Advertisement

Sign Up For 2016 Graves County Empty Bowls Project

Sign Up For 2016 Graves County Empty Bowls Project
Advertisement
By West Kentucky Star Staff
Aug. 23, 2015 | MAYFIELD, KY
By West Kentucky Star Staff Aug. 23, 2015 | 05:39 PM | MAYFIELD, KY
The wheels are already turning for the 2016 Empty Bowls project, and your help is needed to make it a success.

Individuals and local church and civic groups are needed to sign up for painting some 500 bowls that are needed for next year’s community “big brunch.”

“Businesses have been gracious with their donations, and those sponsored bowls will be painted by city and county schools students,” explained event coordinator Claudia Heath. “Students will have around 400 bowls to paint, so we need individuals and groups from the community to pay $10 a bowl and paint about 500 bowls. All of this needs to be done by the end of this year to meet our schedule. Painting the bowls is certainly not the last step.”

Cher Rambo, her husband Randy, and Cher’s mother, Mary Kennemore, are responsible for getting the bowls fired and glazed after they are painted. The time-consuming labor is done at a kiln at their store, Sissy & Me Too, 408 South 6th St. in Mayfield.

The kiln can handle about 40 bowls at one time, depending on their sizes, but it takes about 36 hours to fire them, Cher Rambo noted. They have been doing all this for the project for the past three years, and have fired and glazed over 2,200 bowls.

“We have fired and glazed every single bowl,” Rambo said.

The $10 covers the costs of the bowls and the preparation to get them ready for the big event which will be held April 16, 2016 at Trace Creek Baptist Church’s Family Life Center. Groups and individuals are asked to go ahead and schedule their paint days by calling Sissy & Me Too as soon as possible at 270-247-0008.

A big paint day open to everyone is also scheduled for October 24 from 10 a.m. to noon at Trace Creek Church.

This past year about 20 local restaurants and food establishments provided samples of their fare at the Empty Bowls project event. For $15 each diner gets to select a hand-painted bowl to use to sample all the food specialties, and take home the bowl as a reminder of the hungry people around the world and in their own communities.

Proceeds from the event are donated to the Mayfield-Graves County Food Pantry, which provides emergency food for local needy families. The first two years of the event has raised a total of $27,000.

Empty Bowls is an international effort started some 20 years ago to help alleviate hunger and raise awareness of the issues of hunger around the world. For more information, call 270-705-6062.

ADVERTISEMENT
Advertisement


Latest Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment Apr. 13, 2021
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 10, 2020
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 08, 2020
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 08, 2020
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 07, 2020
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Latest Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment Apr. 13, 2021
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 10, 2020
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 08, 2020
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 08, 2020
Arts & Entertainment Aug. 07, 2020

Advertisement
ADVERTISEMENT