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Organic Month/Co-op Month Issue • September-October 2009 Holy Cow, We’re Done! Grand Re-Opening October 10th by Dan Gillotte, General Manager Let’s breathe that in for a minute… Wow. What an incredible thing we have done here at 3101 Guadalupe together! Yep, you get a lot of the credit! Thanks so much for sticking with us through the challenges, setbacks and tough spots of this huge and momentous undertaking. We could not have done it without your patience and your strong continuing support. I also want to acknowledge the incredible work and overall endurance of my staff. They have done a tremendous job in rolling with and thriving through a truly staggering number of changes and difficult conditions. We made it! It seems like everyone that I talk to has something that they love the most about the new store and I won’t try and list them all here, but I will make note of a couple of OUR favorite things. At the beginning of this project and throughout, I had a two- pronged goal that guided our decisions: Making Wheatsville a better place to shop and work. SO in that vein here are the things that I think we did to make Our landscaper, Wheatsville a better Agave Custom place to shop: Designs, planted five Lots more fresh large Chinquapin Oak produce, fresh meat trees around our and seafood, more parking lot. These delicious prepared local trees are fast foods including growing (for oaks) popcorn tofu all the and won’t require a time and a yummy lot of water once food bar, fresh they’re established. baked bread, more Their shade is much grocery, frozen and welcomed! refrigerated items, a counter for eating A scan of the leaves inside and is shown below. improved patio seating! In This Issue: We’ve also succeeded as increasing the ease and safety of We’ve Got Mail 2 working by having all of our work areas on one smooth level. No more going up and down steps to get product and no Community Action Wednesdays / Staff Anniversaries 2 more pushing product up a hill in 100 degree weather, either! Pictures from the End of Construction Party 3 The prepared foods areas finally have a kitchen and work- spaces to be proud of! Dana and Mariah delighted by the New Food Bar 4 Oh yeah, and the bathrooms are incredible! The Food Bar has Arrived / Aloha from Cheese Island 5 I hope to see you in the aisles soon and please save the date for the Grand Re-Opening party on October 10th! Staff Spotlight: Erik Amos / Beth in HR / New in Health 6 Good Value and High Values in Meat 7 Staff Top 10 Picks—Elke Stoeckelmann 7 New Beers in the Singles Cooler / In the Grocery Aisles 8 Fall Owner Gathering New in Bodycare— Shanti Shea & The Cat’s Pajamas 9 OCTOBER 22nd New Book— Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas 9 Bulk on the Move 10 Place and Time will be announced in the Special Election issue of the Breeze in October Staff Top 16 Picks—Erik Amos 11 New Water Machine / NadaMoo, It’s the Coolest 11 Plan to join your Board of Directors and General Crossing Guadalupe: Pedestrians Unite! 12 Manager for a fun and focused brainstorm about World Carfree Day / Newest Invested Owners 13 Wheatsville’s future, why cooperatives matter and how Nature’s Path Buys Organic Farm 14 we can build on our Coop’s success to make a difference Whitehall Co-op Celebrates 60th Anniversary 14 in Austin – and beyond. Meet the Board Candidates 15-19 Inspiration • Community • Hors d’Oeuvres Member Owned Business Directory http://wheatsville.coop/memberbusinessdirectory/mbdir.html We’ve Got Mail! Coffee with the Board Before You Go to ACL Greetings! I’m writing to thank the good com- munity-minded people at Wheatsville for in expanding opportunities for young people on Saturday, October 3 again donating 1% of sales on Wednesdays in to grow through service to their community. Stop by Wheatsville’s Front Porch May. We received your gift of $1098.88, and We are truly grateful. from 9 to 11 in the Morning will surely put it to good use as we continue Russell A. Smith, LMSW for Coffee with Your Board to raise money for our new headquarters Executive Director fund. We are coming close to (finally...really!) Dear Christine, Lots of Co-op Talk, Coffee & Tasty getting an approved site plan, and will begin Treats from our Deli Bakery! spending all that donated money soon to Thank You VERY MUCH for coming through build the new hub of the bicycle commuting for Greenpeace [with the bananas]! Your service community. Keep up the good work as our did a lot for passing out a snack to everyone who favorite local food co-op, and thanks again for came to the picnic. We also made shakes, banana the support! bread, fruit Wheatsville veteran Jennifer Schaffer, Treasurer Austin’s Yellow salad . everything Christie Pugh Bike www.austinyellowbike.org showed up to the banana. I party in her 30 year Dear Wheatsville, can speak old relic “Turnups Thank you for the generous $10,000 corpo- for myself Grow Roots at rate sponsorship in support of Youth and say that Wheatsville” t-shirt. Launch’s Urban Roots program. my potassi- Her friend Luis sported a modern Wheatsville’s sponsorship helps make it um up-to-date possible for Urban Roots to expand oppor- intake/sup- ply is all set “Exploding Wheat” tunities for young people to grow through Wheatsville t-shirt. service to their community. for the next Urban Roots empowers young people 10 years!! Thank you for being so friendly and in Austin by not only teaching them organ- also showing so much passion for what you do, ic farming but by teaching them about it radiates off of you. hunger in their community. The youth take Sincerely yours, a hands-on approach to addressing hunger Laura Hernandez, Greenpeace Food Coordinator Speaking of T-shirts, and food access and discover the impor- we have a few limited edition tance of meaningful community service. Thanks for the good work y’all do at Yellow Bike Project, Urban Roots ,and Greenpeace. We’re very “ I Survived the With supporters like you, I have no Wheatsville doubt that we will continue to grow and happy to have helped. Thanks for recognizing what a Renovation” reach more young people each year. On treasure we have in Christine. We enjoy basking in her t-shirts in behalf of everyone at Youth Launch, thank shiny happiness and enthusiastic helpfulness. chocolate brown, you again for your generosity and support Aldia, Breeze editor forest green, and staff-like purple available for only $9.99. Community Action Wednesdays Get ‘em while you can cuz once they’re gone there won’t be any The group selected for more printed. September is Meals On Wheels & More. Buy now or lurk eBay! The group for October is the Capital Area Food Bank. Meals on The mission of the Capital Area Wheels and Food Bank is to nourish hungry people More and lead the community in ending hunger.Today more than 15 Volunteers million pounds of food and grocery products are distributed each deliver hot, year. Food and grocery products distributed by CAFB go to Cooperative Values nutritious human & social service agencies.These partner agencies provide • Self-help lunchtime meals hot meals • Self-responsibility to the homes of homebound elderly or disabled people served on- • Democracy who can no longer prepare balanced meals for them- site or gro- • Equality selves. Other services offered include medical trans- ceries to portation, grocery shopping assistance, daily telephone families and • Equity reassurance phone calls, safety-related home improve- individuals • Solidarity ments, and additional groceries free of charge. in need. • Honesty • Openness • Social Responsibility The Wheatsville Breeze The Wheatsville Board of Directors usually is a publication of • Caring for others meets at 6pm the fourth Tuesday of every month at 3105 Guadalupe (building North of store). WHEATSVILLE Check http://wheatsville.coop/pop_bodagenda.html for FOOD CO-OP details Members are encouraged to attend. Something 3101 Guadalupe that you would like discussed at the meeting? Contact Austin, Texas 78705 General Manager Dan Gillotte at 478-2667 or Guess What!! 512-478-2667 gm(at)wheatsville.com _______________________________________ We have staff anniversaries email aldia(at)wheatsville.coop Wheatsville 2009 Board of Directors website http://wheatsville.coop Rose Marie Klee, president to celebrate! Editor & Production- Aldia Bluewillow Stephanie Johnson Bob Kinney Aldia Bluewillow (art, editor) 26 years as of 10/30 Contributors - Aditya Rustgi Theron Beaudreau Erik Amos, Amy Babich, Ingrid Devilliers Steven Tomlinson Niki Nash (merchandising manager) 1 0 years as of 9/13 Mariah Barrett, Theron Beaudreau, Nancy Bender, Aldia Bluewillow, ____________________________________ Dennis Hodges (cook) 3 years as of 10/16 Kevin Burns, Bryan Butler, Beth Caudill, The purpose of Wheatsville is to create a self- Greg Flores, Gabriel Gallegos, reliant, self-empowering community of people that will Whitney Mangold (cheese) 2 years as of 9/2 Dan Gillotte, Merilee Kuchon, grow and promote a transformation of society toward Erik Amos (POS) 1 year as of 9/18 Kitty Logan, Justin Merrifield, Niki Nash, cooperation, justice, and nonexploitation. Allen Schroeder, $hane Shelton, The mission of Wheatsville is to serve a broad Greg Flores (cheese) 1 year as of 9/19 Sarah Sires Bentley, Elke Stoeckelmann, range of people by providing them goods and services, Kim Tehan-Barrow, Dana Tomlin, and by using efficient methods which avoid exploitation Bill Sherborne (accounting) 1 year as of 9/29 Steven Tomlinson of the producer and the environment.The focus of this mission is to supply high-quality food and nondoctri- Megan Bonnett (deli) 1 year as of 10/31 Photos: by Aldia Bluewillow, naire information about food to people in Austin,Texas.