Giving Spoon serves up soup for charity April 6-7

The Bridge Youth Resource Centre will once again be the site of the Soup Guru’s annual Giving Spoon fundraiser on Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7.

Bill Dunn, otherwise known as the Soup Guru, says the event is always popular and expects hundreds of soup lovers to come out for a taste of what the event has to offer.

In addition to Dunn’s famous Cream of Potato and Bacon soup, you can also expect to have a taste of Chicken Lasagna Soup and Chicken and Dumplings from Family Kitchen, Beef Barley from Crave Family Grill and Pub, Italian Wedding Soup from Chartwell Leamington, Roasted Red Pepper Soup from Nature Fresh Farms, Clam Chowder from Dockside Fisheries, Mac and Cheese Soup from CPR/First Aid Training by Anthony, and Enchilada Soup from the Leamington Community Hope Centre.

And those are just a few examples. Dunn says there will be 17 soups available each day.

You can eat-in or take-out and parking is available at The Bridge, as well as at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church and Faith Mennonite Church — both offering shuttles to The Bridge.

Dunn is thankful to the community.

“It’s the people of Leamington and surrounding area that make this such a wonderful place to live,” he says. “The support we receive for this event goes a long way to helping our most vulnerable.”

Admission is by donation with 90 percent of the proceeds going to The Bridge and the other 10 percent distributed among other worthy local charities. Last year, The Giving Spoon event raised about $15,000.