“We are a sustainable cooperative enterprise committed to increasing the accessibility of local, wholesome, ethically produced products. We cultivate a spirit of belonging and well-being in our communities.”
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Our annual meeting will be held on Thursday, February 17, 2011, at 7:30 pm at the Cornwall Presbyterian Church, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson. We hope all Member-Owners will attend! We’ll start with a potluck dessert before we get down to business. Please bring your favorite dish!
As a Member-Owner, it’s important that you stay informed about the state of your Co-op. We’ll provide an overview of our operation at the annual meeting. Since we closed the Harvest Market last fall, you may be asking yourself: “Why pay your membership dues this year?” Because a Member:
- Believes in the Co-op’s mission of increasing the accessibility of local, wholesome, ethically produced products
- Supports local farmers
- Spreads the word about the important role local foods play in a healthy lifestyle
- Supports the organization that brought the successful Cornwall Farmers’ Market to your community
- Sustains the organization that screens films like “Two Angry Moms,” a film about bringing healthy school lunches to communities like ours
- Enjoys the 10% discount offered to Co-op members by Blooming Hill Farm
- Benefits from cooperative buying like our Thanksgiving turkey orders and the beef buying club with Kiernan Farm
- Wants to be a part of a community-building group with like-minded members
We know these are important values to you, and likely why you became a member in the first place. Stay involved by renewing your membership, and know that your $25 dollars is going towards great cooperative action, like continuing the Cornwall Farmers’ Market by funding the salary of the Market manager.
Board of Director and officers will be elected at our meeting. Member-Owners are also needed to serve on various standing committees. Every one of us has a skill that can benefit the Co-op. Please volunteer!
We look forward to seeing all of you on February 17. If there are ways in which we can better serve you, please bring your ideas, and share them at the Annual Meeting.
Wednesday, January 26, 7pm, at 2 Alice’s Coffee Lounge
Interested in Better School Lunches for Your Kids? Chicken nuggets, pizza, and “Italian dunkers” have replaced sandwiches and complete nutritional meals in many schools across the country, including our own. To see how two moms in Connecticut revolutionized the school lunch programs in their districts, the Cornwall Community Co-Op invites parents to a screening of a film called “Two Angry Moms” next week at 2 Alice’s Coffee Lounge.
Filmmaker and mom Amy Kalafa of Weston, CT, made “Two Angry Moms” because she was fed up with her children eating highly-processed food filled with additives and preservatives at school. The movie chronicles what happens when parents start a grass-roots revolution aimed at establishing programs that safeguard the health of our kids. The film documents the better school food movement all over America and offers strategies for overcoming roadblocks and getting real food into school cafeterias.
The Co-Op, as part of its mission to increase access to wholesome, local foods in Cornwall and surrounding communities, will screen the film and host a conversation afterwards. Come on down to 2 Alice’s to join the conversation!
We need to know what you want to do next!
Now that the Harvest Market is closed and the Farmer’s Market is wrapping up for the season, the Board of Directors would like to find out what the membership would like to do next. Will it be a buying club, an indoor winter farmer’s market, movie viewings, field trips to farms and seminars, a healthy school lunch initiative, or something completely different? It’s up to all of us to decide what’s next for the co-op so we’re holding a membership meeting on Tuesday, November 9th at 7:30 PM at the Cornwall Presbyterian Church to plan for the future. It’s a dessert potluck and we need help setting up, cleaning up and making desserts and coffee/tea. Please contact Janine Bixler at janine.bixler@gmail.com if you are able to help. We estimate that we need 2-3 volunteers for this event. Please join us!
YOU’RE INVITED
TO A
POTLUCK DINNER
Sunday, August 29, 2010
5:00 PM
at the
Cornwall Community Co-op
208 Hudson Street
Cornwall-on-Hudson
Feast on dishes from local harvests and share conversations with your neighbors. Bring a friend!
Bring a dish to share (appetizer, main dish, dessert, beverage). We’ll supply the tables and paper products, or you may bring your own plates and utensils.
KIDS TABLE!
Calling all young chefs—share your favorite healthy, locally grown snacks!
Rain date: September 12
Looking for a convenient place to purchase fresh, local produce, flowers, baked goods, meats, and other items?
Then look no farther than the
Cornwall Community Co-op’s farmers market
On the lawn at the Cornwall Town Hall
Wednesdays from 9 am to 2 pm
Starting on July 7 and continuing throughout the summer, weather permitting, local farmers and vendors will be offering a beautiful array of fresh items like these:
  
The market participates in the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program, which provides supplemental food for pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as for infants and children.
CORNWALL COMMUNITY CO-OP
presents a
FUND-RAISING CONCERT
and new-member drive
Liberté, Egalité, Coopératif!
JOHN CHARLES THOMAS, trumpet
BARI MORT, piano
One-hour program to include works by Bernstein, Joplin, Granados, and Gershwin
Thursday July 8, 7:30–8:30 PM
CORNWALL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 222 Hudson St., Cornwall-on-Hudson
SUGGESTED DONATION: $20
Children & Farmers: $10
BECOME a new member of the Co-op and receive free admission to the concert
RECEPTION to follow immediately at the Co-op, 208 Hudson Street
For more info: (845) 534-0626
On Thursday, June 3, from 5 to 6:30 pm, organic gardener and Co-op member Carole Hunt will conduct a question-and-answer session about composting. Join us at the Co-op to learn about the many ways to create compost.
The Cornwall Community Co-op Board of Directors will be meeting on April 15, 2010, at 7:30 pm in the lobby of Studio 208 in Cornwall-on-Hudson.
Celebrate the arrival of spring (not to mention the end of winter!) and support the Cornwall Community Co-op at the same time!
Join us for the “Pass the Peas” dinner at Hudson Street Café on March 21, 2010. Local chef Donna Hammond will be preparing dinner, with all the proceeds to benefit the Co-op for the purchase of a walk-in refrigerator. Enjoy a four-course meal that will include a selection of appetizers, soup or salad, an entrée (beef, chicken, or vegetarian), and dessert. Donna will be using ingredients available at the Co-op, and members of the Co-op board will serve and bus tables. More details will be forthcoming.
To whet your appetite, read Bill Braine’s account of the Donna’s last Co-op shindig here.
The cost is $40 per adult and $20 per child, and there will be two seatings: one at 5 pm and one at 7:30 pm. Reservations are requested. Please RSVP by March 20, specifying the seating time and the number of people in your party: 845-534-0626 or info@cornwallfoodcoop.com.
Annual Member-Owner General Meeting on February 4, 2010. Save the Date!
Details to come.
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