{"content":[{"text":"Greetings, all. Thank you very much for joining us here this afternoon. \n As you’re probably aware by now, my name is Lloyd, and I am your new \n General Manager at The Old Creamery Co-op. I’d like to say thank you very \n much to the board for all their good work and good help with the transition \n into the position. Their knowledge and consult has been, and continues to \n be invaluable. \n If you haven’t yet been made privy to my whole backstory, I can tell \n you that I’ve been a great big fan of The Old Creamery for a big long time, \n though my experiences with her have surely been far more casual than your \n own. I met my wife in New Orleans, where she had moved to be with her \n mother and finish out high school after being previously raised in various \n corners of New York City. Whilst a very young person back in the 1980s, she \n began attending Shire Village Camp, and has returned to Cummington to \n attend or work at that camp every summer since. I joined her in \n summertime employment for a few years up here, back when my time was a \n little more malleable, and that’s how I was first introduced to The \n Creamery. \n Nowadays we’re married and raising children. We’ve gotten one out of \n the house, with two more to go. The way things have been in New Orleans \n for the last 15 years, we decided that the right thing to do for those two \n was to finally move North and give them the benefit of a better public \n school system in a state with, shall we say, a slightly better national ranking \n in almost every single category than the one in which we had spent the \n previous twenty years. \n Now; that’s all personal. Professionally speaking, I’ve spent the last \n twenty years helping homegrown small businesses find, or re-establish, their \n foothold in the local culture through judicious application of basic \n organizational technique, good sense decision making, and hard work. The \n culmination of those years of professional collaboration and personal \n development came in the formation of my own business, partnering with \n The Monaghan family, the same folks who had the good sense to hire me as a \n bartender when I first moved to that town back in 2001. \n That business ran under the name Junction, and still does. It’s a great \n spot, and I encourage you all to go check it out the next time you’re passing \n through New Orleans. 40 beers on tap. Farm to table burgers with all \n scratch-made ingredients. It’s awesome.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.091949,"width":0.7639050000000001,"height":0.815247}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}