{"id":1010,"date":"2014-09-25T16:48:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T21:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2014-09-25T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T21:55:13","slug":"bethlehem-food-co-op-to-hold-first-annual-membership-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Food Co-Op to hold first Annual Membership Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bethlehem Food Co-Op to hold first Annual Membership Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Food Co-op will hold its first Annual Membership Meeting on Monday, October 6 at 7 p.m. at Northampton Community College\u2019s Fowler Family Center in Southside Bethlehem. This meeting is for member-owners of the co-op only.<\/p>\n<p>For the past year the Co-op has been holding public meetings the first Monday of each month to provide the public with updates on its progress.<br \/>\nDuring the membership meeting on October 6 members will vote on for the first elected board of directors. Until now an interim board has been leading the organization. To read biographies on the 10 candidates visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethlehemfood.coop\/2014_board_candidates\">http:\/\/www.bethlehemfood.coop\/2014_board_candidates<\/a><br \/>\nThe idea for the Co-op was hatched in 2011 by a group of community-minded individuals. It was legally incorporated in 2012. A membership drive was launched in 2013 with each member paying a one-time fee of $300 to join. Tentative plans are to open the co-op in 2015 if its membership goal is reached. To-date the Co-op has 157 paid member-owners.<br \/>\nThe Bethlehem Food Co-Op is a diverse community encouraging physical, social, and economic health by providing healthful, affordable food; emphasizing local, sustainable, humane, and natural food systems; and offering unique educational opportunities to the entire community. More information can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethlehemfood.coop\">http:\/\/www.bethlehemfood.coop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>\nSept. 25, 2014<\/p>\n<p>COLLEEN MARSH, BOARD CHAIR<br \/>\n484.695.7304<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/COLLEEN@BETHLEHEMFOOD.COOP\">COLLEEN@BETHLEHEMFOOD.COOP<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"HTTP:\/\/WWW.BETHLEHEMFOOD.COOP\">HTTP:\/\/WWW.BETHLEHEMFOOD.COOP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem Food Co-Op to hold first Annual Membership Meeting Bethlehem Food Co-op will hold its first Annual Membership Meeting on Monday, October 6 at 7 p.m. at Northampton Community College\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=1010\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bethlehem Food Co-Op to hold first Annual Membership Meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[54,513,2,65,481],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","tag-bethlehem","tag-food-co-op","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-non-profit","tag-press-release"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/image4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}