1.25.06

Attention!

"Dining Out Day" is Tuesday, January 31st – less than a week away! This your chance to eat at the best vegetarian restaurant in Colorado and help Colorado’s leading animal advocates. Simply visit Watercourse (214 E. 13th Ave, Denver), the area's premier vegetarian restaurant, from 7:30 am - 10:00 pm and a percentage of the day’s receipts will be donated to RMAD. Also, 10% of any gift certificates and wholesale baked goods purchased that day will go to RMAD. (If you want to pre-order cakes, pies, cinnamon rolls — by the dozen — or anything for Dining Out Day, RMAD will also receive 10%. Just call Watercourse at 303-832-7313, and select the extension for the bakery).

This year, two great shops next to Watercourse are also involved. Soul Haus is a great, funky clothing store and Pandora Jewelry is a great gift shop. Both will donate 20% of their take of the day from anyone who mentions RMAD or gives them a Dining Out Day flyer. Watercourse, Soul Haus, and Pandora Jewelry are on 13th Avenue between Grant and Sherman, just one block south of the state capitol. (Both retail stores are staying open late until 8 pm to help us even more. Soul Haus is transitioning to a non-leather goods, so we want to support their effort.)

A huge “thank you” to Dan Hanley for organizing this event!

A plea for help from the Colorado House Rabbit Society: “We continue to be desperately in need of more people to help clean crates once a month. You can do as few as two, or any multiple of two that you want to commit to. There are so many crates and/or runs not cleaned at the end of each weekend! This past weekend, there were 14 crates left. This doesn't count the crates and pens on the floor that hold our overflow -- rabbits who would be killed if we couldn't take them, and rabbits people have adopted from us and return to us unexpectedly. We're always trying to get adoptions done more quickly so we can get rid of the overflow, but when I have to spend my time on so much cleaning, the number of adoptions I can do drops.”

If you can help just a few hours once a month, please email Nancy at co-hrs@comcast.net. The bunnies really appreciate it.

See you all at Dining Out Day!

- Chris


Rocky Mountain Animal Defense Calendar of Events:


Saturday, January 28: Fur Demo

When: 11:30 a.m. Noon. Posters and leaflets will be provided. Bring an umbrella just in case!
Where: Marks Lloyds Furs, 263 Josephine, between 2nd and 3rd in Cherry Creek.

Please help us spread the truth about fur, in Denver. Here's the scoop about fur:
http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/
http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/issues_facing_wildlife/fur_and_trapping/
http://www.furisdead.com/getActive.asp
http://www.furisdead.com/photos-traps.asp
http://www.bancrueltraps.com/
http://www.furkills.org/
http://www.infurmation.com
Dining Out Day: January 31st, 2006

When: All day!
Where: Watercourse Foods, Denver

Eat well and eat often to benefit the animals of Colorado and beyond at Denver’s premier vegetarian restaurant.


Ongoing: Vegetarian Parents of Denver Meeting

Vegetarian Parents of Denver meet the second Saturday of every month. We discuss a variety of issues, share resources and are even starting an organic food buying club. We welcome parents of children of any age. Bring the kids and we have a babysitter watch them in another room. Our next meeting is June 11 at 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. You can call 303 355 5272 or e-mail Laura Patrick (veganmom2002@yahoo.com) for directions. Or join our online discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/compassionate_future/.