We are excited to announce our newly launched Healthy Community Pantry which provides fresh produce, healthy foods and nutrition education to local families on Santa Barbara’s Westside. Our Healthy Community Pantry, designed like a health fair, takes an innovative approach to building a healthy community and solving the issue of food insecurity. We include healthy […]
Month: April 2016
Empty Bowls fundraiser draws record attendance
A record number of attendees converged on the Dick DeWees Community and Senior Center on Wednesday to enjoy bowls of soup and aid an important community resource. More than 600 members of the Lompoc community attended the 12th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser, which benefits the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. Although monetary figures weren’t immediately […]
Large Crowd Shows Up For Lompoc Empty Bowls Fundraiser
Annual benefit helps boost funds for Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, which has seen a recent 30-percent increase in demand for food assistance Judge Rogelio Flores, left, watches as David Toy serves soup to Rhyse Schaffer, 6, while the boy’s mother watches Wednesday afternoon during Empty Bowls of Lompoc. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo) […]
Empty Bowls fundraiser to benefit the Lompoc area happening Wednesday
KSBY photo The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County is holding a fundraiser Wednesday to benefit the community of Lompoc. It’s the 12th Annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser. For a $25 donation, people can receive a gourmet soup luncheon served in handmade ceramic bowls. This years Empty Bowls Fundraiser will be held at the Dick DeWees Center […]
Acts of kindness every day
Santa Barbara County is blessed with an abundance of truly generous people. You can see that when attending any one or all of the dozens of charity events each year. One of those special occasions occurred last week in Lompoc, with that valley’s rendition of the annual Empty Bowls fund-raiser. It took place at the […]