ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>The Vegetarian Network of Austin</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="vna2.css" type="text/css"> <script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffeecc"> <div id="main"> <div id="header"> <script type="text/javascript"> AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0','width','810','height','150','id','vnaheader4','align','middle','src','images/vnaheader4.swf','quality','high','bgcolor','#ffffff','name','vnaheader4','allowscriptaccess','sameDomain','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','images/vnaheader4' ); //end AC code </script> <noscript> <object width="800" height="150"> <param name="movie" value="vnaheader4.swf"> <embed src="images/vnaheader4.swf" width="810" height="150"> </embed> </object> </noscript> </div> <div id="middletop"><img src="images/VNAbodytop.gif"></div> <div id="middle"> <div id="content"> <div id="bigkahuna"> <img src="images/VNAcalbar.gif"> <p><h1><img src="images/vna_icon.gif"> Official VNA Event<br><br> <img src="images/lsvn_icon.gif"> Lone Star Veg Net Event<br><br> <img src="images/check_icon.gif"> Miscellaneous Event</h3></p> <br> <p><h3><img src="images/vna_icon.gif" width="31"> January Potluck Dinner</h3> <b>Home of Candace d'Obrenovic<br> 3808 Arrow Drive <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3808+Arrow+Dr,+Austin+Texas">[map]</a><br> Saturday, January 14th at 6:30pm</b> <p><i>You do not have to be a VNA member to attend our monthly potluck gatherings.</i></p> <p>You do not have to be a VNA member to attend our monthly potluck dinners. Come meetup with vegetarians of all ages and share your food and friendship.<br><br>Please bring a vegan dish to feed 8 plus a serving utensil, as well as your own plate, utensils, and beverage. Also bring your recipe or a list of ingredients to help those with food sensitivities.</p> <p><h3><img src="images/vna_icon.gif" width="31"> January Restaurant Visit for Lunch</h3> <b><a href="http://www.casadeluz.org">Casa de Luz</a> organic, vegan, macrobiotic restaurant<br> 1701 Toomey Rd, Austin <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hq=casa+de+luz,+austin&cid=15811628028026883629">[map]</a><br> Sunday January 29th at 11:30am</b><br> <p>"Casa de Luz is 100% Vegan and organic with the occasional non-organic ingredient marked on the menu. Their grains are soaked overnight, they avoid foods containing gluten, no sugar or artificial ingredients are added, they use genuine whole foods, campus-grown herbs (when they can), sprouts are grown in-house, meals are prepared according to the seasons, and their water is triple-filtered to remove flouride."</p> <p>We've been to Casa de Luz many times over the years, usually once annually, but we just learned recently that the Sunday brunch has been changed specifically to just a regular lunch. Unfortunately this means that the pancakes so many people always enjoyed coming for will not be part of the menu.</p> <p>Please RSVP by <a href="mailto:vna_rsvp@yahoo.com?subject=RSVP">email</a> (start your subject line with RSVP) to help us and the restaurant plan ahead.</p> <!--<p><h3><img src="images/vna_icon.gif" width="31"> November Restaurant Dinner Visit</h3> <b><a href="http://www.MrNatural-Austin.com">Mr. Natural</a> vegetarian restaurant<br> 1901 E. Cesar Chavez, Austin <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=mr+natural+cesar+chavez&cid=11402383988073337435">[map]</a><br> Wednesday November 23rd (the day before Thanksgiving) at 6:30pm<br><i>(NOTE: The newsletter says the start time is 7:00pm, but they close at 8pm, so we're starting at 6:30.)</i></b> <p><i>You do not have to be a VNA member to attend our monthly restaurant visits.</i></p> <p>Mr. Natural, the all-vegetarian Mexican restaurant, bakery and health food store, is one of Austin's long-standing vegetarian institutions. The VNA has had a tradition in the past of visiting Mr. Natural around Thanksgiving. This year we're doing it on the day before, which is when Mr. Natural will be serving their special Thanksgiving menu, complete with their own homemade vegan "turkey" (not Tofurkey), vegan rosemary mushroom gravy, a fresh-baked roll and three vegetables of your choice, and a serving of their own orange-cranberry sauce. Check out their Thanksgiving menu at <a href="http://www.mrnatural-austin.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=64">this link.</a>. The individual plate is $11, or if you want to get it to go and just visit with us while you wait to pick it up, it's $12. This will be at the Cesar Chavez location in East Austin.</p> <p>Please RSVP by <a href="mailto:vna_rsvp@yahoo.com?subject=RSVP">email</a> (start your subject line with RSVP) to help us and the restaurant plan ahead.</p> <p><h3><img src="images/vna_icon.gif" width="31"> Holiday Potluck and "White Elephant" Party</h3> <b>Home of Nancy Woolley<br> 5107 Crestway Drive <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5107+Crestway+Drive,+Austin+Texas">[map]</a><br> Saturday, December 10th at 6:30pm</b> <p><i>You do not have to be a VNA member to attend our monthly potluck gatherings.</i></p> <p>We're having our annual holiday potluck gathering, so come enjoy some great, festive vegan food, along with old and new vegetarian friends and camaraderie!</p> <p>For those of you who aren't familiar, we're having a "White Elephant" is a kind of gift exchange game, where you bring an item or gift to contribute. The White Elephant Gift exchange works this way: Each guest contributes one gift to the game, and ultimately each guest walks away with one different gift from the game. The theme for the gifts is recycling, some possibilities would be something you were given before and are now "regifting", or something you used to use but now could get more use from someone else, etc.<br><br> All gifts should be wrapped, but not labeled to reflect the sender or a recipient. Everyone will draw a number to determine the order of gift choosing. The person who drew #1 chooses a gift from the pile, and then shows it to everyone. Then it's Person #2's turn. They can either steal an item previously unwrapped or open a new gift from the pile. If a person's gift is stolen, that person can immediately unwrap a new gift or steal another person's gift. This process repeats until a gift has been stolen 3 times, or until a person chooses to unwrap a new gift (as opposed to stealing a gift), at which point play proceeds to the next person. Owners of opened gifts must keep them visible for all to see and hold them up when requested.<br><br> </p> <p><i>Please bring a VEGAN dish to feed 8 plus a serving utensil, as well as your own plate, utensils, and beverage. 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