Brent Finnegan -- November 4th, 2008
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Friendly City Food Co-Op, Harrisonburg’s consumer-owned grocery, invites the community to come see its new destination for natural, organic and locally-produced products at the store’s grand opening 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 9 at 150 East Wolfe Street. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. with Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture Matt Lohr, Harrisonburg Mayor [...]
HARRISONBURG, VA — Friendly City Food Co-op, slated to open this month in Harrisonburg, Va., has become the newest member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide. NCGA helps unify food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately [...]
May 2: Harrisonburg was honored when the League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations over the weekend to kick off May as National Bike Month. Out of the 45 new applicants that the program received, 21 communities received awards. Harrisonburg was given a bronze‐level Bicycle Friendly Community designation. [...]
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Keister was super-fast at around 2, there was no line. I’ll post my photos soon.
Following up on Emmy’s question (“So where is everyone partying tonight?”)… what’s the deal with the party at Blue Nile?
Tina the Blue Nile party is the “official” Obama party. They were selling tickets for $5 at the office and will have a heated tent set up outside.
Gotcha! Sounds like Clementine’s (upstairs and the lounge) will be following the election results.
Added my photos to Flickr Pool:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59064186@N00/sets/72157608655306234/detail/
CNN and NPR have projected Virginia goes to Mark Warner! Our “Red State” now likely has 2 Dem Senators!
At Waterman the crowds slowed to a trickle over the course of the entire afternoon. Nowhere near the numbers of people who voted in the morning.
So my comment about people at polls listening for names and calling up non-voters might have some merit…
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167581/page/2
“The Obama campaign’s New Media experts created a computer program that would allow a `flusher’ — the term for a volunteer who rounds up nonvoters on Election Day — to know exactly who had, and had not, voted in real time. They dubbed it Project Houdini, because of the way names disappear off the list instantly once people are identified as they wait in line at their local polling station.”
wow really interesting article. Thanks, Josh
Here’s a nice collection of highlights…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html
My favorite part is the Obama cursing quote at the end. :)