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A café in Stone Mountain is giving deaf students a place to gain experience and get creative in the culinary arts through an innovative work-study program. 

Sweet Potato Café, 5377 Manor Drive, has teamed up with Clarkston-based Atlanta Area School for the Deaf to form the new internship program. With the help of LaDonna Sutton, vocational training and work-based learning coordinator, and Dona Harris, school community liaison, the program gets students in the kitchen three times a week for three hours each day.

Since beginning the program a few months ago, the students have experienced all aspects of being in a restaurant kitchen, including prepping, baking, grilling and setting up the line for the day said Stone Mountain Village Association President Susan Leisure.

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