Hi {FIRST_NAME|Veg Friend,}

We have some wonderful events happening in the next few weeks, including our Vegan Food Party this Saturday hosted by Paul and Kathleen in Vallejo (RSVP), preceded by an author reading of Will Travel for Vegan Food at the Vallejo Bookstore

We are an all-volunteer group, so our activities depend on your leadership and generosity to share. Here's some new activities that are being proposed, so if you're interested in them, please let us know, so we can get them started!

- Knitting Club: Open to new or experienced knitters (being veg is not a requirement). The vegan guideline applies to any food consumed at the meetings and to materials used in projects. We're looking at it being a monthly event, most likely a weekday evening. If you're interested, please reply with your availability preference (weekend or weekday evening, and your knitting experience level). An experienced knitter has volunteered to lead this activity, and more are welcome.

- Restaurant survey project: Let's build a comprehensive guide of where to eat plant-based in Napa and Solano county, and promote compassionate dining. This will including surveying restaurants, educating them on what vegetarianism, and organizing vegan dining out events. If any aspect of this appeals to you, please let me know, as this is a long-term project with significant benefits to hopefully one day having a vegan restaurant in Solano and Napa county!

- Healthy Veg Discussion & Support Group: Attendance at these events fluctuates wildly, and hasn't yet found its niche. If you would like to see this activity continue, it's critical that attendance stabilizes. At minimum, please let Lew know why the date/time may not be working for you so alternatives may be considered. Next meeting: 8/13 [ RSVP/Contact Lew ]

- Dining out: Let's support our only vegetarian restaurant in Solano County, Vaishnu Express Cafe, with a vegan dining event. They have 3 curries on the menu that are already vegan. Based on past experience with group dinners, restaurants are usually open to making special entrees if there is a large enough advance commitment. So if you enjoy dining out and socializing, creating a vegan economy, and meeting like-minded folks, this may be the activity for you. Looking for someone to host this monthly, or bi-monthly.

For myself, I enjoy putting my compassion in action via building our local veg community, and public outreach. Here's a profile that FARMUSA did on my work. Yesterday was a wonderful day at the Vallejo Farmer's Market; over 864 leaflets distributed by Holly, Darren, Todd and myself.

If there's an activity that you're passionate about and would like to lead, please let us know.

For the animals,
Tammy
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