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Special “Thank You”
By Kenna S. Eaton, General Manager, from the November
2005 Newsletter
I know this list will miss someone, and for that my apologies,
but I wanted to extend a special heartfelt “thanks” to ALL
the folks in our community who went the extra mile helping
the Moscow Food Co-op achieve its long-held dream of moving here.
So here it is, in no particular order:
- All the staff of the Moscow Food Co-op for working
many long, hard hours to get the store up and running, for cleaning
out the old store and for all their flexibility when things went
wrong
- The Board of Directors for meeting with me many, many
times in the months before the move, and for their belief in
our ability to pull this off!
- The Loaners and the Donors who helped finance (and
support) our move
- All the volunteers who helped move the Co-op on that
memorable Sunday
- Bookpeople for making many, many pots of coffee during
the move
- Natural Abode for patiently helping us with all those
color samples
- Retrofit for designing and making the tables in the
deli
- The Sustainability Committee members for helping research
and implement those green concepts into the new store
- Marie Miller for advising us on parking lot policy
and monitoring
- Bill London for his tireless promotion of the Co-op
- Mary Jo Knowles for her incredible fundraising abilities
- Cutting Edge Signs for expediently getting the signs
in the store made and hung
- Strom Electric for working long and hard to get our
electrical system under control
- Hilliard Plumbing for expertly outfitting us with
air and water throughout the store
- Absolute Refrigeration for going above and beyond
the call of duty installing and re-installing all our refrigeration
- Palouse Dry Wall for sheet rocking like no one else
can
- Rufus T. Firefly and his crew of painters for painting
long into the night
- Jack Carpenter for leading us through the maze of
subcontractors, and patiently and expertly dealing with the crisis
of the day for many, many days in a row
- Dan Mullin and his crew of architects for their excellent
adaptive reuse of this space, and for managing the project
- Safari Pearl and Eclectica (Kathy and Tabitha) for
the gift of two extra weeks
- One World Cafe for their scones and espresso on those
cold mornings during the move
- Mikey’s Restaurant for allowing
all 100 of us to use their bathroom when ours was down
Oh, my goodness, the list is going on and on,
and I’m sure
in the chaos I have missed someone important! However, each person
and/or business contributed something special and made me realize
once again what an awesome place Moscow is. Thank you everyone!
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