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Meet your 2017–2018 board members
Alli Floroff (President) Alli is excited to be returning to the board for a second one-year term as board President. Over the next year, she hopes to provide a strong anchoring point in the coordination of strategic processes and grow her leadership and facilitation experience. Alli has been a member for three years, joining while…
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From the GM—December 2017
Dear Karma Members, You know it’s the holidays at Karma when the Darn Tough socks arrive! And they have! As the holidays quickly approach, we are busy preparing for the festivities! We are busy ordering new products and deciding which items our members will enjoy throughout the season. You will be able to find all…
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Ask Reece
Hi Reece, I like food and drinks on the sweet side and have recently switched to stevia for seasoning my food (think sweet garlic sauce, salad dressings, etc.) and drinking “lightly sweetened” stevia carbonated waters, for example. When I serve food to guests, is it unethical of me to leave out that there is stevia…
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Pre-order organic wine, turkeys and tourtières
Make sure your pantry is stocked well ahead of time this holiday season by pre-ordering! Southbrook organic wine Pre-order your certified organic and biodynamic wine and cider from Southbrook Vineyards at Karma! Southbrook generously gives 10% from every order back to Karma. Stock up in time for holiday entertaining! Order your wine by December 10…
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Holiday Raffle
Starting December 1 and up to December 21, you will receive one raffle ticket for every $50 before tax spent at Karma, to be entered into a draw to win one of 2 holiday gift baskets (total retail value of over $100!). The draw will be held on Friday December 22, 2017. Increase your chances…
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From the GM — November 2017
Dear Karma Members, Thanks to all who attended this year’s AGM. It was a well-attended meeting complete with AGM regulars and some new faces as well! We welcomed four new faces to the Board of Directors and said goodbye to several members as well. I wanted to sincerely thank all the board members who left…
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From the GM—October 2017
Dear Karma Members, Karma is a recent (and the first!) member of the Local Food and Farm Co-ops (LFFC)! Among the benefits of our membership are that we have access to an array of tools relevant to co-ops, receive discounts on co-op conferences, and are also eligible for partnerships in funding applications where applicable. Karma…
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The Shelf Elf goes bananas
The Shelf Elf has been busy again, but this time he’s into bananas. He thinks the banana tree, featuring Equifruit bananas — certified by Fairtrade Canada since 2007 — is a particularly nice addition to the store. The attractive Equifruit logo caught his eye, and he decided to investigate further. He discovered that the company was started…
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Karma’s future
I am not naming myself, because this is about Karma, not me. If all your dollars know what they have to do, you might skip this article. If you’ve been reading all the reports, you know that Karma’s losing money, which can’t go on indefinitely. However, the infusion of some “free money” might, if used…
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Recognizing member contributions
Karma Co-op is made up of members who contribute their time, expertise, and passion for local food and products to make this community an open, vibrant, and knowledgeable food store for all of us. Our members dedicate themselves to many parts of the co-op, including the array of committees we have that help Karma thrive.…