July, 2004

Vol.5. NO7 ....................................................Pages 12 and 13

 Organics Delivered to Your Door

The California-based Organic Express (BOX) is demonstrating a new way to support local family farmers while bringing fresh organic produce to the doorsteps of some 3,500 families in the San Francisco and Los Angeles areas. BOX serves as a middleman between organic farmers and consumers by picking up fresh produce at its member farms and delivering it directly to customers. The produce is guaranteed to be delivered within 24 hours of being harvested. The process allows folks with hectic schedules to more conveniently join a community supported agriculture program (CSA), while allowing the farmers to focus on doing what they do best ... farming. The success of this innovated business model could, and should, catch on in communities everywhere.

For more information visit http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/thebox061004.cfm
 

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Just Ducky

Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven.

When they get there, St. Peter says, “We only have one rule here in heaven. Don’t step on the ducks.”

So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one.

Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw. He chains them together and says: “Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!”

The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck, and along comes St. Peter. He chains her to another, even uglier man.

The third woman is very, VERY careful where she steps. She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on. He chains them together without saying a word.

The woman remarks: “I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to YOU for all of eternity?”

To which the stunner replies: “I don’t know about you, but I stepped on a duck!”

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Lesson to be Learned

Two cars were waiting at a stoplight. The light turned green, but the man didn’t notice it. A woman in the car behind him is watching traffic pass around them. The woman begins pounding on her steering wheel and yelling at the man to move. The man doesn’t move.

The woman is going ballistic inside her car, ranting and raving at the man, pounding on her steering wheel and dash. The light turns yellow and the woman begins to blow the car horn, flips him off, and screams profanity and curses at the man.

The man, looks up, sees the yellow light and accelerates through the intersection just as the light turns red.

The woman is beside herself, screaming in frustration as she misses her chance to get through the intersection. As she is still in mid-rant she hears a tap on her window and looks up into the barrel of a gun held by a very serious looking policeman.

The policeman tells her to shut off her car while keeping both hands in sight. She complies, speechless at what is happening. After she shuts off the engine, the policeman orders her to exit her car with her hands up. She gets out of the car and he orders her to turn and place her hands on her car then handcuffs her and takes her to the police station where she is fingerprinted, photographed, searched, booked and placed in a cell.

After a couple of hours, a policeman approaches the cell and opens the door for her. She is escorted back to the booking desk where the original officer is waiting with her personal effects and says, “I’m really sorry for this mistake. But you see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping the guy off in front of you, and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the ‘Choose Life’ license plate holder, the ‘What Would Jesus Do’ bumper sticker, the ‘Follow Me to Sunday School’ bumper sticker, and the chrome plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk.

“Naturally I assumed you had stolen the car.”

New Business Helping Companies Thrive

A new company has opened to help businesses in the Santa Fe and surrounding areas succeed; Growth AdvantEdge Consulting, llc. Tavo Holloway, the owner, has a passion for helping independent businesses flourish. “I’ve been in the shoes of small business. I know the challenges they face and what it takes to succeed.” Over the past twenty years she has helped small businesses grow to multi-million dollar corporations. “My role,” Holloway says, “is to help businesses articulate their goals in feasible tactical terms and align company resources to realize their vision.”

Growth AdvantEdge Consulting, llc. specializes in marketing, strategic plan management and organizational realignment. “Often businesses forgo assistance or pull in expertise to help advance one area of the company, such as marketing. To be effective in any area requires a full understanding of where the company is and where it wants to be. It’s only in clearly knowing a realistic goal that the best action steps can be put into play. No business is too small to benefit from having a clear, achievable plan and the marketing to make it work.”

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