One of the owners of a Brattleboro-based coffee company that does business in Indonesia has just returned from Sumatra, one of the areas hit hard by the tsunamis that devastated much of Southeast Asia. Thomas Fricke and his wife Sylvia Blanchet are the founders of ForesTrade, which markets fair-trade coffee and spices from around the world.
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