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GALLERY: Filling bowls for the food pantry

  • Visitors to the Charles City Arts Center examine new, handmade bowls they could choose from before receiving their choice of homemade soups as part of Empty Bowls.

  • Volunteer Roxanne Johnson serves a table with Katie Kellogg and Fiona, 6, who filled her bowl with chili, her favorite. "She's been looking forward to this all week," Katie Kellogg said. Press photos by Kate Hayden

  • Arts Center volunteer Barbara Thompson looks over more than 100 bowls open for Empty Bowls visitors to pick from.

  • Julie Morton, Stewart Dalton and Bob Fraust pose in the midst of serving a busy crowd on Friday.

Staff report

More than 100 people arrived at the Charles City Arts Center on Friday night hoping for a delicious dinner.

Empty Bowls raised $1,200 from soup purchases alone, Director Jacqueline Davidson said on Monday. For a $10 donation, visitors were able to pick out one handmade bowl out of more than 100 made by six potters, and fill their bowl with homemade soup or chili.

Profits from the silent auction and accumulation sale had not yet been tallied. The profits will be split and go toward Messiahs Food Pantry in Charles City, as well as restocking the pottery room in the Arts Center with supplies for open studio.

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