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Empty Bowl ‘power lunch’ raises money for Georgia Mountain Food Bank
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Volunteer Kim Reichling, left, serves a bowl of soup to Ashton Blackwood Tuesday morning at the First Baptist Church banquet hall during the annual Empty Bowl Lunch benefiting Georgia Mountain Food Bank. - photo by Scott Rogers
Some 800 people packed Tuesday’s Empty Bowl Lunch at First Baptist Church on Green Street in Gainesville. But here’s a much bigger number: 685,000, the number of meals that will be provided through money raised at the lunch. The $10,850 raised by just the event’s live auction should provide 54,250 of those meals.