[Magdalen] 21.5 stone...ugh

[Lynn Ronkainen]

How many of you are familiar with the phrase "food desert". It is used a lot 
here in parts of  the city of Houston and some of the poorer outlying areas 
(to be designated as such so as not to confuse with the wealthy outlying 
areas, that are actually incorporated within the city  so they can 'call 
their own shots').

For the unaware a food desert is an area where there are NO traditional 
grocery stores of any kind except a corner convenience store or one 
associated with a gas station. Not a small family owned grocery store, not a 
branch of a local or national chain - no grocery stores that can be walked 
to (say a 2 mile distance).

There are many initiatives going on now to lure grocery stores into these 
areas with limited success.  There was a time when these areas were better 
served but through loss/theft, and not *enough* sales, the stores closed up 
shop.

Lynn, often forgetting to be thankful for  what seems to me to be 'little 
things'.

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 4:22 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] 21.5 stone...ugh

>>>>That's WEIRD. It's always on the perimeter of every store I've ever 
>>>>shopped
> at. Oh well, it's California.<<<
>
> Specifically, it's Raley's (Nob Hill, Bel Air).  Every other store in town 
> it's on the side.  I'm rare, for my immediate (and by that I mean short 
> walking distance) neighborhood has THREE fully functioning grocery stores: 
> Nob Hill, Lucky's (sometimes SaveMart, depending on which way the 
> corporate wind blows), and a Mom & Pop place called Star Market which is 
> the oldest of the three (owned by a Chinese family with roots that go 
> farther back than most of us around here).  In terms of produce and meat 
> quality, it's Star first, then Nob Hill, then Lucky's.  (Actually, put 
> Lucky's at the tail end of all lists.)  And what makes this convenient as 
> hell is that whenever Nob Hill workers go on strike (only once since I've 
> been in this part of town, 2005), I've got two other stores to get what I 
> need while supporting my unionized friends.