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September 6, 2010
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The Fall Trade Directory is now available.
Click here to find out where to get a copy.
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The next steering committee meeting is October 28 in Cascade Locks. Contact the GLCC for more information.
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Now is the time to order your display ad for the winter trade directory. Contact the GLCC
for more details.
Member Profile ~ Anthony Villagomez
Fall 2005
Anthony Villagomez moved to the Gorge in the summer of 2001 to join AmeriCorps and live in the mountains while doing environmental restoration and education in the area. After two years in Trout Lake, he moved closer to the Columbia River, where he has been able to really connect with folks trying to make the Gorge a better and more sustainable place
to live.
Motivated passionately to keep money in our own communities instead of having it funneled out through big store chains, Anthony knew he had to participate when he heard that some people were working on a local currency system for the Gorge. He was one of the first people to join the GLCC. Another attraction for him is the help from GLCC in advertising the “skills and trades that I offer.”
An additional advantage to being involved with a local trading system like RiverHOURS, he feels, is that one can get to know more of our fellow Gorge residents, helping to build community. It is a first step to creating a truly self-sufficient and sustainable infrastructure. When a community is dependent upon itself, it can find answers to its own problems and work together to find common ground.
Some of the things Anthony has paid for with RiverHOURS are food at Mother’s Marketplace and plants from the Condor Farm. He’s saving a few to buy beeswax and honey for candles and cooking this winter.
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