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By Elizabeth Friend, Contributing Writer
Missed Connections:
Location: Weaver Street Market Cookie Case, 4 pm.
You: brown hair, sweet smile, yoga mat.
Me: glasses, Farmer's Market T-shirt, orange crocs. Our hands touched as we were both reaching for the last sticky bun. You won the pastry and my heart, but I was too shy to ask for your phone number. Maybe we can get together for fair-trade coffee and a Carrboro bar?

Tucked away in the Personals section of most newspapers is a tiny bastion of hope known as Missed Connections. Here, eager strangers reach out to each other in search of recognition, understanding, and perhaps even love. More 		Valentine's Day Features
coop ownership
Election Committee Meeting
community roots
2nd Friday Artwalk
Black History Month
Community loans-update
A Chocolate Affair
Celebration of Earth & Sky
Lunchbox Concerts
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Valentine's Day Dinner Specials
March Wine Dinner
Next Art Show
Weekly Produce Specials
Weekly Meat Specials 		Slow Cooker Jambalaya
Kanakis Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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A love story: Missed Connections continued
Missed Connections occur in all kinds of places, from the gym to the grocery store, even at a busy intersection. It seems that the barest of glances can spark romance. Many observers are skeptical about the chances of encountering (or re-encountering) a suitable match with such a haphazard technique, but others suggest that the details can make the difference. People who meet at a concert are more likely to share common interests than those who meet at the dentist, while the folks who honk at an attractive jogger have little chance at success, even if they manage to make eye contact. With so many people looking for love in unexpected places, it's not too much of a stretch to imagine that your special someone may be waiting beside you at the Weaver Street Market pastry counter, hoping to make a connection. You might find you have a lot in common: good taste, passion for authentic flavors, a commitment to sustainable food systems, and a strong sense of community, not to mention a love of delicious confections. This Valentine's Day, while shopping for dessert, you might want to linger a little longer, smile a little wider, and offer to share that delicious cheesecake with someone you just met. It could be a sweet way to make a real connection!
Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE WEDNESDAY, February 6 through TUESDAY, February 12.
Choice Seedless
Bio-dynamic
Oranges from Marian Farms

$1.49/lb

exclusively at WSM!
Organic
Bosc Pears
$3.99/ea -3lb bag
what a buy!
Organic Florida
Grape Tomatoes
2 pints/$5.00
from Somerset Farms
Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials
Alison's Family Farms
Chicken Thighs or Drumsticks		 All natural
$1.49/lb		 Local
save .70¢/lb
Farm raised
Tilapia Fillets
Walnut Tilapia		 All natural
$6.99/lb
$7.99/lb
save $2.00/lb
save $2.00/lb
Niman Ranch
Beef Rump Roast		 All Natural
$4.59/lb		 USDA Choice
save $1.00/lb
Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials.
Slow Cooker Jambalaya
Cooking Time 8 Hrs - In a covenient Slow Cooker!
12 servings

INGREDIENTS:
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cut into 1 inch cubes
1 pound andouille sausage, sliced
1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice - (Bionaturae Organic Diced Tomatoes 3/$4 this month!)
1 large onion, chopped - (Yellow Onion 3lb bag -Everyday Low Price!)
1 large green bell pepper, chopped
1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chicken broth - (Pacific Natural Chicken Broth $2.29/box this month!)
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons dried parsley
2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 pound frozen cooked shrimp without tails

DIRECTIONS:
1. In a slow cooker, mix the chicken, sausage, tomatoes with juice, onion, green bell pepper, celery, and broth. Season with oregano, parsley, Cajun seasoning, cayenne pepper, and thyme.
2. Cover, and cook 7 to 8 hours on Low, or 3 to 4 hours on High. Stir in the shrimp during the last 30 minutes of cook time. Serve over your favorite rice. TIP: If you don't want the soupy consistency, put your cooked rice in ahead of time and it will absorb liquid.
Recipe from http://allrecipes.com
Find more recipes here.
Kanakis Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Be sure to try this superior quality olive oil produced directly from olives of the Koronate variety. The flavor and natural componenets of the juice from the olives are maintained unaltered and processed only with mechanical methods.

Everyday Low Price - $29.99 3 liter!
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Valentine's Day Features
While you're carefully choosing that special combination of gifts and goodies for your sweetheart, why not also take this opportunity to choose to buy local? Your thoughtfulness will benefit your community five times more than buying items that are shipped into our area. Weaver Street Market makes your buying decisions easier by stocking our shelves with beautiful and delicious gifts for Valentine's Day that are produced locally. Each of our departments has something wonderful to offer, and everyone can find the perfect gift to satisfy their sweetie's taste buds, or even their own!

Besides delicious pastry that melts in your mouth such as Linzer Tarts, Tiramisu, or Mousse Cups and Mousse Cakes, Weaver Street Market also has an incredibly broad spectrum of other consumable delights such as our cheese and wine. Our local recommendations would be: Celebrity Dairy's Goat Cheese, Chapel Hill Creamery's Farmer's Cheese, and wonderful LØVE chocolates from Leslie Cooper. We have crispy, fresh bread that includes baguettes and miche-made for two, which are hand made by our own bakers.

ADDITIONAL, LOCAL GOODIES AVAILABLE IN CARRBORO ONLY:

If you're going to treat your taste buds, why not also take care of your skin? Locally produced Goat Milk Soap from the Cud-Zu Goat Farm is soothing for your skin and full of natural, energizing ingredients. To unleash all of your other senses you may want to try the Rose Petal Elixir, called: "Love in a Bottle" made by the local Herb Planet company. In our Wellness Department, you can also purchase a variety of candles, incenses and heart-shaped candle plates as well as hand-crafted incense holders. We also carry local, hand-made pink moon greeting cards. They are just lovely!

For those of you who love to indulge in a cup of tea, please stop by our local herbal section. We have medicinal teas grown and blended by our local herbalist Suki Roth. Additionally you can buy Suki's Herbal Honey, which is infused with Rose Buds. It goes perfectly with any tea! Now this is a piece of heaven that will uplift any heart!
coop ownership
Election Committee Meetings
Board of Directors' Election Committee meetings
Monday nights from 6:30-8:30pm,
western side of the Community Realty building

 The WSM Board of Directors has convened a committee of worker- and consumer-owners to report on options for a clear set of election rules and a strategy for increasing voter turnout. The committee welcomes observers to their meetings, and has reserved the pre-meeting time from 6:15-6:30pm for discussion with interested owners. Meetings take place on Monday nights from 6:30-8:30pm in the conference room on the western side of the Community Realty building. For more information, please contact the Board here.
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2nd Friday Art walk
Friday, February 8,
6:00 - 9:00pm

This is a perfect opportunity for those of you who enjoy art, entertainment and live music! This community gathering event will be taking place in Carrboro and Chapel Hill on Friday evening.

Kick off your night at Weaver Street Market in Southern Village with a wine tasting and food tasting from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
www.2ndfridayartwalk.com
Black History Month
The ArtsCenter
Friday, February 8, 6-8 pm

Black History Month Photography Exhibit and Community Map Project: Because We're Still Here (and Moving). Friday, February 8, 2008, 6-8 pm - Comunity Debut The ArtsCenter, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro Mapping a World of Black History in Our Own Backyard. 140 years of stories, maps, and images from our own historically African-American communities. From Tin Top to Windy Hill to Pottersfield, from the Lincoln High Band to the Starlite Motel to the Orange County Training School, from slavery to sit-ins to urban renewal, it's a world you never knew existed. For more information and for tickets call 919.929.2787
www.artscenterlive.org
Community loans-update
Have you considered investing your money in Weaver Street Market?
The expansion of our Southern Village store is nearly complete, the new store in Hillsborough is on track to open before summer, and we'll soon be able to start some improvements to the Carrboro store. But to keep everything moving along we need several more community members to make 5-year loans of $10,000 or more. We've reached 85% of our goal for member investment in the entire expansion project; please contact us (christy@weaverstreetmarket.coop) soon if you would like to receive more information, including the complete Offering Memorandum.
Why should you loan money to Weaver Street Market?
• Your investment stays with a local business you know and trust; where three times as much money filters back into the community as in a corporate-owned business.
• Your investment benefits your Co-op, and supports our initiatives that include paying a living wage, and our long-time support of local agriculture.
• Help us expand our Southern Village store, open a new store in Hillsborough, and improve our Carrboro store. More space! New products!
• 6% simple interest annually on a $10,000 loan looks better every time the Feds meet.
A Chocolate Affaire
Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center - "A Chocolate Affaire" 2008
Sunday, February 10th, 2pm-5 pm - The Carolina Club
UNC's George Watts Hill's Alumni Center
$40 per person, proceeds benefit work of Cornucopia House
Call 919-401-9333 for tickets

Join us for the best chocolate desserts in town, our celebrated silent and live auctions, and a "count on it" good time. Whether you're looking for elegant and fun art, vacation getaways, or personal and professional consultations, this event is the place to be. Your ticket includes wine, coffee, fresh fruit and cheeses, the decadent desserts, and the chance to bid on our unique items. The best part is that you can treat yourself and help others. Proceeds will allow Cornucopia House to continue offering services free of charge to anyone touched by cancer. Call 401-9333 for tickets, some available at the door.

Cornucopia House services are free of charge to all cancer patients, their family, friends, and caregivers.
www.CornucopiaHouse.org
Celebration of Earth & Sky
Carrboro Century Center
February 10, 2-6 pm
This event is sponsored by the Chapel Hill High School S.U.R.G.E. (Students United for a Responsible Global Environment).
Come and listen to special presentations by local, state and national environmental organizations; view student displays; enjoy student musical performances; write letters to your congressmen; network on "green" projects; and enjoy food and beverages.
Lunchbox Concerts
Every Thursday at the Carrboro Century Center
Noon - 1:00 pm

Bring your lunch to Century Hall and enjoy free concerts featuring the best of local and regional performers.

February 14 - Gypsy Town
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Valentine's Day Dinner Specials

Make a plan to spend Valentine's Day with your sweetie at Panzanella!
Specials!

Starters:
Portobello Mushroom and Goat Cheese Tartlette with baby Arugula
or M.F.K. Fisher's Oyster Stew with Sherry

Entrees:
Oven Roasted Black Stripped Bass with hearts of Artichoke, Potato and Lemon
or Sage "Love Letters" with Ragout of Braised Maple Leaf Farms Duck

Desserts:
Saffron and Vanilla Sweet Potato Flan
or Hazelnut Chocolate Panini with Homeland's Chocolate Ice Cream

Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch).
Sign up for Panzanella's Enewsletter here.
March Wine Dinner

"Green" Wine Dinner
Monday, March 17, 2008
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Since March is often associated with Saint Patrick's Day AND since there are no Irish wines to speak of, we ran with the "green" theme for this dinner instead.
These days, green can mean a lot of things like "organic" or "sustainable." At March's Wine Dinner, we'll be looking at several classifications for wines: organic, made with organic grapes, sustainable certified, even salmon-safe. Organic wines and wines produced sustainably, just like foods, are being sought for their purity, quality, deliciousness and even conscience. Hundreds of years ago, chemicals weren't available as they are now, so people developed natural ways to keep their vines and grapes healthy. These days many vineyard managers, wine makers, and wineries are reverting to older methods of sustaining healthy vineyards. Interested in tasting delicious wines? Well you can do it while knowing they are produced in a "green" fashion.
Join us for an evening of wonderful wines and plenty of delicious food from Panzanella Restaurant's kitchen on Monday, March 17, 2008.
The cost of this event is $45 per person; space is limited, so reserve early. Please pay in advance and pick up a ticket for this tasting at either Panzanella (919.929.6626) or the customer service desk at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro (919.929.0010).

Next Art Show

"Controlled Chaos"
New works by Catharine Carter
February 4 - March 31, 2008
Trained as a painter at UNC-CH, Catharine Carter has been a professional photographer for over 30 years. She returns to her fine art roots with the contemporary acrylics series "Controlled Chaos".

"This series explores the process of conflict and resolution. Emotions are expressed, explored, and challenged with color, linear movement and composition. In a process similar to journaling, I allow my uncensored emotions to flow onto the canvas, then step back and create visual order within the chaos. I invite you to experience the process of meeting chaos and coming to resolution through these paintings."

Reception: Monday, March 3, 2008, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm