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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱

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A food plug for #veganeats in so-called Victoria, BC among other things 🌱🐈‍⬛🪄🍜🍩🍵🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍💻🌌📚🍉 Vegan since ‘11 Meat-free since ‘93 Feminist, neurospicy, cat servant, plant grower, baker, techie, community builder, board member, etc YYZ>YHZ>SFO>YVR>YYJ

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 18h

More roles:

- Meeting Coordinators
- Finance Team
- Volunteer Coordinators
- Time Sensitive Volunteer Coordinators
- Social Media team
- Fundraising team

I have been an on and off delivery driver for close to a year and now I’m helping now w/ marketing social media and vol recruitment. #yyj

Finance Team:

Responsibilities:
* Reimburse weekly shoppers and drivers for gas money as requested
* Record all expenses and manage donations
* Answer finance inquiries
* Update with account balance or valuable information in Slack channel monthly

Time-Commitment:
* 1 hour/week
* An additional 2 hours a month at online meetings

Accessibility Info/Experience:
* Is an online role (computer needed)
* Requires use of Slack and email
* Requires comfort with finances
* Requires confidentiality

Volunteer Coordinators (Sorting, Drivers, Pick-Up, Shopping)

Responsibilities:
* Send monthly volunteer emails/post to Slack
* Ensures all in-person volunteer roles are full each week
* Send reminder emails to volunteers, monitor volunteers@ email to see if anyone cancels, reaches out to find replacements
* Liaises with social media team to post about volunteer vacancies

Time-Commitment:
* 2-3 hours/week
* An additional 2 hours a month at online meetings

Accessibility Info/Experience:
* Is an online role (computer needed)
* Requires use of Slack and email

Time Sensitive Volunteer Coordinators

Responsibilities:
* Monitors volunteers@ email for last minute cancellations from volunteers and finds replacements by email, Slack, or social media
* Works with social media person or directly posts to Instagram to find replacement volunteers

Time-Commitment:
* 1-2 hours a week (mostly on Slack, Email and Instagram)
* An additional 2 hours a month at online meetings

Accessibility Info/Experience:
* Is an online role (computer needed)
* Requires use of Slack, email and social media
* Requires availability Sunday and Monday eve and crucially Tuesday morning
* Requires taking initiative, but others are always happy to provide direction

Social Media team

Responsibilities:
* Checking social media and responding to messages
* Posting updates, volunteer requests, and important information
* Create graphics for posts using Canva

Time-Commitment:
* 1 hour/week
* An additional 2 hours a month at online meetings

Accessibility Info/Experience:
* Is an online role (computer needed)
* Requires use of Slack, email and social media
* Requires use of Canva
* Requires taking initiative, but others are always happy to provide direction

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 19h

Community Food Support is desperately seeking more Back-End Volunteers to keep the program alive.

We deliver 80+ free food hampers to recipients in #YYJ each week from the Quadra Village Community Centre gym, but much takes place behind the scenes beforehand to make that possible.

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Community Food Support is seeking Back-end Volunteers!

Back-End Roles include:
* Meeting coordinators
* Finance team
* Volunteer Coordinators
* Time-Sensitive Volunteer Coordinators
* Social Media team
* Fundraising team

Back-End Volunteer Roles with Community Food Support

Community Food Support delivers 80+ food hampers to families across Lekwungen territory for free every week. This work cannot be done without the work of our incredible back-end volunteers!

Many of our back-end volunteers are over capacity and we need to onboard new volunteers to be able to continue the food delivery program.

If you support our mission or have been considering volunteering, now is the time to help us out!

What does being a Back-End volunteer involve?

There are many different roles. Each role has multiple people on a team so that no one person is taking on all the work, and so folks can take breaks.

These roles are independently completed on your own time, usually online with Slack and email.

Back-end volunteers attend two organizing meetings online per month (Monday evenings), if they are available, or read the minutes and report back in Slack.

No prior experience with Slack is required - we will train you!

Swipe to learn more about each role and see where you might fit in!

Meeting Coordinators

Responsibilities:
* Create meeting agenda
* Facilitate bi-weekly meetings
* Create Google Meets for meeting and post meeting reminders on Slack
* Take notes during the meetings and share them in Slack

Time-Commitment:
* 0.5 hour/bi-weekly
* An additional 2 hours a month at online meetings

Accessibility Info/Experience:
* Is an online role (computer needed), with potential for in-person summer meetings
* Requires use of Slack and email
* Requires availability briefly on Sunday and for an hour every other Monday eve
* Requires taking initiative, but others are always happy to provide direction

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 5d

That’s great news. I would love to know the location of this project and name.

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 5d

Hard agree and I’ll add, oil and car companies designing the urban hellscape and ruining transit infrastructure.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar

Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

www.theguardian.com

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 5d

That is lovely! They seem very nice the times I have been in plus the matcha is great. I wish more businesses here felt this way but the world seems to be pushing big chains, acquisitions and making it harder for independent operators to make a living.

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 5d

People over 60 with good values also welcome! Last week a guy named Terry blamed a stationary bike curb barrier on Gorge Rd for causing traffic delays and not the driver who crashed into it. They seem to think that the desire of alternate transit is some big conspiracy.

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 5d

The local Victoria Nextdoor community is insular and overrun with bike and pedestrian-hating retirees, it is basically an alternate reality. If you are under 60 and have the fortitude, please make an account on that app and stick up for bike lanes and walkability.

#yyj #nextdoor #carbrain

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 6d

Is it plastic? “Plant derived materials” doesn’t mean it isn’t mixed with synthetics. I would suggest that we simply don’t need an alternative to feathers if it can’t be 100% plant based.

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 6d

As a Torontonian, I should be going wild but I remember seeing them win the 1993 World Series on TV while up at the cottage and that’s good enough for me. I don’t watch a lot of men’s sports these days.

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 7d

They murdered the last working veterinarian in Gaza this week apparently along with another 50+ civilians.

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 7d

So lovely in there and the original terrazzo floors make me matcha-green with envy.

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 7d

Solid gold or you won’t accept it. 😆
I hope the cyclist is okay! Mind boggling article to try to piece together what happened.

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 7d

That entire intersection is a mess. If you need to make a left from Boleskin onto Douglas northbound it is nearly impossible most times of the day. There’s that bizarre strip of triangle land jutting out of uptown that could be bus area.

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 9d

A friend has just launched a mobile car detailing business and she does a great job. She made my car sparkle like it was straight off the lot. If need your car cleaned, give her a shout! She’s offering an unbeatable deal right now.

#yyj #supportlocal #victoriabc

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 14d

Looks delish!! 😍

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 14d

Here’s assertive: get your filthy shoes off the seat! That’s equally obnoxious as letting your car alarm wail for the entire sailing.

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 14d

Perhaps that is considered assertive by BC standards but asking politely multiple times result in no action on most sailings. They need to start ticketing offenders and reducing them to the lower berth or banning them from car travel on future sailing. People will never learn without consequences.

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 14d

One of my favourite things about living in Cali was that my birthday was never on Thanksgiving weekend and I didn’t have to smell dead bird flesh as part of a hybrid celebration. Thanksgiving is one of those pivotal holidays in many people’s journey to ethical veganism.

#thanksliving #iloveturkey

A sign at Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary in Stratford, Ontario explains facts about turkeys including that they are social animals and enjoy the company of other creatures like humans.

A turkey stands on ledge in the barn at Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary. These gentle beings are killed by the millions for a dumb colonial holiday in Canada and America

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 16d

Some current vegan items on sale at Jeffy Spaghetti’s (Whole Foods).

Late stage capitalism is really necessitating a return to DIY.

#yyj #thanksliving #wholepaycheque #notturkeyday

Daiya vegan Mac n cheese flavours all on sale for $4.69 or $4.49

Go Bio gravy cubes on sale for $4.69. This should be half the price

Earth’s Own dairy-free butter, sour cream and cream cheese all on sale. The sour cream is 5.69. Photo also shows ELMHURST sour cream on sale for $7.99

Tarragon Kitchen’s Harvest Roast on sale for $31. With prices like these, why not make something from scratch?

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 17d

Signed! We are not doing enough to discourage reckless driving. The person who killed Xavier should lose their license for life imo. No second chances. Driving is a privilege, not a right.

Dave Thompson 🇨🇦 @davethompsonvic.bsky.social · 17d

This story is heartbreaking.

"Xavier’s Law" petition to "prevent access to the road for dangerous drivers until case conclusion."
c.org/yDhRGbzcjv
#yyj #safety

Have you seen this petition yet?

“Xavier’s Law” Prevent access to the road for dangerous drivers until case conclusion

c.org

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 17d

Another glorious sunset on the Breakwater. I only wish it were going down a little later. #yyj

A view of Ogden Point breakwater from the first bend with the sun setting over the mountains of the west shore. People are seen walking along this watery walkway framed by an orange pink glow in the sky. The water is filled with bull kelp.

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Tracy Grimsrud @pizzalarry.bsky.social · 19d

About 400 new units of non-market housing are closer to becoming a reality in #Saanich, with help from the Saanich Affordable Housing Reserve Fund (SAHRF):

www.saanich.ca/EN/main/news...

Saanich grants help boost development of non-market housing

www.saanich.ca

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Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 20d

If you don’t have your vegan-friendly holiday roast yet for Thanksgiving this wknd, there’s a chance you’ll be SOL if you wait until Saturday. The big cooler at WF is now empty and the remaining items moved to the standing freezer (sale and not on sale) area.

#vegan #thanksgiving #thanksliving

Whole Foods wide open top freezer that was full of vegan roasts stands empty now.

The standing freezer with the Sale sign on top sits near the self check out. It shows a Tarragon Kitchen Roast on sale. All the prices are outrageous.

Veg Out Victoria 🍁 🌱 @vegoutvictoria.bsky.social · 20d

I certainly didn’t know until my friend’s dog went bonkers with fear over seeing a deer walking home from the Trafalgar Park View Point one day along Dallas. He had to be taken to emerg that night, he was shaking and loopy.