Tour of High Plains Food Co-Op to Show Off Producer-Consumer Network
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Page 6 Colby Free Press Friday, September 14, 2012 Tour of High Plains Food Co-Op Agent recognized to show off producer-consumer network for customer service Kansas Farmers Union and High Plains org/shop/prdcr_list.php. Consumer members, who live in the Denver Rita Peters of Colby, an for my clients for giving such Food Co-op are holding a tour of the High The tour will end with lunch in Atwood with area, order online early each month from each American Family Insurance positive feedback about my Plains Food Cooperative Thursday in the St. time to network and socialize. producer’s list of products. agent, has been recognized for customer services.” Francis area. The tour follows a beginning farmer work- According to highplainsfood.org, the On- providing outstanding Peters said this isn’t The group will leave Atwood for St. Francis shop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in line Food Market is intended to “bring fresh, customer experience the fi rst time she’s re- at 7 a.m. Atwood, held by the co-op, Kansas Farmers healthy, locally grown and produced food to under the J.D. Power ceived this award and Once in St. Francis, the tour will start at Union and Rawlins County Economic Devel- the buyer in a cost-effective and easy man- and Associates Dis- trophy, which she has Becky’s Bierocks, 306 S. College, where opment ner.” tinguished Insurance on display in her of- the Food Co-op producers gather every third The tour is open to the public. Registration After the orders close, producers bring the Agency Program. fi ce. She has been an Thursday to take their products to Denver. is free, including meals. fi lled orders on the third Thursday of every Only agencies that agent with the com- Tour attendees will have the opportunity to For information go to kansasfarmersunion. month to one of the drop points (Kansas pro- perform in the top 20 pany, serving clients witness the co-op in action and network with org. To sign up, call Nick Levendofsky at (785) ducers meet in Atwood or St. Francis) and one percent of all insurance of Colby and the sur- agencies nationwide, rounding area, since the co-op’s members. 527-0941 or e-mail [email protected]. member takes the orders to Denver, stopping Rita Peters The rest of the morning will be fi lled with High Plains Food Co-op along the way to pick up more orders in Colo- based on customer sat- April 1992. other co-op tours including Prairie House The High Plains Food Co-op acts as a venue rado. isfaction surveys, are “Consumers expect Herbs, Rattlesnake Ridge Ranch and RJ Klie for producers and consumers to buy and sell Once in Denver, the food is organized and eligible, the fi rm said. value from insurance agents, as Organics. A list of all the co-op producers and food. It has 160 members and about 60 to 80 each members’ order is sent to one of 10 pick- “This is a very prestigious they do from any other service their stories can be found at highplainsfood. orders each month. up points in the Denver area. award and I’m honored to re- providers,” said Dan Schultz, ceive it,” said Peters. “A lot American Family president and of other agents and competi- chief operating offi cer. “This tors don’t have this distinction award helps consumers identify New lunch guidelines get mixed reviews because it’s diffi cult to get and the best of the best, with respect is based on client reviews. I’m to customer service and cus- By Michael Hill his pita “nasty,” he conceded: fi fth-grader Kenmari Williams calories aren’t enough. especially grateful and thankful tomer satisfaction.” Associated Press “The plum was very good.” said, pointing to his pita. “Every “I think it’s kind of ridiculous ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — Kim Gagnon, food service di- time you eat it, you get something that people say how much we get One student complains because rector in the Mohonasen district, white on your hands.” to eat when there are a lot of kids his cafeteria no longer serves said while students generally have One thornier complaint is that that are big,” Hunter said. “When chicken nuggets. Another gripes been receptive to the fruits and the new lunches are too little for we can’t have our meat and bread, Chicken stuffing busted that her school lunch just isn’t vegetables, “we have noticed that active teens now that the calo- for a guy especially, it’s not fun.” By Yinka Ibukun he remained in custody. fi lling. A third student says he’s kids are throwing it out or giving rie range for high school lunches Concannon noted the calorie Associated Press Nigeria is a major transit point happy to eat an extra apple with it to friends, leaving it on coun- is 750 to 850. Rachelle Chinn, a ranges are adjusted for age, in- LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – The for drugs coming from Latin his lunch, even as he’s noshing on ters, so we haven’t quite gotten freshman from Clarence, Mo., creasing as students move from roasted chickens had an unusual America and going to Europe or his own sub. there yet.” who plays softball, said school elementary to middle to high stuffi ng – $150,000 worth of co- the United States but recent secu- Leaner, greener school lunches The guidelines approved by the lunches are now so slight it once school. If some children need caine, according to Nigerian po- rity improvements are cutting into served under new federal stan- USDA earlier this year set limits left her with a headache. more, Concannon said, schools lice. that dubious distinction. dards are getting mixed grades on calories and salt and phase in “The fruits and vegetables are have the option of offering an af- A Nigerian mechanic who strug- After a Nigerian man allegedly from students piling more carrots, whole grains. Schools must offer good at fi rst but once they wear ternoon snack or parents can send gled in Brazil for more than six attempted to blow up a Detroit- more apples and fewer fatty foods at least one vegetable or fruit per off, I get hungry,” she said. “It’s snacks from home. years had hoped the drugs would bound airliner in 2009, Nigeria on their trays. meal. They can still serve choco- just not enough to get me through “If you look at colleges in the buy him a life of luxury in his na- started installing airport scanners “Now they’re kind of forcing all late milk, but it has to be nonfat. the day.” United States, if you’ve ever tive land, Nigerian authorities said and sought training for its agents. the students to get the vegetables The biggest update to federal Her mom, Chris Chinn, now looked at the tables where they’re Monday. Ofoyeju says the scanners helped and fruit with their lunch, and they school-food guidelines in 15 years packs her protein-heavy snacks feeding just the football players. “This was like a retirement plan authorities identify more than 100 took out chicken nuggets this year, might please parents who recall like peanut butter crackers and Good God ... If you emulated that, for him,” said Mitchell Ofoyeju, drug carriers last year, leading to which I’m not too happy about,” washing down cheeseburgers and granola bars. Chinn, a critic of we’d all be wearing size 48 suits spokesman for the National Drug the seizure of about 410 kilograms said Chris Cimino, a senior at Mo- tater tots with full-fat chocolate what she calls the “one size fi ts by our 20s,” he said. “You have to Law Enforcement Agency. (904 pounds) of cocaine, among honasen High School in upstate milk. In Pueblo, Colo., Megan all” standards, said many athletes use common sense.” The accused was arrested at other illicit drugs. New York. Murillo said she feels more com- aren’t getting enough to eat. Simi- And just weeks into the school the airport in Lagos after he came Authorities have found drugs Lunch lines at schools across fortable letting her fi rst-grader, larly, Katie Pinke in Wishek, N.D., year, it’s probably too early for in from Sao Paulo with 2.6 kilo- sandwiched inside the fabric of the country cut through the garden Sophie, eat cafeteria-prepared gave up on school lunches for her fi nal grades. In Mississippi, Keba grams (5.7 pounds) of cocaine, suitcases, sewn into wigs worn by now, under new U.S. Department lunches knowing there are more strapping freshman son Hunter Laird, child nutrition supervisor Ofoyeju said. Photos from the passengers, tucked into underwear of Agriculture nutrition standards. vegetable and whole grains. and packs him meaty sandwiches. for the Clinton district, said she is agency showed egg-shaped pack- or in phone chargers and even in a Mohonasen students selecting Reactions in schools so far this Hunter is a 6-foot-5-inch, 210- phasing in the nutritional changes ages wrapped in gold aluminum stethoscope, Ofoyeju said. pizza sticks this week also had to fall have been positive, according pound football player who, based to help children grow accustomed foil and tucked into the browned “The list is endless,” he said. choose something from the lunch to Kevin Concannon, the USDA’s on his size and active lifestyle, to eating healthier. chickens. The seizure may even redeem line’s cornucopia of apples, ba- undersecretary for Food, Nutrition needs more than 4,700 calories “We don’t want a revolt on our The suspect, Vincent Chegini the agency’s image after the con- nanas, fresh spinach and grape to- and Consumer Services.