ill to make the trip.

“One of her last wishes she asked the nurse to take her to Denver because she wanted to go to Big Bear Baked Potatoes,” Ellson said…

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