{"id":149,"date":"2011-04-28T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-07-01T01:18:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T05:18:55","slug":"animal-ark-ii-fundraiser-all-you-can-eat-chili-great-org-great-people-great-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/animal-ark-ii-fundraiser-all-you-can-eat-chili-great-org-great-people-great-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Ark II Fundraiser &#8211; All You Can Eat Chili, Great Org, Great people, Great food."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Tuesday night <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ark-ii.com\/\">Animal Ark II<\/a> had an All You Can Eat Chili fundraiser and memorial for\u00a0Mark Karbusicky at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sadiesdiner\">Sadie&#8217;s Diner<\/a> (504 Adelaide Street W, Toronto, ON).<\/p>\n<p>Animal Ark II is a Toronto based, direct action animal advocacy organization. I remember their display at the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veg.ca\/foodfair\">Vegetarian Food Fair<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prairievegan.com\/2010\/09\/weekend-at-vegetarian-food-fair-and.html\">back in September<\/a>, they were the first animal rights organization I encountered since arriving in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have the pleasure of knowing Mark Karbusicky, but he was a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1251899\/\">\u00a0film maker<\/a>, activist\u00a0and from what I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikehoolboom.com\/r2\/section_item.php?artist=38\">read about him<\/a>, \u00a0an all around amazing person and friend. There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikehoolboom.com\/r2\/section_item.php?artist=255\">documentary on his<\/a> life that won Best Feature Documentary at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accoladecompetition.org\/\">The Accolade Competition<\/a>\u00a0in La Jolla, CA in 2010. Mark had actively supported feral cat rescue programs, so I thought it was great that the organizers were also collecting donations of cat food for a local feral resuce in honor of him.<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"DSCF4614 by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5661417320\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5105\/5661417320_c63ec9af31.jpg\" alt=\"You wish this was in your mouth right now.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/center>And now for the food! There was a ten dollar suggested donation for all you can eat chili and tortilla chips, baked goods by donation, and little yummy things here and there. I love chili, and tortilla chips, and fundraisers for worthy causes, so it was perfect. One of the ARKII Volunteers made these freaking yummy cornbread muffin type things, and I&#8217;m pretty sure I want more (i.e., I should really get on making some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theppk.com\/2007\/10\/vegan-cornbread\/\">cornbread<\/a>.) Plus there were different cupcakes, including a couple of gluten free options, which surprise surprise were freaking tasty. Gluten free, you&#8217;ve come a long way baby.<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"DSCF4611 by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5664441757\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5109\/5664441757_abbd09e495_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF4611\" width=\"240\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"DSCF4619 by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/5664442731\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5066\/5664442731_28782a2a07_m.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF4619\" width=\"240\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/center>Any local veg event I&#8217;ve been to has offered up some great food and snacks, so if you get the opportunity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veg.ca\/content\/view\/49\/81\/\">it&#8217;s definitely worth checking ANY of them out<\/a> while supporting great local causes.<\/p>\n<p>So, hint hint, there is of course, part two of the <a href=\"http:\/\/veg.ca\/component\/option,com_jcalpro\/Itemid,150\/extmode,view\/extid,10477\/\">Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale<\/a> going on at the <a href=\"http:\/\/veg.ca\/\">Toronto Vegetarian Association<\/a> Resource Center (2nd fl, 17 Baldwin St) this weekend (on Saturday, April 30th 2011) between 1-4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Tuesday night Animal Ark II had an All You Can Eat Chili fundraiser and memorial for\u00a0Mark Karbusicky at Sadie&#8217;s Diner (504 Adelaide Street W, Toronto, ON). Animal Ark II is a Toronto based, direct action animal advocacy organization. I remember their display at the the Vegetarian Food Fair&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,238,237,239,4],"tags":[1081,520,1376],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-ark-ii","category-chilli","category-fundraiser","category-sadies","category-vegan-food","tag-ark-ii","tag-sadies-diner-2","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}