Its in the water Hopi Marine veteran takes a chance and opens his dream coffee shop

SECOND MESA — Hopi councilman Mervin Yoyetewa walked into Gary Tso’s Hopi Grounds coffee shop on a cold March afternoon on Hopi Nation. He greets Tso, but doesn’t initially order coffee or any of the food items on the menu. Instead, Yoyetewa asks Tso if he is selling the popular “Don’t Worry Be Hopi” t-shirt. Before Hopi Grounds was turned into a coffee shop it was Tsakurshovi Gallery. When the pandemic hit, the former owners, Janice and Joseph Day, retired and allowed Tso to turn the small building into the coffee shop he had always dreamed of opening. Like the…