Student-run store could help save tiny M

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Student-run store could help save tiny M
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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


By Donald Bradley


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


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Registered: 01-04-2009
Mon, 02-09-2009 - 2:59pm
That is really cool!

 

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Registered: 02-19-2008
Mon, 02-09-2009 - 4:37pm
Let us know if the store is still open in 2 years. Then this will be a great story.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 1:09pm

Whatever.


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Registered: 01-22-2009
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 7:44pm

She didn't say it was

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Registered: 01-22-2009
Tue, 02-10-2009 - 7:45pm

:)

Kate


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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 02-11-2009 - 10:45am

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


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Registered: 01-22-2009
Wed, 02-11-2009 - 12:50pm
I'm sorry but your post wasn't great or relevant or interesting enough ;)
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 02-11-2009 - 4:43pm

{back of hand on forehead!}


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Registered: 03-30-2007
Thu, 02-12-2009 - 1:45pm
Maybe one of these kids will figure out a better way to get groceries to our homes.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 02-12-2009 - 2:05pm

We have several grocery stores & Amazon.com that deliver groceries ordered online.