We’re thrilled to announce that Ride to the Light is happening again this year. Come join the fun!
Forwarded from NW In Defense of Animals (IDA):
Our second annual one-hundred mile fundraising bike ride is right around the corner. Yep, we had so much fun last year that we’re doing again this year and we need you to make it a success.
The Ride to the Light is a bike ride to benefit Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary, Out To Pasture Sanctuary and IDA’s own Hope Animal Sanctuary.
This one-hundred mile (century) bike ride is Saturday, September 25, 2010. We’ll be leaving from the Vegan Mini-mall and riding to Out To Pasture in Estacada, then on to Lighthouse in Scio. Project Hope is in Mississippi, so we won’t be making a stop there, but they’ll be with us in spirit.
Can’t ride a hundred miles? No problem. New for this year’s ride we’re adding a shorter 40-mile route that ends at Out to Pasture in Estacada. Now you have no excuses not to do this ride!
Our fundraising site makes an easy job of raising the $120 minimum pledge to join the ride. All you have to do is circulate this site to friends and family via Facebook and email, and ask for them to contribute to these worthy sanctuaries. On the site they can post a message of support and let everyone know they are giving a donation in your name.
We’re also working on awesome vegan prizes for the folks who raise the most money beyond the $120 entry fee.
Come along for the ride or make a donation and help us reach (or even better, exceed) our goal of $15,000 for these three very worthy causes.
Please e-mail Eric (eric[at]idausa[dot]org) or Matt (matt[at]idausa[dot]org) or call 503-249-9996 for more information. Please also visit our donation page and consider making a donation to help support our ride.
| OTP is looking for a few burly men or women to help unload a few tons of hay on Wednesday August 4th from 1:00 until about 3:00 at the sanctuary. No previous experience required since this is a brawn not brain activity. Good company and vegan snacks provided. If this sounds like your idea of a good time please contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or call 503-756-8652. Yeehaw! |
| Yard sale #2 this summer will take place next Saturday, July 31 and the day after from about 11 am until evening. Please stop by, 2907 NE Weidler St, Portland. Item donations are still being accepted. If you have an item or items you would like to donate please contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com or 503-756-8652. |
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| Thank you to everyone who came to the Open House yesterday! Was a super fun day. We hope everyone had a good time. Thanks to all for the cash and food donations. Thanks to the musicians for the wonderful music. And thanks again to the businesses who donated food for the event. Very appreciated!! We will be posting photos from yesterday to the website sometime this week. If you would like to offer comments/suggestions please email Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com. |
| A kind hearted woman named Michelle bought rabbits at the Woodburn auction rather than see them go to slaughter. OTP has adopted thirteen of these lucky bunnies who are now happily hopping across the grass in the new enclosure. Come meet them at the Open House this Saturday. |
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| Thank you to all our wonderful food donors for the Open House scheduled for Saturday July 24th. Vegan sausages for the vegan bbq are being donated by Turtle Island. Proper Eats, an organic vegan cafe in St Johns, will be donating salad fixings to our meal. Buns are being provided by Nature Bake. Dave’s Killer Bread is giving us vegan cookies and Turtle Mountain will be donating delicious vegan ice cream desserts. Yum! We can hardly wait! |
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| …and here’s a delicious opportunity for you to support Portobello and Out to Pasture. Out to Pasture Sanctuary is so thrilled to be the first 10% Tuesdays charity partner of Portobello Vegan Trattoria in their beautiful new space! Go eat deliciousness there every Tuesday in July, and 10% of the proceeds go directly to benefit the animals at OTP. |
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| Percy & Popty Need A Loving Forever Home! |
| Percy is a female cat that we rescued about 10 weeks ago. She was pregnant at the time, and she had five babies. The other four kittens have been adopted. Unfortunately, the adoptions on Percy and the last kitten, Popty have fallen through. |
| For several years OTP has been getting free discarded produce from Raw! Raw! Raw! Foods located in City Market on NW 21st in Portland. The animals at OTP enjoy daily a variety of fruits and veggies thanks to the generosity of Raw! Raw! Raw! |
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| Sherri Tallman from Hidden Oaks Llama Ranch came out to shear, vaccinate, deworm and do nail trims on the two llamas. Limo and Coco are much happier now with their short summer hairdos. Sherri does llama rescue and was the one who took Limo and Coco from their last home (where sadly they had been left tied to trees for years). |
| Jerilee Auclair from Vancouver generously drove all the way to Estacada and donated seven large bolts of polar tech fleece material to use for cat bedding in the new cat enclosure. There will be lot of warm happy cats this winter thanks to Jerilee. |
| Thank you to Trader Joe’s in Portland for the donation of canned cat food and treats to the cats at OTP. We are hearing lots of happy purring since the cat food arrived! |
| And click here for a pdf version of the event flyer. If you would like to join us please RSVP to Kim at kim@outtopasturesanctuary.org or to Kit at 503-756-8652. |
| Here’s your chance to check out the 18 minute documentary about life at Out to Pasture created by three students from the NW Film Center in Portland. Settle down, grab some kale chips and enjoy this fine film. |
| Thanks to Michael Poulin-Roberson, Andrew Price and Laura Shepherd for all their hard work. You can watch the documentary by clicking here. |
