Grand Junction Area Branch Calendar

Lunch, Wednesday September 1, Noon at Sundrop Grocery, 321 Rood Ave. Pick up your favorite Garden Deli delight, or try a new treat from their delicious all vegetarian and mostly organic culinary creations.

Radio Show, Thursday September 9, 12:30 to 1:00. Tune in to ‘Vegetarian Stew Radio Show’ on KAFM 88.1 Community Radio, or listen on the Internet at www.kafmradio.org 

Potluck, Saturday September 18, gather 12:00, eat at 12:30 at the Devil's Kitchen Shelter area, on the Colorado National Monument. Entrance fee applies. Please call about carpooling, and consider joining in for a short hike up Serpent's trail afterwards!

Lunch, Wednesday October 6, Noon at Sundrop Grocery, 321 Rood Ave. (See description above.)

Radio Show, Thursday October 14, 12:30 to 1:00. (See description above.)

Potluck, Saturday October 16, gather 5:30, eat 6:00 at the Church of Religious Science, 1622 Glenwood Ave. Check in on our info board at Sundrop Grocery for update on speaker/potluck theme, or call Marian at 255-0417

Grand Junction Area Branch News

We have been having an active Summer! Our June potluck didn't have the organic strawberries as noted, but the garden was lovely and we enjoyed a table full of delicious veg food and some guitar tunes by Nat.

June's Vegetarian Stew radio show interviewed Paige Roberts -- an inspiring young vegetarian working on her Exercise Physiology degree at Mesa State College. 

At the Community Fair at Mesa Mall, samples of tofuna and tempeh salad drew a crowd to our table. Not many people guessed the answer to our 'scavenger hunt' question -- how many animals are killed for food in the USA every year? Answer: close to 10 billion land animals, and an unknown amount of fishes and sea animals. 10,000,000,000+ that is.

Will Tuttle was our guest on Veg Stew in July. He spoke of the spiritual and ethical basis for a vegan diet, and we learned about the Prayer Circle for Animals. Please check out his website at www.willtuttule.com. We surely enjoyed his piano music from the CD, Sky High.

We found paradise at our July potluck at Carl and Tonya's off grid retreat in Paradox, Colorado. Hope you all can join us next year for our yearly get away. A gracious thanks go to our hosts!