Event benefits Butler Community Meals

The Butler Art Center & Gallery and Butler Community Meals had a turnout so large for their first Souper Bowls luncheon, they said they won’t know the total funds raised for weeks.

The organizations hosted the luncheon jointly from 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Butler Art Center & Gallery to raise money to benefit both organizations.

“The response has been overwhelming,” said Justine Brown, one of the community meals coordinators and a manger at Katie’s Kitchen at St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Three volunteers with Butler Community Meals and Paul Scanlon, a board member of the Associated Artists of Butler County, made four kinds of soup — chicken noodle, potato, stuffed pepper and black bean — to fill ceramic and wooden bowls made

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