Feature Article April 24, 2002
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Fill Empty Bowls at Perth Maple Festivalby Jeff GreenThe first Perth Empty Bowls project will culminate during the Perth Maple Festival this Saturday.
Potter Jackie Seaton will be set up in front of the Riverguild Fine Craft Store on Gore street with a large display of salt glazed bowls he has made for the Empty Bowls campaign. People will be encouraged to take home one of these bowls, filled with their choice of soup provided by one of Perth's finer restaurants, for a suggested donation of $20. The funds will be shared by the Lanark County Food Bank and the Youth Activity Kommittee (which distributes food to youth that are in distress).
Seaton has been working on this project for many months. News readers may remember an article in our March 13 issue that outlined the project in detail. He made 300 bowls originally, but the caught on and he made a hundred more. Many of the bowls have already been purchased from the Riverguild over the past two months.
Then, on April 13, a ten minute profile of the project was aired on the Regional Contact Show of CJOH TV in Ottawa, and sales "really took off, so much so that I've had to make a hundred more bowls, for a total of 500 now", a happy Jackie Seaton reports. "We are going to make sure we still have a 150 bowls for the actual event," he adds, but people might want to come early to the Maple Festival to make sure they get one. Seaton now thinks the project will raise nine or ten thousand dollars. Participating restaurants include: Fiddleheads Bar and Grill, Harry and Rosie's, The Hungry Planet, Maximilian's, Mexicali Rosa's, Passiflora, and The Goodwood Oven.
