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The following notes and photo are from the cybercafe of the 1996 World Vegetarian Congress, in Johntown PA, USA:
We send a newsletter with news (!) dates and details of our forthcoming
meetings such as lectures by doctors, cookery experts, and on allied
vegetarian subjects; we also have food-tasting evenings, cookery demonstrations,
coffee mornings with bring and buy stalls, afternoon teas, buffet suppers,
a summer picnic in a Member's large and lovely garden. We try to help
with answers to your questions about the vegetarian diet or anything
else related to our way of life. We ask for volunteers to help with
many different jobs such as putting out chairs in the hall, making a
good display of free leaflets on a table and packing it up again later,
loading/unloading our car, making the tea, washing-up, preparing or
cooking food if you are good at that, helping at stalls in the High
Street or wherever, or at an exhibition or show or anything else that
has to be done. If you are an artist, computer expert with computer,
a printer with spare paper, have a large van for occasional transport
of goods (maybe twice a year) or have a large pagoda type tent that
we could put our stalls/tables in for use at outdoor events in the area,
that we could borrow, we would love to hear from you right away -- please.
If you have some good ideas for fund-raising, design of leaflets, or
just money to spare, then please write to me even sooner. I have enjoyed
writing this to you, as well as this amazing week at the Vegetarian
Summerfest and World Vegetarian Congress 1996 at the University of Pittsburg,
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I wish that you could have been here too. Why
not come to the next one - it's in Bangkok, Thailand in January, 1999.
In the meantime, The Vegetarian Society of the U.K. will be celebrating
its' 150 th anniversary next year, and we begin our celebrations during
National Vegetarian Week 2nd - 9th June, 1997. Look out for details
of this in local and national newspapers, on radio and TV and otherwise
all over the place. And come and help -- please. See you soon. Kathy Silk |