The Vancouver Food Cooperative has begun selling shares!
As most folks who have been around for a while know, most natural food cooperatives were started thirty years ago, but with growing concerns about regional food security, there is a third wave of co-ops emerging around the nation, including one right here in Vancouver, USA!
Please visit the web site, consider joining their announcement list or subscribing to weblog.VancouverFood.org and help bring a community-owned, natural foods grocery to Vancouver. We can own it!
vancouverfood.org/weblog/20...etter.html
groups.google.com/group/vfc-announce
VancouverFood.org
As most folks who have been around for a while know, most natural food cooperatives were started thirty years ago, but with growing concerns about regional food security, there is a third wave of co-ops emerging around the nation, including one right here in Vancouver, USA!
Please visit the web site, consider joining their announcement list or subscribing to weblog.VancouverFood.org and help bring a community-owned, natural foods grocery to Vancouver. We can own it!
vancouverfood.org/weblog/20...etter.html
groups.google.com/group/vfc-announce
VancouverFood.org
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VFC Newsletter for August 2007 is available
Wed, August 1, 2007 - 12:47 PMCheck out news and developments as a web page or PDF
vancouverfood.org/weblog/20..._2007.html
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Re: VFC Newsletter for August 2007 is available
Sun, August 19, 2007 - 8:37 AMHey Mac;
Is there a tribe for this yet? I'm on the mailing list, but it keeps getting caught in my spam filter. -
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Re: VFC Newsletter for August 2007 is available
Sun, August 19, 2007 - 4:54 PMThere is not? Do you think there should be? Perhaps a general tribe for food cooperatives, but a Tribe for just VFC seems a bit narrow. My understanding is that VFC-ANNOUNCE (and all other Google groups) send out from the email address noreply@googlegroups.com, so if you add this to your "whitelist" or address book, most spam filters will let it through.
There was some discussion of starting a MySpace page and there is vancouverfood.livejournal.com, but a simpler solution may be to use RSS to subscribe to weblog.vancouverfood.org
PM me if there are other questions about the details of this.
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Holy Hopping Harvest, Batman!
Fri, September 7, 2007 - 9:49 AMA lot of great things are happening around the VFC this month, including a terrific article in The Columbian, a free public presentation by a national cooperative expert at the library this Sunday and a fancy-pants harvest dinner scheduled for September 21. Check it out!
www.columbian.com/news/loca...92062.cfm/
vancouverfood.org/weblog/20..._expe.html
vancouverfood.org/weblog/20..._sept.html
vancouverfood.org/weblog/20...ber_2.html
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VFC Newsletter for October 2007 is available
Sat, October 6, 2007 - 12:07 PMThis has been a terrific month for VFC as we received a positive editorial endorsement from The Columbian, held a terrifically successful "Harvest Dinner" fundraiser and are now featured on the cover of this month's Vancouver Voice!
columbian.com/opinion/new...ws194916.cfm
vancouverfood.org/weblog/20...hanks.html
www.vanvoice.com/news/97/61/
vancouverfood.org/documents...letter.pdf
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$2,500 Contest and November Newsletter
Thu, November 1, 2007 - 4:10 PMVFC is a finalist in a Sun Crystals contest which will provide at least $2,500 to help us open, with the possibility for another $2,500 if we win their "online contest." Folks can vote once per day at www.suncrystals.com/page.jhtml
The November newsletter is also up at weblog.vancouverfood.org and we are planning for elections in February.
If you have not joined, now would be the perfect time, and in the interim please vote at www.suncrystals.com/page.jhtml
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VancouverFood.coop Annual Meeting February 29th!
Sun, February 17, 2008 - 2:05 PMAs part of the great march toward opening the store, the Vancouver Food Cooperative is currently holding its first board elections and planning to hold its first annual meeting at the end of this month.
Saturday, February 29th, 2008: 6-9 pm
Vancouver Food Cooperative Annual Meeting
@ St Luke's Church, 426 East Fourth Plain Blvd, Vancouver 98663
Absolute basic info at www.VancouverFood.coop with most recent news at VancouverFood.coop
Please note that this is also the new and final, .COOP domain.
More details about elections and the venue at
vancouverfood.coop/weblog/2...dule.html
vancouverfood.coop/weblog/2...east.html
I hope to see a few of my fellow Tribesters there, or at one of our monthly potlucks. -
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Candidate Statements Up!
Wed, February 27, 2008 - 10:04 PMCandidate statements are now up for the VFC annual meeting and "meet the candidates" night this Friday.
Woo hoo!
vancouverfood.coop/weblog/2...bios.html
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VFC to Unveil Master Plan @ FVRL, 6:30 pm Wed, 27 Aug 2008
Tue, August 19, 2008 - 8:30 AMThe Vancouver Food Cooperative shall hold a meeting to discuss concrete plans for a cooperative grocery store this coming Wednesday,
August 27, 2008. To be held downstairs at the Fort Vancouver Regional Library, 1007 E. Mill Plain Blvd, the meeting begins at 6:30 pm and is open to the general public according to FVRL policy. Called last May by owners under RCW 24.06.100, this special meeting is for the board to provide a progress report to owners, including a publicly-available version of the business and marketing plan from now until opening of a retail store. To meet the owners’ petition, this plan shall include a clear branding, marketing and financing strategy, with benchmarks indicated in terms of members and/or dollars needed to successfully open a storefront.
Full press release at groups.google.com/group/vfc...f625e5418e
More info at VFCBizPlan.com
