Cleaning up That Doing Maintenance Is a Less Desirable Shift Than Some Others

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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP

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Volume CC, Number 4 February 14, 2008 PHOTOGRAPH BY ANN ROSEN PHOTOGRAPH Legs for sale... Get to Know Your

PHOTOGRAPHS BY HAZEL HANKIN PHOTOGRAPHS Chicken Maintenance Committee member on task. By Gayle Forman

ecently, when I bought 14 siblings who help run the leaning Up a Murray’s chicken Martin Farm in Millmont, PA, C R from the Coop, I and the family does not eat noticed a little sticker anything raised with anti- Zen and the Art of Coop Maintenance attached to the packaging. biotics and grows its own It read Farm Verification, vegetables. I also learned By Johannah Rodgers and listed a four-digit code that no matter which farm my which, if I logged on to chicken comes from, it never murrayschicken.com, would travels more than 300 miles crubbing toilets, sweeping floors, taking out the garbage— give me information about to get to New York City. and loving every minute of it. Such is life on the Maintenance my chicken and the family Committee at the Coop. Some think they choose it because the that raised it. Sign of the Times S I didn’t learn too much Perhaps this is a sign of shifts can be shorter than others, but committee members say working about the chicken, but I did the times. As the organic maintenance allows them the freedom to work in the ways they like find out it came from one of movement is consumed by two farms in or around Lan- agribusiness, consumers are best—either independently or in close-knit groups—and the ability to caster County, Pennsylvania. I becoming ever more aware of realize a sense of satisfaction and pride in the work they accomplish. could even see pictures of the the dangers of factory-farmed farms and learn a few details livestock and of the carbon Robbie Butler, who lives in headset or else you can just Enthusiasm and Pride about the people who owned Queens and has been work- do your job at your own pace Sandra Fried, who is them. For example, there are CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 ing on a weeknight mainte- and there’s something very assigned to a Wednesday nance shift for about two relaxing about cleaning toi- evening shift, expresses a years, says simply, “I love it. It lets. It’s a real sweet shift. I similar sense of enthusiasm Next General Meeting on February 26 is my favorite shift and I’ve take pride in it. I love the and pride in the work she gets done quite a few other types Coop and I love cleaning it.” to do, which mainly takes The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the of workslots, including Out- Like Butler, Ann, another place on the second floor and last Tuesday of each month.* The next General Meeting will be side, Receiving and Soup member who works Thursday involves cleaning the staff Tuesday, February 26, at 7:00 p.m. at the Congregation Beth Kitchen Prep.” evenings, says she likes “the offices, the second floor bath- Elohim Temple House (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place. In terms of what appeals to ability to work at [her] own rooms and the childcare The agenda is in this Gazette and available as a flyer in the her about the shift, Butler pace,” as well as the fact that room. entryway of the Coop. For more information about the GM and says it’s not only how she “there’s always something to In addition to cleaning about Coop governance, please see the center of this issue. works, but the work itself that do.” floors, bathrooms and *Exceptions for November and December will be posted. she likes. “You can wear a CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

Thur, Mar 6 •Food Class: Energizing Spring Cleanse IN THIS ISSUE 7:30 p.m. GM Report ...... 3 Coop Sat, Mar 8 •Kids’ Variety Shop at Old First Church, 7:00 p.m. GM Agenda ...... 3 Fri, Mar 21 •The Good Coffeehouse: An Evening of Jazz, Tap and Coop Hours, Coffeehouse ...... 6 Song at the Society for Ethical Culture, 8:00 p.m. Coop Calendar, Workslot Needs Event Governance Information, Mission Statement...... 7 Sun, Mar 30 •Pub Night: Sing in the Spring at Freddy’s Back Room, Community Calendar ...... 8 Highlights 7:00 p.m. Puzzle Corner...... 8 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. USDA Pressured to Address Almond Pasteurization Issue . . . 9 Letters to the Editor ...... 10 Classified Ads ...... 11 08-02/14 p01-07 2/13/08 6:47 PM Page 2

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tion that Maintenance workers don’t like their shifts or Cleaning Up that doing maintenance is a less desirable shift than some others. Commenting offices, the Maintenance reports enjoying most about on this issue, Fried explains Committee attends to parts her shift is not so much the that there have been occa- of the Coop that many of us independence it gives her, sions when she has been on may never see, or never think but the chance to work col- the main shopping floor tak- about cleaning. For instance, laboratively with other mem- ing out the garbage, and encountered “members who seem embarrassed that you “You don’t think that cleaning toilets will allow you to are there and like to pretend develop a friendship, but it does.” that you are invisible.” Fried has also noticed that “when you put on those gloves and Maintenance supply cart, fully stocked. travel around, people look at Fried’s shift is responsible for bers. “I took the shift because you like they are happy cleaning all of the phones at it was at a good time for me, very interactive group. You ple like it. The Sunday night they’re not doing what you’re the Coop, as well as the floor but I’ve found there are many get to know these people crew is actually thinking doing. People really are area under the conveyor belt, reasons why I like it. It is fairly over one two-hour shift a about having T-shirts made embarrassed that other peo- a place, she says, “where all short, which is nice, and very month at a time. You don’t since people are so into the ple take out their waste. But kinds of things end up!” active, but most of all, we think that cleaning toilets workslot. There is a really the truth is that it is a very A big part of what Fried work together. Our squad is a will allow you to develop a strong sense of community enjoyable job. And, of course, friendship, but it does.” because everyone feels they not all members ignore you. In terms of a sense of are contributing to a product Some are actually very appre- camaraderie, Chase Valdez, with fairly immediate and ciative, particularly if you’ve How to Contact the Disciplinary Committee the Coop staff member who very tangible results. When just cleaned the bathroom.” oversees many of the Mainte- you clean the produce case, Another common misper- e nance squads, points partic- you know you are going to ception about Maintenance ularly to the Sunday evening buy and eat the food from at the Coop is that the The Disciplinary Committee is responsible for the review, squads, which he describes there.” squads are there at all hours investigation, and disposition of all submitted complaints of member misconduct. as “very close-knit,” a result Though members of the of the day. In fact, they are not only of the collaborative Maintenance Committee are not, which means that if If you would like to submit a complaint, please contact us. way in which those squads generally very positive about something breaks or spills, work, but the kind of work the work they do, they point members who are shopping they do, which extends well to two issues—both related or are working on non-Main- o beyond sweeping floors and to what they consider mem- tenance shifts are responsi- Email: [email protected] cleaning bath- ble for cleaning up rooms. whatever has created the “It’s during the mess. C Sunday night shifts Valdez notes that, Letter Drop Off: Written reports may be left in the DC mailbox that we do the paradoxically, “every located to the left as you enter the Membership Office. more in-depth member has a sense of cleaning,” explains ownership at the Coop, N Chase, referring to and yet when it comes to activities such as cleaning up after yourself By US Post: Park Slope Food Coop cleaning the cool- there’s a sense that some- Attn: The Disciplinary Committee 782 Union St Brooklyn NY 11215 ers on the main one else should do it.” shopping floor and So what do we all need in the basement, to do if we break or spill R as well as the pro- something? Though our Voicemail: 888.922.2667, ext 86 duce shelves. first instinct may be to page a Maintenance Thank you The Elite worker, Valdez suggests ( Cleaning Shift instead retrieving the Having recently cleaning supplies you established a new, need from the back room “elite” cleaning and picking up the mess. shift that meets And, if you need help, The Diversity & Equality Committee (DEC) is dedicated once every 12 you can page either a to improving human relations and communications weeks on Sundays staff member or a work- through impeccable interpersonal interactions, poli- from 8 p.m. to 2 Cleaning toys in childcare. ing member who, Valdez cies and procedures in the Coop. a.m., Chase him- explains, “will help get self is somewhat surprised by ber misperceptions—that the proper supplies to assist The goal is to work toward preventing and eliminating discrimination in how quickly the new slots can sometimes be frustrating an individual in cleaning up the Coop and to promote the ideal of equal and respectful treatment filled up. “It is down and dirty to them. whatever needs to be ■ between all Coop members and paid staff regardless of each individual’s work,” says Chase, “but peo- The first is the mispercep- cleaned up.” different identity. The DEC also aims to provide advocacy for individuals who feel they have experienced discriminatory practices in the Coop.

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Contact Form DEC Contact forms are available in the literature rack Drivers Needed or Letter: in the ground floor elevator lobby. Place a completed The Plastics Recycling Squads are looking for form or other letter/note (anonymously if desired) in a sealed envelope labeled “Attn: Diversity and Equality drivers to transport plastic recycling collected at Committee” and use one of the three methods listed the Coop to the recycling plant in Brooklyn. below to get it to the committee. Drivers are needed for shifts on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. Drivers must have a large capacity vehicle (van or truck) for the volume Mail Park Slope Food Coop of recycling collected. You need to be able to lift and work independently. Reliability a must Attention: Diversity & Equality Committee 782 Union Street as you are the only person coming to do this job on your day. Member should be prepared to Brooklyn, New York 11215 store recycling collected on Saturday or Sunday in their vehicle or home until recycling center opens on Monday. Wednesday drivers must be available to drop off the recycling at Mail Which is located in the entryway vestibule the center between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. when the recycling facility is open. Member will Drop Box on the ground floor under the flier caddy. be reimbursed for mileage according to IRS reimbursement rates. If interested please contact Membership The DEC has a mailbox in the Membership Office Coordintor Cynthia Pennycooke at cynthia_pennycooke@ psfc.coop or drop by the Office Mailbox Office on the second floor of the Coop. Membership Office to speak to her.

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General Meeting Report PSFC FEBRUARY 2008 Consumer Survey, Plastic Bag Usage GENERAL MEETING By Kira Sexton Tuesday, February 26, 7:00 p.m. • Items will be taken up in the order given. he first item on the addresses? And do we really Plastic Bags • Times in parentheses are suggestions. agenda for the January want to encourage this kind The second item on the • More information on each item may be available at the T29 General Meeting was of behavior? agenda, submitted by the entrance table at the meeting. We ask members to please a proposal that Coop mem- The coordinators said the Environmental Committee, read the materials available between 7:00 & 7:15 p.m. bers take a survey adminis- Coop would gladly provide was a discussion of reducing tered by the Federal Reserve computers for members to plastic bag usage at the • Meeting Location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Bank of Boston. use if they were uncomfort- Coop. The two kinds of plas- Hall (Garfield Temple) 274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave. Researchers are eager for able taking the surveys from tic bags used at the Coop are the opportunity to study a their home computers. T-shirt bags (the larger, white AGENDA: consumer organization that The Emerging Markets bags at checkout), and roll Item #1 Member Survey* recently switched from a Division would also create bags (clear and thin, used for Proposal: “The Diversity and Equality Committee proposes cash-based econo- paper surveys to be bulk items and produce). surveying a portion of the general Coop membership to my to a debit-card filled in by hand. Many members commented better understand issues of diversity in the Coop.” system. Most con- At this time, on how surprising it is that sumer organiza- Donald brought the Coop even provides plas- —submitted by The Diversity and Equality Committee tions made this forth a motion to tic bags in the first place. A Item #2 Enforcing Coop Rules* switch long ago. shelve the propos- new member suggested that Proposal: “Proposal of a stronger enforcement of Coop “Business as al until the next as part of the new member rules and requirements” unusual,” said Gen- meeting. While packet, the Coop could pro- —submitted by The Diversity and Equality Committee eral Manager Joe many agreed with vide recycled bags or a num- Holtz, referring to shelving this agen- ber of plastic bags, along with *“In the pursuit of improving human relations and commun- the PSFC. General Coordina- da item, others, such as information on recycling and ications at the Coop, the Diversity and Equality Committee tors Holtz and Trisha Leith member David Moss, who using resources responsibly. (DEC) has implemented a focus group with 9 participants, submitted the proposal. works in the legal division at As for paying for plastic offered several diversity education workshops to over 250 Leith was quick to point out a self-described evil hedge bags, that practice has pretty Squad Leaders and received 3 officially reported complaints that the original idea of col- fund, disagreed, saying that much fallen by the wayside of bias/discrimination. As a result the DEC discovered many laborating with the Federal based on all his dealings with ever since October 1, 2007, Coop circumstances perceived to be bias/discrimination Reserve came from a Coop the Federal Reserve Bank, as when the debit-card system incidents which often people don’t know how to manage. member who works at the well as the dealings of his was put into place. Shoppers Fed’s New York City branch. banking colleagues, he thinks no longer find themselves Therefore the DEC would like to survey a larger portion of Holtz said one of the bene- the Federal Reserve has a staring at those small gray the general Coop membership to better understand fits of cooperating with the very good reputation. lock boxes while waiting to the issues of diversity, bias and discrimination in the Coop. Federal Reserve is that the Member Gisbert Mayr pay for their groceries. Coop The DEC also proposes the Coop enforce its policies PSFC could benefit from commented on the absurdity management is working on a with more vigor because a lack of consistency leads to lower processing fees if it’s of shelving a proposal to take plan to place additional perceived bias/discrimination incidents.” able to provide a commer- a survey, calling it “totally boxes at each checkout in the cially sponsored debit card insane, actually,” an opinion Coop. This way, no matter Future Agenda Information: for members. which infuriated several Coop how they pay for their pur- For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, The general coordinators members who mistook Gies- chases, or what they are please see the center pages of the Linewaiters' Gazette. reiterated that the Federal pard’s comments to mean shopping for, individual The Agenda Committee minutes and the status of pend- Reserve is a respected gov- that they themselves were members can pay for their ing agenda items are available in the office and at all GMs. ernment organization, and it “insane, actually.” Finally, bags in an informal manner. would be smart to form a Carl Arnold of the Chair Com- Up for discussion were relationship with them. mittee suggested the propos- ways to make the payment This point of view was al be amended to include the system for plastic bags more the Coop further by making not be particularly gentler on challenged by member Lixu- statement that members formal and perhaps purpose- new rules that would be diffi- the environment. Johannah an An who pointed out that have the right to use two des- ly draconian—thus prevent- cult to keep track of and to Rodgers, who cosponsored the Federal Reserve isn’t ignated computers in the ing their overuse. Should follow? Please note that this the proposal, said that simply wholly a government-spon- Coop for filling out the sur- bags be placed behind check- discussion was limited to switching to paper bags is not sored and government-regu- vey. Once the proposal was out counters to make them regular plastic bags. Not up a viable solution, since man- lated banking system, and amended to include this less accessible? Many atten- for discussion at this time ufacturing paper harms the that the general coordinators statement, the proposal to dees protested—do we really were the somewhat contro- environment. Member should be clearer about who take the survey passed. want to slow down lines at versial eco-bags, which might CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 the Coop will be dealing with. Member banks of the Federal Reserve system are money- making entities, and what would they do with information gleaned from Coop shoppers? The Coop member who ini- tially suggested working with the Federal Reserve, Lucinda Brickler, is not a government employee and deals in wholesale payment issues. She gave a brief history of the Federal Reserve Bank, which was founded by the federal government in 1914 after many banks failed. Still, some members wor- ried that a group of bankers, provided with free information by the PSFC, would then try to sell us stuff—or worse, sell our information to nefari- ous marketers. Donald Murk, an FTOP member, voiced concern that if the surveys were done on home computers, wouldn’t marketers then have access to individual members’ IP addresses? What would they do with those Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com—click on Online Library 08-02/14 p01-07 2/13/08 6:47 PM Page 4

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EXPERIENCED Chefs and Waitstaff Wanted

REPORTERS The Fun’raising Committee is seeking Coop members with professional cooking and/or waiting experience to work the Coop’s Please Apply 35th birthday party on May 3 for FTOP credit. We’re specifically looking Workslot Description for members who are chefs, caterers, waiters and those who have We have four distinct Linewaiters’ Gazette teams—each producing an front-of-house experience in catering. Kitchen prep is issue every eight weeks. You will needed the week prior to the event and most of the day on develop and produce an article about the Coop in cooperation with your May 3rd, as well as the evening of the event. Front-of-house team’s editor every eight weeks. staff needed for set-up, event time and breakdown. In your For More Information email please give a brief description of your If you would like to speak to an editor or another reporter to learn experience and availability. more about the job, please contact Karen Mancuso in the Membership Office or email her at [email protected]. Call Esther at 917-513-0860 or email [email protected] To Apply Please send a letter of application and two writing samples at least 800 words long (one sample must be a reported interview) to [email protected]. Your letter should state your qualifications, your Coop history, relevant experience and why you would like to report for the Coop. Your application will be Band Needed acknowledged and forwarded to the coordinating editors, Stephanie Golden and Erik Lewis. The Food Coop’s Fun’raising Committee Seeking to Diversify the Gazette Staff is seeking a Coop-member band to play The Gazette is looking for qualified reporters. We are interested in using this opportunity to diversify our staff. We believe that we for workslot credit at the Coop’s 35th can enrich the quality of the Gazette and serve the membership better with a reporting and editing staff that more closely resem- birthday party on the evening of bles the mix of Coop members. Saturday, May 3. We’re specifically looking for a band to play Latin, R&B, and Show Motown music. Your If interested, please call Lenny at 718-614-2289 Movie! and earn workslot credit. Have a story idea for Exposure, Conversation, Reactions… The film series at the Coop is only as good as the the Gazette? willingness of Coop members to participate in it. Submit movies you’ve made, you’ve gaffed on, Or know of an interesting Coop acted in, PA’d, wrote, produced…and get workslot credit if we show it for our Coop screening series. member you think others would like We want to see how creative our Coop members to read about? are, and we want to share the work with other Coop members and their friends. Email your suggestions to Please send us your stuff or email us to talk about it. We need to be in touch with all of you to [email protected] keep this series hot...which it is! (please write Gazette Story Ideas in the subject line). For more information, contact Alexandra Berger at [email protected] Join the Street Squad Do you love the Coop? Do you enjoy talking to friends, neighbors and strangers about the joys of Coop membership? The Street Squad may be the workslot for you. Work outdoors on Saturdays and Sundays from April to October, and help keep the Coop strong.

The Street Squad serves an important We invite you to join us if you are: New Street Squad members must public relations role for the Coop. From ◆ a Coop member in good standing for attend a training session. tables set up outside the store, at local at least six months street fairs and special events, the Street ◆ friendly and upbeat with enthusiasm about the Coop If you are interested in joining the Squad talks to current and prospective ◆ knowledgeable of Coop procedures Street Squad, please contact : members, hands out literature, answers ◆ willing to work outdoors Robin questions, gives tours of the Coop, and ◆ reliable, responsible and able to work 718-230-7199 just generally offers people the chance to independently call before 9:00 p.m. become familiar with our organization.

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Get to Know Your Chicken WHAT IS THAT? HOW DO I USE IT? CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Food Tours in the Coop scored the dangers of the disconnect between farm I have a proposition: and dinner table. “People are moving Forget about eating healthy beyond the organic move- stop measuring grams of fat ment and are now more carb calories percent of protein focused on buying locally antioxidant this sourced goods,” says Bill x factor that ILLUSTRATIONS BY OWEN LONG BY OWEN ILLUSTRATIONS Malloy, the Coop’s meat and forget about meat, no meat poultry buyer. They’re also vegan, raw, vegetarian interested in more environ- mentally sustainable prac- Forget about conventional and tices. “Coop shoppers now organic, local, sustainable want grass-fed meat. All of our beef is 100 percent grass- Forget about you fed,” Malloy notes. “People get a little overexcited and And think of the plant now they want to know if our see the seed locked in the frozen ground pork is grass-fed, but hogs by itself and uncommitted don’t eat grass. If you imagine its indifference footprint attached to want to know what hogs their dinners. eat, read Charlotte’s Web.” soon the ground will warm and set it “A lot of con- In a way, the Murray’s (with some unknowable spark) to grow sumers don’t trust program will likely have the seed will yield a plant organic anymore,” more impact in larger that will take what it needs says Steve Gold, vice supermarkets that lack from the ether of the soil president of market- the Coop’s emphasis on and in the fullness of its being ing at Murray’s Chick- locally sourced items. yield more seeds ens. “They read about Indeed, in some sense, the feedlots and the Coop shoppers have Countless creatures besides ourselves milk farms and com- always had a farm verifi- depend on this process panies that are mar- cation program. Malloy life itself is sustained by it keting products as says that more than 90 organic, even though percent of the Coop’s That’s all you need to know: they slip in ingredi- meat is locally sourced, if we take care of the plants ents that are not.” and the Coop’s website they will take care of us Gold noted a has links to most of its recent controversy in suppliers, where shop- The Park Slope Food Coop which Tyson market- pers can see photos raising consciousness city-wide ed its chicken as and read in-depth infor- “raised without mation about the phi- by Myra Klockenbrink antibiotics,” only to losophy of places like have to amend that claim to for a relatively large compa- McDonald Farm and Hard- Mondays March 10 (B Week) “raised without antibiotics ny. Murray’s “processes” wick Beef. Some Coop mem- March 17 (C Week) that impact antibiotic resis- 7,000 chickens a day, bers have even taken trips to Noon to 1 p.m. tance in humans” after it was although that’s a lot less than Hepworth Farms, one of the and 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. discovered that its chicken the 30,000 a day at the larger Coop’s largest local produce Sunday February 17 (B Week) feed contains an animal companies, says Gold. suppliers. Noon to 2 p.m. medication known as an As for trips to the farms ionophore, which the Depart- More Connected that supply Murray’s chick- Tuesday March 11 (B Week) ment of Agriculture considers Murray’s farm verification ens, Gold points out that 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. an antibiotic. It’s tactics like program also reflects a grow- the U.S. Department of Agri- Or you can join in any time during a tour. this, says Gold, that give con- ing need among shoppers to culture frowns on visitors. sumers a yearning for “trans- feel more connected to their Even if that were not the parency and traceability. They food. Indeed, last summer’s case, such visits seem want to know who is growing spinach salmonella recall unlikely for the same reason that Murray’s doesn’t show Thursday, pictures of its chickens on Mar. 6 its site—what Gold calls the “People are moving beyond the organic movement and “ick factor of people seeing 7:30 p.m. are now more focused on buying locally sourced goods.” what they’re eating.” at the Coop —Bill Malloy Maybe that’s the next step in the evolution of the know- what-you-eat movement: understanding that you’re An Energizing Coop member and chef their chickens and where and gave many consumers an eating animals, which could Annie Kunjappy is a how these chickens are being unsettling glimpse of how motivate many omnivores— Spring Cleanse graduate of and currently raised.” little understanding they myself included—to heed Spring stirs our bodies,calling us from a an instructor at the Such was the impetus for had over where their food Michael Pollan’s latest direc- period of introspection and conservation into one of lightness and expansive release. the farm verification pro- came from. And Michael Pol- tive from his new book, In Natural Gourmet gram, the first of its kind and lan’s bestselling book, The Defense of Food: “Eat food. Not Come and gain a better understanding of the Institute for Health and energetic properties of specific foods that can ■ something of an innovation Omnivore’s Dilemma, under- too much. Mostly plants.” cleanse and tone the blood, and ease congestion Culinary Arts. She is also and stagnation in the body. teaching recreational Learn to sprout grains and ferment vegetables Park Slope Food Coop Video Squad Workslots Available to maximize nutritional value, quicken digestion classes at the Institute and support the seasonal transition from for Food and Health as Did you know that the Coop has a regular show on Brooklyn Cable Access Television? And will winter to spring well as maintaining a pri- soon be expanding to podcasting via the Internet? MENU vate cooking practice. The shows feature members, and issues related to the Coop and the larger Brooklyn community. Past She is a long-time stu- shows include health, improv performance, live music, cooking classes and ideas for living ecologically. • Apple-dandelion smoothie There are current workslot openings for: • Beet pave with arugula-pinenut truffle cream dent of Yoga and Chinese • Sprouted Quinoa and cauliflower cous-cous 1. Show Host medicine. with raw fermented carrots 2. Researcher/Storyboarder • Bitter greens with a fennel-wasabi dressing MEMBERS & 3. Post Production: Editing and Compression • Sweet Mung Bean soup NON-MEMBERS WELCOME. For more information, contact David at [email protected] and include “PSFC Video Squad” in $4 materials fee Views expressed by the presenter do not Come early the subject line. necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop. to ensure a seat.

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COOP HOURS A monthly musical Friday fundraising partnership of Office Hours: the Park Slope Monday through Thursday Mar. 21 Food Coop and 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. the Brooklyn Society Friday & Saturday 8:00 p.m. for Ethical Culture 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Shopping Hours: Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Saturday 6:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Sunday 6:00 a.m. to 7:30* p.m. *Shoppers must be on a checkout line 15 minutes after closing time. An Evening of Jazz, Tap & Song

Childcare Hours: Join Jezra Kaye and her trio for a night of sultry standards Monday through Sunday and swinging blues. 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.

Telephone: When she’s not busy teaching people how to write and deliver strong, 718-622-0560 persuasive speeches, singer Jezra Kaye weaves her sultry, swinging magic on a mix of jazz standards, Web address: blues and sophisticated pop. www.foodcoop.com Come find out why she and her great backup musicians always pack the Good Coffeehouse.

Rhythm Tap soloist Margaret Morrison is joined by Robin Burdulis on percussion, Theo Hill on Piano, Lisa Parrot on sax, and The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by other friends for an evening of tap dance and swinging jazz music. the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, For over 20 years Margaret has presented her tap dance artistry Brooklyn, New York 11215. Opinions expressed here may be solely the views across the United States, in Brazil and Europe, performing as a soloist of the writer. The Gazette will not knowingly publish and with the acclaimed American Tap Dance Orchestra. Reviewers articles that are racist, sexist, or otherwise have called her “feather-footed and musically astute,” a “consummate discriminatory. artist who breaks the mold.” The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, and letters from members.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8:00 p.m. [doors open at 7:45] All submissions MUST include author’s name and Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. phone number and conform to the following guidelines. Editors will reject letters and articles Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 that are illegible or too long. Submission deadlines Childcare is available from Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture for a nominal fee. appear in the Coop Calendar opposite. Letters: Maximum 500 words. All letters will be printed if they conform to the guidelines above. This Issue Prepared By: The Anonymity and Fairness policies appear on Monthly on the... the letters page in most issues. Third Thursday R Coordinating Editors: Stephanie Golden Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. Feb 21 Erik Lewis 7:00–9:00 p.m. Submissions on Paper: Typed or very legibly Editors (development): Dan Jacobson handwritten and placed in the wallpocket labeled Last Sunday Michael O’Keeffe Feb 24 E "Editor" on the second floor at the base of the ramp. 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Reporters: Gayle Forman Submissions on Disk & by Email: We welcome Second Saturday Kira Sexton digital submissions. Drop disks in the wallpocket Mar 8 described above. The email address for C Johannah Rodgers 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. submissions is [email protected]. Art Director (development): Michelle Ishay Receipt of your submissions will be acknowledged On the sidewalk in front of on the deadline day. the receiving area at the Coop. Y Illustrators: Susan Greenstein Owen Long Classified & Display Ads: Ads may only be placed by and on behalf of Coop members. Classified ads Photographers: Hazel Hankin are prepaid at $15 per insertion, business card ads at PLASTIC S Ann Rosen $30. (Ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” category are free.) All ads must be written on a What plastics do we accept? Traffic Manager: Monona Yin submission form (available in a wallpocket on the • #1 and #2 non-bottle shaped Text Converters: Peter Benton first floor near the elevator). Classified ads may be containers and #1 and #2 labeled L Diana Quick up to 315 characters and spaces. Display ads must lids. Mouths of containers must be be camera-ready and business card size (2"x3.5"). equal width or wider than the body Proofreader: Margaret Benton of the container. Recipes: We welcome original recipes from I Thumbnails: Barbara Jungwirth members. Recipes must be signed by the creator. • All #4 plastic and #4 labeled lids. Subscriptions: The Gazette is available free to • #5 plastic tubs, cups & specifically Preproduction: Yan Kong members in the store. Subscriptions are available by marked lids and caps (discard any Photoshop: Bill Kontzias mail at $23 per year to cover the cost of postage (at with paper labels). N First Class rates because our volume is low). • Plastic film, such as shopping and Art Director (production): Lynn Cole-Walker dry cleaning bags, etc. Okay if not Desktop Publishing: Leonard Henderson labeled. G Matthew Landfield ALL PLASTIC MUST BE COMPLETELY Midori Nakamura CLEAN AND DRY We close up promptly. Editor (production): Michal Hershkovitz Last drop offs will be accepted 10 Post Production: Becky Cassidy minutes prior to our end time to allow for sorting. Index: Len Neufeld Printed by: Prompt Printing Press, Camden, NJ.

Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com—click on Online Library 08-02/14 p01-072/13/086:47PMPage7 the instructionsheetsbysign-upboard. participation intheCoop’s decision-makingprocess. workslot-credit programwascreatedtoincrease decisions andsetCooppolicy. TheGeneral-Meeting-for- General Meeting(GM)membersgathertomake Meeting hasbeenourdecision-making ...to yourSquadafteryouattend themeeting. • Considermaking areport… oraMake-up?• IsitFTOP • BeingAbsentfromtheGM: • SigninginattheMeeting: • ChildcarecanbeprovidedatGMs: • AttendtheentireGM: Squadsnoteligible: • Certain • Two attendancecreditsperyear: GM • AdvanceSign-upRequired: meeting. do notcalltheMembershipOfficewithGMcancellations. you removeyournameifknowcannotattend.Please passed aroundduringthemeeting. Workslot CreditAttendanceSheet. Office atleastoneweekpriortothemeetingdate. for the because coveringabsentmembersistoodifficult.) and FTOPcommittees.(Somecommitteesareomitted Processing, Office,Maintenance,Inventory, Construction, workslot-credit programtwotimespercalendaryear. name tothesign-upsheetin below fordetails. CLASSIFIED ADSDEADLINE: LETTERS &VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: Gazette Deadlines hours. Pleasedon'tbringsmallchildren. begin ontime!Theorientationtakesabouttwo Be suretobeherepromptly—orearly—aswe .4:00p.m. Sunday afternoons: .10:00a.m. Wednesday mornings: .7:30p.m. Monday &Wednesday evenings: New MemberOrientations a 3ise 7:00p.m.,Wed, Mar5 7:00p.m.,Wed, Feb20 Mar 13issue: Feb 28issue: 7:00p.m.,Mon,Mar3 7:00p.m.,Mon,Feb18 Mar 13issue: Feb 28issue: Following isanoutlineoftheprogram. It dependsonyourworkstatus atthetimeof It ispossibletocancelwithoutpenalty. We doaskthat 2.Please alsosignintheattendancebookthatis 1. AfterthemeetingChairwillprovide Please notifyanOfficeCoordinatorintheMembership In ordertoearnworkslotcredityoumustbepresent Eligible: Shopping,Receiving/Stocking,Food Each membermaytakeadvantageoftheGM-for- To beeligibleforworkslotcredit,youmustaddyour Since theCoop’s inception Some restrictionstothisprogramdoapply. Pleasesee

COOP CALENDAR WORKSLOT NEEDS and ReceiveWork Credit entire puter andsomeonewholikesworkingindepen- Are youasticklerfordetails,accurateonthecom- Tuesday, 4:30to7:15p.m. Office DataEntry speak toDebbieParkerinthe commitment isrequired.Ifinterested good workattendanceisrequired.Asix-month shift. You willbeworkingindependentlyso that youwillbeonyourfeetformostofthe printer. Thisisacontinuousjobthatrequires to troubleshootpossibleproblemswiththe the Risographmachine.You willneedtobeable mittee schedulesfromoriginalsprovidedusing The maintaskofthisworkslotistocopycom- Tuesday, 6:00to8:45p.m. Schedule Copying meeting. Attend aGM the elevatorlobby. in 1973,the Read the For fulldetails,see Membership Office. body. the At General Gazette Channels: 56(TimeWarner), 69(CableVision). FRIDAYS 2:30p.m.withareplayat10:30 Inside theParkSlopeFoodCoop The CooponCableTV www.foodcoop.com The CoopontheInternet as aflyerintheentryway. The agendaappearsinthisissueandisavailable GENERAL MEETING:7:00p.m. TUE, FEB26 General Meeting. Submissions willbeconsideredfortheFeb26 AGENDA SUBMISSIONS:8:00p.m. 4 TUE, MAR General Meeting please while you’restanding onlineORonlineatwww.foodcoop.com—click onOnlineLibrary values. store. makingtorunning the frompolicy level, We seektomaximizeparticipationatevery member.ions, needsandconcernsof every accessible toallandrespecttheopin- strive tomaketheCoopwelcomingand oppose discriminationinanyform.We mitted todiversityandequality. tion andtheenvironment. others abouthealthandnutrition,coopera- lead byexample,educatingourselvesand friendly producers.We We recycle. to try tions. We prefertobuyfromlocal,earth- share withotherspeciesandfuturegenera- impact ofourlifestylesontheworldwe the environment. toxic, sustainableagriculture. exploitation ofothers.We supportnon- avoid productsthatdependonthe cessed andhealthfulfoods. emphasis onorganic,minimallypro- We offeradiversityofproductswith an of andsupportthecooperativemovement. selling agentforanyindustry. We areapart buying agentforourmembersandnota ethical employerandneighbor. We area equally. We strivetobearesponsibleand we shareresponsibilitiesandbenefits principles. Onlymembersmayshop,and ble withinthecontextofourvaluesand enables ustokeeppricesaslowpossi- through cooperationandteamwork labor: workingtogetherbuildstrust business. Asmembers,wecontributeour alternative tocommercialprofit-oriented ber-owned andoperatedfoodstore— The Park SlopeFood Coopisamem- Park SlopeFood Coop Mission Statement akSoeFo op roln YFebruary 14, 2008 Park SlopeFood Coop,Brooklyn, NY We welcome allwhorespectthese numbers) isamust.Workslot isopentopeople Attention todetails(especiallyworkingwith (cash disbursedjournal)andaddingitup. ten fromindividualpapersintoourcheckbook be transferringinformationaboutcheckswrit- to workwithnumbersandcalculators?You will Do youhaveneat,legiblehandwritingandlike Monday, 6:00to8:45p.m. Cash DisbursedBookkeeping mitment. information. Workslot requiresasix-monthcom- in theMembershipOfficeifyouwouldlikemore answer questions.PleasespeaktoGingerHargett training, andCoopstaffwillalwaysbeavailableto Entry willbeaperfectshiftforyou.You willreceive dently? Ifthissoundslikeyou,thenOfficeData We strivetoreducethe We arecom- We respect We seekto We an • Announcements,etc. • BoardofDirectorsvote • Meetingevaluation (unless thereisavotetoextend themeeting) Wrap Up(9:30-9:45p.m.) • TheagendaispostedattheCoopCommunityCorner Agenda (8:00p.m.) • CommitteeReports • Coordinators’Report • FinancialReport (7:30p.m.) Reports for afutureGM. can besubmittedtotheAgendaCommitteeasanitem to theGeneralMeeting.Ifanitemismorethanbrief,it Open Forumisatimeformemberstobringbriefitems Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) • Exploremeetingliterature • SubmitOpenForumitems • EnjoysomeCoopsnacks • MeettheCoordinators Warm Up(7:00p.m.) Meeting Format call EllenWeinstat intheoffice. last Tuesday ofthemonth.Ifyouhaveaquestion,please of eachmonthtoplantheagendaforGMheldon form. TheAgendaCommitteemeetsonthefirstTuesday on howtosubmitanitemappearthesubmission General Meetings.Instructionsandhelpfulinformation the CoopCommunityCornerbulletinboardandat Agenda Committee.Formsareavailableintheracknear Meeting, pleasecompleteasubmissionformforthe If youhavesomethingyou’dlikediscussedataGeneral on theAgenda How toPlaceanItem Temple), 274GarfieldPlace. The templehouseofCongregationBethElohim(Garfield Location month. The GeneralMeetingisheldonthelastTuesday ofeach February 26,7:00p.m. Next Meeting:Tuesday, every GeneralMeeting. are availableattheCoopCommunityCornerand the AnnualMeetinginJune.CopiesofCoop’s bylaws every GeneralMeeting.Boardmembersareelectedat almost everyGeneralMeetingdecisionattheendof required toactlegallyandresponsibly, hasapproved General Meetings.TheBoardofDirectors,whichis meetings andtoreceivetheadviceofmembersat General MeetingsbyrequiringtheBoardtohaveopen Board ofDirectors.TheCoopcontinuedthetradition porated in1977,wehavebeenlegallyrequiredtoa Coop’s decision-making process.SincetheCoopincor- monthly GeneralMeetingshavebeenatthecenterof From ourinceptionin1973tothepresent,open Our GoverningStructure and mayalsoappearelsewhereinthisissue. General Meeting All Aboutthe Andie Taras throughtheMembershipOffice. slot. Ifyouareinterested,pleasespeakto month commitmentisrequiredforthiswork- and haveagoodattendancerecord.Asix- who havebeenmembersforatleastsixmonths kinds ofweather. be reliableandwillingtoworkoutdoorsinall criteria. Stackandpackplasticforrecycling.Must sure theyarecleanandmeettheRecyclingSquad accepting returnedplasticcontainers,making with othermembersoftheRecyclingSquad mental citizen.Work outsideinfrontoftheCoop Join intheCoop’s efforttobeabetterenviron- 9:45 a.m.to12:15p.m.or11:452:30 Saturday orSunday, Plastics Recycling 7 08-02/14 p08-12 2/13/08 6:48 PM Page 8

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your listings in 50 words or less by mail, the mailslot in the entry vestibule, or [email protected]. Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads. Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue.*Denotes a Coop member. THU, FEB 14 visit www.peoplesvoicecafe.org. Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for Prince Myshkins/Dave Lippman at TUE, MARCH 18 Suggested donation: $12 general/$9 Contemporary Culture under the the Workmen’s Circle, 45 E 33rd St AVI FOX-ROSEN—singer/song- members/more if you choose, less if front steps of the Central Branch (btwn Madison & Park), 8:00–10:30 TAKING HEALTH INTO OUR OWN writer/guitarist—and his band per- you can’t. No one turned away. (Grand Army Plaza) of the Brook- p.m. Wheelchair accessible. For HANDS: A Forum on Community- lyn Public Library. 4:00 p.m. Free! info, call 212-787-3903 or visit form at Congregation Beth Elohim, CLOTHING & TEXTILE RECY- Grown Solutions. Grassroots lead- www.peoplesvoicecafe.org. Sug- 274 Garfield Pl. Folk, jazz, world CLING: Donate used clothing, ers from around NYC will share gested donation: $12 general/$9 music & rock collide in Avi’s intri- shoes, boots, hats, jackets, towels, SAT, FEB 23 stories of urban farming and members/more if you choose, less cate songs and stunning guitar bedding & linens for reuse or recy- immigrant food traditions as ways if you can’t. No one turned away. playing. Avi kicks off a monthly cling. Grand Army Plaza Greenmar- BOOK SALE: Thousands of new & of mobilizing communities around New Jewish Music Performance ket, every Saturday through March, used books plus DVDs, CDs, healthy food. Free. 6:30–9:00 p.m. Series co-hosted by CBE & Brook- 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. For more info, records & tapes. Incredible bar- SUN, FEB 24 Cuny Graduate Center, 365 5th lyn Jews. $10. visit www.cenyc.org gains! Terrific Children’s Corner! Ave, NYC. To register, visit www. Park Slope United Methodist BOOK SALE (afternoon only!): whyhunger.org. SAT, FEB 16 Church (6th Ave. at 8th St.). 8:30 Thousands of new & used books SUN, FEB 17 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Donations (excel- plus DVDs, CDs, records & tapes. lent condition only) gratefully Incredible bargains! Terrific Chil- PEOPLE’S VOICE CAFE: Rod Mac- FREE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: accepted starting Feb 18. For dren’s Corner! Park Slope United Donald at the Workmen’s Circle, 45 Adela Peña, violin; Ah Ling Neu,* details & more info, visit our web- Methodist Church (6th Ave. at 8th E 33rd St (btwn Madison & Park), viola; Alberto Parrini, cello; per- site at www.parkslopeumc.org St.). 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. For more 8:00–10:30 p.m. Wheelchair accessi- forming string trios of Dohnanyi, info, visit our website at www. ble. For info, call 212-787-3903 or Beethoven, and Schubert. At the PEOPLE’S VOICE CAFE: The parkslopeumc.org Puzzle Corner Ticker Symbols

1234 5678 910111213 ACROSS 1 “Avast, me ______” tion 44 Tahini base 14 15 16 5 Settled up 31 Brown, for one 46 Lawn lunches 9 The final frontier 32 Flickr uploads 49 Cad, rogue, and brute 17 18 19 14 At one time 33 Clockwork components 52 Albeit 15 ______-de-camp 34 At one time 53 Unconscious 20 21 16 Something to get on or fall off 35 Athens aperitif 56 Support at a funeral 17 Floating sheet 36 Dryer harvests 57 Coconut meat 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 Like a vest or halter top 37 Frequent yoga maneuver 58 Tap options 20 Cheer up 38 Mimic 59 Seven ______Itch (1955) 28 29 30 31 21 Boyfriends 39 Plutarch’s classic, in brief 60 Rub out 22 On the shelves 40 Sinbad’s seven 61 McCarthy quarries 32 33 34 24 Coifed and gelled 41 Feather adhesive 62 Glimpse 28 Brouhaha 42 Already retired 35 36 37 29 Especially sincere conversa- 43 More substantial

38 39 40 DOWN 41 42 43 19 Some sun blocks? 40 Quotation caveats 1 Innermost soul 21 Does a black diamond 43 Vigor 44 45 46 47 48 2 Inverted cape? 23 Husky nut 45 Alleges 3 Penny-pinchers 25 Predictable statistical 46 On top of another, on top of 49 50 51 52 4 Meet with correlations another 5 Hardly vibrant 26 Squares 47 Tawdry 53 54 55 56 6 Fared poorly 27 ______in the wool 48 Classic board game 7 Light bulb, in comics 29 Encouraged 50 Pinocchio, e.g. 57 58 59 8 “No good ______goes 30 Makes lace 51 ______Danger, military 32 Cocooned caterpillars intelligence program 60 61 62 unpunished” 9 Turtle doves 33 Take partner 53 Diamonds, to a fence 10 Bell’s, for one 35 Granola ingredient 54 It leads the way in Scandi- 11 Stone or iron 36 Misrepresents in print navia? For answers, see page 11. This issue’s puzzle author: Stuart Marquis 12 Trig. Function 37 Has- ______55 Restful resort 13 Printer gaps 39 Layers on a leaf or a hoof 56 Telephone sign-off

General Meeting Report Past Life Regression CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Emmeline Chang suggested that people reuse their Coop bags as often and as innovatively as possible. Through Hypnosis Since she is single and lives alone, Chang said that the T-shirt bags, with their small size and limited WITH J EFFREY T. C ARL, CHT . capacity, make perfect sense as garbage bags. DO YOU HAVE THE FEELING THAT YOU Member Theresa Bartoldus had many sugges- HAVE LIVED BEFORE? tions about ways the Coop could phase out plastic Have you ever just met someone and felt bag consumption while keeping the shopping expe- like you have previously known them? rience relatively painless. One idea was to rent Are there other countries or cultures that reusable bags. seem familiar to you? One of the most interesting aspects of this discus- Well there might be an explanation for this. sion was the examples provided by the Environmen- Through hypnosis we can tap into the tal Committee of countries that had stopped using subconscious mind, as well as enter into a peaceful trance-like state to retrieve plastic bags or that had initiated costly taxes and fees memories of our past lives. for their use—countries such as Bangladesh, which Relax and take a journey within. banned plastic bags in 2002 after they were found to contribute to severe flooding. As a result, their jute Gain: • Realizations • A deeper understanding of who you are bag industry is undergoing a renaissance. China is • Retrieve memories • Pass beyond death and back again

encouraging its citizens to forgo plastic bags (ban- Bring: A blanket to lie down on or a comfortable lawn chair to relax into ning superthin bags and charging a fee for regular A note book to write down anything that comes up plastic bags), and is encouraging the use of cloth Jeffrey T. Carl, CHt, a Coop member, is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, bags and baskets. Ireland instituted a 20 cent tax on and a member of I.A.C.T. Jeffrey is also certified in past regression though plastic bags in 2002 (and raised that tax again in the Wiess Institute. 2007). The fees raised from this tax went toward a FREE Friday, February 22 fund to benefit the environment. Look for continued Non-members welcome 7:30 p.m. at the Coop debate and a vote about plastic bags at the Coop on future GM agendas. ■ Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com—click on Online Library 08-02/14 p08-12 2/13/08 6:48 PM Page 9

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at: http://www. cornucopia.org/ icated to the fight for economic jus- USDA Pressured to Address almonds/. Scroll down to tice for the family-scale farming embedded link on the page community. Through research, “Click here to send a Letter to advocacy, and economic develop- Almond Pasteurization Issue acting USDA Secretary Chuck ment our goal is to empower farm- ■ By Will Fantle for the Cornucopia Institute. Reprinted with permission. Conner.” ers both politically and through The Cornucopia Institute is ded- marketplace initiatives. odirectors of the Cornu- in the marketplace and would tion, either with the toxic copia Institute met with allow marketers the option of fumigant propylene oxide or C three high-ranking offi- continuing to sell raw steam heat, were underesti- cials at the USDA in Washing- almonds. Cornucopia also mated by the USDA. And a Board of Directors ton to discuss the outpouring requested that the USDA number of retail outlets have of public concern regarding consider a second solution— switched, due to consumer Election the agency’s very controversial a pasteurization exemption demand, to foreign-grown mandatory almond pasteur- for organic almond growers raw almonds that can still be ization order for domestically (since the organic sector has sold in the U.S. without being The General Meeting & The Board of Directors con- grown raw almonds. not been implicated in any of pasteurized. One American the Board of Directors ducts a vote at the end of every GM whether to Cornucopia used the the past contamination prob- family farmer growing From our inception in 1973 accept the advice of the meeting as an opportunity to lems associated with almonds has reported to Cor- to the present, the monthly members that night. Mem- deliver more than 1,500 indi- almonds, and organic regula- nucopia that he has incurred General Meeting has been bers of the Board are vidual proxy letters opposing tions have certain food safety losses totaling $400,000 from the decision-making body required to act legally and the new requirement, adding protocols built in). the new rule. of the Coop. Since the responsibly. to thousands of other e-mails The response from USDA As part of the compromise Coop incorporated in 1977, and contacts the USDA has staff was encouraging (“con- proposal to the USDA, Cornu- we have been legally received. For the better part structive,” in the word of one copia offered to wait until required to have a Board of Openings of an hour, Cornucopia dis- official). Half of all public early 2008 before initiating Directors. We have one full three-year cussed the concerns of con- comments being received by any legal action seeking to term open this year. sumers and the mounting the Secretary of Agriculture, suspend or overturn the pas- The Bylaws of the Park negative impact the almond according to these USDA offi- teurization rule. If the plan Slope Food Coop state: pasteurization rule has on cials, have been on the falls through at USDA, watch Candidate Deadline “The portion of the Board family farmers and organic almond issue! They are clear- for news on the legal front. of Directors meeting that is If you wish to place your farmers. ly hearing the public’s voice, Meanwhile, Cornucopia is devoted to receiving the name into nomination, you but they need to respond as seeking to keep the issue front advice of the members must declare your candida- well. and center at USDA. As proxy Compromise Proposal shall be known as the Gen- cy by Saturday, March 1. Cornucopia then offered a letters from the public contin- eral Meeting…The mem- Please submit a statement compromise proposal for the ue to come in to the organiza- Impact on Family Farmers bers who gather to give of up to 750 words to USDA to consider. The farm A number of family-scale tion, they are being hand advice to the directors may GazetteSubmissions@psfc. policy group suggested a almond farmers and organic delivered to the USDA. If you choose to vote in order to coop. Please include a small plan permitting the sale of farmers—who rely upon the haven’t already, please make express their support or photo for publication in the untreated American-grown sale of their nuts to domestic your voice heard! An action opposition for any of the Linewaiters’ Gazette and the almonds with a warning markets—are being severely alert with downloadable proxy issues that have come member proxy mailing. label, which would allow for harmed by the almond rule. letter and directions about before the meeting.” continued freedom of choice Costs of almond pasteuriza- where to send it are available Deciding and Voting Duties of the Candidates will have the Directors opportunity to present their Coop Job Opening: The Board of Directors is platform at the March 25 comprised of five elected General Meeting. Coop members and the General Coordinator senior General Coordina- Every member will receive a We are looking for someone to join our Coop management team of General Coordinators. The ideal tor present. Members proxy package in the mail in candidate would have significant experience in systems project management, preferably utilizing serve three-year terms. late May. Members may project management and collaboration software to achieve results. Responsibilities would include Members of the Board are vote by returning their bal- management of a team of three staff engineers, organization and planning of current and future expected to attend GMs lot by mail or by bringing it hardware/software projects and needs, implementation and launch planning of projects, training, documentation of all current systems and programs. An additional objective is the development of monthly. They receive to the Coop. Members may an environment that facilitates and coordinates member labor to improve and expand the software Coop work credit for their also vote at the Annual tools available to Coop staff and members. Familiarity with a Mac environment, networking, security, attendance. Meeting on June 24. and backup applications is a plus. Equally important, the ideal candidate should be able to contribute to the General Coordinator management team by possessing many of the following qualities: • Consistently brings to bear excellent judgment in management decision-making. • Takes initiative and provides leadership in strategic planning and implementation. • Understands short and long-term financial planning. • Displays both excellent oral and written communication skills. • Possesses the interpersonal skills to work well with a broad, diverse range of co-workers and members. Work Schedule Average work week of 45-50 hours, some evening meetings required. Salary The General Coordinator salary is $71,645.00 plus a COLA increase in February 2008. Benefits • Four paid holidays: July 4, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Years Day • Five weeks vacation • Health & Personal paid time • Health insurance and long-term disability insurance, fully paid by the Coop • Defined benefit pension plan, fully paid by the Coop How to Apply Please provide a cover letter with your resume stating why you would like to be hired for this position and how your qualifications, skills, and experience will benefit the Coop. Submit materials by February 15, 2008. Applicants must be current members with at least one year of membership in this Coop. Please address to: Personnel Committee, Park Slope Food Coop, 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215. We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop’s membership. FYI: Our production and development environments include: Operating Systems: Mac OS (9 and X), RedHat Linux (Fedora, CentOS), Solaris, and Windows XP Development software tools: Omnis7/Studio with DML and/or SQL implementations, Java, SQL, PHP, and Perl Point of Sale equipment: i386 based Linux registers and servers, Ingenico pinpads, Epson receipt printers, Magellan & Symbol scanner/scales, and Hobart food processing scales Network Infrastructure: Ethernet, TCP/IP Network Services: pfSense Firewall, AFP/SMB via OS X and Linux, HTTP via Apache/Linux, MySQL via Linux and OS X, DNS via OS X and Solaris, SMTP via OS X

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these fruits are usually small, family- your skin for certain techniques. It is run operations who do plenty of other quite modest, yet intimate, as it things to sustain themselves finan- seems that no muscle is ever neglect- GM DISCOURAGING cially and to support the orchard. ed. It leaves you energized and limber, DEAR MEMBERS: I have no doubt whatsoever that if and I haven’t been sick since I started the Coop wished to fill, oh let’s say going. On top of that, if you are having The January 29th GM was discourag- merely ONE of the apple bins with a specific problem, they can break the ing but, let us say, I was there. The two say organic Empire apples, that bin traditional routine and focus on that issues were a survey by the Federal could remain full from September area. I once had my right hip and sci- Reserve Bank (not a politically correct BALLAD OF THE through April. Would they be cheap? atic nerve rescued from a bad eight- organization these days) and a discus- No, they would cost more per pound, hour car trip in only one session. sion about plastic bags. I didn’t stay for FOOD COOP FROG certainly. Here at the Coop, eating well and the discussion. He tagged along as the member took Mr. Wills calls organic apples “fan- caring for one’s body are a way of life. I came in with a list of three objec- Her head of lettuce home; tasy produce.” No, sir: fantasy pro- But how many of us, at so many times tions to the survey (none of them Among the green organic leaves duce is the produce we have been in our life, have resolved to incorporate being how politically incorrect their He quietly chanted Om. addicted to since WWII, grown with massage into the routine and then let it Bank is!) but they were knocked out of For three cold days he went on chanting, the aid of petroleum, and doomed to slip away? I want to recommend trying my head when I saw that the survey Napping now and then die in the next hundred years as that this one. Google them and take a text was offered. More on that later. And wondering if he’d ever see fuel becomes scarce. chance. It’s reasonably priced and easy Still, since this was the first any of us His Florida pals again. If anyone is interested in learning to get to—bike, bus or car—in less than had seen of it, I offered an amend- The member had taken the tiny frog more about organic apples from our half an hour from the Slope. Enjoy. ment that a committee should be Across the Carroll Street Bridge region, I urge them to read “The Apple Meg Schlefer formed from the members present at And reaching her kitchen, had transferred Grower” by Michael Phillips, an innov- the meeting to review the survey and Her Coop food to the fridge. ative and well-known farmer from add questions to it for the benefit of Till now he’d basked beneath the sun, New Hampshire. CELL PHONES, the membership. Allowing a survey, I Floating on a lucky tide, Sincerely, BABY CARRIAGES offered, was a major responsibility of Escaping certain painful death Josh M. Rudder the Co-Op since we have a rule By fatal pesticide. SIR/MADAM: against doing them without GM permission. And since we hadn’t had one The third day on his frozen shelf, May I ask that you consider (or re- in a long time, I reasoned, why not He replaced his chant with a yelp, THAI MASSAGE consider) Coop policy on two issues, add questions of general interest. And Om gave way to urgency, TO THE EDITOR: and then publish the resultant poli- One wag got up and made fun of the For Froggie needed help. cies (if not already publicized): In the interest of holistic health, I survey or rather of our efforts to modify It came at last, when just in time, 1. Cell phone use by Shopping am writing to share my devotion to it, saying that if there were any real He found his lettuce haven Committee members while assisting one of Brooklyn’s best kept secrets. objections to it someone would have Withdrawn by a knowing hand and placed shoppers The only traditional Thai massage brought it up. He got people laughing, In a bowl by a salad maven. 2. Size of baby carriages permitted parlor in NYC is right in our own back- but I would disagree about what they The member’s eyes doubled in size in the shopping areas yard on Coney Island Avenue between were laughing about. And yet she had no regret Thank you. Cortelyou Road and Avenue C. For once, my motion was second- As she spied her guest and marveled, How James Erwin Organic does it get! A year ago, after a trip to Prague, ed—after an agonizing pause while the Past shock on her part, relief on his, which was rife with Thai massage par- maker of the previous motion (to Table Froggie no longer drifts; lors, I came home assuming that LETTER WRITING the proposal to a time selected by the He’s joined the Coop and shops in peace— there had to be one here—and ulti- COMMITTEE Agenda Committee) asked a question As long as he does his shifts. mately I found it. It’s called New York about my motion. Someone got up and Leon Freilich Thai Aroma. The proprietress is a TO ALL READERS OF asked whether they would take sugges- lovely woman named Pat Patamikako- IRRELEVANT RHETORIC: tions before the survey was finalized, rn, and she does speak English. Her implying that that would take care of ORGANIC APPLES business is small, clean and a little I beg you all who love to read irrel- my motion. Joe CEO Holtz got up and careworn, tucked in next to a car evant rhetoric to join with me in said sure—a cheap shot without any FELLOW MEMBERS: repair shop and across the street from establishing a new organization, hope of follow-up or accountability. some killer Punjabi food. The practi- Readers of Irrelevant Rhetoric (“RIR”). Needless to say, the motion failed Matthew Wills states that “There Our group will have the purpose of are no organic apples in New Eng- tioners are all well trained—my by a significant margin—but the Chair favorite masseuse used to teach at writing letters to the editor of the for this meeting took approximate land.” This is a glaring and downright PSFC Gazette to be published in each strange misconception. Does Mr. Wat Po in Bangkok. votes rather than counts, the first time I I have been going every other week and every issue of the Gazette. The only have ever seen this done. I wish I had Wills realize that petrochemical pesti- criteria our organization will follow is cide and herbicide is less than a cen- since last January, and it has had a asked for a Division of the house profound impact on my well-being. that 1. The letters should be written (Robert’s odd way of saying, Do a tury old? Apple agriculture predates timely so that they appear in each and those lamentable substances by sev- Essentially, Thai massage is intended count), but these things happen so fast as a regular activity. It focuses on cir- every Gazette, 2. That they should not and there’s always something new— eral thousand years, Malus domestica pertain to matters that are of concern having been first cultivated by the culation as well as muscle therapy. one of the consequences of having The amazing practitioners of this art or interest to the Gazette’s readers, and seven rotating chairs! ancients of what is now Kazakhstan. 3. The letters should be signed, not Apples have similarly been grown use their hands, forearms, elbows, I was offering the Co-Op’s Alfonso knees and feet as the tools of their submitted anonymously. Chile olives ($2.36/lb) to people with (i.e., organically) in New York State It should be emphasized that our and all the states of New England trade. Unlike Western massage, which no takers until a very attractive person can put you happily to sleep, tradi- program will be in conformance with who was lurking by the back door took since Colonial settlement. Mr. Wills is the requirements of the Gazette’s “Let- mistaken if he assumes, as he seems tional Thai massage incorporates sit- one. But I didn’t get her number. Dang! ting and stretched positions and ters Policy,” which requires only If you’d like to see my face again my to, that every last apple tree in the anonymous letters to “…relate to region instantly converted to the requires your partial participation. information is below. Basic Thai massage is either an Coop issues…” The Pacifica National Board held its tenets of the Orwellian-named “Green The RIR, of course, intends to invite Revolution” after WWII and has hour or an hour and a half. It begins in-person meeting in Newark January with a thorough and lengthy treat- Albert Solomon to become an hon- 25-27. Naturally the two contending remained fervent ever since. orary founding member of the organi- Having worked for several seasons ment of the legs and feet. (The theory contingents from BAI clashed over who is that you use this part of your body zation since he has led the way to, and was legitimate. At the January 24th as an orchard worker/fruit picker in pursued the organization’s goals the Finger Lakes region, I can person- the most.) It then moves upward to hearing Judge Braun did not rule on the back, arms and head. It also often relentlessly for some time. RIR mem- this question because of a technicality, ally attest to the existence of organic bers will be well aware that we may be apples right here in New York State, includes the entire abdominal area. but he will rule on it and all other ques- The technique includes a fair amount shamelessly using the resources of tions in the future with nothing sched- and delicious ones at that. the PSFC in the form of wasting space Growing modern varieties of apples of pressing, rather than kneading, and uled till about a month from now. He there are often surprising encounters in the Gazette, but it is believed that its did grant our Preliminary Injunction, organically is difficult to be sure, and activities should be accepted in the cannot be done on an industrial level, with unexpected pressure points. At indicating that he believed we had a New York Thai Aroma they provide cause of freedom of speech. chance to win on our issues. but produce on an industrial level is Yours cooperatively, an oxymoron, is it not? Growers of you with a voluminous short and top Albert Solomon to wear, and also use towels against Mel Spain

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Helping Feral/Outside Cats: Trap-Neuter-Return WITH JESSE OLDHAM

Do you want to help your neighborhood cats?

Please join us for a comprehensive workshop on why trap-neuter-return is the healthiest and most humane choice for feral cats.

We will speak about the trap- neuter-return process, feral nutrition, advocacy, social- ization, spay/neuter options, winter shelter and cold-weather caretak- ing tips!

All attendees will get a proof-of-attendance card enabling them to borrow traps from a number of area trap banks.

Jesse Oldham, a PSFC member, has been an animal welfare advocate for 13 years. She is the founder and President of Slope Street Cats and is on the NYC Feral Cat Council. FREE Saturday, March 1 Non-members welcome 3:00–6:00 p.m. at the Coop

Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop

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