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Community Foods Market in West Oakland. Photo: Deonna Anderson
Community Foods Market is looking for a community boost. The West Oakland grocery store has seen sales decline by 35% since December 2020. To counteract the decline, the market has launched a Save Our Store (SOS) booster campaign.
According to Community Foods Market founder and CEO Brahm Ahmadi, there are both fewer customers shopping, and those who do come in are buying less.
“We’ve seen regular customers go from full shopping carts to hand baskets and now just a few items in their hands,” said Ahmadi in a video released with Sharon Rance, a store supervisor.
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KLCC s Tiffany Eckert reports on two events happening in Eugene in honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
NAACP and HIV Alliance will hold an HIV testing event at the historic Mims House in Eugene this Saturday.
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In honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, there will be a testing event at the historic Mims House in Eugene on Saturday.
“We are happy to work with the HIV-Alliance to try to normalize the idea of getting tested for HIV.”
“There will be some refreshments, safe sex kits and information on additional testing, the vaccine roll out and any additional information around COVID-19,” said Richardson.
January 6, 2021
Catherine Coleman Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, speaks at a Fire Drill Friday protest in Washington, D.C. Courtesy of Catherine Coleman Flowers.
Remember when Flint, Michigan garnered international attention because water in the city was making people sick? Well, there are communities like that around the country and the world. And while Flint gained attention because of its failing infrastructure, there are places where water and sewage infrastructure is absent. Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth, writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book Waste: One Woman s Fight Against America s Dirty Secret, published by The New Press in November. (Read an excerpt here.)
VF Corp leans in to the circular economy and regenerative ag Deonna Anderson Wed, 12/16/2020 – 09:58 With about 20 brands such as The North Face, Vans and Timberland under its umbrella including its recent acquisition of popular streetwear brand Supreme VF Corporation is big. The company had approximately 48,000 employees at the end of its 2020 fiscal year, which ended on March 28, according to its most recent annual report , and revenue during that year was $10.5 billion. With that much reach, VF Corp has the opportunity and responsibility to be intentional about how it manages the lifecycle of the garments it designs, produces and sells. “Because of our scale, we know it’s our responsibility to address textile waste and then overall be thinking about how to keep products in use for the long term, and to design out waste from the beginning,” said Jeannie Renne-Malone, who has served as the vice president of global sustainability at VF Corp since Sept. 2019. In N