Well y'all, it's been fun.
I'm heading off, and since nobody follows this blog, I thought I might as well write a nice little goodbye here.
This year was definitely a slow start, but it was still a good start. We made cheese, showed videos, brainstormed for next year, and - most importantly - were officialized! May next year bring even more fun activities (and hopefully the even the Farmer's Market) to Slow Food USCA. Our officers for next year will be *awesome*, I know. Hopefully this year got a good handful of heads turned so next year we can involve more people (in the community, too). Remember: Never give up! Keep pushing on the things we wanted this year and expand to things you'd like to do next year, too. (Like... the garden... there IS a way it could work, we just need to find it.)
Good luck and I'll miss y'all!! Holler if you need me!
[scribbled by Elise, SFUSCA Pres. 2010-11]
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
WE MADE IT!
HURRAH!
We FINALLY were approved by the USCA Campus Life Committee and have now jumped through all the hoops. We're "officially" official. Woohoo!
Also a big WOOHOO: Our results for the elections for the 2011-2012 year:
President: Rachel Roberts
Vice President: Madison Sweet
Communications Coordinator: Anna Blizard
Congratulations y'all! We know you'll all be great. :)
So, we're making cheese next Friday, April the 8th, 5 p.m. in a kitchen in Pacer Crossings. We haven't seen the kitchen yet and I don't know exactly which one it is, but I'll definitely visit it before we go and I'm assuming we'll be using one on the ground floor... I'll keep you posted (on Facebook).
Also, we've been working with Noble Breads to get our ICE event together, they haven't emailed back, but we're going to be very persistent until we get some sort of response back. Noble Breads is willing enough, we just have to pick a date, I guess. I was hoping they'd give me a calendar of their available time but we'll work things out. I'll go by today and be persistent. :)
The Student Garden never worked out, too many details and loose ends the people ultimately in charge couldn't satisfactorily tie up. The Q&A panel never came together either. Maybe I should take that into my own hands to get that together. End of the semester extra credit for H&SS classes or something, if I could work it out with the teachers.
Anyway, that's all for now. :) Thanks!
[scribbled by Elise]
We FINALLY were approved by the USCA Campus Life Committee and have now jumped through all the hoops. We're "officially" official. Woohoo!
Also a big WOOHOO: Our results for the elections for the 2011-2012 year:
President: Rachel Roberts
Vice President: Madison Sweet
Communications Coordinator: Anna Blizard
Congratulations y'all! We know you'll all be great. :)
So, we're making cheese next Friday, April the 8th, 5 p.m. in a kitchen in Pacer Crossings. We haven't seen the kitchen yet and I don't know exactly which one it is, but I'll definitely visit it before we go and I'm assuming we'll be using one on the ground floor... I'll keep you posted (on Facebook).
Also, we've been working with Noble Breads to get our ICE event together, they haven't emailed back, but we're going to be very persistent until we get some sort of response back. Noble Breads is willing enough, we just have to pick a date, I guess. I was hoping they'd give me a calendar of their available time but we'll work things out. I'll go by today and be persistent. :)
The Student Garden never worked out, too many details and loose ends the people ultimately in charge couldn't satisfactorily tie up. The Q&A panel never came together either. Maybe I should take that into my own hands to get that together. End of the semester extra credit for H&SS classes or something, if I could work it out with the teachers.
Anyway, that's all for now. :) Thanks!
[scribbled by Elise]
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Meeting Notes 23 Feb. 2011
Hey everyone! For those who couldn't make it to the meeting, here's what we went over:
Set the cheese date: Tentatively March 26th at 10 a.m. We have the list, Rachel Roberts has been deemed as the keeper. Find or email her if you're sincerely interested. As far as cost, the final details haven't been finalized yet, but it shouldn't be any more than $20/person if we have to buy *everything* (stainless steel pots included. I'm confident we can find some to borrow). We're almost finished with the budget. We can definitely use the Pacer Crossings kitchens. :)
We're still waiting on the food documentary as an ICE event, the Q&A faculty/staff panel, the changes we need to make to the Constitution (I'm meeting with Ahmed tomorrow, so hopefully we can *finally* get all these little things ironed out!). We're also still working on contacting local farmers about potentially hosting the Aiken Farmer's market for a day at USCA.
We're still bummed that the student garden has been put on hold. We might try to organize something to get our own Slow Food garden.
Also, keep an eye on the Pacer Times, we might be featured! :D
That's all folks! Thank you!!
[scribbled by Elise]
Set the cheese date: Tentatively March 26th at 10 a.m. We have the list, Rachel Roberts has been deemed as the keeper. Find or email her if you're sincerely interested. As far as cost, the final details haven't been finalized yet, but it shouldn't be any more than $20/person if we have to buy *everything* (stainless steel pots included. I'm confident we can find some to borrow). We're almost finished with the budget. We can definitely use the Pacer Crossings kitchens. :)
We're still waiting on the food documentary as an ICE event, the Q&A faculty/staff panel, the changes we need to make to the Constitution (I'm meeting with Ahmed tomorrow, so hopefully we can *finally* get all these little things ironed out!). We're also still working on contacting local farmers about potentially hosting the Aiken Farmer's market for a day at USCA.
We're still bummed that the student garden has been put on hold. We might try to organize something to get our own Slow Food garden.
Also, keep an eye on the Pacer Times, we might be featured! :D
That's all folks! Thank you!!
[scribbled by Elise]
Friday, January 28, 2011
Hello World!
Helloooooooooooooo out there! Slow Food on Campus at USCA is finally here! YAY! Many thanks to everyone who has worked hard to get us to this point. Now, let's keep going! :D
Just a reminder, while it's on my mind: Meetings are at 5 p.m. in the H&SS building in room 116 on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month. Our elections are coming up on the 4th Wednesday of March... Our primary goal right now is to recruit as many people as we can find!
So far, we haven't had any activities. We really are brand new at this. But Slow Food itself isn't brand new, it has quite a history! Find out more about Slow Food at http://slowfood.com/! Or, for the national branch, http://slowfoodusa.org/ :)
Hopefully, we will have some exciting events coming up very, very soon. Currently on the idea board are making cheese, viewing related videos (i.e., King Corn and/or Food Inc.), helping with the Student Garden that is coming soon to USCA, inviting the Aiken Farmer's Market to visit USCA once in awhile to make their wares more available to the students here, and so forth. All these are going to take work, but we're working on it.
If you have any questions, comments, ideas, concerns, anything - our email is usca@slowfoodusa.org. And please please pleeeeeeease come participate in any way you can!
Thanks y'all!!!
(scribbled by Elise)
(scribbled by Elise)
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