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November 2018 Scottie and Sam Sean, Carl and Craig FOR Brattleboro Food Co-op thought November 2018 Scottie and Sam Sean, Carl and Craig DELI Karen and Tina Local Producer of the Month BrattleboroFoodCoop.coop FOR Published monthly by the hat's N W ew at the Co-op! Designers Annual Meeting Community Marlene O'Connor Annual Board of Directors Donna Lee Amerman Panel Discussion [email protected] Vote & Bylaw Changes Editors On November 9th, we will host our Annual Jon Megas-Russell, Meeting at New England Youth Theatre November marks the month in which we [email protected] starting at 6 pm and running until 9 pm. We vote on our Board of Director candidates Ruth Garbus, and bylaw changes. This year we are excited [email protected] will offer dinner and updates from your GM and Board, and end with a panel discussion to have 6 candidates for 4 seats as well as a Advertising Jon Megas-Russell on the Co-op and its relationship to our few bylaw changes. Voting will start at 9 pm To advertise in Food For Thought community that involves community members, on Friday November 9th and run until Sunday call 257-0236, ext. 813, or email including Laughing Child Farm, Groundworks November 25th @ 5 pm. Look for emails [email protected] Collaborative, BCTV, Co-op staff and other from us announcing voting, click on the link Ad deadline is the first Friday of the previous month. local representatives. Don’t forget kids ages on our home page, vote in store via the web Letters to the editor must be signed 5–12 can enjoy free circus activities provided by or paper ballots at Shareholder Services. and may be edited for length. the New England Center for Circus Arts from Brattleboro Food Co-op 7–8:30 pm. Please RSVP for the meeting, General Manager and let us know if your kids will be attending, New Cheese from Emmental Sabine Rhyne by Monday, November 5th. If you RSVP, you Board of Directors Valley Switzerland Mary Bené will receive raffle tickets for prizes, and your Richard Berkfield, Treasurer planning helps us prepare the appropriate Schlossberger Alt is a delicious Kathy Carr amount of food. cheese from the Emmental Valley Anna Edson region of Switzerland. It is aged Skye Morse Beth Neher, President in caves next to the Schlossberg Wesley Pittman, Secretary Hot Sandwiches Ready-to-Eat Castle. This cheese goes great at Arion Thiboumery any party or Thanksgiving Jerelyn Wilson, Vice President Every day our Deli team is hand-making gathering and has a salty, sandwiches and grilling burgers hot and ready-to- The articles appearing in this newsletter buttery flavor with represent the views of the individual writers eat. If you are on the go, we welcome you to stop hazelnut notes. and do not necessarily reflect the opinion in and grab a delicious sandwich! of the Brattleboro Food Co-op. Brattleboro Food Co-op 2 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT Bag-a-Bean Mon. - Sat. 7–9; Sun. 9–9 2 Main Street, Brattleboro Recipients for Main Number: (802) 257-0236 November Customer Service 802 Community Organizing Staff Recognition Bulk Area 812 Effort Cheese Counter 852 Each month, Co-op employees nominate Deli Counter 826 Write Action Deli Platters 838 colleagues they want to honor, and a commit- Grocery 875 Tidal Creek Co-op, tee comes together to vote on a winner. This Meat Area 818 month Jim and Nathanael, our IT team Produce Area Wilmington, NC 804 were selected. Over the past 8 months and Seafood Counter 846 (Devastated by Hurricane Florence) Shareholder Services 821 culminating in the last two weeks, these two Wellness Counter 803 have transitioned our credit card readers and (Dial "0" at any time for assistance) registers over to chip reader technology, a Moved recently? lengthy and very complicated process. They We want to keep in touch! Please give your new address (or any status navigated it with grace, hard work, determina- updates we should know) to Shareholder tion and passion. We thank them deeply. Services at 802-257-0236 ext. 821. Thanks! 2 | November 2018 What's Ne w at the Co-op! And They're Off! from the GM Sabine Rhyne, General Manager e had noticed a bit of for five years after our move. To a sluggishness in sales the lay person, this means that over the past quarter, our operating profit in the fiscal Wso we were excited when the year that closed at the end of Annual Meeting Indigenous People’s Day/foliage June was good, but our ultimate weekend pushed us well over bottom line was tiny, as most of November 9th, 6 – 9 pm recent sales levels in the store. the earnings were allocated to The ramp-up that we experience cover the revaluation due to the New England Youth Theatre this time of year sometimes change in the tax code. This was a takes us a week or so to catch hard pill to swallow, especially as up to, but this year we expect the lowering of the corporate tax Schedule of Events to have a more difficult time rate was touted as a positive for 6pm: Arrival, dinner, and mingling getting product on the shelves. I businesses. Just goes to show you had mentioned in a recent article that the devil is in the details…The 7pm: Kids activities by NECCA, (ages 5-12) that service levels from our main good news is that as we continue 7pm: Business meeting natural foods distributor had to be profitable in the future, the 9pm: Voting starts been trending negatively, and tax payments should be lower due this trend is sure to get worse to this change, which should help 7:30–9pm: Panel discussion on Co-op before it gets better. The reason our cash position at that time. Look for more details in store and on our website. being that manufacturers in This month we celebrate our general are behind in producing Annual Meeting, to which all a couple of minor bylaw changes. categories. We will be letting you goods, which—added to the shareholder owners are invited to Voting online takes about three to know what we find out as we trials and tribulations happening both share a meal and commune five minutes, so don’t forget! After go, in an effort to give you more in distribution centers around with others. We urge you to all, voting is all anyone should be information on which to base your acquisitions and such—means that come. This year, we are includ- thinking about these days… Let’s own purchasing decisions. Our we expect more shortages. We ing a few other voices in our improve our response rate from store’s landfill diversion rate has are actively looking for alternative presentations to explore a bit last year! risen to 77% this year, continuing products and sources to mitigate of who “we” are. We will have a a steady trend in reducing food these anticipated scarcities. Some panel of folks, including a grower, Our Board of Directors, our waste and increasing recycling and of these supply issues can be a community partner, and a few Human Resources department, composting. Kudos to the entire traced to the uncertainty around others to hear how the Co-op and I will be attending an uncon- staff, and to Sarah Brennan for her the effect of trade tariffs. Time will interacts with them, and how we scious bias training this month, a research and tracking efforts. tell, but we will be sure to keep could deepen this relationship. collaborative effort on the part of you in the loop. You will be invited to participate seven area co-ops. Although we As always, if you have any Speaking of policy decisions and with our panelists in this explora- all recognize that this is only one thoughts or comments on these their effects, we also had some tion. We look forward to seeing piece of a much larger and more updates, I’ll see you in the aisles! difficult news from our indepen- you there, and we ask that you intense process, we are excited dent CPA review. Our meager but register ahead of time to win and hopeful that this will get things positive bottom line was adjusted fabulous prizes (and help us come moving a little more effectively in to reflect an updated accounting up with a head count)! We also our organization. valuation of future tax payments ask that you vote for the remark- And finally, we have been Sabine Rhyne benefits on our balance sheet, a able candidates who have stepped working on researching packag- [email protected] common accounting practice as a forward to serve you on the ing choices that manufacturers 802 257-0236 x801 result of losses, of which we had Board of Directors, as well as for make for their product in a few November 2018 | 3 VOTING BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT for the Brattleboro Food Co-op Restoring Community Board of by Anna Edson Directors he Brattleboro Food Co-op witnessed lately. My hat is off to some of the earlier interactions recently agreed to take part the Brattleboro Police Department we have had. He was so happy to & Bylaw in a pilot program using the for stepping up their presence. I do talk about his endeavors. He has Tprinciples of restorative justice not envy them, but I do respect the moved on to a better job cooking Changes with our partners for retail theft. job they are doing with the local and he was loving it. Whenever I starts on November I was curious about restorative opiate crisis, and other related see him he is happy and upbeat.
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