Blanding restaurant bans customers from wearing masks

Blanding • Seven months ago, Yaks Cafe in Blanding advertised itself as a source of hamburgers and Bears Ears souvenirs. Now it has become a purveyor of anti-mask merchandise.“It’s a Yaks Cafe thing,” reads the front of one T-shirt that was offered in a limited sale through the restaurant’s Facebook page last week. Printed on the back of the tee: “No mask.”Since at least May, the owners of the cafe, a small breakfast and lunch joint in southeast Utah, hav