Hope for the Holidays: The Beet, Weaver Street's E-Newsletter

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Hope for the Holidays
Let's be honest: sometimes the holidays can seem overwhelming. There's pressure to create the best meal, host a great party, give the right gift, and above all, make the season memorable. This time of year encourages the altruist in all of us, but finding time to give back to our community can be tricky. The beauty of Weaver Street Market's annual Hope For the Holidays promotion lies in its simplicity: you shop, we give. Each year Weaver Street Market works with local charities to raise money throughout the month of December. When you purchase any of our designated Hope For the Holidays products, we donate to several worthy causes. More

HB Open Mic
SV Holiday 5K

Board Meeting

Classifieds Due
CHICLE Cultural Event
Land Use Survey
The Art of Farming

Italian Holiday Farm Dinner!
Artist's Reception

December Newsletter & Flyer

Envirobits



Hope for the Holidays continued

From classic Weaver Street Market items like clementines and Peacestachios to specialties like Giacomo's salami chubs and WSM-made products, we help you help others. Wine, fair trade chocolate, festive poinsettias—all your holiday favorites are included. By including the various products you need, we make it easy for you to give to those who need. Enjoy! Co-ops are about cooperation. By shopping at Weaver Street Market and supporting vital projects like the Hope For the Holidays promotion, you are participating with a community of people who believe that small good deeds can be transformed into great works through the power of collective action. There may not be easy solutions to the world's problems, but when we work together, we can certainly make a difference! Hope for the Holidays Fund is back again after six successful seasons, and we're excited about the local organizations we've chosen to be the recipients of this season's funds generated by special Hope for the Holidays sales. This year's Hope for the Holiday Recipients are: Paws4Ever Beginning as the Animal Protection Society of Chapel Hill in 1962, Paws4Ever advocates for animal welfare in Orange County through four core areas: education, care, adoption, and training. Paws4Ever is dedicated to improving animal welfare and fostering a humane community, through building strong positive bonds that last a lifetime between people and animals. Paws4Ever educates people of all ages about the humane treatment of companion animals by working with groups, offering summer camp sessions for children, and attending local events to promote animal welfare, encourage safe practices for children with animals, dispel common myths about certain breeds, and encourage rabies vaccinations and spaying/neutering. The Paws4Ever Adoption Center is a placement partner for County shelters with too many pets to house and, with the support of volunteers, gives pets the time, care, and training they need for success in a forever home. In 2008, 315 dogs and cats were adopted from the Center...Only 25% of the Center's support comes from adoption fees, with the remaining support coming from individuals, foundations and businesses. Paws4Ever contracts with the Nicks Road Veterinary Clinic to provide spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations, and veterinary care for Adoption Center animals, as well as low-cost spay/neuter services and vaccinations for the general public. They support Trap, Neuter and Return programs for feral cats and receive foundation support for spay/neuter services for low-income families and for American Pit Bull Terriers. Paws4Ever also offers high-quality dog training programs. Ever think about becoming a forever home for a pet? This might be the season for you!!! Hope Gardens Structured as an all-inclusive program to employ the homeless, focused on a community garden, HOPE Gardens is designed to help people experiencing homelessness overcome obstacles to finding employment. HOPE Gardens is part of the UNC Campus Y's Homeless Outreach Poverty Eradication (HOPE) program. Through HOPE Gardens, homeless persons will have the opportunity to build job skills as they plant, cultivate, and harvest their crop. Produce, as well as value-added products, will be sold on the UNC campus and in local farmers' markets. As a part of the program, participants will be connected with various social services and guided in methods of effective money management and savings. In addition to the nine 60-foot plots reserved for homeless gardeners, 25 plots, each 4x8 feet will be available for rent to local residents for $100 annually, which will support the program. Enclosed by deer fencing, the 5,000-plus square-foot garden is located off Homestead Road in Chapel Hill and is accessible by free public transit. WSM Cooperative Community Fund Weaver Street Market's Cooperative Community Fund (CCF) is a permanent fund whose interest is given annually to local groups working on issues related to sustainable agriculture and organic food, hunger and malnutrition, environmental protection, and cooperatives. 2009 was the fourth year that Weaver Street Market has been able to disperse funds to local organizations through the CCF. Recent recipients have included Anathoth Community Garden, Chapel Hill Cooperative Preschool, Chestnut Ridge Camp, Community Housing Trust, the Haw River Assembly, NC Rural Communities Assistance Project, Neighbor House of Hillsborough, Northside Community Garden, Pa'lante, Sewage Sludge Action Network, Student Action with Farmworkers, TABLE, and Toxic Free NC. With your Hope for the Holidays contributions, we expect that the CCF will continue to grow rapidly and help us to achieve our mission as a vibrant, sustainable commercial center.



Weekly Owner Specials

• Florida Navel Oranges • Mediterranean Deli Pita Pockets • Weaver Street Market-made Coffee Cake • Cotswold Cheese • Weaver Street Market-made Butternut Squash Soup • Pink Lady Apples • Great deal for all shoppers: Sierra Nevada Celebration Brew 12-Packs
View this week's owner specials here.

Weekly Produce Specials - THESE SALES ARE EFFECTIVE Tuesday, December 1 through Monday, December 7.


	Yellow Onions	3 lb bag 3/$5.00
	Local Strawberries	1 lb pack $5.49 each	Seasonal Pick! Solar Tunnel Grown!
	Slicing Cucumbers	79¢ lb	Seasonal Pick!

Weekly Meat & Seafood Specials

	Local, Pasture Raised Pork Italian Sausage	$5.49 lb	Hot or Mild save $1.00/lb
	Pacific, Wild Caught Cod Fillet	$7.99 lb	save $2.00/lb

Read more about other Weaver Street Market Specials here.


Value Recipe

Our weekly value recipes incorporate lots of our On Sale items! Click below to view this week's value recipe: Italian Sausage Pepper Pita Wraps
View the December CAP Flyer here.

December Newsletter

The Weaver Street Market print newsletter is no longer direct mailed, but is still available for pick-up at all three WSM locations. You will find a link to it here.
View the December CAP Flyer here.

Hillsborough Open Mic

Hillsborough store Acoustic Open-Mic
Every Thursday 6:00-8:30 pm

December 3rd: Tad Dreis - He's back, the man, Tad Dreis, with the band collectively named Tad Dreis. Heavenly pop hits to soothe your winter chills.
December 10th: Ragweed Boys - Cedar Grove's own hell-raisin' and barn-bustin' pickers, stretching out in the Lounge and making it home.
December 17th: SnoCones - A special festive set from Durham's enigmatic trio. Musicians are encouraged to bring their unique takes on Carols, Festive favorites and Seasonal originals.
December 24th: Christmas Eve - no show - store closes early at 6 pm.

View more Weaver Street Market events here.

SV Holiday 5K

6th Annual Southern Village Holiday 5K
and Family Run Sunday
December 13
12:00 - 1:40 p.m. - Late registration and packet pick-up at the Village Green, across from the Lumina Theater.
2:00 p.m. - 5K start
3:00 p.m. - 1-Mile Family Fun Run/Walk start
3:30 p.m. - Awards ceremony

Walkers are encouraged to attend. Both races start and finish by the Weaver Street Market in Southern Village.

Board Meeting

WSM Board meeting
Wednesday, December 16, 6:30-9:30 pm
Conference Room above Panzanella
The Board usually meets on the third Wednesday of each month. Meetings run from 6:30-9:30 pm and all owners of the Co-op are welcome to attend as observers. To confirm an upcoming meeting, please contact the board here.

View the October Minutes here.



Classifieds Due

This Sunday! December 6, 9:00 pm Classified ads for our January print newsletter dated: January 6 - February 3, are due by 9:00 pm on Sunday, November 1. The cost is $15/month for owners and $20/month for non-owners. Please limit your ad to 50 words or fewer. Weaver Street Market reserves the right to edit ads for length.
View the current list of classified ads here.

CHICLE Cultural Event

How to Help NC Immigrant Students Go to College Melinda Wiggins, Executive Director of Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) Sunday December 6, 2009 5:00 at CHICLE The workshop will cover the recent history of college access in North Carolina, highlighting ways youth could have and have participated in the process. It will then lengthen into a discussion of the current situation, which will segue into individual steps that youth, their families, and allies can take to advocate for change. Melinda Wiggins is the Executive Director of Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), a nonprofit organization that brings students and farmworkers together to learn about each other's lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change. 101 E Weaver St. Suite G-1, 3rd floor over Weaver Street Market, Carrboro, 919-933-0398
Learn more about CHICLE here.

Land Use Survey

Participate in Updating Hillsborough Land Development Rules Deadline: December 11! The Town of Hillsborough is seeking public feedback as it updates rules related to land development. Click here to take the detailed online survey. Hard copies are available by calling the planning department at 732-1270, extension 85. The deadline is December 11. The survey asks about your preferences for working and shopping in or out of town, your opinion on various land use rules (like allowing restaurants to have tables on the sidewalk), other town centers that you admire, and your feedback on increasing residential density. If you have any questions, call Planning Director Margaret Hauth at 732-1270 extension 86.
Learn more about the zone change here.

The Art of Farming

THE ART OF FARMING: A Public Symposium December 4-5, 2009 Keynote Speaker: Verlyn Klinkenborg Farming and the Problem of Complexity Presented by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University In conjunction with the national documentary project Five Farms: Stories from American Farm Families. Verlyn Klinkenborg, widely known for his literary meditations on rural life, will give the opening-night keynote address for a public symposium looking at the farming of food as a place-based creative act and a central metaphor for contemporary community. SYMPOSIUM The Art of Farming symposium continues on Saturday, December 5, with two panel discussions and a closing picnic. The symposium builds on the Five Farms project, which followed the lives of five farming families (from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Iowa, Arizona, and California) during the course of one year. Their experiences, captured in audio and photographs, are presented in a series of five one-hour radio documentaries on public radio stations nationwide; in a series of radio features on National Public Radio's, All Things Considered; on a multimedia website, Five Farms; and in an exhibition, which was on view earlier this year at CDS. The first symposium session, The Five Farms Project: A Case Study from California, features Annie and Jeff Main of Good Humus Farms in Capay, California, along with the photographer and audio producer who documented life on their farm over the course of four seasons. The afternoon session, The Family Farm Today: A Conversation Among Farmers from North Carolina, Massachusetts, Iowa, Arizona, and California, features family members from each of the farms documented in the Five Farms project. A closing picnic will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Center for Documentary Studies, which produced the Five Farms project with Wesley Horner Productions. Major funding for the project came from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University.
Learn more about the Center for Documentary Studies here.

Envirobits

Power Hungry? Give the Gift of Green!
by Emily Buehler, Contributing Writer

Many of us daydream about living 'off the grid' but it's hard to live without electricity. Thankfully, there's an alternative we can feel good about: the NC GreenPower program. Through this program, consumers can pay extra to buy electricity from 'green' energy sources. Weaver Street Market purchases 10 percent of its electricity from green energy sources this way.

NC GreenPower is a nonprofit that started back in 2001 to improve North Carolina's environment through voluntary contributions toward renewable energy. The nonprofit seeks to supplement the state's existing power supply with more green energy (electricity from renewable resources like the sun, wind, and organic matter). Consumers can pay $4 to add 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green energy to North Carolina's supply. So if your household uses about 275 kWh each month, by buying 3 blocks, or 300 kWh, of green energy for $12, you've bought enough green energy to cover all your electricity use! And the 'purchase' is tax-deductible.

Now you can give a gift of green power, with NC Greenpower gift cards. If you order by December 17, NC Greenpower will ship the gift card directly to the recipient. To read more about NC GreenPower, visit their website here. To purchase a gift card, follow the 'NC Greenpower Gift Card' link at the left.


Italian Holiday Farm Dinner

Next Holiday Farm Dinner: Monday, December 14 - Italian Holiday Farm Dinner Do Winter Holidays - Italian Style! 5:30-9 pm The winter holidays in Italy last for a few weeks, during which there are spectacular processions and displays, beautiful rituals, and big, noisy gatherings of family and friends. We will borrow some of the special dishes from the Italian holiday tradition, but we'll create them with ingredients produced by our local farmers. Join us for a very special evening, as we meet the bleak mid-winter with joyous Italian-style heart-warming food and friendliness.
Visit Panzanella's website to view all menus (lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch).
Sign up for Panzanella's Enewsletter here.

Artist's Reception

Next Exhibit: 'Visceral Depths' new works by Jacques Menache December 7, 2009 - February 8, 2010 Artist Reception: Monday, December 7, 5:30 -7:30 pm Jacques Menache was born in Paris, France and came to Carrboro in 1969. He finished college at NC Central University in Durham, and graduated with a Master's in Fine Arts from UNC Chapel Hill in 1973. In 1974, after a year as an instructor at UNC, Jacques founded The ArtsCenter in downtown Carrboro and served as the Executive Director until 1988. A retrospective of Jacques' artwork was first shown at his restaurant, El Chilango, in 2000. A second retrospective was exhibited at Panzanella in 2006. The title of this show, 'Visceral Depths' comes from Jacques' long time interest in surgery, biology, and electron photo-microscopy. This new work combines various materials and techniques such as acrylic, encaustic, collage, assemblage and drawing. Please join us on the evening of December 7th for an informal gathering of local art lovers. Enjoy the artwork while the dining room is closed, and meet a surprising local artist who continues to help make Carrboro the creative, communicative, cool place it is.