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ericbond says:

July 9, 2011 at 8:03 pm

I’m not sure how much our readers will want to leave a general comment, but I thought that it might be nice to provide a venue for general comments. Of course, if you have a comment about an article on the site, you may leave it there.

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Welcome to our new website!

Eric Bond, publisher

William Bell says:

September 12, 2011 at 6:07 pm

Couldn’t a more appropriate time-slot have been arranged for this year’s Folk Festival than the 10th anniversary of 9/11? If some TP residents preferred to devote the day to frolic and craft-shopping rather than sober reflection that’s their right, but it shouldn’t have been officially designated as an occasion for public folderol. If the organizers wanted to poke a stick in the eye of people who still have patriotic feelings, methinks they succeeded.

Sam Goodman says:

January 4, 2012 at 3:48 pm

Hey there Montgomery Voice! How was your holiday time? Good I hope. Just checking in with the greatest news source in the Lower Montgomery County Area. Hope everything is going OK and that Eric sent out the flyers and the Voice is getting some good business. Keep well guys and have a great new year.

admin says:

January 5, 2012 at 8:51 am

Great to hear from you, Sam. I hope that you had a great holiday and are well rested for the next semester. Thanks for all of your help this fall. Eric

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Dunrick Sogie-Thomas says:

February 27, 2012 at 11:49 pm

Food Pantry open on March 3rd, 2012
Time:11:00am-1:30pm

EduCare Support Services. Inc – EMERGENCY FOOD PANTRY-
in Partnership with
Grace United Methodist Church, Takoma Park, MD
Program: Emergency Food pantry (click here for printable flyer)

Welcome!

Thank you for your interest in our Emergency Food Pantry. The goal of the Pantry is to treat our clients with dignity and respect, while fulfilling the requirements of our partner agencies. We try to offer a well-rounded array of foods for their bi-weekly or monthly offer, as well, some basic non-food items such as paper products and personal care products on a rotation basis.

Our Food Pantry is now open for business:

OPEN: Every 1st Saturday in the month from 10:30 -1:30 PM
Monday to Friday by appointment only!

CALL: 240-450-2092 or Email: educare_ss@yahoo.com

LOCATION: Grace United Methodist Church
7001 New Hampshire Avenue
Takoma Park, MD20912

alice richardson says:

April 30, 2012 at 2:55 am

I am a long term member of TPSS coop since Oct.6, 1986. I am an employee since Nov. 15th 1989. Long have I been a proud participant of a business that cared equally for what food we sold, how our food was brought to us and that all people and processes are treated with dignity and respect. I sooo wanted to be a part of such a business, a cooperative business where members|workers had input based on experience and cooperation.

I was a part of a small 3 parking spot natural foods grocery store that grossed close to $2 million in sales right before we moved from 301 Sligo Ave. to our present location in Feb. 1998. People want to support a business that is cooperative and kind and humane to all.

Unfortunately we are no longer that business. It is our worker members that are suffering for no good reason except for the process in which we now “govern” our business. Something has gone terribly wrong. Its not that TPSS has not paid back big loans that got us to the junction, its just that we have strayed from our roots, the foundation that got us to the junction and to our Grubb Rd. location.

I was glad to have my children grow up while I worked for our coop.I am proud to know that some of our founders and still member shoppers put their property “up” for collateral for all of us to have the wonderful business we have today. I was thrilled to have my children work in such a strong coop business. What is more wonderful than a business that deals with what every body needs: FOOD. I would go so far as to say that TPSS could have gone up for the Peace Prize because of the founding credence of all shall be treated equally with care, dignity and respect.

I no longer would want my children or anyone else”s child to work at TPSS. We now have the “every one is equal, but some of us are more equal than others” mentality. What is accepted by our management as good business would make your skin crawl with toxic shame! The majority of our members probably think that because we have a a management system in place, we would have union system in place. We do not

In 2011 we had a Board sanctioned Staff Rep. Com. that would act as a buffer between “us” and “them” (management) and give workers a forum for being “heard” but about nine months later the committee was disbanded as being too costly.Our Board could have asked for a final report…WELL…..I digress.

At the May 6th TPSS membership meeting I will be bringing up facts of how our business operates and how shamefully we now treat our member workers. I would never want to expand a business such as TPSS with the way our store is now “managed”. I have been asked if I am afraid of losing my job. Of course I am! I love being able to help people with their most basic need in a most spiritual manner. That is what a common ground I had with the beginning TPSS coop and want to perpetuate. It didn’t matter what job title I’ve had (I have done amazing things for us !) I just knew how fantastic and important TPSS was and still can be.

Always yours in cooperation!

— Alice Richardson

P.S. I thank the Elriches, Chalofskys, Gina Gaspin, Jayne Silve rand Elias Vlanton, Andy A. and nameless others for founding such a fantastic food store that is a cooperative. I will do my best to keep TPSS the most outstanding business it was created for! My kids I am proud to have raised cooperatively you may know! They are Roy and Alia. PEACE