{"id":95714,"date":"2016-03-07T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95714"},"modified":"2016-03-09T21:26:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T03:26:21","slug":"soup-spectacular-benefits-home-del-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=95714","title":{"rendered":"Soup Spectacular held at Buffalo Mall &#8211; Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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,\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Saturday, March 5,<\/strong>\u00a0in the Mall commons area.\u00a0The Soup Spectacular Cook-off on Saturday raised $2,429.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The People\u2019s Choice award for the best tasting soup went to Rock of Ages.<\/li>\n<li>The Most Money Collected award went to James River Senior Center.<\/li>\n<li>The Best Decorated Booth award went to Roseadele.<\/li>\n<li>The award for the Most Unique Soup was presented to Pam Phillips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Photos by Matt Sheppard &#8211; more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10153958026809512.1073741960.358562219511&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[easyrotator]erc_92_1457239930[\/easyrotator]<\/p>\n<p>Previously Reported:<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 the Buffalo Mall\u2019s Bev Dawson said, community business leaders and service clubs will enter their favorite soup.<\/p>\n<p>For $5.00 the public is invited to taste the soup entries and cast their vote for<\/p>\n<p>the best soup in Jamestown. Additional votes are $1 each. 100% of the proceeds benefit the Home Delivered Meal Program.<\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that chili will also be available.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the soup cook-off, ServeYES! will host a benefit bake<\/p>\n<p>sale for the Home Delivered Meal Program.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainment will be provided by R &amp; C School of Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Also on our show the Senior Center\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>She added that 45 volunteers participate in the program, with seven routes Monday-Friday, and five routes on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more, about driver volunteering call Rhonda Sahr at the James River Community and Senior Center at 701-252-2882.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=64978\" target=\"_blank\">Last year <\/a>the event raised $2800.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,\u00a0\u00a0Saturday, March 5,\u00a0in the Mall commons area.\u00a0The Soup Spectacular Cook-off on Saturday raised $2,429. The People\u2019s Choice award for the best tasting soup went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-csicelebrations","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95714"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96608,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95714\/revisions\/96608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}