Clear Creek Coop Announcement Archives

Co-op Update: April 25-May 2, 2008

1. Join us at the Earth Day Celebration Tomorrow!
2. Bakery Open this Sunday! Farewell to Tova and Jessica...
3. 16 Ways to Heal your Home
4. Many Thanks to all our Meal Plan Volunteers! Have a great summer!


1. Join us at the Earth Day Celebration Tomorrow!
The Earth Day Family Celebration will be held tomorrow, Saturday, April
26th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Earth-friendly organizations from the Richmond
area will come together to educate and network in an atmosphere of family
fun!

The co-op will be present with a booth once again! We'll be serving hot
tea and goodies (donations encouraged), as well as selling bulk snacks, to
help raise community awareness about the benefits of buying in bulk! We
hope to see you there!!


2. Bakery Open this Sunday! Farewell to Tova and Jessica...
Come get some delicious home-made bread this Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
(while it lasts), brought to you by our volunteer bakers Jessica Mansbach
and Tova Boehm!  Many thanks to Jessica and Tova, who have so graciously
contributed their talent and energy to bring this added flavor to the
co-op!

The Bakery will be closed during May intensives, but will re-open in late
May/early June, when Janelle will take over.  Please call if you would
like to volunteer to assist in this project over the summer!


3. 16 Ways to Heal Your Home
Did you know that here in the US, about 80,000 industrial chemicals are
registered for use in all of the products we eat, touch‚ wear‚ and use to
furnish our homes… but that fewer than 20 percent have been tested for
their impact on human health and the environment?

These include ingredients in our food, household cleaners‚ and body care
products.  They include chemicals used on and in toys and furniture and
clothing and bed linens.

Wouldn't it make more sense to prove a chemical is safe before running the
risk of harming people who use the product‚ workers who make it, and the
communities where the manufacturing facilities are located?

That's the idea behind the Precautionary Principle.  It turns
right-side-up the upside-down way our society makes decisions about risk.
 The Precautionary Principle requires proof that products are safe‚ and
errs on the side of caution.

We've built our new Healthy Home Center on our Web site with the
Precautionary Principle in mind.   We've pulled together the best "healthy
home" articles from our green-living newsletter‚ Real Money‚ along with
new tips and strategies from the spring issue of our Co-op America
Quarterly magazine.

We introduce 16 ways to heal your home, and there's much‚ much more
information in the Healthy Home Center:

http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/caq/articles/Spring2008/HealYourHome.cfm


4. Many Thanks to all our Meal Plan Volunteers! Have a great summer!
Thanks to all the Working Meal Plan volunteers! You helped make this
semester's meal plan a success!  These delicious, organic meals can't
happen without your participation!

For returning students, we encourage you to carefully consider
participating again (or for the first time!) in the Working Meal Plan
program in the fall semester!  This semester, we had the highest number of
volunteers in several years.  We hope to keep this co-operative spirit
alive in the coming semesters!

Have a happy, environmentally-friendly summer!


-- 
Clear Creek Food Cooperative
"Food for Life, Not for Profit Since 1972"

765-983-1547
701 W. National Road
(D Street Entrance of Earlham College, next to security)
www.clearcreekcoop.org

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."
~James Beard~










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