PORT ANGELES — The third Empty Bowls fundraiser is set for 5 p.m. Sept. 14.
The annual fundraiser at the Port Angeles Food Bank, 632 N. Oakridge Drive, will feature gourmet soups prepared by Chef Neil Dexter.
The fundraiser, emceed by Shannon Cosgrove, a Port Angeles writer and performer, will raise funds to support the food bank’s Friday Food Bag program.
Tickets are $50 per person and are available at www.portangelesfoodbank.org/empty-bowls or at the door.
Tickets include a full dinner with three or four choices of soup, salad, bread and dessert as well as a bowl to take home.
During the 2023-2024 school year, the Friday Food Bag program sent food home from school with 700 students every weekend.
The food bags, which are assembled by volunteers and driven to schools by food bank staff, are projected to cost the food bank $180,000 during the upcoming school year.
Last year more than 60 percent of Port Angeles school families were low income, according to the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The Friday Food Bags are the only source of food for many students over the weekends when they are not receiving school meals, according to the Port Angeles Food Bank.
For more information, email info@portangeles foodbank.org.
