City Market staff presented a check totaling $13,442.10 to the COTS team and a check totaling $8,115.38 to the Intervale Center team on January 9th. The Annual Tree Sale to benefit COTS has been held at the Co-op for the past 22 years, bringing the total donation to over $159,000. City Market photo.
Vermont Business Magazine Last month, City Market offered its 22nd Annual COTS Tree Sale to benefit Vermont’s Committee on Temporary Shelter. City Market once again sold fresh balsams from Moffatt’s Tree Farm in Craftsbury, Vermont. The Co-op sold 662 trees starting on Wednesday, December 4 and the net proceeds were donated to COTS. City Market continued the “Buy a Tree, Plant a Tree” program for the second year in a row.
For each tree purchased, City Market donated funding for the Intervale Center to plant a tree in Vermont; these plantings will take place in the spring of 2020. City Market staff, Co-op Members, and community volunteers assisted customers with trees throughout the sale.
City Market’s Annual COTS Tree Sale is one of a number of ways that the Co-op works to support the entire community and this particular sale has truly become a community event! This year’s successful sale took 100 volunteers (working a total of 450 hours) and community members, all who support COTS through tree purchases and additional donations.
COTS is Vermont’s largest service provider to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. They are a nationally recognized, Vermont non-profit that provides emergency shelter, services, housing and prevention outreach to families and children.
John Tashiro, City Market’s General Manager, shares the Co-op’s enthusiasm for this annual event.
“Each year, the COTS Tree Sale marks the start of a special season at the Co-op where with the help of our generous Member Workers and staff, we are able to provide the community with high quality trees that positively impact the community in more ways than one! We are so appreciative for the continued community support for this event, now in its twenty second year and for the generosity of our community which has culminated in over $159,000 being donated directly to COTS over the years, and more recently, the planting of native trees to protect our waterways. The programs that COTS and the Intervale Center support enrich our community and we’re proud to partner closely with them and applaud their efforts.”
Co-op staff presented a check totaling $13,442.10 to the COTS team and a check totaling $8,115.38 to the Intervale Center team on January 9th. The Annual Tree Sale to benefit COTS has been held at the Co-op for the past 22 years, bringing the total donation to over $159,000. If you missed the tree sale and would like to donate to COTS, go to cotsonline.org/make-a-donation-now.
Source: Burlington, VT – City Market 1.9.2020