It's Time for Some Outdoor Fun with Your Co-op

Tuesday, 01 May 2012 11:38

By Alexis Alexander,

Membership Manager

With summer just around the corner, it's a great time to celebrate the warmer weather with your fellow GreenStar Member-owners. We have a few outdoor events in mind for you that have become true GreenStar traditions.

Join us on Thursday, May 24 for the Third Annual Dance Party in the Parking Lot. This year we'll be dancing up a storm... well, actually, that was last year when several of us brave souls danced in the midst of severe tornado warnings!

So let me just say that this year, the mood will be HOT, and maybe a bit sweaty, as we're entertained by the infectious Latin sounds of Jorge T. Cuevas and the Caribe Jazz Allstars. These premiere Latin Jazz musicians play it all — salsa, mambo, cha cha, merengue, bolero, samba and 6/8. They'll have us smilin' and dancin' in no time!

Festivities start at 5:30 pm in the parking lot of the West-End store, where we'll keep dancing until 7:30. Join up with your friends, family and fellow GreenStar member-owners for a delightful evening of music and dance.

If it does rain this year, we will hold the dance party in The Space @ GreenStar at 700 W. Buffalo Street.

The very next week, on Thursday, May 31, summertime in Ithaca truly begins with the Ithaca Festival Parade. GreenStar plans to march and we would love to have you with us. We're still working on our plans, but if you want to have a blast with your GreenStar compatriots, join us for the parade. Look in the store and on our website as details of our parade plans and attire unfold.

Service to the community is at the core of GreenStar's Cooperative mission. At the request of member-owners who attended our Town Hall meetings a few years ago, a new GreenStar tradition was born — a community service project every June.

This year's community service project will be held on Saturday, June 23. As this issue of the GreenLeaf goes to press, we have not finalized whether we'll be doing a neighborhood clean-up project like we've done the past two years, or whether we're going to provide assistance for some other community endeavor on that day.

Final details about the project will be announced during the Dance Party in the Parking Lot in May, and in the June GreenLeaf. If you're interested in participating, we'll have sign-up sheets available at the dance party and in the stores after May 24. So, stay tuned for more details as the month unfolds!

We look forward to celebrating the summer season with you, our member-owners!