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Dear Customers, Support Group, Vendors, Musicians and Volunteers -
The Cortez Farmer’s Market management team wants to take a moment to
thank the many contributors that make our Market, well, some have
said “it’s the best farmer’s market they’ve ever been to”!! This was
our 45th year! And some of our Amazing Vendors are of the original
group!!
We want to thank all of you dedicated and gifted vendors for working
so hard all week to bring us your delicious local grown fruits and
vegetables, local grown pasture fed meats, amazing and one-of-a-kind
works of art, scrumptious prepared food and drinks and our much
needed massage therapist!
Our customers deserve a tremendous thanks! Many of them show up
every week eager to see what’s available from our 38 vendors! We
wouldn’t be there without your continued support to shop local,
practice good community and visit with us each Saturday morning
throughout the season!
A grand thanks for all the fabulous musical performers we had gift
our Market with danceable sounds to shop to each Saturday! Plus
thanks to our storyteller Laura McHenry, of Cortez Public Library,
for captivating the young ones!
Deserving immense thanks from all of us at CFM for efforts, time and
money, we THANK the City of Cortez, Executive Asst. Dawn McCabe-Lightenburger,
and Mark Drudge of CREA for their generous grants, our fiscal agent,
the Pinon Project; Kellie Willis, Shauna Pena, and Ian Elder-Cheyne,
the Journal, Free Press, KSJD and Mesa TV for advertising, Connie
Baber and SuBee Web Services for maintaining our website and keeping
it engaging! Connie also gets credit for provoking the CFM managers
to plan something FUN for Market! Thanks to Farmers Telephone for
providing our local non-profits a booth venue to share their
message. Gigantic thanks to Montezuma County Extension Office,
especially Kathy Harris, for all they do for us year-round! A HUGE
thanks goes to LiveWell, Cooking Matters and CO. Dept of Human
Services for supporting, assisting and advising us with our EBT/SNAP
issues this season plus all they do to promote the much needed
SNAP/Double Up Food Bucks program for CFM! Alan and I want to thank
the CFM Standing Committee for their support and advice throughout
the year, plus Lee Hill for the same and maintaining the Market’s
accounting; Theresa Titone for training and consulting even as she
traveled the US! Lastly, but so deserving our devoted Friend’s Booth
volunteers; Lew Matis, Ann Smith, Carol Dunsworth, Krista Swanson
and Pat Norton...we could not do this without all of you!!
We HOPE for you all a celebrated and WET winter and spring and to
see all of you again next year!!
Alan Rolston and Jodie Sutton, CFM Co-Managers
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