Updates from the Alberta Community and Co-operative AssociationThursday, November 1, 2012
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ACCA News:
Federated donates IYC book, platinum sponsor of Nov. 16-17 event
Participants attending the Gathering of Alberta Co-operatives will receive a special book that aims to nourish and inspire the province's co-operative future.
Building a Better World is published by International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) to commemorate the United Nations' International Year of the Cooperative (IYC). Click to Read More
Meota celebrates 50 years with events, new book commemorating history
Gwen Batz admires the founders of Meota Gas Co-op for their tenacity: they were positive nothing could stop them, and they were right.
Thanks to the efforts of Stan Jones, Jack Fears and Gwen's father, Tom Adams, the small hamlet of Priddis, Alta. accessed natural gas 50 years ago, at a time when Alberta's private power producer argued it was cost prohibitive. Click to Read More
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The Co-operative News has created an online event site to enable people from around the world to participate in Co-operatives United, the global culminating event of the International Year of Co-operatives. Click to Read More
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