Empty Bowls Champaign County to offer soup crawl Thursday

Scott Deeley, professor of art at Wittenberg University, checks out the bowls for sale Thursday, March 23, 2023 at the Empty Bowls fundraiser at the university. During the 28th annual Empty Bowls event, hosted by the Wittenberg Art Department in conjunction with Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties, attendees got to choose one of 1,000 unique bowls created locally for $20 and enjoy one of nine soups and bread in the company of other community members. The money from the event helped Second Harvest Food Bank food hungry residence in the community. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

Credit: Bill Lackey

Credit: Bill Lackey

Scott Deeley, professor of art at Wittenberg University, checks out the bowls for sale Thursday, March 23, 2023 at the Empty Bowls fundraiser at the university. During the 28th annual Empty Bowls event, hosted by the Wittenberg Art Department in conjunction with Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign and Logan Counties, attendees got to choose one of 1,000 unique bowls created locally for $20 and enjoy one of nine soups and bread in the company of other community members. The money from the event helped Second Harvest Food Bank food hungry residence in the community. BILL LACKEY/STAFF
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By Brett Turner – Contributing Writer
April 9, 2024
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Start with a bowl as a road map to take you on a food adventure that will satisfy your hunger and the hunger of others during the Second Harvest Food Bank of Clark, Champaign, and Logan Counties’ (SHFB) Soup Crawl version of the annual Champaign County Empty Bowls fundraiser, 5-8 p.m. Thursday at restaurants throughout the Urbana area.

Empty Bowls is the chance to pick a unique hand-crafted bowl to keep and enjoy a variety of soups for a $20 donation and $10 for ages 12-under. The bowls, which will act as admission to the other participating restaurants, will be available 4:30-6:30 p.m. starting at The Farmer’s Daughter restaurant, 904 Miami St. in Urbana.

“We thought this would be a different way of doing things to change the format in Champaign County. The restaurants are excited to participate,” said Jennifer Brunner, Second Harvest development director.

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The Farmer’s Daughter will serve broccoli cheddar soup. From there, the other locations include Abuela’s Kitchen, 23 Monument Square, to serve Venezuelan soup; In Good Taste Market, 12 Monument Square, where Café Paradiso will serve its tomato soup; and Mercy Health Urbana Hospital, 904 Scioto St., McCauley entrance where they will serve white chicken lasagna soup.

Each stop will offer participants disposable container cups for their soups and can be visited in any order after starting at The Farmer’s Daughter.

The bowls were created by Springfield High School students, who have contributed to the local Empty Bowls fundraisers for a decade.

Funds raised will go toward fighting food insecurity, and a portion will go to relief efforts in Logan County to those affected by recent tornadoes. As a result, there will be no Empty Bowls fundraiser in Logan County this year.

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HOW TO GO

What: Empty Bowls Champaign County

Where: The Farmer’s Daughter restaurant, 904 Miami St., Urbana

When: Thursday, April 11, 5-8 p.m.

Admission: $20 donation; $10 for ages 12-under

More info: www.facebook.com/2ndHarvestOH/

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