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| Mon, 02-09-2009 - 2:11pm |
Sometimes we just need to have some positive stories...and this is definitely one of them!
Student-run store could help save tiny Missouri town
McClatchy Newspapers
LEETON, Mo. — Two minutes after the door opened, a retired farmer laid down money for a Hershey bar and two cheese sticks.
And just like that, this little town finally had a grocery store.
Granted, it's not a fancy supermarket. It's no bigger than a two-car garage, it's open only four days a week and it's in an old bank building — and the bank still uses the vault.
But the 600 or so people in Leeton, about 15 miles south of Warrensburg, are proud of their new store. It might be the only one like it in the state and maybe the country.
Leeton High School opened the store, and students will run it. Why? To teach kids practical skills and to save their parents long drives to the market.
In the end, the store just might help save their town.
"I've never heard of any school anywhere doing what we're doing," said agriculture teacher Bonnie Seymour, who is helping the students.
Remainder of story at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008719803_studentgrocery08.html






Whatever.
She didn't say it was
:)
Kate
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With all the negativity in the news, it's nice to occasionally run across a story that illustrates that there still is a lot that is good & positive
{back of hand on forehead!}
We have several grocery stores & Amazon.com that deliver groceries ordered online.