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October is Co-op Month!

Oct 02, 2019

 By Sara Clausen


Every October is a chance to celebrate cooperatives, uniquely-local organizations.  This year’s National Co-op Month theme is “Co-ops: By the Community, For the Community.”

Co-op Month has been a nationally recognized celebration since 1964, when U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, a former Minnesota governor, proclaimed October Co-op Month.



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