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Fitch High School hosts Souper Supper
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Natalie Winkle showed attendees of the event how to spin a bowl at Souper Supper at Austintown Fitch High School.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Austintown Middle School students entertained with music at the Souper Supper event.
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Attendees of the Souper Supper event made their way down the line of great homemade soups.
By TIM CLEVELAND
For the sixth year, the Austintown PTA hosted its Souper Supper event in the Fitch High School cafeteria. For a $7 donation, attendees received a meal of soup, a roll, dessert and a beverage, plus a handmade ceramic bowl made by Fitch students. With a $5 donation, you received either the bowl or just the meal.
The menu consisted of white chicken chili, broccoli cheddar soup or vegetable beef soup. There was also soda, water and cookies available.
“The PTA does special services projects in the fall, as far as different food drives,” said Souper Supper chairperson Kelly Phillips. “This is something we wanted to do in the spring. All of the money goes to families in the school system.”
Event organizers had room for 175 reservations. They had made 275 bowls with 25 more on order that they could make as they promised to have 300 bowls in all. Hopes were that the event could match or exceed the $5,000 it has raised in recent years.
“We started this in the beginning to supply meals for people that didn’t have meals for Easter,” said Natalie Winkle, who helped make the bowls and was on hand to show how it was done. “We make bowls and glaze them. It’s a team effort.
“I look forward to it every year. We spend our summer making bowls to help ease the amount we have to make in the spring and fall.”
Fitch art teacher Diane Devine said the process for making a bowl took more than a day. She said to make a bowl you start with the raw clay and mold it into a bowl shape. You let it dry, fire it in a 1,900-degree kiln, bring it out and glaze it, then fire it again. You then bring it out and clean it up.
“We had a former student who graduated last year named Nate Snyder come back once a week and help make the bowls so we quickly met our goal, which we’re happy about,” she said.