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Meals on Wheels Orange County, NC (MOWOCNC) Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels and Orange County Rural Alliance merged in June to become Meals on Wheels Orange County, NC (MOWOCNC), which now serves older adults living in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and rural Orange County. Under COVID-19 pandemic conditions, weekday hot meals and check-in visits have been…
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By Jon McDonald, Board Chair and Bread Bakery Manager Running for the board is an amazing opportunity to serve your co-op! Elections are also an opportunity for our community to choose strong diverse leaders to guide our co-op through the next chapter of its history. All qualified owners are welcome to run, but our hope…
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June Round up funds and the proceeds of Justice for George button sales are being donated to organizations chosen by the EQUITY Alliance, a group of Weaver Street employees of color driven to transform our co-op and community. Here is why the EQUITY Alliance chose to support these groups: Recognizing the disparities present in mass…
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Weaver Street Market Online Board Meeting, Wednesday, June 10, 6:30-9:30pm To protect the safety and health of our Board Directors and our owners during the COVID-19 pandemic, Board meetings are being conducted online via zoom. Owners are invited to attend. To attend the meeting, please register by 8 am, Tuesday, June 9: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W_p5QEBkTuOt61of9DwGIA After registering,…
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Last week, in the driving rain our Round Up partners PORCH Chapel Hill Carrboro and PORCH Hillsborough delivered 240 boxes of fresh produce to families struggling with food insecurity—190 families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro and 50 families in Hillsborough. Over 1,000 individuals have nutritious fresh fruit and vegetables because of your Round up donations…
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By Brenda Camp, Community Outreach We’ve reported the challenges our round up partners face as they work to provide food for the kids and families they serve under the ever-changing constraints of the pandemic. This week, our team of bread bakers eagerly embraced a new weekly challenge—to add 670 half-loaves of oat bread to their…
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We’re excited to bring our customers face masks made at Harriss & Covington Hosiery Mills in High Point, NC. Working together with the mill and our employee wellness partner, EHOP Health, we’re supplying these masks to our employees, and to you. About the Project We want to keep our employees as safe as possible, and…
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Our Community Food Partners have very quickly responded to the COVID-19 threat and have reorganized their operations to provide hunger relief during the pandemic for a rapidly increasing population that is at risk for food insecurity. PORCH Chapel Hill-Carrboro and PORCH Hillsborough. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, our food partners at PORCH provided monthly deliveries…
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Would you like to join one of our worker owner/consumer owner teams? We have openings on the Elections Committee (EC), which oversees the election process, and on the Cooperative Community Fund (CCF) Grant Committee, which administers the CCF grant review process. The EC is seeking one consumer or worker owner, preferably from Raleigh. The CCF…
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Sunday, February 23, the Hillsborough Round Up switches to PORCH Hillsborough’s Food for Families program. In 2020, your donations will provide monthly deliveries of fresh produce and dairy for 50 food-insecure families.
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