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Volume MM, Number 7 April 12, 2018 March General Meeting: Brooklyn Gets a Basque- Inspired Cider House By Rene Brinkley Downcycling Soft Plastic or 25 years Peter Yi was in love. It was a love that took him around Fthe world to some of the most beautiful and romantic places on earth. He sipped wine overlooking the castles of Bordeaux. He with the TerraCycle Squad dined among the hills of Tuscany. He walked along the valleys in Rioja, Spain. And he did all of By Karen Gardner others began to grumble as questions about what would this as part of his day job! Yi he Park Slope Food Coop time went on. be needed to expand this pro- worked in the wine industry for a TMarch General Meeting Coop members drop off gram for member convenience; quarter of a century and found- largely focused on the Coop’s materials to be recycled if the recycling was a source ed P.J. Wine shop in Manhattan. relationship to the recycling through TerraCycle on the sec- of pollution itself; what Ter- Yi explains, “My job was to go (technically downcycling) ond Wednesday and fourth raCycle makes from the recy- and try wine from all the major company TerraCycle. In the Saturday of every month. The cled materials; and if there is wine regions, judge it, and make agenda portion of the meet- TerraCycle squad accepts and any way to make this process a decision whether to carry the ing, the TerraCycle squad sorts plastic bags, wrapping, cheaper. General Coordina- wine or not. I loved it! I couldn’t leader, Sarah Chandler, pre- and packaging from most tor Joe Holtz recommended wait to wake up and sink my sented the TerraCycle Squad products sold at the Coop, amending the proposal to a teeth into fermented grapes.” Yi Budget Renewal Proposal: thin plastic wrap, plastic roll $12,000 budget instead of a described his job as the “most In the second year the bud- bags, toothpaste tubes, baby- $10,000 budget, so that the plush job on earth.” But roughly get was $6,000 (plus another food pouches and caps, ener- TerraCycle squad had enough six years ago while traveling in $1,500 contingency if need- gy-bar wrappers, Brita filters, to sustain the year, saving the Basque region of Spain on ed), and this year (the third- and cereal and cracker bags. Chandler a trip back to the business, Yi discovered a new year of collection) the squad These materials are packed General Meeting podium love. This love was fresh, excit- requested $10,000. tightly into boxes provided by later this year. ing, scary, and demanding. Yi Sarah was a vision in plas- TerraCycle, and sent back to was intrigued and decided to tic. She had adorned herself TerraCycle to recycle into prod- The Park Slope Food Coop take the leap. After 25 years in ILLUSTRATION BY CATY BARTHOLOMEW in the soft plastic packages ucts such as tote bags, flower the wine industry, he walked that TerraCycle recycles for pots, and more. Like every March General Meeting away to focus on his new beverage of choice—hard cider. the occasion: a tempeh pack- waste disposal or recycling largely focused on the Coop’s age on her right thigh above system, this process costs relationship to the recycle The Cider Chase a grape bag hanging off her money. Each box costs around (technically downcycling) As love stories sometime go, this one started off with disinterest. knee, a green beans pack- $230, which includes the cost company TerraCycle. During his travels around the world, Yi had tried cider many times, age on her left thigh, frozen of the box itself, shipping the including in the Basque region. He initially didn’t find the drink spe- shelled edamame over her box back to TerraCycle, and cial, calling it a “subpar” alcoholic beverage to wine. A combination heart, and a frozen corn bag the recycling of the materials. He said that, while he was of factors helped win him over. “Cider is an acquired taste, kind of flapping from her right elbow. In the first year of TerraCycle’s excited to see what outfit like coffee, beer, or dry wine,” Yi explained. “You don’t really appreci- She wore a white bucket hat relationship with the Coop, Chandler came up with next, ate those things right off the bat, but after trying multiple times you with various pieces of plastic the TerraCycle squad had a she had already presented at CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 sticking out like many anten- budget of $5,000. This year a General Meeting once this nae, and a cookie bag hang- (the third year of partnership), year. Thinking fast, Chan- Next General Meeting on April 24 ing off the left side, partially the squad expects to spend dler agreed to this proposal. The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held covering her face. Chandler about $11,000. Alongside its Glenn Moller, a member of the on the last Tuesday of each month. The April General Meet- propelled herself through budget from the Coop, the Agenda Committee, proposed ing will be on Tuesday, April 24, at 7:00 p.m. at St. Francis a detailed and lengthy pre- squad accepts donations from a second amendment. Moller Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth and sentation about the Coop’s members at TerraCycle drop- voiced concern not over the Seventh Aves. relations with TerraCycle. Her offs, which totaled around expense of working with Ter- The agenda is in this Gazette, on www.foodcoop.com and enthusiasm was selectively $275 this past year. raCycle, but over unanswered available as a flier in the entryway of the Coop. For more contagious—some members A lively discussion followed questions posed by other information about the GM and about Coop governance, applauded sporadically and Chandler’s presentation, with CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 please see the center of this issue.

Fri, Apr 13 • Wordsprouts: IN THIS ISSUE National Poetry Month 7:00 p.m. Puzzle 2 Sat, Apr 21 • Food Drive to Benefit CHiPS Soup Kitchen New Yorkers Support Immigrants and Refugees 3 Coop & Sun, Apr 22 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Labor Committee Report 4 Thu, May 3 • Food Class: Mother’s Day Meals Honoring the Welcome, Coop Calendar 7 Event African Diaspora 7:30 p.m. Mission Statement, Governance Information 7 Calendar of Events 8 Highlights Fri, May 4 • Film Night: Letters to the Editor 10 Long Strange Trip 7:00 p.m. Exciting Workslot Opportunities 11 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Community Calendar, Classifieds 11 Candidates for Board of Directors, Thank You 12

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March GM recently finished treatment for Greene Hill needs more cap- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cancer—an announcement that ital in order to move. Alex was met with warm applause. Kramer encouraged the mem- Sudoku members. He said that while The election begins at the end bers assembled to contrib- he trusts the squad to be of May—with the mailing of ute to the Greene Hill Food Sudoku is a puzzle. You are presented with a 9x9 grid of “good people doing good work proxy ballots—and will end at Coop’s Indiegogo campaign, squares, and that grid is divided into 3x3 zones. and hard work,” he would like the Annual Meeting in June. and General Coordinator Joe You solve the puzzle by filling the empty squares with to see further research. A one- The final agenda item was Holtz promised that any Park single-digit numbers so that every zone, column and row year contingency was thus an amendment to the Coop’s Slope Food Coop member Gazette Sudokuuses each of the numbers fromby Abdul1 to 9. Powell added to the proposal, ensur- pension plan submitted by who is an electrician would ing that the TerraCycle squad General Coordinators Lisa receive work credits in return 9 3 6 would return in a year to pres- Moore and Joe Holtz. The for assisting the Greene Hill ent on some of the questions amendment presented was Food Coop. asked before receiving the to change the pension plan Also in the Open Forum, a 1 4 9 next year’s funding. so that retiring Coop staff member brought up that the The chair commenced vot- could choose to receive a Coop’s fruit tastes wonderful 7 2 8 ing on the “new new proposal,” partial lump sum and month- but looks terrible—the exact and after some conversations ly distributions. Currently opposite, he said, from fruit at to clarify the amendments, the pension plan provides any other grocery store. Gener- 2 9 7 5 the proposal was passed with two options: a lump sum or al Coordinator Joseph Szladek overwhelming support. monthly distributions. The responded that other grocery 6 2 8 change proposed would stores often get rid of edible Other Agenda Items: allow a retiring staff member produce because of aesthetic 6 A Board of Directors to ask for a combination of blemishes. Szladek contin- Candidate and the Staff the lump sum and monthly ued, explaining that the com- Pension Plan check. Moore explained that bination of high volumes and 3 5 7 Other agenda items pre- this option would cost the stocking accomplished by vol- sented at the March General Coop no more than the cur- unteer members does contrib- 1 2 Meeting included a presen- rent options, and would not ute to some flaws in the culling tation of candidates for the result in a higher pension system at the Coop. He said he Board of Directors. Rachel received by the staff member. would communicate this feed- 5 9 2 4 3 Asher, who is running for There was no debate, and the back to his squads and work to Puzzle author: author: Abdul Abdul Powell. Powell. For answers, For answers, see page 10. see page 10. re-election to the board, motion passed. improve the system. spoke about her commitment to the Coop and its coopera- The Open Forum: And More: Another June. He discussed upcom- exclaiming, “I hope—no I tive structure. Asher has been Supporting Greene Hill Location and Improving ing repairs to the Coop, think—that they should live a board member for two years, and Eating Ugly Fruit Our Current Location including new roofing and up to that applause!” is a Park Slope resident, and In the General Meeting’s During committee reports, renovating both ground floor The Park Slope Food Coop works for the Legal Aid Soci- Open Forum, members and members were encouraged bathrooms. Eakin said of the Board of Directors voted to ety of New York. She likes to coordinators discussed the to take the second location bathrooms, “They should be accept all decisions made by sit up in the balcony because importance of supporting survey available on the Coop much improved!” to consid- members in the meeting, and she wants to break down the Greene Hill Food Coop. website. The second location erable applause. He laughed, the meeting was adjourned. n any perceptions of hierarchy The Park Slope Food Coop committee is studying the between the board and other has helped the Greene Hill viability of a second location, Coop members. Food Coop through a variety and greatly appreciates input. She sees her role as a board of means, including a loan Finally, General Coordina- member as one of ratifying and giving our members work tor Mike Eakin discussed the members’ interests and reflect- credit to work at their coop. preliminary financial report, ing members’ needs. She said The Greene Hill Food Coop reminding members that she was not going to mention has lost its lease and, though the audited annual financial it, but she is excited to have they have found a new space, report will be available in

Clockwise from left: TerraCycle squad leader Sarah Chandler, whose budget proposal was approved; General Coordinators Lisa Moore and Joe Holtz submitted a pension plan amendment; Mike Eakin discussed the preliminary financial report; Susan Metz encouraged Congressmember outreach for social and environmental justice; Glenn Moller proposed an amendment to TerraCycle; and Rachel Asher discussed re-election. PHOTOS BY WILLIAM FARRINGTON

Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY April 12, 2018 3 New Yorkers Support Immigrants and Refugees through Their Food By Leila Darabi tion trains native and foreign ralized,” she said of the train- n Saturdays, Jeanette born low-income women in ees who have not yet become OChawki wakes up early bread making, and runs a food U.S. citizens. Hot Bread Kitch- and immediately heads into incubator that provides equip- en works with the National her small Bay Ridge kitch- ment and technical support to Immigration Coalition to pro- en to prepare lunch for her women starting their own food vide information and resourc- guests, a handful of strangers businesses. “We’re not a poli- es to their employees on the who will arrive by 1 p.m. The cy-involved organization, but path to citizenship. menu features many of the our mission is pro-immigrant, “I can’t say enough good foods Jeanette grew up eat- which to me has never felt about what they’re doing,” she ing in her native Syria—thick particularly political until this gushed. “The worst part of this strained yogurt, creamy hum- last year,” Waldman Rodriguez is all the fear and powerless- mus garnished with olive oil explained. ness. But helping people nat- and Aleppo pepper, ground uralize is so tangible and so meat kebabs with fried egg- “So much of what we do important for the country and plant, a fluffy tabbouleh then for the individuals.” is really celebrating the salad, and for dessert date ILLUSTRATION BY VALERIE TRUCCHIA cookies and cinnamon tea. contributions that immigrants Better Hummus for All By the time her guests make to our society and our Manal Kahi, co-founder Elevating Global Cuisine classes as an opportunity arrive, the intermingling culture, particularly our and CEO of EatOffbeat, start- For Lisa Gross of League for people from different smells of each of these delica- food culture…That’s always ed a catering business with her of Kitchens, the next step backgrounds to witness and cies fills the apartment and it’s been important, and even brother Wissam in 2015 when involves diversity in the food appreciate the skills and time to start the class. Chaw- they couldn’t find what they world. The daughter of a expertise of immigrants and ki, a green card holder who more important during this considered decent hummus Korean immigrant and a Jew- refugees. But the League of arrived in the U.S. a decade time when immigrants are in New York. At least that’s ish New Yorker, Gross sees Kitchens isn’t stopping there. ago, teaches five-and-a-half- really being demonized and the story on their website. the food establishment in the Their next venture includes hour immersion workshops dehumanized.” They also wanted to change U.S. as elitist. This, she said, a series of two five-course and two-and-a-half hour “taste the image of immigrants and needs to change, “because meals served at the elite of” classes to those interested refugees from their part of the our food culture really cele- James Beard House in Green- in learning more about Syria world (born in Lebanon, the brates celebrity chefs, most wich Village. There, for $175 by way of its food. Breads of the World siblings grew up eating their of whom are white men, and per person, diners meet and “I love my food, and I love Since 2008, Hot Bread Syrian grandmother’s food). if you look at who does most eat the food of a different sharing it,” said Chawki. “When Kitchen has trained more than From the get go, EatOffbeat of the cooking around the celebrated chef each month. people are interested in our 200 women from 40 countries partnered with the Internation- world, 99 percent of those This year, League of Kitchens food, it makes me happy.” through its Bakers in Training al Rescue Committee, a local people are women.” She instructors have broken that program, and supported the nonprofit that helps refugees continues, “And yet so often mold. They served a Nepali When Food Becomes growth of more than 170 food start new lives, to find collab- those women are not recog- feast earlier this year, and Political businesses through its culi- orators from other countries. nized either for that labor or in May will serve an Uzbek While everyone who enters nary incubator. Their line of Today their website boasts that expertise.” meal—the first home cooks her home to learn to make “global breads” includes rec- food from around the world Gross sees the League of to participate in the series. this food has an interest in ipes “inspired by the women and photos of the refugees Kitchens workshops as the “We’re helping bring voic- the menu, more and more that bake them.” These include who prepare and deliver the first phase in elevating the es and perspectives into students also see spending the Persian sesame flatbread, meals, including “combo image of more diverse cui- larger food conversation,” the afternoon in Bay Ridge as nan-e barbari; thin and flaky menus” that cut across cul- sines. She described the said Gross. n an expression of their politics. Moroccan m'smen; thick and tures. For example, for $25 In the year since President authentic heirloom corn tor- per person, Shahrazad’s Feast Trump took office, immigrant tillas; and challah—all avail- boasts sumac salad and vege- and refugee-driven food busi- able at the Coop. In addition table biryani from Iraq, Nepali nesses say they have expe- to these heritage breads, Hot chicken samosas and cauli- rienced an uptick in support Bread Kitchen bakes (and the flower fritters, and fesenjan from New Yorkers hoping to Coop purchases) Western sta- pomegranate and walnut stew demonstrate that draconi- ples like brioche hamburger from Iran. an shifts in U.S. immigration buns, baguettes, and sliced Kahi can’t say for sure policy don’t reflect the views bread for sandwiches. that support for immigrant of most Americans. Trainees bake all of this at rights are driving her busi- “So much of what we do is their East Harlem headquar- ness—“we’re growing either really celebrating the contri- ters in La Marqueta, a market- way”—but she does know butions that immigrants make place under the elevated train that New Yorkers’ immedi- to our society and our culture, tracks. Formerly known as the ate opposition to restricting particularly our food culture,” Park Avenue Market, the space immigration from Muslim said Lisa Gross, Founder and was designated by former New countries went a long way CEO of League of Kitchens. York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia with her team. “Immediately “That’s always been import- as a marketplace in 1936 in an after the first travel ban was ant, and even more important effort to get food carts off the announced, we were scared during this time when immi- street and under one roof, just and felt vulnerable,” she grants are really being demon- as the famous Arthur Avenue recalled. “[Then] we saw peo- ized and dehumanized.” marketplace in the Bronx. ple heading to the airports.” Her customers agree. Half Though all of their bak- Kahi said she got a text of the League of Kitchens ers are citizens or green card from their head chef the next holiday gift certificates pur- holders, Waldman Rodriguez day suggesting a party to thank chased last fall referenced the shared that the organization New Yorkers. The group orga- election. has had to help their largely nized a 200-person event with Jessamyn Waldman Rodri- immigrant staff understand food from the countries affect- guez, Founder and CEO of what policies like the travel ed by the travel ban. Hot Bread Kitchen, shares ban on Muslim-majority coun- “We all ate together, and the sentiment that immi- tries could mean for them and it was basically just a gesture grant food businesses have their families. to say thank you for support- become more politicized over “My own personal mission ing us and we feel it,” Kahi the past year. Her organiza- is let’s get these women natu- explained.

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LABOR COMMITTEE REPORT

are seeing economies flourish What Does Climate Change Have to Do with Migration? and crime rates plummet as By Jen Chapin, Labor Committee Groundswell: Preparing for Inter- climate change is estimated alarm and denial of climate immigration numbers surge. he numbers are huge nal Climate Migration, pre- to induce 1.4 to 6.7 million change is of the moment, the Causal or coincidental, the Tto the point of being dicts that—barring decisive adult Mexicans (or 2% to 10% involuntary movement of peo- data over recent decades are mind-numbing. As the Envi- action— rising seas, droughts, of the current population aged ples is not new—we know from clear: dying towns in Iowa are ronmental Justice Foundation failing harvests, and dramat- 15–65) to emigrate as a result the stories of our own ances- kept alive by diverse commu- reports, in the last 10 years an ic storms could lead to the of declines in agricultural pro- tors who arrived fleeing the nities of migrants recruited average of 21.7 million people exodus of more than 140 mil- ductivity alone.” In our own pogroms of Eastern Europe, to work their meat-packing each year, 59,600 people every lion people from their homes country last year, more than a the famine of Ireland, or the plants. American climate day or 41 people every minute in South Asia, Sub-Saharan million people were displaced racial terrorism of the Ameri- and technological lead- have been forced to migrate by Africa, and Latin America by by the hurricanes and fires can South. Migration is violent ership recedes, so China weather-related causes. This is 2050. Other researchers have that devastated Texas, Florida, and traumatic, yet it can also accelerates its investment into a conservative estimate that estimated that in Mexico, a California, as well as the Com- fertilize economies and nour- carbon alternatives, India com- leaves uncounted the addi- 10% decrease in crop yields monwealth of Puerto Rico. ish cultures, break up rem- mits to electric cars, France tional millions displaced by leads to a 2% increase in emi- Lost in these numbers are nants of feudalism, and build lures our climate scientists catastrophic drought. gration, and predict that “by the faces, the stories, and the up progressive change. overseas. New political voic- A World Bank study titled approximately the year 2080, moments: Beyond these intimate nar- es are emerging from Gabon, • The elderly are left ratives of hidden hardship is Mauritius, and around the behind—or, as The New York the immense structural and world—as a direct outgrowth Times reported last weekend demographic movement of of climate change activism. As of a Puerto Rican couple, the people from farm to city. At its with the myriad opportunities elderly desperate to return most tragic, this transforma- for slowing climate change home at any cost. tion can mean families forced itself that only await our polit- • There are Syrian tod- from self-reliant food sover- ical will, there are many pos- dlers lost to brutal journeys. eignty into captivity by a global sibilities for ameliorating its Though it is obscured in the economy whose machinations disruptive human impact in news of tangled geopolitics, and bounty are out of reach to our farms and cities. terrorist militias, and villain- those workers it most depends This article is part of an ous dictatorship, the Syrian upon. Global capital wins; the ongoing series exploring top- refugee crisis is at its root a family farm loses. However, ics related to the work of the climate crisis, exemplified by sometimes the stories are Park Slope Food Coop Labor the worst regional drought in more complicated than that, Committee. For more infor- ecokvetch nearly 1,000 years. and sometimes they are more mation, see https://psfclabor. • There are also heroic hopeful. blogspot.com/ or email jen@ i]ZZck^g dcbZci Va pockets of refugee resistance Stories of positive trans- jenchapin.com X dbb ^ i i ZZWa d \ against attempted genocide formation are emerging from of the Yazidis. both those who migrated, Selected Sources/Further • The sexual assault, extor- and those who stayed put. 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Cider House apples after Washington state, the PSFC Beer Squad, in the ers enter the market and word CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 business is booming. last two years the number about the product continues In 2011 there were only five of cider options at the Coop to spread among tastemakers. acquire a taste for it and realize hard cider producers. That has exploded. Wood stated, Smith believes that as more it’s really good.” number jumped to 29 in 2014, “We have mass-market cider people are exposed to cider, they The other major factor he and has since grown to an esti- options, and a number of arti- will see it as a unique beverage said was experiencing the bever- mated 80 producers. Jennifer sanal brands. The styles range that sits between wine and beer age in a cider house where it was Smith, the executive director from sweet like apple juice to and provides a great-tasting paired with food. Yi recalled, of the New York Apple Associ- super dry like white wine. We alternative to both. Yi is betting “Having the food, cider and ation, says a major factor driv- also have cider that is tart and his future on the success of hard ambiance together was a sen- ing growth is the state’s effort funky. We try to have a wide cider. While he describes the sory overload, and resulted in to boost the industry. “Gover- variety represented.” beverage as “difficult to under- a life-changing moment. It was nor Cuomo has signed several One of the brands that stand,” he hopes that a visit to like the first kiss and lights went laws which help support craft recently made it to the Coop the Brooklyn Cider House, with off.” And so began Yi’s quest to beverage makers, including the shelf is a cider produced by its rustic setting, Basque-in-

chase a cider dream: Yi dreamed farm cidery bill in 2013,” stated Brooklyn Cider House. It was spired food, and farm-to-glass PHOTOS BY CAROLINE MARDOK of creating a Basque style cider Smith. As a result, over 1000 introduced by a new distribu- back story, will help people fall The plethora of taps at house in his hometown of craft beverage makers, such as tor in 2017 and has been sell- in love with the product. n Brooklyn Cider House. Brooklyn. However, in order to Yi, have jumped into the mar- ing well. Jennifer Smith of the make this his reality, he need- ket in the last few years. NY Apple Association is also a ed the right kind of apples, a The rise of cider is not just a long-time PSFC member. She certain type of barrel to ferment New York story. “There has been noted that, with the exception those apples, and a space large huge growth in the national of the Brooklyn Cider House to create a cidery cool enough market for cider,” Smith noted. product, she has not seen other to attract a crowd. Yi quickly “Cider went from nonexistent “heritage ciders,” which are learned that the apples he need- a few years ago to now being made in the European style, at ed to create a European-style more than 1% of the craft beer the Coop. “The ciders I’ve seen hard cider are in short supply in market. While not enormous, and purchased at the Coop are the United States. Most apples this represents $1.3 billion in mostly made with dessert fruit produced domestically result in national sales.” This growth in the modern style. They are a sweet cider. has also had assistance from really terrific,” Smith stated. “To make traditional cider government. In 2015 Congress She said these ciders have you need to have bitter apples,” passed the “cider act,” which lower alcohol content, are glu- Yi explained. “They used to call lowered the tax on cider, while ten free, taste great and have them ‘spitters’. They look like increasing its alcohol content. one more benefit Coop shop- an apple but if you eat it off Smith says there has also been pers might appreciate: “To be a The degustation tray of the three types of cider. the tree they don’t taste like an a great deal of interest in hard farm producer of cider in New apple. People would spit them cider from “authenticity -seek- York, you have to use locally out quickly because of the taste. ing Millennials,” who are will- grown apples,” Smith explained. Those are the apples you need ing to try different drinks for “So if you see New York cider on to make cider.” Unable to find different occasions. the shelf of the Coop, there is the apples he needed, in 2015, The boom in craft beverag- a pretty good guarantee that it Yi, along with his sister Susan es, and in cider specifically, can was grown by your neighbors in and friend Lindsey Storm, also be seen on the shelves the state-wide sense.” bought an apple farm in New of the Park Slope Food Coop. The future for hard cider Paltz, New York. The chestnut According to Josh Wood of seems bright as more craft mak- barrels to ferment the apples were purchased from Spain. The team found a location for the Brooklyn Cider House in Bush- EXPERIENCED REPORTERS wick. It’s a 12,000 square foot space that used to be the site of Please Apply a former pork processing plant. Rob Hendrickson getting served. The Brooklyn Cider House Workslot Description officially opened in December We have four distinct Linewaiters’ STATEMENT ON THE 2017. It has a restaurant, a bar, Gazette teams—each producing an COOPERATIVE IDENTITY and a tasting room complete issue every eight weeks. You will with wooden barrels and fer- develop and produce an article about DEFINITION mentation tanks to make cider the Coop in cooperation with your A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united on the premises. Yi remarked “I team’s editor every eight weeks. voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural wanted to recreate that magic needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically moment in Spain when I fell in For More Information controlled enterprise. love with cider. That’s what you If you would like to speak to an editor or another reporter to get when you come to the cider learn more about the job, please contact Annette Laskaris in VALUES the Membership Office or e-mail her at annetteATpsfcDOTcoop. Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, house in Brooklyn.” democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their To Apply founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of The Rise of Cider Please send a letter of application and two writing samples at honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. Hard cider has a long history least 800 words long (one sample must be a reported interview, in the American diet. Enjoyed not a Q&A) to annetteATpsfcDOTcoop. Your letter should PRINCIPLES by the colonial settlers, cider state your qualifications, your Coop history, relevant experience The cooperative principles are guidelines by which cooperatives put was once more popular than and why you would like to report for the Coop. Your application their values into practice. The International Cooperative Alliance adopted the revised Statement on the Cooperative Identity in 1995. beer, wine, and even water. will be acknowledged and forwarded to the coordinating editors, Cider lost its popularity, along They are as follows: Joan Minieri and Erik Lewis. 1. Voluntary and Open Membership with other alcoholic beverages, 2. Democratic Member Control during Prohibition. Many cider Seeking Diversity on the Gazette Staff 3. Member Economic Participation apple orchards were burned The Gazette is looking for qualified reporters. We are interested in 4. Autonomy and Independence or converted to produce sweet using this opportunity to diversify our staff. We believe that we can 5. Education, Training and Information apples. Despite a long dry spell, enrich the quality of the Gazette and serve the membership better 6. Cooperation Among Cooperatives the beverage is currently expe- with a reporting and editing staff that more closely resembles the 7. Concern for Community riencing a revival. In New York, mix of Coop members. Reference: ica.coop the second largest producer of

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The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215, 718-622-0560. Opinions expressed here may be solely the views of the writer. The Gazette will not knowingly publish articles that are racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles and letters from members. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Gazette will not knowingly publish letters, articles or reports that are hateful, racist, sexist, otherwise discriminatory, inflammatory or needless- ly provocative. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, letters and committee reports from members that follow the published guidelines and policies. The following is a summary—please see the detailed guidelines for each type of submission on the Coop website: www.foodcoop.com. All submissions must include author’s name, phone number and e-mail address, conform to the following guidelines and to the Fairness, Anonym- ity and Respect policies. Editors will reject letters, articles and reports that do not follow the guidelines or policies. Submission deadlines appear each edition in the Coop Calendar section. For topics that generate a large number of submissions (letters or Mem- Annie Keating has performed at leading festivals, including Take Root ber Articles) serially and continuously over an extended period of time, the in Holland, the Brooklyn Americana Festival, Glasgow Americana Festi- Gazette will not necessarily publish all submissions, but the editors will use val, The Brooklyn Indie Music Fest NJ Folk Fest, Maverick UK and NXNE. their editorial discretion to select a small number of submissions (whether let- ters or Member Articles) from each side as representative of that viewpoint of Her recent album, Trick Star (Keating’s seventh full-length release) was the issue. The selected submissions will also adhere to the current guidelines met with rave international reviews. For fans of Lucinda Williams, John of civil discourse and should serve to advance the discussion in new ways. Prine, Jason Isbell and other great alt-country songwriters, this is You may submit on paper, typed or very legibly handwritten, or via e-mail sun-dappled Americana at its best, sure to enchant. to [email protected] or on disk. Letters: Maximum 500 words. Bev Grant is the 2017 Joe Hill Award Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. A Voluntary Article is held to a winner from the Labor Heritage Foundation higher standard than a letter and must meet at least the following criteria: and the 2017 winner of the ASCAP Foundation’s A Voluntary Article must analyze the topic it is discussing; it must present Jay Gorney award. Former leader of the cutting accurate, verifiable corroboration for factual assertions; it can criticize but edge ’70s and ’80s folk/rock and world music not attack Coop practices and personnel; if critical it must present positive band, Human Condition, Bev is also founder and solutions; it cannot be solely or mainly opinion. It must strive to make a director of the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus. “Bev Grant positive contribution to the understanding of the reader on a topic. If a sub- is one of New York City’s treasures.” mitted Voluntary Article is substantially opinion, it must be re-submitted, under 500 words, as a Letter to the Editor, possibly to a future issue. Edi- (Ron Olesko, SingOut magazine) tors will reject articles that are essentially just advertisements for member businesses, those of family and friends of members, solely expressions of Songwriter Steve Mayone performs as a solo artist and with his band opinion or that do not follow the guidelines and policies. Bastards of Fine Arts, a collaboration with NYC songwriter Matt Keat- Committee Reports: Maximum 1,000 words. Reports must follow the pub- ing. “Mayone ties up all of Americana, folk, classic and roots-rock, lished guidelines and policies. effortlessly flowing from one to the next and never at a loss for interest.” LETTERS, ARTICLES AND REPORTS SUBMISSION POLICIES (Americana UK). “Thoughtful, well written material.” (New England Letters must be the opinion of the letter-writer and can contain no more Scrapbook). He’s released five albums, his most recent Sideways Rain in than 25% non-original writing. 2017. “An album rife with flowing pop and folk-flavored ballads that All submissions must be written by the writer. Letters or articles that are exude a romantic and bittersweet glow.”—Steve Morse form letters, chain letters, template letters or letters prepared by someone other than the submitting member will be rejected. Letters, articles and reports must adhere to the Fairness, Anonymity and www.facebook.com/ProspectConcerts Respect policies. They cannot be hateful, needlessly inflammatory, discrimina- tory libelous, personal attacks or make unsubstantiated claims or accusations 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] or be contrary to the values of the Coop as expressed in our mission statement. Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. All submissions must be legible, intelligible, civil, well and concisely written with Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 accurate, attributed, easily verifiable statements of facts separated from opinions. Letter and article writers are limited to one letter or article per issue. PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP 782 Union St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 (btwn 6th & 7th Av.) • (718) 622-0560 Letter and article writers cannot write gratuitous serial submissions. Edi- tors may reject submissions to consecutive editions of the Gazette on the This Issue Prepared By: same topic by the same writer. Editor-Writer Guidelines: All submissions will be reviewed and, if neces- RETURN POLICY Coordinating Editors: Carl Arnold sary, edited or rejected by the editor. Writers are responsible for the factual Alison Rose Levy content of their stories. Editors must make a reasonable effort to contact and communicate with writers regarding any questions or proposed edi- The Coop strives to REQUIRED FOR ANY RETURN keep prices low for our Editor (development): Petra Lewis torial changes. Writers must be available to editors to confer about their 1. The Paid-In-Full receipt MUST m embership. Mini- submissions. If a writer does not respond to requests for editorial chang- be presented. Reporters: Rene Brinkley mizing the amount of es, the editor may make the changes without conferring with the writer, 2. Returns must be handled returned merchandise or reject the submission. If agreement between the writer and the editor within 30 days of purchase. Leila Darabi about changes does not occur after a first revision, the editor may reject is one way we do this. the submission, and the writer may revise and resubmit for a future issue. If you need to make a Karen Gardner FAIRNESS, ANONYMITY AND RESPECT POLICIES return, please go to the CAN I EXCHANGE MY ITEM? In order to provide fair, comprehensive, factual coverage: 2nd Floor Service Desk. No, we do not “exchange” items. Art Director (development): Deborah Urra Fairness You must return the merchandise and re-purchase what you need. Illustrators: Caty Bartholomew 1. The Gazette will not publish hearsay—that is, allegations not based on the author’s first-hand observation. Valerie Trucchia 2. Nor will we publish accusations that are unnecessary, not specific or are Photographers: William Farrington not substantiated by factual assertions. The Gazette will not publish gra- CAN I RETURN MY ITEM? tuitous personalization. That is, no unnecessary naming of Coop members Caroline Mardok in polemical letters and articles. Writers must address ideas not persons. Produce* Bulk* (incl. Coop-bagged bulk) 3. Submissions that make substantive accusations against specific indi- Cheese* Seasonal Holiday Items Thumbnails: Mia Tran viduals, necessary to make the point of the submission and within the Books Special Orders NEVER Fairness, Anonymity and Respect policies will be given to those persons to Calendars Refrigerated Supplements RETURNABLE Preproduction: Kim Chinh enable them to write a response, and both submissions and response will Juicers & Oils Sushi *A buyer is available during the week- Photoshop: Adam Segal-Isaccson be published simultaneously. This means that the original submission may days to discuss your concerns. not appear until the issue after the one for which it was submitted. 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They may not be personally and unused in re-sellable condition derogatory or insulting, even when strongly criticizing an individual member’s actions. Final Proofreader: Lisa Schorr The Gazette is a collaboration among Coop members. When submitting, The Coop reserves the right to refuse returns on a please consider the impact of your words on the writers, editors and produc- case-by-case basis. If you have questions, please contact Index: Len Neufeld tion staff who use our limited workslot time to try to produce an informative a staff member in the Membership Office. and cooperative publication that reflects the values of our Coop community. Advertisment: Mary Robb Printed by: Tri-Star Offset, Maspeth, NY. Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY April 12, 2018 7

WELCOME! A warm welcome to these new Coop members who have joined us in the last two weeks. We’re glad you’ve decided to be a part of our community.

Adriana Akers Alexis Berlemont Khafra Crooks Forest Fisher Daria Jung Manohar Menon Margaret Peeters Johanna Skrzypczyk Helin Alas Caroline Berlemont Karen Dauler Catherine Frels Robert Keil Emily Miranda Julia Pelaez Nicole States Kristian Alex Urszula Bochinska Simon David Lindsay Frey Tara Kenny Kimi Mongello Agnese Purvinska Ben Taylor Hina Ali Catarina Botto Colleen Davy Yonit Friedman Chizuru Kirigakubo Heather Moore Richard Radnay Alexandra Rose Anat Cosima Carter Francois De Freitas David Gaita Adam Klimaszewski Bella Muccari Anna Reinhard Tereshonkova Lori Ashwood Edward Carter Daniela Deleon Emmanuel Gastard Erika Kram Valentina Muhr Caleb Richelson Haley Thompson Asher Atlas Laura Casey Eilidh Dickson Gwendoline Blanche Laming Damien Neva Martin Robertson Taylor Um Anna Auster Yana Chudnaya Brandon Eggers Gonzales Matthieu Laming Jonathan Ohadi Monica Sagowitz Cristina Vince Alister Austin Kamila Cicha Dave Ehlke Daniel Gotkin Scott Lebowitz Aaron Okrasinski Jane Sanders Kate Watson Jason Baldyga Akillah Clark Jane Ehlke Beth Graczyk Mendel Lew Evelyn Ontaneda Adina Saperstein Christena Williams Madeleine Jesse Cole Hany Eldiwany Sam Hains Jia Li Leah Osborne Dorothy Sapyta Dan Witrock Baverstam Charity Coleman Michael Emerson Ellie Happel Dzmitry Maroz Lorelei Pavlovsky Rachel Sapyta Hana Wuerker Amelie Belanger Marie-Sophie Cornu Andrew Esposito Pierre Huyghe Yumari Martinez John Peck Bartie Scott Zachary Zelouf Sonal Beri Edward Crockett Lindsay Esposto Jasmine Johnson Malini Menon Maarten Peeters Gaston Silva

ALL ABOUT THE COOP CALENDAR GENERAL MEETING New Member Orientations General Meeting Info Our Governing Structure Attending an Orientation is the first step toward TUE, APRIL 24: From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. monthly General Meetings have been at the center of all of the three weekly New Member Orientations. the Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com or contact the Membership Office. Visit in person or call 718-622- TUE, MAY 1 incorporated in 1977, we have been legally required 0560 during office hours. AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 7:30 p.m. to have a Board of Directors. The Coop continued the Have questions about Orientation? Please visit Submissions will be considered for the May 29 tradition of General Meetings by requiring the Board www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join the Coop” to have open meetings and to receive the advice of the page for answers to frequently asked questions. General Meeting. members at General Meetings. The Board of Directors, The Coop on the Internet Gazette Deadlines which is required to act legally and responsibly, has www.foodcoop.com LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: approved almost every General Meeting decision at Apr 26 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Apr 16 the end of every General Meeting. Board members are The Coop on Cable TV May 10 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Apr 30 elected at the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the Inside the Park Slope Food Coop The fourth FRIDAY of the month at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Coop’s bylaws are available on foodcoop.com and at Channels: 56 (Time-Warner), 69 (CableVision), 84 (RCN), CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: every General Meeting. 44 (Verizon), and live streaming on the Web: www. Apr 26 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Apr 18 bricartsmedia.org/community-media/bcat-tv-network. May 10 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, May 2 Next Meeting: Tuesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop month. and Receive Work Credit Mission Statement Location Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General Meeting The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President Street, between has been our decision-making body. At the General ber-owned and operated food store—an Sixth and Seventh Aves. Meeting (GM) members gather to make decisions and alternative to commercial profit-oriented set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for-workslot-credit business. As members, we contribute our program was created to increase participation in the labor: working together builds trust through How to Place an Item Coop’s decision-making process. cooperation and teamwork and enables us to Following is an outline of the program. For full details, see keep prices as low as possible within the con- on the Agenda the instruction sheets by the sign-up board. text of our values and principles. Only mem- If you have something you’d like discussed at a General • Advance Sign-up required: bers may shop, and we share responsibilities Meeting, please complete a submission form for the To be eligible for workslot credit, you must add your and benefits equally. We strive to be a respon- Agenda Committee. Forms are available in the rack name to the sign-up sheet in the elevator lobby or sign- sible and ethical employer and neighbor. We near the Coop Community Corner bulletin board and at up at foodcoop.com. The sign-ups sheet is available all are a buying agent for our members and not a General Meetings. Instructions and helpful information month long, except for the day of the meeting when you selling agent for any industry. We are a part of have until 5 p.m. to sign up. On the day of the meeting, the and support the cooperative movement. on how to submit an item appear on the submission sign-up sheet is kept in the Membership Office. form. The Agenda Committee meets on the first Tuesday We offer a diversity of products with an Some restrictions to this program do apply. Please of each month to plan the agenda for the GM held on the see below for details. emphasis on organic, minimally processed and healthful foods. We seek to avoid prod- last Tuesday of the month. If you have a question, please • Two GM attendance credits per year: ucts that depend on the exploitation of others. call Ann Herpel at the Coop. Each member may take advantage of the GM-for- We support non-toxic, sustainable agriculture. workslot-credit program two times per calendar year. We respect the environment. We strive to • Squads eligible for credit: reduce the impact of our lifestyles on the Meeting Format Shopping, Receiving/Stocking, Food Processing, world we share with other species and future Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) • Submit Open Forum items Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction, and FTOP generations. We prefer to buy from local, • Explore meeting literature committees. (Some Committees are omitted because earth-friendly producers. We recycle. We try Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) Open Forum is a time for covering absent members is too difficult.) to lead by example, educating ourselves and members to bring brief items to the General Meeting. • Attend the entire GM: others about health and nutrition, coopera- In order to earn workslot credit you must be present tion and the environment. If an item is more than brief, it can be submitted to the for the entire meeting. We are committed to diversity and equal- Agenda Committee as an item for a future GM. • Signing in at the Meeting: ity. We oppose discrimination in any form. Reports (7:30 p.m.) • Financial Report • Coordinators’ After the meeting the Chair will provide the Workslot We strive to make the Coop welcoming and Report • Committee Reports Credit Attendance Sheet. accessible to all and to respect the opinions, The agenda is posted on needs and concerns of every member. We Agenda (8:00 p.m.) • Being Absent from the GM: seek to maximize participation at every level, foodcoop.com and may also appear elsewhere in this issue. It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that • Meeting evaluation • Board you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Please from policy making to running the store. Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) do not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations. We welcome all who respect these values. of Directors vote • Announcements, etc.

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lessly flowing from one to the next and never at a loss for interest.” (Americana apr 13 Wordsprouts: A Celebration of UK). “Thoughtful, well written material.” (New England Scrapbook). He’s fri 7 pm released five albums, his most recent Sideways Rain in 2017. “An album rife National Poetry Month with flowing pop and folk-flavored ballads that exude a romantic and bitter- Four poets will present verse, then talk about their work. sweet glow.”—Steve Morse Toni Blackman is the author of Inner-Course, a collec- Concert takes place at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect tion of poetry and inspirational prose. At the invitation Park West (at 2nd St.), $10, doors open at 7:45. Prospect Concerts is a WORDSPROUTS of the U.S. State Department, Toni served as the monthly musical fundraising partnership of the Coop and the Brooklyn Celebrate Father’s Day and meet Brian Gresko, nation’s first Cultural Ambassador for Hip Hop. A DOVE Society for Ethical Culture. Realthe editor Woman of the just-published (2012), anthology on Toni has traveled to 44 different countries performing, speaking,fatherhood Whenand I First Heldteaching. You Once a Receiver and an OUTS worker, she can now be found dancing with members while she does her checkout shift. Beth Lisick is When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the a writerTriumphs, Challenges,and and Transformative actor. Experience of Fatherhood. She got her start writing in the poetry slam scene in the ’90s andBecoming a father canis be one of thethe most profoundly exhilarating, author terrifying, of five books, including the New York Times bestseller life-changing occasions in a man’s life. In this incomparable collection of apr 21-22 Food Drive to Benefit Everybodythought-provoking essays, 22Into of today’s masterful writers the get straight to the heartPool of . Beth has no problem prepping olives on her Coop modern fatherhood. From making that ultimate decision to having a kid to making it sat-sun 9 am–7 pm shift. throughTaylor the birth, to tangling with a toddlerMali mid-tantrum, and eventually is letting aone teen of the most well-known poets to have emerged from CHIPS Soup Kitchen the poetryloose in the world, these fathersslam explore every facet of movement and one of the original poets to appear on the HBO fatherhood and show how being a father changed Friday, June 13 CHIPS Soup Kitchen, located at Fourth Avenue and Sackett Street, is the seriesthe way“Def they saw the world—and Poetry themselves. 7:00 p.m. atJam.” the Coop A four-time National Poetry Slam champion, he is the recipient of much of our edible but unsaleable perishable food. They also FREE authorBrian Greskoof is the editorfour of the anthology Whencollections I of poetry and a book of essays, What Teachers Make: Non members Welcome need donations of nonperishable foods. This food will go to CHIPS to help First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk In PraiseAbout the Triumphs, Challenges,of and Transformativethe Experience Greatest of Fatherhood. His work Job in the World. At the PSFC, he is known as Taylor them feed people in the neighborhood who are in need of a nutritious the Baler.has appeared in Poets & WritersJon Magazine, Glimmer SandsTrain Stories, and The Brooklyn Rail, is the author of The New Clean (Write Bloody meal. Consider contributing nonperishable foods and commercially pack- and online at The Huffington Post, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other sites. Publishing), as well as the co-host of “The Poetry Gods Podcast.” He’s repre- Saged foods; canned fish; canned fruits and vegetables; pasta sauce; pasta; ud sented NewRefreshments will beYork served. City multiple times at the National Poetry Slam, and you can pre-packagedItems will be taken up in the order given. rice; pre-packaged beans; canned beans; canned soups; Times in parentheses are suggestions. All Wordsprout participants are Coop members. More information on each item may be available at the entrance table find him once a month working in the Coop’s dairy cooler. Parmalatat the meeting. We ask members milk; to please read drythe materials milk; avail- peanut butter; cooking oil; or boxed raisins. Give Bookings: John Donohue, [email protected] able between 7:00 7:15 p.m. Free for all Coop members & non-members. Refreshments will be served. Bookings: donationsMeeting Location: Congregation toBeth Elohimthe Social collectionHall (Garfield table outside the Coop. Views expressed by the presenters do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop. Temple) John Donohue, [email protected]. 274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave. u o o u Election: The committee will present four members to be re- elected.submitted by the Disciplinary Committee

od o o dd o apr 15 u Estate Planning 101 Discussion: “Presentation by candidates for the Board of Directors sun 12 pm followed by questions for the candidates” uu d ooapr 24 For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please seePSFC APR General Meeting the center pages of the eate Gazette It can be difficult to think about the unthinkable happening. One of the great- The Agenda Committeetue minutes 7 and pm the satatus of pending agenda items are available in the office and at all GMs. est gifts that you can leave your loved ones is a plan for your incapacity or Items will be taken up in the order given. Times in paren- death. If your loved ones include minor children, advance planning is even theses are suggestions. More information on each item more imperative. This workshop will teach you how to get started with basic may be available on the entrance table at the meeting. estate planning for you and your family. Lissett Ferreira, Esq., will discuss the We ask members to please read the materials available “default” if you fail to plan, walk you through the basic estate planning doc- between 7 and 7:15 p.m. uments to consider, and explain the different roles, such as guardian of your Meeting location: St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth children, that you should consider. Lissett Ferreira, Esq. is a Food Coop mem- and Seventh Aves. ber and an experienced attorney whose practice focuses on elder and family I. Member Arrival and Meeting Warm-Up law. She has helped many individuals and families develop the best estate II. Open Forum plan for them and their loved ones. III. Coordinator and Committee Reports IV. Meeting Agenda Item 1: Proposal to Hire New General Coordinator (20 minutes) apr 20 Keating; Grant; Mayone Proposal: The Personnel Committee will present to the General Meeting a fri 8 pm candidate to be hired for the position of General Coordinator: Finance. This Friday, Oct 19, 8:00 pm candidate will take on many of the responsibilities of long-time General Annie Keating has performed at Coordinator, Mike Eakin (who will be retiring this year), and join the General leading festivals, including Take Coordinator team. —submitted by the Personnel Committee Root in Holland, the Brooklyn Americana Festival, Glasgow Item 2: Delivery Program/Service (30 minutes) Friday evening music at the Good Coffeehouse, brewing a new beat Americana Festival, The Brooklyn Discussion: Proposal of a food delivery program for our community who either Wool & Grant. Two veteran singer/songwriters with a mutual passion for songs, stories, harmonies and guitars. Bev Grant and Ina May Wool create a musi- cal alchemy of fire and feistiness, wisdom and wit, Indie Music Fest NJrocking Folk clear- Fest, Maverick UK and NXNE. cannot manage to carry their own groceries or even cannot manage to make it Park Slope local singer and eyed political guitarist Mamie Minch sounds songs along something like a well-fleshed- with a window out 78-rpm record. She’s known on to their Her aroundrecent town for her Piedmont- album, Tricktravels—on the Star (Keating’s seventh full- to the PSFC to do their own shopping. Proposal includes starting a committee style fingerpicking chops, her big road and around deep voice and her self-penned the heart. antique-sounding songs. She’s played music all over the world lengthand Brooklyn, release)with all kinds of was met with rave international reviews. for work credit for a stated period of time to work on logistics. excellent people, including Dayna Kurtz, the Roulette Sisters, For fansJimbo Mathis and CW ofStoneking. Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Jason Isbell —submitted by Sharon Goldzweig www.ProspectConcerts.tumblr.com

53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] Performersand are Parkother Slope Food Coop great members and receive alt-country Coop workslot credit. songwriters, this is sun-dap- Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 pledPARK SLOPE FOOD Americana COOP 782 Union St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 (btwn 6that & 7th Av.) •its (718) 622-0560 best, sure to enchant. Bev Grant Item 3: Boycott of Camelbak Products (40 minutes) is the 2017 Joe Hill Award winner from the Labor Discussion: Now that we know Camelbak water bottles are made by a company Heritage Foundation and the 2017 winner of the with most of its business in guns and ammunition, we stop selling Camelbak. ASCAP Foundation’s Jay Gorney award. Former leader —submitted by Matthew Wills of the cutting edge ’70s and ’80s folk/rock and world V. Board of Directors Meeting music band, Human Condition, Bev is also founder and VI. Wrap-Up. Includes member sign-in for workslot credit. director of the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus. “Bev Grant is For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center one of New York City’s treasures,” Ron Olesko, SingOut pages of the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and the magazine. Songwriter Steve Mayone performs as a solo status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop office. artist and with his band Bastards of Fine Arts, a collab- oration with NYC songwriter Matt Keating. “Mayone ties up all of Americana, folk, classic and roots-rock, effort-

For more information on these and other events, visit the Coop’s website: foodcoop.com All events take place at the Park Slope Food Coop unless otherwise noted. Nonmembers are welcome to attend workshops. Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop.

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apr 29 may 4 Film Night: sun 12 pm From.MeToo.WeRise fri 7 pm Long Strange Trip Time to heal the world from sexual assault. Sexual assault/harassment/incest The Grateful Dead rejected conventional notions of is a bigger discussion for healing than the workplace. Accepted worldwide in fame and power and transcended the world of rock a pandemic of manipulation and suppression, they are a human problem at and roll to become a vital American cultural force. Yet home, worldwide everywhere in all history… in battles, genocide and every day. their commitment to improvisation and spontaneity The time for healing is NOW. Discussion, non-judgmental and frank. How can only brought Jerry Garcia and the Dead more of the we heal ourselves and can we expand that healing into the rest of the world kind of adulation they hoped to avoid. Amir Bar-Lev’s which we reach out to in our lives? Sensho Wagg is a Certified Professional Long Strange Trip explores the Grateful Dead’s unlikely success story, and Coach in Transformation Coaching, trained specifically to use deep intuition the tensions and paradoxes of a life in pursuit of artistic freedom. We will be without offering consulting, advice or instruction. With tools from other indus- screening the second part of this four-hour documentary. Director Amir Bar- tries (natural foods and products, birthing and breastfeeding, speech therapy Lev will be present for a q&a after the screening. Amir Bar-Lev’s directorial and cochlear implants, music and profound Buddhist practice), Sensho offers credits include Fighter (2001), My Kid Could Paint That (2007), the Emmy big experience and sensitive awareness to all who wish a full life and (!) joy. Award–winning The Tillman Story (2010), Happy Valley (2014) and Long Strange Trip (2017). Bar-Lev also co-produced the 2009 Academy Award Nominee Trouble The Water. To book a Film Night, contact Gabriel Rhodes, [email protected]. may 1 Learn About Cheese tue 7 pm at the Coop Cheese education at the Coop continues with another tasting session led by may 8 Safe Food Committee Film Night: Coop member and American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional tue 7 pm Elena Santogade. This month’s class will feature a selection of unique Rotten cheeses from around the world! Coop member and American Cheese Society Rotten is a new documentary series about corruption Certified Cheese Professional Elena Santogade will lead the tasting and in the food world. Created by Zero Point Zero offer guidelines for pairings and for designing cheese tastings of your own. Production, it consists of six hour-long episodes fea- turing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and doctors shedding light on the surprising and at times down- right disgusting ways that common foodstuffs are brought to market. Episode 2, The Peanut Problem, brings awareness to the surge in the prev- may 1 Agenda Committee Meeting alence of food allergies and the people working behind the scenes to com- tue 7:30 pm bat it. The episode features world-renowned allergy and asthma researcher, Dr. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University and Lurie Children’s Hospitals, The Committee reviews pending agenda items and cre- as well as Susie Hultquist, founder of Spokin.

ates the agenda for future General Meetings. Drop by See upcoming events, past reviews and a comprehensive list of films shown at and talk with committee members face-to-face www.plowtoplatefilms.com which can now also be reached via a link on the Park between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. Before submitting an Slope Food Coop’s home page at www.foodcoop.com. item, read “How to Develop an Agenda Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The May General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 29, 7 p.m., at may 11 Wordsprouts: Healing New St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth and Seventh Aves. fri 7 pm Mothers from the Inside Out Just in time for Mother’s Day, Wordsprouts is proud to present Valerie Lynn, known as The Mommy Planner, Food Class: Mother’s Day Meals who has been a major force in introducing traditional may 3 WORDSPROUTS Malaysian after-birth recovery practices to women across thu 7:30 pm Honoring African Diaspora Celebrate Father’s Day and meet Brian Gresko, the globe. When experiencing postpartum anxiety and Come learn how to cook down-home Virginia family Obsessivethe editor of the just-published Compulsive anthology on Disorder after the birth of her son in 2007, Lynn turned recipes and Congolese and Haitian meals that mama to traditionalfatherhood When I First feminine Held You healthcare—herbs, feminine-focused body treatments, used to make while discovering how food is used to and an enriching diet—to rebalance her hormones and heal herself naturally. When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the celebrate ancestors and spirits. Deriving from dishes DrawingTriumphs, Challenges,on and Transformativethis Experience experience, of Fatherhood. along with extensive research in Malaysian hospitals that honor their mothers, personal chefs Cleo Zuli and Travis Young intro- and inBecoming the a father can be onefield, of the most profoundly exhilarating, Lynn terrifying, wrote The Mommy Plan: Restoring Your Post-Pregnancy life-changing occasions in a man’s life. In this incomparable collection of duce you to meals that spark matriarchal memories and conversation about Body Naturallythought-provoking essays, 22 of today’s masterful writersUsing get straight to the heart of Women’s Traditional Wisdom. As a Maternity Consultant modern fatherhood. From making that ultimate decision to having a kid to making it the history of foods from the Diaspora. The chefs are founding team mem- and Homethrough the birth, to tangling Healthcare with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a teen Educator, she’s created a unique six-week recovery pro- gram forloose in the world, new these fathers explore everymothers. facet of Please join us as she discusses her important work, and bers of BLK PALATE, a media and event production company focused on fatherhood and show how being a father changed Friday, June 13 curating content that amplify the Diaspora and dining parties that decolonize sharesthe waypractical they saw the world—and themselves. 7:00advice p.m. at the Coop for how to care for a new mother’s physical, emotional, FREE and mentalBrian Gresko is the editor of the healthanthology When I in the sensitive weeks following a birth. Her book has guided food culture and hospitality. Menu includes: Mamba (Spicy, Haitian Peanut Non members Welcome First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk Butter); Beef & Peanut Stew; Coconut & Thyme Rice; Southern-Caribbean Greens; nearlyAbout 1,500 the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative new Experience of Fatherhood mothers. His work through recovery and recuperation after pregnancy Grandma’s Southern Rice Pudding. and childbirthhas appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Glimmer through Train Stories, and The Brooklyn Rail, developing an easy-to-follow, step-by-step recovery plan. and online at The Huffington Post, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, The Los Angeles Review of ASL interpreter available upon request, please contact the Membership Office. She isBooks currently, and many other sites. working on a cookbook, The Mommy Plan Recipe Book— Materials fee: $5. RSVPs by April 30 are appreciated, contact Healing RefreshmentsMeals: will be served. Simple Recipes for New Moms. [email protected]. To inquire about leading a Food Class, Free forAll Wordsprout all participants Coop are Coop members. members & non-members. Refreshments will be served. Bookings: contact [email protected]. John Bookings:Donohue, John Donohue, [email protected] [email protected]. Views expressed by the presenters do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop. still to come may 18 Prospect Concert Series may 24 Cheese Class

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IMMINENT THREAT It’s the undistinguished sand- ing. Please call the office of help underwrite the shadow OF DESECRATION stone color tower that looms BBG President, Scot Medbury study we must commission TOXIC PIZZA TO THE BROOKLYN over the Japanese Garden. at 718-623-7200 and demand at youcaring.com (search DOUGH You know the one. to know why the Garden isn’t Brooklyn Botanic Garden in BOTANIC GARDEN DCP and Councilperson loudly opposing this threat in both cases). If everyone who DEAR EDITOR: BY PROPOSED Laurie Cumbo intend to the press, why it has not even has signed the petition gave I am writing to alert readers RE-ZONING UP-zone all of Crown Heights, notified the membership of the 5 bucks, we could really bank- that we sell "Birrittella's" fresh allowing for a veritable Miami coming gloom and loom? Are roll an effective fight on behalf pizza dough, which includes DEAR EDITOR, Beach of undistinguished the sun and the earth not still of human-scale development. the food additive: "potassi- I am writing as a founding glaring glass towers lined up in the same dance? The Garden is a fabled um bromate." According to member of FLAC, Flower Lov- shoulder to shoulder from I encourage you to contact oasis beloved by the people a 1990 study, "It has been ers Against Corruption. We Eastern Parkway to Empire Laurie Cumbo as well as your of Brooklyn and New York City demonstrated that KBrO3 intend to defeat the Dept. of Boulevard. The plans have Council person, if different. and visitors from around the [potassium bromate] induces City Planning’s fast-track effort been issued: This threat is real Let the Mayor know how you world. The proposed desecra- renal cell tumors, mesotheli- to vacate a DOWN-zoning and imminent. You can see stand. Sign our petition at tion is forever. omas of the peritoneum, and issued by DCP in 1991 specif- the artist’s rendering at our change.org and please make Please take action. Soon! follicular cell tumors of the ically to protect the Brooklyn petition page. It’s enraging. a donation of any amount to Janine Nichols thyroid." (https://www.ncbi. Botanic Garden from more of Maddeningly, BBG lead- nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ the long shadows and visual ership has been absolutely PMC1567851/) intrusion created by a single SILENT on this looming threat. Furthermore, potassium 33-story erected at Franklin Why is that? We think it's a bromate has been banned & Crown a few years before. question that needs answer- from use in food products in the European Union, Argen- tina, Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, PLASTIC PACKAGING COLLECTIONS South Korea, Peru, Sri Lanka, China and India (Wikipedia). 2nd Wednesday of every month 3:45-6 p.m. While the FDA’s guideline to the food industry on this 4th Saturday of every month 1:45-4 p.m. and many other dangerous additives is, "if you don't Expanded Plastic Collection want to, then don't use it," the real question is why is for Coop members it allowed in products sold Please be prepared to show your Coop membership card. at the Coop? I believe we should create a committee to Plastic bags/wrap/packaging from most products draft a list of banned ingredi- sold at the Coop—food and non-food. ents for our buyers to follow. Thin plastic film wrap—from notecards, tea boxes, However, can we act now in pre-packaged cheese, household items, pet food, juice packs, etc. the best interest of members Plastic roll bags distributed by the Coop—please use roll who may not read the ingre- bags only as necessary, reduce usage whenever possible, and dient list (or Google every chemical name) and remove re-use any bags you do take before recycling. the product now? NO food residue, rinse as needed. John Munz Only soft plastic from Coop purchases. COORDINATORS’ We continue to accept RESPONSE TO the following from all MUNZ LETTER community members: HI JOHN, Solution to this issue's sudoku puzzle Thanks for your letter alert- Pre-sort and separate according to the categories below. ing us that one of the pizza Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes (any brand/size) doughs that we carry, the Baby food pouches and caps (any brand) 5 9 3 8 1 2 7 4 6 unfrozen one in our packaged Energy bar wrappers (any brand) cheese case, contains potas- 1 8 4 5 7 6 3 9 2 sium bromate, an ingredient Water filters (Brita and other brands) and other we seek to avoid according Brita branded filter products to the PSFC’s food additives Plastic re-sealable food storage bags, 7 6 2 9 4 3 8 5 1 guideline on our website. small Coop bulk bags, cling wrap We’ll be replacing this item Cereal and cracker box liners (any brand) over the next few weeks with 6 1 8 2 9 7 4 3 5 another pizza dough that has Food residue and paper labels OK. ingredients that meet our No shopping bags. 9 4 5 3 6 1 2 8 7 standards. In the meantime, Donations in any amount are welcomed to help offset we’ll be putting a sign up the cost to the Coop of this collection. letting members know that 3 2 7 4 5 8 1 6 9 this ingredient is in their Interested in joining the squads that run the Wednesday/Saturday collection, pizza dough. Staff members or in starting a third collection time as your workslot? Contact Cynthia Pennycooke in the Membership Office. 2 3 1 6 8 5 9 7 4 don’t always catch every item with an ingredient that we For more information about Terracycle, visit terracycle.com are avoiding, and we always Questions about items we accept should be e-mailed to [email protected] 4 7 6 1 3 9 5 2 8 appreciate members letting us know when they see one! Thank you, 8 5 9 7 2 4 6 1 3 Joe Szladek General Coordinator

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EXCITING WORKSLOT OPPORTUNITIES N N To Submit Classified or Display Ads: Ads may be placed on behalf of Coop members only. Clas- Vitamin Workers Office Set-up sified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion, display ads at $30. Flexible Hours Thursday, Friday, 6 to 8:30 a.m. (Classified ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” category Looking for workers to work exclusively Need an early riser with lots of energy are free.) All ads must be written on a submission form. Clas- with supplements and vitamins both in to do a variety of physical tasks, includ- sified ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. Display ads the aisle and in the basement. You will ing setting up tables and chairs, buying must be camera-ready and business card size (2” x 3.5” hori- be working directly under the vitamin food and supplies, labeling and put- zontal). buyer. Must have extreme attention to ting away food and supplies, recycling, Submission forms are available in a wallpocket near the detail. Flexible hours: we will work togeth- washing dishes and making coffee. elevator in the entrance lobby. er to find a time that works for both of us. Sound like your dream come true? This Involves extensive training so must com- job might be for you. Please speak to mit to the shift for one year. Please email Mary Gerety in the Membership Office Jessa at [email protected] to inquire. for more information. Coupon Invoicing Receiving Produce Sunday, flexible start time Monday through Friday, 5 to 7:30 am This is a task-oriented job that requires a Start your day early with a workout and lot of attention to details. Must be able to a sense of accomplishment! Work side- work independently and be comfortable by-side with our paid staff receiving daily using Macintosh computers. Must be able fresh produce deliveries. If you are willing to do one longer-than-normal shift at the to get your hands a little dirty, lift and end of January each year. Since training is stack boxes, and work in our basement required, must be able to commit to work- coolers, then you’ll fit right in. We promise slot for at least six months. your energy will be put to good use. Boxes usually weigh between 2-30 lbs, but can Store Equipment weigh up to 50 lbs. Cleaning Monday, Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. Parm Squad This job involves meticulous deep clean- Thursday, Friday, Saturday & ing of the store’s checkout equipment and Sunday—various times This shift requires extensive training with furniture. Workers are required to read and a member of the paid staff, and therefore follow detailed instructions for cleaning the requires a six-month commitment. You scales, printers, and monitors as well as must have good attendance to join this cleaning the furniture and organizing check- squad and must be a member for at least out worker’s tools and supplies. Must arrive six months. As a member of the PARM on time at 6 a.m. Please report to Cynthia Squad, you’ll prepare designated cheeses Pennycooke on your first work shift. for sale. You should be fit enough to coop- Bathroom Cleaning erate with other members to lift 90 lbs. (a Monday, Tuesday, Thursday wheel of parmesan). Involves also cutting 12 to 2 p.m. hard cheese, moving in and out of the Work with a partner to deep clean the cooler. All members of the squad must Coop’s bathrooms. Tasks include scrub- follow the hygiene and safety guidelines bing floor tiles, cleaning toilets, mopping as stipulated in the Food Processing floors and stocking the bathrooms. You manual. Please provide your e-mail will work only with natural cleaning prod- address to be added to the shift-swap- ucts. This job is perfect for members who ping contact list. Interested members like to clean and are conscientious about must speak to Britt before joining this doing a thorough job. squad: [email protected]. 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Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 12 April 12, 2018 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY Candidates for Board of Directors of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. Two three-year terms on the Board are open. To vote you may use a proxy or attend the Food Coop Annual Meeting on June 26, 2018. Every member will receive a proxy package in the mail in late May. You will have the opportunity to meet the candidates at the June 26 Annual Meeting. Candidate statements follow. Sukey Tamarkin growth of the Coop from a tiny store with an extreme- Meeting, while retaining an independent fiduciary duty ly limited inventory a membership of maybe 3,000; to to ensure that no General Meeting decision causes My name is Sukey Tamarkin and I am running for a a fully stocked grocery that can rival with its offerings immediate and irreparable harm to the Coop’s finan- seat on the Coop Board. I currently work FTOP, and the corporate behemoths surrounding us, and a mem- cial and legal obligations. I like to think of our Board’s have been a Coop member for 24 years. bership five times the size of when I first joined. Half independent decision-making authority as one would The skills I bring to this position are the ones honed my life has been spent as a Coop member. Throughout a smoke detector—necessary to prevent a possible from my 20 years as a public-school librarian. I am this I have come to realize that beyond our commit- fire, but not likely to be used. While it is possible that trained and expertly skilled to listen objectively to the ment to a cooperative business practice, there exists no the General Meeting could reach a decision that would information needs of the diverse community repre- monolith lens in which to view the Coop: we are many cause immediate and irreparable harm to the Coop’s sented by a public institution, and to deliver the best things to our many members. Each of us brings our tal- financial and legal obligations, it is highly unlikely to information sources to solve constituent problems ents, experiences, hopes, and expectations to our work happen. Thus while we are legally bound to have a and requests. This professional expertise in keeping here. It is both what makes us a strong business with functioning Board, our particular method to “crowd- an open, non-judgmental mind while listening to an a diverse talent pool from which to draw, as well as a source” Coop decisions through the General Meeting, incredible diversity of views in order to bring the best messy and at times contentious organization grappling and to use the Board as the affirming body of this pro- information to assist in decision-making, would serve with the trials of human experience to hash out our dif- cess, represents our best intentions to create a fully the Coop’s General Meeting very well. ferences together to propel our business forward. cooperative and democratic business. My long and continuous membership with the Coop I believe in the process we have for Board function- I chose not to include my photo as I believe the uncon- affords my candidacy the authority of experience: I have ing in which the General Meeting, open to all mem- scious bias we may bring to how we perceive someone’s worked in nearly every capacity throughout the store, bers, is the mechanism by which Coop decision-making looks should not inform Board candidacy. The Coop’s receiving, and membership office. I have witnessed the occurs. The Board takes its advice from the General General Coordinators endorse my candidacy. n

Rachel Asher I’m proud to continue that legacy as your board able housing while facing stagnant wages and an member. Over the last two years, I have listened unrelenting cost of living. More than ever before, I am writing to seek re-elec- to and respected the interests of the membership we need access to the Coop’s high-quality food and tion on the Board of Direc- while protecting the Coop’s mission. If re-elected, sense of community. I hope, during my tenure, to tors at the Park Slope Food I pledge to continue my commitment to you, the be a voice for members who are not always heard— Coop for my first three-year membership, and to the Coop as an organization. those of us who work multiple jobs, live with term. Raised by a Food I hope to be a voice for the next generation of roommates out of necessity, or have new ideas to Coop founder and work- Coop leadership as we look toward the future, while improve the Coop and make it more accessible and er, I grew up appreciating remaining committed to bridging the gap between friendly to future members and leaders. Let’s work the importance of having the members who built this institution, committing together to find solutions to our challenges as they access to affordable, local- decades to ensuring its survival. As an employee arise, and leverage our perspectives to envision the ly farmed products and at The Legal Aid Society, I am particularly sensi- Coop’s future together. working with a community tive to the needs of low-income members who are Rachel lives in Park Slope with her partner Erica, a Shopping towards a common vision. experiencing the economic strains of finding afford- Squad Leader, and their rescue dog Charlie. n THANK YOU! Thank you to the following members for referring friends who joined the Coop in the last four weeks.

Zayne Rebecca Davis Ben Hoover Stephen Narloch Fatima Shibli Abdessalam Derek Elizabeth Hurst Barbara Rebekah Smith Meki Adefris John Druelinger Corey Jacobs Nieuwenhuys Jennifer Soper Reuben Allen Kathryn Drummer Betsy Jacobson Poppy O’Neill Grace Sun Nina Arazoza Buffy Drysdale Harvey Jaswal Daniel Owen Tyler Sussman We are studying the possibility of a Melissa B. Melissa Dubbin Joanna Jason Paul Imogene T. Albert Bachand Virginia Edelstein Bin Jung Joshua Peach Sarah T. second location and need your input. Carolina Baizan Pascal Ehrsam Paulette K. Anh-Hao Phan Yoko T. Jacqueline Barton Tracy Einstein Nicolas Kariniemi Janice Phillips Max Taffet Please take 15 minutes to fill out Veronica Bayetti Matthew Plaks Alice Eisenberg Rebecca Angelica Thornhill this community-wide Allison Behringer Erica Karpovsky Macarry Pobanz Leora Trub Emma Blecker Chelsey Fasano Marion Kassaei Rachel Porter Valerie survey and share your thoughts about Eetu Blomqvist Arthur Finn Ellis Kim Chloe Prasinos Michelle a second Coop location. Silja Blomqvist Curtis Flowers Katryn Kinser Raheel Valladares Diana Bramham Patrick Sashamani Svetlana Kitto Gianluca Adelaide Devin Briski Francois Lauren Kolm Rivizzigno Wainwright www.foodcoop.com/coop-location-survey Megan Brown Jane Freidson Jennifer Kossin Elizabeth Rodkin Alexander Walsh Thanks for your time and cooperation! Lauren Cao Fumiko Maya L. Kaitlin Roh Clarissa Wertman Wendi Carlock Laura G. Yorel Lashley Adele Rolider Chris Wolf Survey ends May 1, 2018. Dwight Cassin Nathan Gardner Aviva Laurenti Selma Rondon Anna Wolk Alexandra Sarah Gonser Anne Le Guern Nechama Rosen Kaylynn Wong Cesteros John Halderman Yazzmen Lloyd Nikki Ruokalainen Jue Yang Sarah Chandler Sam Hammerman Deborah Dmitri Russell Andrea Yarrington Sabina Ciari Molly Hanessian Mangrum-Price Sandrine William Yarrington Robert Cipriano Laura Healy Kristofer Martin Loretta Sayegh Lenni Yesner Jacob Cohen Anna Henry Catherine McRae Laura Scheiber Evan Zavidow Louise Cohen Charlotte Merlin Hannah Schiff Mary Cook Heyrman Hannah Moore Rani Shankar Eric Zeiler Buffy D. Karen Holmes Alexandra N. Merav Shaviv Shari Zisman Members of the Second Location Study Committee

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