Kayla Desroches/KMXT A co-op grocery store is trying to get off the ground and will hold a kick-off event this weekend to draw members. Merissa Koller Williams is the board president for the Kodiak Harvest Cooperative, a group trying to put together a community-owned grocery store downtown. “We have to have 500 members in order to really even start negotiating …
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Merissa Koller-Williams. Kayla Desroches/KMXT A seasonal school district employee who discovered the position makes her ineligible to serve on the Kodiak Island Borough Board of Education is asking voters not to cast their ballots in her favor in the upcoming election. Merissa Koller-Williams is the director of the Healthy Tomorrows community wellness program, and also serves as the Kodiak High …
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Spinach, a crop that grows well in Kodiak. Laura Ericson / Flickr Kayla Desroches/KMXT The vision for a cooperative grocery store downtown is developing with the help of the co-ops that came before it. Merissa Koller-Williams with Healthy Tomorrows and Tyler Kornelis with the Kodiak Area Native Association are both involved in organizing the co-op and its storefront along with …
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On today’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches speaks with two food co-op organizers, Dana Myers from the Kodiak Bounty Cooperative and Healthy Tomorrows Executive Director, Merissa Koller Williams, who’s putting together a food co-op with a committee as part of a year-long Kodiak initiatives plan. Koller Williams is currently in the process of requesting public input from Kodiak …
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