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Community Organizing

Food Co-op Seeks Members

October 1980

Historical October 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.

The Kingsbury Food Coop (KFC) is a non-profit organization established to provide high quality, low cost food to its members.

The KFC is located at Grace and Peace Fellowship, 6003 Kingsbury. Membership is primarily intended for residents of the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood and surrounding churches.

The Coop distributes a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy products, bakery goods, frozen foods, grains seeds, oils and other staple items.

Each member household is assigned a job which usually amounts to a contribution of 3 hours per month. There is an annual membership fee of $4. Extra food is sold every Saturday morning at coop prices to the general public from 9 to 10 a.m.

For further information or to sign up for the next monthly orientation meeting, call Layne Korljan at 721-7747.

Originally published in The Paper, October 1980.

Read this article in the original newspaper issue.

Original source: SD_Times1980_10.pdf, printed page(s) 2; PDF page(s) 2.

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