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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman">Doug Wilson, that
funny guy, is at it again.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>His April Fools joke this year is posted at his website (<A
href="http://www.dougwils.com">www.dougwils.com</A>) today (see below).
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<DIV><FONT size=2>He claims in this post to have purchased the Moscow Food
Co-op. The Co-op is owned by its 3,500 members, not some shadowy
multinational corporation he guided to a corporate takeover. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Doug is not a Co-op member, so he doesn't even own a tiny
portion of the Co-op. It's just his attempt at "funny."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I would like to remind Doug that there are two kinds of
funny. Funny as in "hah, hah, good joke" and funny as in quite
peculiar.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>He's sliding well into the peculiar category with this
one.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>BL</FONT></DIV>
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<P>Now that the papers are all signed, and my attorney says that there is
nothing that can be done about it, I suppose this would be a good time to
announce that through the generous help of a third party my wife and I have
bought the Moscow Food Coop. For me to have been involved in the negotiations
publicly would have been obviously counterproductive, but now that the deal is
done, I think there is no longer any sense in being coy. At the same time,
despite local politics, I want to assure all the regular Food Coop customers
that there is <I>absolutely no intention </I>of selling the Coop's new downtown
location to Christ Church, or of diminishing in any way the quality of service
that our customers have come to expect.</P>
<DIV><I>Posted by Douglas Wilson<FONT size=-2> - 4/1/2005 1:16:54
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