Author: ChoiceOne

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Kecia Flaute: “If you give a Green Shirt a box…” If you’re not familiar with it, Kecia is rephrasing a well-known children’s book titled If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. And in this day and age of next-day shipping, there’s never a lack of cardboard in...

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kaye Borchers: "I love that the popcorn machine always has an assigned place here. Our priorities are well in line.”   Every once in a while, we change desks here at Choice One. In our typical engineering fashion, there is a...

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