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Your Co-op is Recruting a General Manager
In order to take the Yelm Food Co-op to the next level, the Board of Directors has decided to seek a professional cooperative grocery manager to become the YFC General Manager. Ideally, this person has cooperatives in their blood and will want the challenge of taking the existing, successful retail store into its next 5 years of growth and profitability and of service to our members, our customers and our community. We are now in our 5th year and we just keep growing! Growth brings both opportunities and challenges and this is when it’s time to bring in an expert. … Continue reading…
Yelm Food Co-op now at Gordon’s Garden Center!
Great news for the future of your Co-op! Here is the press release announcing the long anticipated store relocation: For Immediate Release Exciting News from Gordon’s Garden Center and the Yelm Food Coop Yelm, WA, March 27, 2012 – Kellie Petersen, owner of Gordon’s Garden Center, and Bill Wyman, President of the Board of Directors of Yelm Cooperative, are pleased to announce the relocation of the Yelm Food Coop Retail Store to the Gordon’s Garden Center complex during the month of April in 2012. Gordon’s opened in Yelm 47 years ago as a food market, and over the years expanded … Continue reading…
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You have Voted for Change!
Our members have voted for us to pursue the new direction outlined at the Special Membership Meeting held Jan 28th. Yea votes = 107; Nay votes = 7. These results meet the Bylaws requirements that a 10% quorum of the members vote, and that a majority of those voting approve the resolution. We will be establishing the Yelm Cooperative as a 501.c.3 federally approved non-profit organization. It will oversee the programs of the Retail Store, the Farmer’s market and the Community Food Education Program. The latter will now encompass what was earlier seen as the Community Garden program. It will … Continue reading…
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Special Membership Meeting Jan 28, 2012 [Video]
The Special Membership Meeting that was held on Jan 28th, 2012 introduced the plan for restructuring the Co-op into a federally mandated non-profit organization under the IRS code 501(c)(3). More details are on the blog: Vote for the New Yelm Food Co-op We taped the whole presentation which you can watch in full here on YouTube; Special Membership Meeting 01 28 2012 [Note: this video took nearly 11 hours to upload to YouTube. Somehow a sync problem started and runs throughout. So we suggest you close your eyes some of the time and you won't notice ] Please watch it … Continue reading…
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Farmers Markets Create Jobs
We are working hard to get the city government to broaden the rules for farmers markets so that we can build a really great one in Yelm. This article on Triple Pundit provides some hard data that supports our position that a farmers market in Yelm would be good for local farmers, for local shoppers and for the economy. Even the federal government recognizes this fact; they just seem to think huge subsidies for mega-farms and bombs is more important than supporting local communities. But, we can change their minds! Here's a fact from the article: …local farmers markets in … Continue reading…