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Empty Bowl Fundraiser - Mesabi Daily News: Local

Empty Bowl Fundraiser

ANGIE RIEBE STAFF WRITER | Posted: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:43 pm VIRGINIA Thursdays fundraising meal in Virginia will be a chance to fill bowls with warm nourishment and create one-of-a-kind bowls while helping those who struggle at times to fill supper bowls for themselves and their families. The Empty Bowl Fundraiser will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. at Mesabi Range Community & Technical Colleges Virginia campus commons. A choice of homemade wild rice soup or chili from Hannahs II, along with bread and a beverage, will be served for $7. Cost is $4 for students. Take-outs will be available. Participants are also invited to create a pottery bowl in the colleges newly renovated art department with instructor Talicia Honkola from 4 to 6 p.m. for a cost of $5. All proceeds from the evening will go to the Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency Foundation to fund programs for the homeless in local communities. The Empty Bowl co-sponsored by AEOA, Range Mental Health Center, Range Transitional Housing, and the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless will include music by MRC&TC music instructor Mark Tolbert and staff members. A traveling photo exhibit by The Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, Portraits of Home, featuring photos and stories of people experiencing homelessness in Minnesota, will also be on display in the colleges Art Gallery during the evening. Additionally, a video created last June by Mesabi Range Upward Bound students, Homeless Teens on Minnesotas Iron Range, will be shown. And the AEOA, along with Lutheran Social Services Debt Management Counseling, Range Mental Health Center, Range Transitional Housing, the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, the Salvation Army, and Mesabi Ranges TRiO Student Support Services/Upward Bound programs will be available with information on their services. The Empty Bowl will provide a delicious, hot soup supper for members of our communities, said MRC&TC Dean of Student Affairs David Dailey. The intent is that they also leave with an awareness of the different facets of homelessness in our area and services available in our community, as well as a bowl they handcraft to commemorate the event.

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