The next board meeting will be on Monday, August 23rd, at the location below. If you’d like to be on the agenda, please contact the store ASAP. We’ll have expansion updates and committee reports (Did you know that there are two active committees right now? By-laws and board candidate training! Stay tuned for the community service committee!). We will plan our yearly Board retreat and the annual meeting. We have a full Board right now, with many enthusiastic folks contributing their knowledge and experience to the governance of your coop.
The meeting starts at 7 pm. Here is the Centro System Map if you’d like to take the bus. It’s a nice walk from downtown, too!
Read about them here. Also check out the responses from a brainstorming session we had with our owners who were able to attend the spring meeting! We want ya’ll to be as happy with the new location as you are with the old (or possibly happier; could that be?) so we asked you to tell us your needs and desires for the new location.
There are links to two recent coop expansions in Buffalo, NY and Ames, Iowa, two markets that are very similar to our own in size, population, and the lack of major competitors such as Whole Foods Market or Trader Joe’s.
PS: My carless friend who lives north of East Genesee and my wheelchaired friend who likes to eat healthy are BOTH thrilled about the new joint!
In a recession, it’s a good problem for a store to have: Not enough space and not enough selection, coupled with a loyal customer base that wants more of both.
Read the rest of the Syracuse Post-Standard article here.
One response to the problems of rusted-out industrial cities such as Detroit has been a new urban reclamation effort called “shrinking cities.” The idea, perhaps inspired by Pittsburgh, has caught on in smaller cities in the American Midwest, such as Youngstown, Ohio, and Flint, Michigan, and their European counterparts. The basic notion is that older industrial cities need not grow to improve. They can be better places by making do with less, by focusing on improvements in the quality of life for their residents, and by bringing their level of infrastructure and housing into line with their smaller populations.
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, founder of The Grameen Bank and creator of the global practice of micro-lending, will visit Syracuse University on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 in Hendricks Chapel, as the first offering in the University Lectures presentations for spring 2010.
For more details, click here. (GN)
