coming up on oakdale update we'll learn about an area grocery and prescription delivery service we'll tell you about these new indoor market and we'll visit a new business in the city stay tuned oakdale update is straight ahead groceries and prescriptions every two weeks to jean and homebound seniors in the metropolitan seven county area of minneapolis and st paul with me today to tell us more about the store door his here thanks for having me or you want to tell us a little bit about yourself your background and that sort of thing sure i have been in the nonprofit industry for about twenty years and i started my husband and i started a nonprofit that did foster care for people living with well living with aids in stillwater and then from that really found a love for volunteers and volunteer recruiting and really getting people involved in nonprofits because the heart and passion are in in washington county and so i started working with started our while we were waiting for federal and state funds to come and i thought hey this is a great opportunity to work with another organization the details i was this organization already fallen did and then you just decided to help them right is that correct started or yes sort of our has been around for a number of years i used to work as a program officer for a foundation and learned about them there and then saw that they had a need for someone to help them recruit volunteers and i thought the twin cities metro area we deliver out a five stores five cup stores i'm including the cub in midway which is off of the universe audience knowledge and then the cub in maple what are the two e side we deliver to about four hundred seniors a what is a partnership sure well this last year it's really grown cub has done things like put our information in there coupon flyers but what happens is when you go to cub store to door shops and delivers on different days so for example at maplewood we shop on thursdays and fridays from six to ten we have about thirty volunteers there who put groceries together they go and take out a list and chop up a senior's groceries and then bring them into a cart and then they get them all in a row at the grocery counter and then they check them out and so what cup helps us do is allows us to be in there for four hours in the morning getting groceries ready setting aside to grocery aisles so that we can take those over and go ahead and print our orders get them all together and then and then they allow us to then put our vans in the front of the store and then are paid delivery people get all the orders ready they put them in those big cup totes and then take them out for th way back when i can don't know the man's name but it was a just a local person in st paul who worked for a while the research at that time in aging services and so and what he did is he saw this need for delivery because it went to get to be a certain age sometimes you can't get around anymore especially once you lose your car you lose your ability to drive and so he started literally with a few volunteers delivering and having volunteers deliver groceries and then as it's expanded  grocery delivery his want to have time paid staff to do just because if you're dealing with seniors and prescription medication and they're for their money it just makes more sense to have that more protected and a lot of our clients are eighty four years old or older so you just don't want just everybody in their lives so what is the criteria for a person to get involved in this problem they need to be at least sixty five years old beyond that there are no income qualifications or guidelines really no it's a really simple process so you call our office we'll talk to an intake person and what they'll do is ask just some basic questions your name your address your emergency contacts in case something were to happen to you in a driver gets to your apartment notices something's going on and then the delivery fee is anywhere between fifteen dollars a time to zero depending on your income and so the only other thing you have to do is be able to pay for your groceries have to spend at least twenty five dollars of we are each time and then not more than two hundred dollars a day so what is the procedure for ordering specifically a phone call or will happen as a volunteer or taker will call a person on the telephone pre registered people so they've called then they've got registered for the service they once a week get their cub coupon sheet so they can look and see what's on sale they'll put together the list of what they want for orders a volunteer will call them the volunteer will say you know what's on your shopping list this week the volunteer on the other end has them on the telephone and is on line on our computer system and they're putting their order into the computer while they're talking and then they confirm with what they said they wanted for groceries and if they're in agreement it is the same thing then they go ahead and put that into the system and then the system takes all the orders for that we compile them sends them to the store coordinator and the volunteer coordinator at that store then puts all the orders together and gets them ready to go so is this a coordinator at store one of your people yep the person you know if it's one of our people and then usually there's another cup person there to help check out orders now you did say that towton and they're all numbered with the grocery orders number and the route figured out ahead of time and so then they go out and go to a seniors property knock on the door or if it's an apartment building buzz in they let them into their apartment they on load all their groceries on the table or on the counter wherever they want them and some of our clients also have them either put them away in the refrigerator in the cupboard and sometimes open jars up that are hard to open when they sit down and they give each in a given coupons if they have coupons and then they let them know what their order costs and they do or write out a check pay by credit card or use their e v t food stamps so that was already paid for at the other end i mean when the volunteers kno culp allows us to weeks credit which is unusual when you talked about what is the partnership look like cub says you've got two weeks to get all of the money in and to reconcile it which is a really wonderful opportunity so literally when we walk out the door the groceries belong to some folks want hot meals or frozen meals delivered to them that's what meals on wheels does some people are still a little more independent than that look for for just groceries and they can take care of themselves but they just can't get out in the winter or have limited access to or no access to recruitment that's what i've been hired to do is to really raise our visibility so more people know about what we do and so i go to college campuses i work with corporations currently we are working with three m we're highlighting the  opportunities for volunteering with three ems retirees and so what we need volunteers for really are two places so the first being the volunteer shoppers so for example in maplewood were looking at increasing our client base and to do that we would go to a third day shopping which means we add about seventy clients to that month and so that means that we need six volunteers for each shift for four days a week or so are for four times a month so that's about twenty four volunteers and literally what a volunteer shopper does is they go to the store they check in they get their shopping lists they read their shopping list it's organized by aisle they go up and down the aisles shop the list get it all together put in a line another volunteer checks that order to make sure everything's there and you get it ready for checkout you put it in the top and the driver takes it out to the car but it's run through the register a different price for the register but so you know they're not having to like take it anywhere or do anything with it and then our volunteer or takers is someone needs to be comfortable with the computer and the telephone and you could literally do it here or you could be in arizona and call your class it's great is this a nationwide program no currently the man who originally started started door is now out in oregon so he has his own off there but really minnesota is the only place that have the specific store to door name we are having conversations about would we build a manual that people could use to do started or crush them so they started in this cycle started in minnesota if it's now time for our defining development segment each month we profile a different business in our community here's this month's business salvation army has a new presence of the oakdale area that's a little different than what you might think the salvation army boutique opened recently in oakdale and offers the best merchandise donated to other salvation army thrift stores throughout the twin cities that's not all this building has though connected to the gucci is dreamcoat coffee program specialist lars carlson used to own a coffee house in stillwater and that experience suppressed salvation army officials enough to entertain the idea of the combination through cheek at a coffee house in had talked about wanting to to do the salvation army in a new way and a break in the community a little different and i had been to that coffee house a couple times and said i really wish we could do something similar to that because every time we went we one hundred twenty four countries currently around the world our international headquarters is in london england one of the big things that we do our mission says that we preach the gospel of jesus christ and that we meet human needs in his name without discrimination and what we try to do is whatever community where in whatever kinds of human needs they have in that area we try to reach out and help people if that means developing programs specific to those areas specific to the needs of the people we try to use the side serving coffee and food the coffee house also features and be a part of the community again in a society where i think where where or hungry for fellas are for interaction with each other that just continues to be a part where we can can grow this cold coffee are located at sixty sixty fiftieth street north just off highway thirty six you know dale it's time for a short break but first here's this month's trivia question since one nine hundred ninety eight the city has presented an outstanding volunteer of the year award to a member of our community who goes above and beyond by offering their time and energy to enhance the quality of life for others our trivia question is who received the first outstanding volunteer award was it pete gras key tom wiener or huey russell we'll have the answer later in the show we'll be right back with more of oakdale update in just a minute hi i'm joe cullen host of ne journal here on g t n channel sixteen every month the northeast journal we give you an inside look at the people and places that make up the northeast section of the twin cities on this month's show we're going to take a look back at the best of northeastern allowed twenty eleven we'll revisit some of our favorite stories and interviews from the past year so be sure to tune in to ne journal right here on g n channel sixteen welcome back to oakdale update the city's farmer's market in the summer has become so popular that now an indoor market will be held every other saturday until the end of march at the discovery cent paul graduated from north on two thousand and four and then went to st called state where i got my recreation degree in two thousand and three and then you started with the city when i started in the summer of zero nine as an intern and then responsible for developing programs and events to give recreational opportunities to the community and what are some of the things that you've done this last past year as past year we do programs such as the outdoor speaker series which gives residents a chance to come in and learn from speakers about certain topics we have learned that help that's held at the discovery center at our outdoor ampitheater and we have a summer concert series that's free for the community we bring in different bands  for different age groups that he gets every wednesday it's not every wednesday but it's select wednesdays yourself to something right and then we have a special event such as our family fun flayed bowls where we bring giant inflatables to wal n park we have forty eight successful this year doing it yes we will give businesses businesses to sponsor inflatables and then give the residents of old dale a free chance to come and participate then we have our winter wonderland which is every saturday before christmas every year we have santa face painting a rides and another free event for the community that didn't work too well this year with no snow i took over the farmer's market in two thousand and nine it typically starts the third week in june and runs to the first week in october every wednesday from three to seven now it ended this year ok how did it work how did it go this year with in terms of the weather and that's what we only had one day that it actually rained so we had good weather this year and the turnout was great vendors were happy they were selling out every week and by far  year ok so what where do you where are these farmers from some of them a lot of my local we do have a few oakdale residents that are vendors we do have multiple st paul vendors a couple from hudson and as far you're starting an indoor farmer's market tell us tell us about that that with we after seeing our farmer's market become so successful we decided to start an indoor market and what that is it's inside the discovery center like you said every other saturday it began this past week and we get twenty vendors that are participating and vendors such as we have frozen strudels frozen beef and pork jewelry jams  vendor and they come all the way from princeton minnesota it was an hour and i have tried for them on saturday really ok just this last saturday was the first time as a correct correct how did it go actually went really well i was a little nervous considering it's our first day and seeing what the turnout would be like but we had a lot of you know a lot of response from the community so ok so then you have breads and jellies and that's what they are those are homemade and then they're actually the vendors have their own businesses goals and they're licensed so they bring in their products to sell how many vendors did you have this your first time around the farmer's market we know what the indoor market in our market we had twenty twenty is there room enough  there for more than twenty and unfortunately we are at capacity with twenty already ok right in how do you go about recruiting vendors what do you do well i started off by recruiting some of my summer farmer's market vendors with some of their products that they had and once i heard back from them then i reached out to other cities and got their contact list to their vendors and then i started from there cool soul k now i'm so mean that you're having a post mortem on this what what are you going to do for next time around if you if you're already filled up well we do take a waiting list down just in case a vendor can't make it one day we have somebody to call  typically next year i will take back the returning vendors and depending on how many want to return and i will go from there and recruit others for the open space ok but if you run a rule on this if you've got more vendors coming they're going to expand it someplace else and maybe we will definitely look into that because they have the home improvement fair that school gymnasium right correct but all it all comes down to the cost breakdown for us and for the vendors it one more time when where is it at the end of markets at the discovery center every other saturday started this past saturday so the next one will be on the twenty first and then it all and march thirty first that's from one to four ok mike we're out of time so but i'm glad we got this information out to the public ok thanks for having me you bet thank you and exciting event took place recently at randy's premier pizza in oakdale let's take a look like any competitive athlete eric dollar grand essentail take their sport seriously they train and compete tirelessly for the love of the game in their case though it's not football or hockey their sport of choice is competitive eating dog from delano minnesota chantelle from kansas city compete solo across the country in numerous competitive eating competitions recently though they join forces with a pizza challenge at they made in about twenty one of the twenty three minutes something like that on a friday and lacrosse wisconsin way dead a twelve pounds twenty eight in space and nine minutes offending nine seconds so we're hoping to break ten on this one too why in wide open spaces right when i'm starting to get ball th good on their predictions by breaking the previous record and demolishing their piece forty minutes fifteen seconds they still had over fifteen minutes to spare to win the five hundred dollars cash prize brandy's premier pizza some amazing eating accomplishments in his restaurant but this one even blew him away it's absolutely incredible you know i i looked at their i looked at their vile of so i knew i know they would bring  talking about possibly making a return to randy's premier pizza for another challenge this one a thirty six inch piece that could potentially earn them one thousand dollars  we're just about out of time but first let's answer a trivia question we asked who received the first outstanding volunteer ward in annual arbor day tree giveaway on the next oakdale update will interview the latest recep event of the outstanding volunteer award that's all we have time for for everyone at the city of oakdale thanks for watching