Canada troops to get a taste of home

HAMILTON, Ontario, March 8 (UPI) -- Canadian troops in Afghanistan will be getting a taste of home soon -- coffee and doughnuts from the Tim Hortons chain.

The military lobbied for weeks before the chain agreed to set up a coffee shop in Kandahar, the Hamilton (Canada) Spectator said.

No timeline has been set, but Ron Joyce, who co-founded the chain in Hamilton in 1964 with NHL player Tim Horton, said the shop will be in business "shortly."

The store is expected to be housed inside a trailer with takeout windows, and military transports will make deliveries to the Canadian base in Kandahar, the newspaper said.

There are 2,300 Canadian troops in the Kandahar region.