Grocery & Deli
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Monday - Saturday: 8am - 8pm
Sunday: 10am - 6pm
526 Gaffney Road
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907.457.1023
Membership Equity dollars raised as of 9 am, Saturday, September 11 – $97,949.45
Inventory Value for Fundraising – $6,537.17
Wells Fargo Checking Account Balance – $1,394.94
Wells Fargo Savings – $87,364.89
Sales from Fundraising in 2009 and 2010 totaled – $25,001.55
Additional updates will be added to this report within the next week.
The first order of business was to establish a quorum. Mary Christensen, Board Secretary, reported that there were a total of 490 members on the rolls, per the Bylaws, to meet a quorum of 5%, 25 members were required to be present. Having determined that a quorum was present, the meeting was called to order by Board Chairman, Robert Leach, at 5:07 p.m. at the Pioneer Park Civic Center Exhibit Hall.
Richard Seifert moved that the agenda be approved and Hans Geier seconded it. The agenda was approved as written.
Mary Christensen, Board Secretary, read the minutes from the last annual meeting. The minutes were approved as read.
Robert Leach thanked the outgoing board members, Mike Emers, Cora Kelley and Morgan Macchione for their service and introduced the new board candidates, Colin Craven, Hans Geier, Sandra Trumbower, Catherine Whitney, and Miriam Woody. He thanked all who had volunteered over the past year and discussed the importance of the Co-op Market as a community organization and deferred to the committee reports for specific information on the year’s progress.
Mary Christensen, Board Secretary, gave the treasurer’s report since Morgan Macchione, Board Treasurer, could not attend the meeting.
It was reported that $97,949.45 in membership equity dollars have been raised as of 9 am on September 11, 2010. The Co-op Market holds an inventory for fundraising currently valued at $6537.17. There is $1,394.94 in checking and $87,364.89 in savings.
A total of $25,001.55 was raised from fundraising since 2009. Goods sold accounted for $12,846.55, the dessert auction and donations raised $7909 and breakfast fundraisers brought in a total of $4,246.
A treasurer’s report with more detail will be published on the blog by October 1, 2010.
Mary Christensen, Chair of the Outreach Committee, then gave the Outreach Committee report. She reported that the outreach committee raised nearly $90,000 in membership equity funds over the past year. A fundraising campaign was held through the winter including a series of Breakfast Fundraisers, outreach booths at the fair and many other venues and a marketing campaign to increase membership. Last year’s dessert auction brought in over $7000. She reported that the Co-op Market now has over 490 fully paid members and nearly 700 members on payment plans.
Finally, she reported that the next Dessert auction will be held on November 20, 2010 at Pike’s Waterfront Lodge. Pat Fitzgerald and Robin Dale Ford will be the featured entertainment.
Mary also announced our Each One Bring One Campaign and asked the membership to each bring one more member. A “reward” $7 gift certificate can be used at any “Co-op Market Mini Store”. See full outreach report below.
Richard Seifert gave the Finance committee report. He reported that the finance committee is currently in a lease negotiation with Bachner and Companies for a portion of the old Foodland building. He reported that our member loan campaign is ready to launch and that we are pursuing a USDA revolving credit loan/grant that could be offered through a local utility cooperative, such as GVEA. (See Full Report)
Sharon Alden gave a report on the Health and Wellness committee. She reported that the committee sponsored a film series and is now sponsoring a lecture series.
Robert Leach introduced the new board candidates, Colin Craven, Hans Geier (presently a board member with a one year term), Sandra Trumbower, Catherine Whitney, and Miriam Woody. Five people ran for four seats. Each candidate spoke for 3 minutes about why they wish to be a board member. Miriam Woody could not be present. Shaun Lott read from Miriam’s biography.
Robert Leach called for a motion for the candidates to be approved. Richard Seifert moved the candidates be approved. Hans seconded the motion. The candidates were approved.
Ballots were passed around and the election was held. The ballots were later counted by Board Chairman, Robert Leach, in the presence of Board Secretary, Mary Christensen. Our new board members are Colin Craven, Hans Geier, Sandra Trumbower and Catherine Whitney.
Richard Seifert moved that the meeting be adjourned. Hans Geier seconded the motion. The adjournment was delayed to give out the door prizes.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:15 pm. Members were invited to stay for a community pot luck dinner.
The next meeting is scheduled for October 1, 2011 at the Pioneer Park Civic Center Exhibit Hall.
At present we have $97,949 in membership funds (as of 9/11/2010)
Our committee has been relentlessly pursuing financial well-being for the Co-op Market. We have written lease proposals and submitted them, and contacted many sources of possible financing and loans. We are close to a lease offer, at least one we are comfortable with . We have met regularly with the Bachner group since May of this year to attempt getting a lease agreement.
We have also investigated several other financial options, including USDA loans ( REDLAG: the Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program), direct loans through USDA, and a revolving loan option which Brian Newton at GVEA has promised to help with, and which could provide up to $300,000 at low interest.
We have also contacted private “angels” who want to use their money for worthy community investments, along with the Rasmuson Foundation, AIDEA, and local banks. We continue to face a major barrier in financing the Co-op Market. It is the fact that we have no collateral. And of course we have no building which could serve as collateral.
To cope with this , we have engaged legal help to allow us confidence in approaching our members for what are commonly called “member loans”. These are simply loans which our members offer us to solve our problem of collateral.
We have a major effort planned and should be able to launch it within a month which would help us greatly in getting a sound financial footing for the Co-op Market. you, our members, are being asked to help us by loaning us money to provide equity collateral so we can borrow what we will need to open, and perhaps fund fund a major portion of our co-op with these member loans.
( At this point a member asked how much we need, The answer is ~$300,000. More would of course be wonderful.)
Our loan solicitation is nearly ready for you, and we’ll give you much more information soon. Also, Board members have committed to giving member loans to the Co-op Market. I have personally committed $5000 to a board member portion of the financial nest egg we want to use to build the co-op. This can and likely will be one of the most important community actions we can take for our future. Won’t you join me in a community effort to build a food source and market we can be proud of?
submitted 9/20/2010 Rich Seifert
First Health and Wellness Eduction Committee Meeting:
Thank you all who made it to this meeting in spite of the slippery roads!
Last Wednesday we held our first Health and Wellness Education Committee at our downtown volunteer center. We had a great turnout with 11 folks interested excited and enthusiastic about educating our community about getting and staying healthier.
We had a great group of folks with interests varying from natural child birth to cooking organic and vegan food to holistic health care and teas.
Many different ideas were shared including classes on healthy and economical cooking, a lecture series, finding good articles to share on our blog site, and starting a reference library for our co-op.
What we decided on as a start was to show a food and health related film. Several were suggested such as Food Inc. and Eating Alaska.
We will be meeting again next Wednesday at 6 pm (that’s Nov. 4) in our volunteer center with the goal of choosing a movie, a venue, and a date. In the meantime we will be checking out what films and venues are available and thinking about what we want to do next.
Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market (FCCM)
Board Meeting Minutes
October 6, 2009, 5:30 pm
Before the business meeting a question and answer session was held with Andy and John Bachner, owners of the “Foodland” property. This helped to nail down some of the monthly operational costs we can expect if we lease a portion of the property.
1. Meeting Called to Order by Hans Geier at 5:30 pm. Present: Morgan Macchione, Sharon Alden, Mary Christensen, Mike Emers, Hans Geier, Evan Daigneault, Robert Leach
Quorum: Yes
2. Minutes from the last meeting were read and CHANGED. Sharon Alden moved to change the minutes to read that Board Seats “A” through “E” expire in 2011 and
Board Seats ”F” through “I” expire in 2010. Morgan Macchione seconded the motion. The motion was approved and passed.
3. Committee Reports:
Communications/Outreach – Chair: Mary Christensen reported that the Pancake Breakfast was a success with $2800 raised, a VISTA volunteer, Evan Daigneault, has been hired and is currently training to assist with the membership drive, the volunteer office has been established, newspaper ads contracted, as well as Facebook and TV.
Operations/Store Design Committees – Mary Christensen reported that operations cost analysis are underway, a book on how to write a business plan for grocery stores has been ordered, and communication with the Co-op Development Center in Minnesota established with the intent of possibly contracting a store design consultant. A joint meeting with the two committees is being planned to work out and assign tasks.
Finance Committee – Hans Geier reported that he has begun the application process for Coop500’s “sprout” loan program. The business plan is necessary to begin the loan application process. Hans also reported that he has acquired grant funding to assist with our co-op development process through his work with the University.
4. Mary Christensen and Sharon Alden led the board in sharing our individual visions for our food co-op. They are summarized as follows:
Robert Leach – Focus on the store central with the objective of providing a market for local producers in the long term, but a focus on the function of our grocery store in the short term.
Mike Emers – to be a focal point for good healthy food in Fairbanks, a catalyst, a meeting place for long term thinking, soil, earth, more producers, a lot more people making a living in farming, organic is incredibly important, when we source outside of Alaska we should know exactly were it is coming from – all kinds of good food for the community.
Evan Daigneault feels that we should focus on meat and vegetables, access to all types of local meat, coffee stand and most importantly – a salad bar
Hans Geier envisions opening a store and operating a successful retail outlet for local goods as well as other healthy products. He envisions a consumer friendly business that takes care of its members.
Mary Christensen described a 6000 square feet facility with 1500 in storage and 1000 for a coffee and sandwich bar – with a plan for expansion in two to three years with food our members want to buy that includes: organic, natural, bulk, local veges, nonlocal veges, meat from our own neighborhood, a cheese island, ethnic foods, white bread and pilot bread and REAL bread, macaroni and other staples, vegan, junk and gourmet food. In other words – Yummy food
Morgan Macchione spoke of the importance of staples to her busy family life and feels that dairy is important plus a coffee shop and deli that has convenience foods.
Sharon Alden would like to see as much local food as possible, lots of staples and good variety.
5. The Board then worked out a time line with the goal of opening between April and June of 2010.
Week of October 11 – 16 – Appointments to be set with environmental, structural and mechanical engineers.
Saturday, October 24th – Board retreat – Possible trip to Delta before that.
October – begin cost analysis for business plan starting with a joint meeting of the Operations and Store Design Committees, continue membership drive,
Completion of Business Plan by November 15.
Applications for Financing sent to financial institutions no later than December 1
January – begin renovations if financing acquired.
January – open the store general manager position for applicants
February – hire general manager and begin process of readying the store for business
6. Sharon Alden offered to organize a committee structure
7. Next Meeting was set for Monday, October 12th from 5:30 to 7 pm
8. Robert Leach Moved to adjourn the meeting and Mary Christensen seconded. The motion was passed.
Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market (FCCM)
Board Meeting Minutes
September 26, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
1. Meeting Called to Order@. Present: Rob Leach, Morgan Macchione, Sharon Alden, Mary Christensen, Rich Seifert, Mike Emers, Cora Kelley, Helen McLean, Hans Geier by phone. Quorum: Yes
2. Minutes from the Annual Meeting were read. and APPROVED.
3. Interim Treasurer, Sharon Alden reported: $30,177 in Savings Account, $7,549 in Checking Account, $2,190 in New Memberships, not yet deposited. Rich Seifert asked if we could accept donations tax exempt. Rob indicated yes, if accepted as a gift.???
4. Assignments for Board seats were conducted according to FCCM Bylaws.
Board Seats “A” through “E” expires 2011
Board Seats “F” through “I” expires 2010
Assignments are as follows:
Seat A: Helen McLean
Seat B: Mary Christensen
Seat C: Rob Leach
Seat D: Rich Seifert
Seat E: Sharon Alden
Seat F: Hans Geier
Seat G: Morgan Macchione
Seat H: Mike Emers
Seat I: Cora Kelley
5. Committee Reports:
Communications / Outreach – Chair: Mary Christensen reported on: a. Pancake Breakfast being held Sunday, October 4, 2009,
11 – 2 p.m. at the Ken Kunkel Community Center on Goldstream Road. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 children under 12 years of age, and Free to children under 5 years of age. The purpose of this breakfast series is to exchange information and ideas, as well as raise funds. There will be a powerpoint presentation and a chance to visit with board members.
b. Rob Leach will be making a presentation to the Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District’s board meeting, on Tuesday, September 29th at 5:00 p.m.
c. Triple Pack Marketing Blitz to include Radio, TV and paper print advertising. Sue Sprinkle is updating the brochure and FCCM flyer (hand bill). An emphasis was made on how important it is to get these completed.
d. Dessert Auction: November 21st at Morris Thompson Cultural Center.
e. The Vista Worker interview will be held Monday, September 27, 2009 at noon, 3rd Floor of Borough building. Mary discussed that the worker will have only one supervisor and will be required to go to training. Morgan expressed her interest in taking the training. Mary said she would like to be the supervisor, because she has specific tasks in mind for the worker. Rich Seifert stated he is a trained Vista Supervisor and that he can assist in the interim until such time someone gets the required training, and that he will be a “hovering presence” leading and assisting in the meantime.
Local Producers / Vendor Selection – Chair: VACANT – No report
We need to recruit a Chair and volunteers to be a part of this committee. Discussion ensued regarding the need to provide detailed committee descriptions. Mary stated they are on our website.
Store Design – Chair: Rob Leach reported that he spoke to a gentleman named Jim with Arctic Refrigeration that will help us figure out whether we want to work with what is available for refrigeration or if we will need to buy new / new to us refrigeration. We need to answer the question – How much refrigeration do we need? Producers / Vendor Selection Committee will be a responsible for figuring this out.
Rob also let us know that he has the building drawings on AutoCAD, and we need to ask the question? What do we want the store to look like and what departments we want it to include –i.e. Coffee Shop, Deli, ect.
Business Plan – Chair: Rob Leach reported that he is working on getting some help with it.
Operations – Chair: Mary Christensen reported that the committee will be meeting October 1st and will report on the committee work at the next meeting.
Finance – Chairs: Hans Geier reported that Rich Seifert is going Co-Chair the Finance Committee with him. Rich Seifert reported that a gentleman name Sam Skaggs, a financial advisor in Juneau called him to discuss the possibility of one of his clients, a “slow money” investor who may be interested in investing in FCCM. Slow Money investors are dedicated to investing in small food enterprises and local food systems; connecting investors to their local economies; and, building the nurture capital industry. Sam referred Rich to the book by the same name. Rich indicated that we need to have a strong Business Plan in place before we present our cooperative grocery store to him. Rich will be going to Juneau and will visit with his friend Sam and get more information to pass on to us.
Rich indicated that any loan or investment that is made will expect it to be secured. Discussion ensued regarding buying verses leasing a building. Mike said it seems FCCM is set on the Foodland building and mentioned with the amount of money it will take to rehab the Foodland building we could potentially buy and / or build to suit our needs. Rich also spoke to credibility. We need to continue to build our credibility.
An architect needs to be employed to put together a rendering and start the process of asking the questions that will provide the them with the information needed to put together a conceptual design, based on our overall plan and objectives.
Health & Fitness – No Chair – No report.
6. Unfinished Business: No Old Business
7. New Business
a. Selection of Director Positions were made and APPROVED as follows:
Chair: Rob Leach
Vice Chair: Hans Geier
Secretary: Mary Christensen
Treasurer: Morgan Macchione
Board Members at Large are Helen McLean, Cora Kelley, Mike Emers, Rich Seifert.
b. Assign Check Signors: Based on the election of new Officers, the signors will change from Sharon A. to Morgan M., from Lela to Mary M. Check signors will be – Rob L., Morgan M. & Mary C. Sharon A. will handle the details.
c. Adopt Payment Plan: A discussion to adopt a payment plan for membership fees took place from $50 quarterly payments in for one (1) to $25 quarterly payments for 2 years. The Board chose the later with a condition that at the time of official store opening, members participating in the payment plan must be current on their quarterly payments or their membership benefits will be suspended. . .
8. Decision Making Process for the Board: Mike spoke on how Calypso handles their “Consensus Policy for Decision Making”. When they vote, they determine the strength of a decision by the number of fingers the Board members holds up. The number one (1) means strong support, number three (3) describes that the board member could go either way (undecided) number five (5) means no support. It was decided to put this off until a future meeting. A proposal or proposals will be presented for the Board to vote on.
9. Consultant for Store Design: Rob has experience doing this type of work and has said he will prepare something. Mary believes we need something prepared by a professional and that we need to get it started. Discussion ensued regarding the process. Hans spoke about developing a scope of need to give to potential and interested architects.
10. Review Committee Budgets – this will be moved to the Agenda for the next Board meeting.
11. Appoint Executive Committee – will be moved to the Agenda for next meeting
12. Set date for next Annual Meeting. No date set.
13. Recommend minutes from 1st Annual Membership Meeting for presentation and adoption at 2010 Annual Meeting.
14. $200 was approved for office expenses.
15. $700 was approved for repairs for an existing computer, printer / scanner.
16. Mary decided to arrange a meeting with Mary Kopf with Sunshine foods to discuss…
Meeting Adjourned at 8:37 p.m.
These are the (as yet) unapproved mintues for the board meeting held Thursday, August 27.
Present were Rob Leach, Helen McLean, Hans Geier, Lela Ryterski, Rand Petersen, Morgan Macchione, Sharon Alden, and Mary Christensen.
The previous meeting’s minutes were read and accepted.
TREASURER’S REPORT: We now have $14,844.10 in savings and $3,549.32 in checking. Advertising expenses were $2,250 and supplies were $1,594.86.
We need to get an accountant soon. Tax returns are due this year. We have to file a biennial report every two years. We filed in 2007 so a report is due in 2009. Maya Bachner is volunteering to do bookkeeping.
PRODUCTS COMMITTEE: Sue Cave had to back out due to work. We’ll miss her. She did a lot the short time she was here. We’re looking for someone to take her place and connect with the ranchers.
Rob mentioned that CSAs know what grows well in Fairbanks. Consumers need to adopt to those foods. We can get that information out. Morgan brought up watching the movie, Food, Inc.
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE: Facebook has an announcement for the Annual Meeting; also in the e-newsletter. We need volunteers at 8:00 a.m. At Pioneer Park. Cora to rehearse power point presentation. Shaun’s friend made a quilt for our fund raising. We can display it here and auction it off at the dessert auction in November.
OPERATIONS COMMITTEE: Waiting until after the Harvest Fair to meet.
FINANCE COMMITTEE: Hans, Rich, and Bridget Schwafel met. We’re on board with the North Country Cooperative Development Fund in North Dakota. They brainstormed people to contact.
STORE DESIGN: Rob had the square footage figured out. Lela had ideas for the rest of the Foodland building she would draw out on foam board for the Annual Meeting/Harvest Fair.
HARVEST FAIR: We planned the details of which plates and cups to buy. Sue Sprinkle will make cloth napkins we can reuse. Plastic plates and utensils can be reused. Rob will get ice and put up the booth that we had at the Fair.
Dave Guttenberg will present an honorarium for Dave. We’ll ask his son, Vaughan, to receive it.
OLD BUSINESS: BYLAWS: We went over all the changes the lawyer suggested and edited the previous draft. The changes were made and copies will be available at the First Annual Meeting. We’ll make a motion to substitute the edited Bylaws.
Hans made a motion to adjourn. It was seconded. We were all in favor. Meeting adjourned at 10:00pm.
FCCM Minutes for July 30, 2009
Present were Mary Stech, Rob Leach, Lela Ryterski, Katie Robb, Rand Petersen, Mary Christensen, Becca Blanchard, Sharon Alden.
Minutes from the July 16th meeting were read and approved.
TREASURER’S REPORT: We now have $10, 982.93 in our bank account, Sharon reported.
AMERICORP/VISTA representative, Katie Robb, spoke about the possibility of us getting one or two people to work for us fulltime to help get the co-op off the ground. They could work with economic or program development, marketing, public relations or other behind-the-scenes work to build our infra-structure. They would work a 40 hour week for one year and get a stipend from the government. We would have to provide an office. An application was given to Mary. She’d be their contact and supervisor. She would have to go for orientation, as well as the Vista worker. This is a very exciting possibility since there’s so much that has to be done.
COMMUNICATIONS: Mary reported 140 T-shirts were ordered. 100 to sell at the Fair, 40 to give away to the first 40 people who give $200 membership investment before August 15th.
We’re getting addresses for the members to send the Annual Meeting letter.
Golden Days was successful. We got 35 more interested persons.
Fair Booth: Rob is building the booth. People can help on Saturday. We’ll display local produce.
OPERATIONS: Meeting next Thursday, August 6th at 6:30 at Mary’s.
PRODUCTS/VENDORS: Lela, Shaun, Sue Cave and Rand met last Tuesday at Coffee Roasters. Sue said she’s research the meat department; Rand is looking into outside suppliers and shipping. Lela is continuing to gather feedback from the producers in Farmer’s Market. Shaun is interested in researching the Health and Beauty department. All the departments and food criteria were discussed.
Mary Stech knows shipping and can be a resource. Rob said our job now is to figure out how much shelf space each department needs plus storage space for re-stocking and project a cash flo. He said the vendors would know. Also, to think in terms of a 5 year projection.
STORE DESIGN: Rob said the store design depends on the departments, but he will have a preliminary blueprint to display at the Fair.
FINANCE: Rob suggested getting a savings account that needs 2 signatures at Wells Fargo. Sharon will explore to see if it costs to get one. Rand suggested we use Mt. McKinley Bank, that they have the best deal.
NEW BUSINESS: Sharon picked up membership forms for the Downtown Association and the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has lunch every Tuesday from 12-1 in the Carlson Center for members for the purpose of networking. Mary motioned we sign up for membership to both. Sharon seconded. The motion passed.
Lela brought up that Deirdre isn’t getting the minutes to post in a timely fashion. Rob agreed that we can send her the minutes as soon as they’re done and state “pending approval”.
NEXT COMMUNICATIONS meeting will be at Foodland/Marketplace at 6:30 on Tuesday, August 4th. We’ll be preparing for the Fair.
NEXT BOARD meeting will be after the Fair, probably Thursday, August 20th at 6:30 at Foodland.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 pm.
FCCM Minutes for July 16, 2009
Present were Sue Cave, Rand Petersen, Rob Leach, Hans Geier, Sharon Alden, Mary Christensen, Helen McLean, Jenine Haney, Diane Fleeks, and Lela Ryterski.
The minutes from July 9th were read and approved.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Mary helped Sharon with quickbooks. FCCM sold 75 Chico bags to Mary at cost. There are 36 new founding members, 12 put in the full $200 investment. There has been an additional $3,578.42 since June l. Our new balance is $8,845.43. Rob pointed out that the Treasurer is not a bookkeeper, only oversees. We need to hire a bookkeeper. Jewels Nutter’s name came up. Sharon suggested to open a savings account at Wells Fargo with two signatures required to take money out. We should have a savings account with the bank we will approach for a loan.
COMMUNICATIONS/OUTREACH: The T-shirt design is almost done. Chico bags have arrived. We’re going to have our logo on it. Meadow will take over for Sue with logo and annual meeting.
OPERATIONS; Needed four people to make a committee. Jerry Wacker will attend and there will be a meeting in 2 weeks. Lela mentioned the new Obama health plan to favor small business. Do we want to support that? Discussion ensued about us not wanting to be political. Will talk about having espresso and deli bar.
PRODUCTS COMMITTEE: Sue Cave and Rand Petersen to help, now we have 4 people and will plan a meeting soon. The committee is combined with Local Producers/Vendor selection.
STORE DESIGN: Rob has AutoCad drawings and will start working on a design. Sue Cave on this committee.
BUSINESS PLAN: All areas are coming together to add to the business plan.
FINANCE COMMITTEE: Rich Seifert and Linda Redmond are added to the committee. They’re ready to set up a meeting. Hans is wanting to work with an organization in North Dakota that provides start-up capital. They understand co-ops. Also looking into local banks and credit unions. Member loans are not a priority. Rob will put together a proposal for financial controls. Hans will talk to local banks.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Rob mentioned “Weed and Seed”, a youth involvement program from United Way. Should we partner up with that?
DELTA FARM TOUR: Helen reported. She went to Historic Mead Farm, saw cattle. They talked rodeo. Rob, Lela and Shaun joined the group to look at raindeer, then went to Clearwater Lodge to eat yak burgers, then to Northern Lights Diary. They import half their milk from Washington. They’re the only processor here. Saw cows and milk processing. Then to the hay farm where Bob Walker explained what a farmer’s life is like. Afterwards we saw buffalo and elk at a distance. Phil Kaspari from Cooperative Extension Service in Delta was the guide.
VOLUNTEER DAY was successful. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner wrote a nice article and new people are becoming active.
CALYPSO FARM OPEN HOUSE is Saturday, July 19th. We will have a table there.
NEXT COMMUNICATIONS meeting will be at Mary’s on Tuesday, July 21st at 6:30 p.m.
NEXT BOARD meeting will be at the Foodland/Marketplace site on Thursday, July 30th at 6:00 p.m.
