SUPPORT GROUPS
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Domestic violence
Support Group. For survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Contact: For more information, call Family Crisis Services Inc., (620) 275-5911.
Teen-Talk Support Group. For victims of domestic violence, dating violence and sexual assault. Time/Location: 5 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of each month at Family Crisis Services Inc., 106 W. Fulton St. Contact: Susan at (620) 275-2018.
Substance abuse
Alcoholics Anonymous Hotline. Information for AA groups in the Garden City area. Contact: Hotline, (844) 244-3171.
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This summer, The American Vegan Center will open in Philadelphia, PA the city where the United States vegetarian and vegan movements began. The new vegan welcome center will feature a store (selling everything from vegan books to T-shirts to Philadelphia-specific vegan souvenirs), event space, and information center that will offer Old City vegan history tours to promote cruelty-free living to tourists and the general public. Situated near the home of Benjamin Franklin (who introduced America to tofu), the center is operated by The American Vegan Society (AVS), the longest-running vegan advocacy organization in the US, in partnership with vegan columnist Vance Lehmkuhl, the author of
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On the front page of the first Guardian was an advert for the first vegetarian cookbook: “A NEW system of VEGETABLE COOKERY with an INTRODUCTION recommending abstinence from ANIMAL FOOD AND INTOXICATING LIQUORS.” The book was written anonymously by Martha Brotherton, wife of the campaigning minister of the Bible Christian Church, Joseph Brotherton, Salford’s first MP. They were later to become leading figures in the Vegetarian Society, which had its inaugural annual meeting in Manchester in 1848.
The Guardian attended the Vegetarian Society’s 1850 banquet and soiree, reporting in detail on the spread of mushroom pies, fritters, “omelets” and moulded sago, the floral arrangements, the philosophical beliefs of the guests that meat-eating led to aggression, and their disgust at the diseased meat on sale in London, Manchester, Oldham and Bolton. The 1874 soiree sounded lively, with a guest ranting about “blood lickers” and deman
4/30/2021: 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., New Beginnings Church, 2021 N Western Ave.
More about the blood drive (
from their press release): With no substitute for blood and no way to manufacture it, volunteer donors are essential for hospital patients in need of transfusions. During National Volunteer Month this April, the American Red Cross is celebrating the blood donors who help fulfill its lifesaving mission and urging healthy individuals to join them in giving. Nearly 2.6 million Red Cross volunteer donors step up every year to ensure blood is on the shelves when patients need it. The generosity of these heroes has been especially impactful over the past year as they helped the Red Cross continue to meet patient needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.