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# Souper Bowl of Caring 2010, buy a bowl and enjoy unlimited soup from 4 to 6:30 p.m. CST Feb. 4 at Lubeznik Center for the Arts, 101 W. Second St., Michigan City. Cost is $15 and benefits the Food Bank of Northern Indiana. To learn more, call (800) 879-7040.

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Bowls by MCAS students on display

Alicia Ebaugh/The News-Dispatch Michigan City students created 400 bowls like these on display at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, 101 W. Second St.
By Alicia Ebaugh
Staff Writer
Published: Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:15 PM CST
MICHIGAN CITY — Each of the 400 bowls local students made for the Food Bank of Northern Indiana’s first Souper Bowl of Caring are as unique as their creators.

Whether they are vibrantly colored and glossy, covered in playful swirls or embossed with leaves and animals, everyone will find something they want to take home, said Janet Bloch, Lubeznik Center for the Arts education coordinator.

“They are individual, they are charming, they just really stand out,” Bloch said. “I am amazed that they were all made by children. It’s really something.”

The bowls were formed in many different shapes and sizes by elementary and middle-school students at Michigan City Area Schools, Bloch said, then Michigan City High School students painted most of them. Marquette High School students also donated bowls they created to the event.

Bloch couldn’t pick out her favorite bowl since they were all so beautiful, she said, but the one chosen for the event’s logo — a cobalt blue glazed bowl decorated around its rim with balls of clay — quickly became a favorite for many people working on the event.

“The Food Bank wants to keep using the image of that bowl in their logo for following years of the fund raiser,” she said.

The Souper Bowl of Caring is patterned off an international, grass-roots fund-raising effort to end hunger, Bloch said. It will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Lubeznik Center, 101 W. Second St. For $15, participants will get a soup meal and be allowed to choose one of the bowls to take home. Selection is first-come, first-served, Bloch said, so it’s best to arrive early.

“Getting to bring home a bowl that fits you is half the fun of this event,” she said.

All proceeds go to affiliated food pantries of the Food Bank of Northern Indiana.