{"id":661,"date":"2010-05-21T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/on\/perth\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-05-21T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T20:50:07","slug":"empty-bowls-fundraiser-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/empty-bowls-fundraiser-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Bowls Fundraiser a Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Foodsmiths was proud to present the proceeds gathered from its 9<sup>th<\/sup> Empty Bowls fundraiser to Empty Bowls and the other partner charity groups. The annual campaign was started last month on the 17<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the disagreeable weather, approximately 250 bowls and 14 large containers of stew were served, effectively raising over $5,000 in the process. Empty Bowls also had the pleasure of being the recipient of\u00a0 the\u00a0 Foodsmiths BYOB &#8211; Charity Bag Donation program in April. The program was aimed at encouraging the community to recycle grocery bags\u00a0 and to secure a source of funds which would go to Perth\u2019s different charitable programs. Every bag a customer would re-use saved the cost of using a new bag. Foodsmiths also donated 10 cents to a chosen charity for every bag brought in by customers.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems like the community really came together on this one. Foodsmiths\u2019 customers used a total of 6,056 \u201cold\u201d bags \u2013 an equivalent of $605.60. That brings the total amount of money raised to $5,685.60.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds raised from this effort will be donated to food programs under the oversight of Perth and District Food Bank, as well as other food programs in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Foodsmiths was proud to present the proceeds gathered from its 9th Empty Bowls fundraiser to Empty Bowls and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[56,57,58,1036],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perth-ontario-news","tag-empty-bowls","tag-empty-bowls-campaign","tag-empty-bowls-project","tag-perth-ontario"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJPiZ-aF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/perthontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}