By Theresa-Marie Wilson ~
Photos by www.PhotoByVivian.com
It isn’t often that several hundred people get together to have lunch, but it has become a tradition for a good cause for many local folks.
About 600 tickets were sold for the 5Cities Homeless Coalition’s 4th Annual Empty Bowl Community Luncheon held last week at St. Patrick’s Church Parish Hall in Arroyo Grande.
“We hope this event brings continued awareness that homelessness is a problem that can’t be solved by one individual group,” said Pismo Beach Mayor Shelly Higginbotham who serves has the 5CHC board president.
“It is going to take all of working together to solve the problems here in the South County.”
For $25 attendees received a handcrafted ceramic bowl made by area artists that was then filled with their choice of soups and bread donated by the local restaurants. City dignitaries, law enforcement officials and other well-known community leaders ladled out soup.
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