We now have 95 memberships and 155 members. We are attracting attention as the only Food Co-op in our county, and as we are considered to be the red headed stepchild to the bigger cities in our County. This has caused folk in local government to sit up and take notice. We are now represented on the Planning Commission for the County, we are assisting the startup of the Clallam Food Policy Council, we are represented on the advisory board for the Peninsula College Bakery program that is running at the Correction Center and all in all we are happy with the upgrade this has brought to our group of combined communities on the Northwest Coast of the US. One of our members has just bought and renovated a building for us. We now share this building with two other businesses, so we have formed a Mall in our small town. We are putting in a local healthy home style eatery with guest cooks accredited in our area and have permits to serve local food with an emphasis on healthy choices. This has not been done before here. We are ready to start up our own Credit Union, as there is still no bank closer than 35 miles away over the mountain. The master gardener program is offering to put in an edible herb garden to adorn our site. We feel that being isolated geographically is a good thing for our Co-op, its support communities and its personality. Thank you for this opportunity to express our mission. We are known as “the place with great tastes�. Our people are loving the magic of manifesting a professional and practical community resource known as Sunsets West Co-operative where happiness is expected and the price tag is affordable. We are working on a business that is belonging in every sense of the word to the community. It is their donations that are making it all work. The budget is small but the offerings are huge. Furniture, skills, investors, member worker owners, it all comes from the home base. We are proud of our progress and presentation. Our initial location was petite and from which we were able to grow 2007 to 2012. Sunsets West Co-op recently moved to their new location at 16795 Hwy 112, Clallam Bay, WA.
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