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Noun – A Person’s Place for Things

The world is divided up into lots of different types of people. This isn’t the biggest or most important distinction between people by a long shot – but there are definitely those of us that really, really like to shop and those of us that shop only for the “necessities.”

Audrey, the dental hygienist [...]

Know Your Neighhors - Tales from the dentist

This is the story of two front teeth, a wooden slide and a weekend call to the dentist.  I promise the story has a good ending (or two or three) so you can read on and know that it’s all going to turn out fine.

When Swap Shop and Roost board members and [...]

Bea Weiss-Krull - Estate Planner/Attorney at Law

As a town that appreciates cottage industries (especially if they brew beer) and celebrates living locally, we may want to consider adopting Bea Weiss-Krull’s home town Tuttlingen Germany as our sister city.

Her part of Germany is known as the world headquarters for precision medical instruments making . . . but before you start [...]

Brazilian party upstairs Friday 4/2 upstairs

Our first of two great Brazilian parties in April, that will help Leticia George fundraise for a great cause, will be happening Friday April 2.

Regular Friday gym time 3-5pm, followed by bouncy castle night with the castle gifted to us by the Engs in full swing in the gym from 6:30 on.

Important [...]

Know Your Neighbors -

I feel lucky to have Shira Fogel, who started Tiny Talkers baby signing workshops, and Carissa Martos, who is trained at the Signing Time Academy, both involved with our co-op. Having good resources for our children and our families is what the “Know your Neighbor” weekly emails are all about. [...]

Tonight, Spanakopita; Tomorrow, a Yachaphone

Family Night at The Roost (for some of us that will be before or after checking out the Sunnyside Environmental School Talent Show) tonight (March 5th) features spanikopita and roasted veggies:

Menu

A full plate of Spanakopita (or noodles) and veggies: $5 Just Spanakopita: $3 Just Greek roasted veggies: $2 Kid’s noodle plate $2 [...]

Useful Goods Exchange

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Save the date for the 4th annual Useful Goods Exchange. This is the community event that kicked off our year round Swap Shop. Every spring and fall we swap with the whole community. The spring exchange is a three day event:

Friday, April 16th 3pm-9pm Drop off of [...]

Face Painting and Airbrush Tattoos

 Two great community members gave very freely of their time at the Winter Carnival and you can contact them for parties here or at your own home: co-op member Jessica Cornelius runs Face Painting by Jessica which is great for younger kids and can be contacted at jessicorngmailcom 707-616-2219  More teen appropriate air brush tattoos and face [...]

Just 20 More Winter Memberships

Families who have already come to a Winter Swap Shop open house or come in for a play pass visit and picked up joining paperwork as well as families coming in soon for a first visit . . . we have received applications for over half of our planned new winter memberships and [...]

Weekly News Nov 2-7

Hope you had a happy Halloween. We had a sweet time watching the delight in kids as they swapped candies and traded candy for toys at the Swap Shop on Halloween night. We sent a lot of toys out to new homes and built up a nice varied collection of candy for our Winter [...]