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ENQUIRER april – june 2022
co-op wins business of the year by Nicole Vander Meulen
Maybe you’ve heard, maybe you haven’t? So, in case you missed it, the Co-op was recently named Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Business of the Year! This award has us feeling all kinds of feelings: proud, humbled, honored, grateful. Or, as Tony would say: tickled. During a video awards ceremony played for Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce Members on January 26th, Chamber President Andy Mayer
candidly announced the award: “I am not going to make you guess who our Business of the Year is by dangling some clues, because you would figure it out immediately. Our 2021 so very deserving Business of the Year is the Skagit Valley Food Co-op!” Mayer continued by explaining that while the Co-op hasn’t been immune to the challenges businesses have faced over the last two years, it has continued to be the anchor for
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downtown business, with values and principles that go beyond the bottom line. He also shared that the Co-op’s role in the community shouldn’t come as a surprise because we have been building on the straightforward promise of serving our members, the Valley, and surrounding areas by providing good food at a good price, for nearly 50 years.
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