Soup Spectacular held at Buffalo Mall – Photos

Jamestown (CSi) Buffalo Mall sponsored the 11th annual Business Leaders Soup Spectacular Cook-off contest to raise funds for the James River Senior Center Home Delivered Meal Program,  Saturday, March 5, in the Mall commons area. The Soup Spectacular Cook-off on Saturday raised $2,429.

• The People’s Choice award for the best tasting soup went to Rock of Ages.
• The Most Money Collected award went to James River Senior Center.
• The Best Decorated Booth award went to Roseadele.
• The award for the Most Unique Soup was presented to Pam Phillips.

 Photos by Matt Sheppard – more at Facebook

Previously Reported:

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 the Buffalo Mall’s Bev Dawson said, community business leaders and service clubs will enter their favorite soup.

For $5.00 the public is invited to taste the soup entries and cast their vote for

the best soup in Jamestown. Additional votes are $1 each. 100% of the proceeds benefit the Home Delivered Meal Program.

She pointed out that chili will also be available.

In conjunction with the soup cook-off, ServeYES! will host a benefit bake

sale for the Home Delivered Meal Program.

Entertainment will be provided by R & C School of Rock.

Also on our show the Senior Center’s Rhonda Sahr said, in 2014 there were 21,196 home delivered meals through the program. She added that the suggested cost of $4 per meal. She said to prepare the meal it costs around $9 per meal, so fundraisers are needed to help with costs.

She added that 45 volunteers participate in the program, with seven routes Monday-Friday, and five routes on Saturdays and Sundays.

To find out more, about driver volunteering call Rhonda Sahr at the James River Community and Senior Center at 701-252-2882.

Last year the event raised $2800.