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Honest Weight Food Co-op’s Community Newsletter for Membership • Staff • Governance • Management Published monthly by the Communications Committee to promote transparency, report without bias, and sustain community.
january 2020
Honest Weight Food Co-op • 100 Watervliet Avenue, Albany, NY 12206 • 518-482-2667 honestslate@honestweight.coop • https://www.honestweight.coop/
Art Reception Sunday Loosely Wound String Band to Host Old-Time Music Jam Session!
Bring your own instruments and voice; join a local swing-style band; and see the paintings of Margaret Gelbach Foster: Sunday January 12 • 2-4 pm • HWFC Community Room. Refreshments will be served. You are invited to join the Foster family at a reception celebrating the artwork of their mother, Margaret Gelbach Foster (1921-2002), a resident of Delmar, NY for almost 4 decades who received her BS and MS from U of Wisconsin, showed in regional and national exhibits, and taught art for 20 years. Her work, while stylistically varied, is solidly grounded in 20th century art movements. Many of her paintings and drawings depict places she lived or visited. The show will be up through the second week in February.
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Green HaBitS: HWFC Now Charging for Paper Bags On Jan. 13, HWFC will begin charging 15¢ apiece for paper shopping bags. While we have never offered new plastic shopping bags, we’re now making additional moves to reduce the usage of paper bags, which carry their own set of environmental ramifications. This change will precede an Albany County law that will charge retailers 5¢ for all paper carryout bags beginning March 1, 2020 (at which time our fee will remain at 15¢). In April 2019, New York became the second state, after California, to ban most plastic carryout shopping bags. The statewide plastic bag ban will go into effect in March.
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Honest Weight’s new reusable bags, which we’ve been selling for $1.99 since they arrived this winter, will drop to 99¢ in conjunction with the paper bag charge. The green bags are decorated with the Co-op’s mission statement and made from 100% recycled plastic water bottles. The 15¢ fee will be waived for shoppers using SNAP benefits, plus EnviroTokens enthusiasts need not worry: Our EnviroTokens program will remain unchanged! For every reusable bag you use, you’ll receive either a nickel or a token to donate 5¢ to an organization of your choice on our EnviroTokens wall!
Upcycle Your Clothing!............... 3 Dual-Status Interview................ 4 Invitation to Staff....................... 4 FYI: How Boards Work............... 5 Suggestion Box Q&A.................. 6 Meeting Notice.......................... 7 Committee Corner.................... 8 Meet the Slate Team . ............. 10 Board Decisions....................... 11 Do We Owe You?..................... 11 Cashiers Raise the Bar............. 11 Co-Opportunities!.................... 12
—Georgia Julius
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