Common Ground Board Blog

New space, new members, new challenges

Clint — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:55:57 -0400

As proud as I am of what we as a co-op have accomplished (I still go to revel at the new store almost daily), it's important to keep looking forward and working to meet the challenges of the years to come.

Besides, Jacqueline and her staff are working like crazy to make this shiny new store function smoothly, and sipping a beer on the sidelines while they toil would be more than a little insensitive...

Relocation of a Board Member

katrina — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:12:19 -0400

One week before Common Ground moved to its new location in Lincoln Square, there was another, much smaller-scale relocation: I—(Katrina Bromann, your Board secretary)—moved three hours to the north, back to my hometown of Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

Common Ground invades the village

Clint — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:54:50 -0400

(Lincoln Square Village, that is. I needed a catchy title.)

There's always this moment before a big work party when I hold my breath and think "Will anyone show up?" And then (most of the time) people start pouring in, and I switch to "can we find something for everyone to do?"

The latter is a much better feeling than the former, and much more common at Common Ground!

Two ways to become part of co-op history

Clint — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:32:16 -0400

The relocation is proceeding (beautifully! hectically! stressfully! gloriously!) We're in the midst of making co-op history, and we want to be sure we don't forget how historic this is, and how many people came together to make it happen. So there are two things we'd like you to do.