November 26, 2009 by marychristensen
Food Co-op Days at The Magic Carpet this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, November 27, 28 and 29
10% of your purchase goes to the food co-op. Members or new members can sign up for a $50 gift certificate drawing to be given away on Sunday. Call 479-2433 for directions.
See us at the Tanana Valley Farmer’s Market Annual Bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 5. Call 456-3276 for more information.
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November 26, 2009 by marychristensen
This is an interactive post. Please feel free to comment and add to this applause list or email cjfriar@riseup.net to add your thanks to this post.
This event has been in the works for months. Many hands worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help in the effort to raise funds to open our food co-op.
It began with a committee and a chair. Thanks first need to go to Helen McClean for her talented management of the event and constant good cheer. Cora Kelley assisted with auction logistics, Sharon Alden made sure we had many delicious desserts and Morgan Macchione got our credit card machine set up just in time.
Meanwhile, Sue Sprinkle, created breathtaking graphics for our advertisements, Barb and Tom Bradley handled all of our fundraising items, Shaun Lott helped distribute flyers and wrote thank you letters and Evan Daigneault coordinated the volunteers for the membership tables.
A new and prolific behind the seasons committee member, Christopher Friar, assisted with the Facebook page, blog advertisements and created advertisements in other social media. Rob Leach and Hans Geier lended critical support at the auction. Countless members lended a hand or created awesome desserts for us. Special thanks go to the ReJoySing Choir for providing entertainment at opening and to Jersey Jones for his auctioneering expertise.
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November 21, 2009 by fairbankscoop
The Fairbanks Coop’s Health and Wellness Committee in conjunction with the UAF Peace and Justice Coalition presents a FREE showing of the film Eating Alaska Tuesday night, November 24, at 7 p.m. at UAF’s Schaible Auditorium. Running time is 57 minutes.
We’ll have a brief introduction and open discussion afterwards. All members of the Fairbanks and surrounding community are invited (both present and future members of the Coop!), so invite your friends to a FREE showing of this excellent documentary.
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November 6, 2009 by fairbankscoop
The website is back up and on line!
To all of you who have been calling in on our message phone, thank you very much! You’ll be pleased to know that the phone for our volunteer center should be ready on Nov. 12, so you’ll be able to call in and talk to a real person (Evan Daigneault, most likely) after that.
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November 3, 2009 by fairbankscoop
The word from our webmaster is that the website for the Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market is on a server that is undergoing attack; the site will be down until either the server can protect itself or we can find a new server. In the meantime, we will try to post the resources there to the blog, and upload a mirror site.
Addendum 11/4/09: This is our push month for raising $100,000 in membership equity, (a most awkward time to have website problems); so please bring your capital investment in to our volunteer center/office at 542 Fourth Avenue, Suite 100 B, in downtown Fairbanks. Call 457-1023 or e-mail info@fairbankscoop.org
Thank you!
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October 31, 2009 by marychristensen
Dessert Auction Extravaganza!!
November 21, 2009
Morris Thompson Cultural Center
$10
(suggested donation**)
Dessert Donation Check – in: Between 6:15 p.m. – 6:45
Program and Auction Begins: 7:30Featuring guest “Celebrity Chef’s” and
Live Music and dancing by The Denali Mountain Boys; featuring Bruce Delbridge, Kit Carson, Earl Hughes and Fred Weisse.
Auction Fun by Jersey Jones and featuring local chefs and perhaps even a surprise appearance by a couple of celebrity chefs.
No host cash bar by Pikes,featuring local wine and beer.
Coffee by Forget Me Not Espresso.
Door Prizes
Hosted by our own Board of Directors
**Dessert donations, purchases and membership fees are not tax deductible. Your support helps us with our effort to open a community-owned and controlled grocery store that will support local farmers and help build a thriving, local food system and create a just marketplace that nourishes. the community.
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