Hunger Banquet to be held on
Fat Tuesday
By Colleen Slater, KP News
This year’s “hunger banquet” to benefit the Key
Peninsula Food Bank will be a Soup Kitchen meal.
Each participant will receive a bowl of soup.
The difference will be in whether their ticket
puts them in the 10 percent with a multi-course
dinner beginning with soup, the 20 percent who
will have a nourishing bowl of soup and a roll,
or the 70 percent group who will stand in a soup
line to receive a thin soup that won’t fill
their hunger.
Committee members meet at Home Port to
plan banquet details:
Vicki Biggs,
Norma Iverson, Arlyce Kretschman, Penny
Gazabat,
Vicky Lilyeblade, Carolyn
Wiley, and Wally Johnson.
Photo by Colleen Slater
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These percentages demonstrate the ratios of the
world population who live well, live moderately,
or barely subsist. The meal is an awareness
program, sponsored by Longbranch Improvement
Club, Key Peninsula Family Resource Center, Key
Peninsula Community Services and Home Port
Restaurant.
The dinner takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Fat
Tuesday, Feb. 24, at LIC.
Carolyn Wiley of LIC suggests fasting the day of
the event to “make that bowl of broth taste even
better!”
Last year’s event served about 80 people, and
brought in nearly $4,000 for the Key Peninsula
Food Bank.
“We hope to feed up to 150 this year,” says
chair Vicki Biggs, KPFRC family support
worker. They have had more time to get the word
out, and “there were so many good comments from
those who attended last year,” she says.
Judith Weinstock of Kingston, caterer, culinary
arts instructor, cookbook author, and former
restaurateur, will be the main speaker.
The overall theme is sustainability, and
Weinstock will encourage participants to grow
some of their own food.
Table favors will be provided by Sunnycrest
Nursery, and coupons from other local merchants
will be included in the envelopes each diner
receives at the door.
Participants open their envelopes at the same
time, and the contents reveal which table they
go to – The “head table” of 10 percent, the
central tables of 20 percent, or the fringe
tables of 70 percent of diners.
A silent auction will be held, including a soup
tureen and soup bowls by potter Gary Anderson,
and a model historic ship by Dave and Paula
Wickland.
Soup bowls crafted by the FINE Mud Hens, Karen
Craven and Ginger Kryger, and dry soup mixes
made by Ruth Circle of the Longbranch Community
Church will sell for $10 per bowl or bag.
The KP Food Bank has served 270 families a month
since October, said Penny Gazabat, executive
director of KPCS. She expects that number to
increase in coming months. The food bank needs
cash to buy some of the needed food, but also to
cover many additional expenses. These include
gas and maintenance for the trucks that pick up
food, electricity costs for several
refrigerators and freezers, garbage pick up,
building maintenance, and little things like
zipper closure plastic bags for bulk items and
rubber gloves for food handlers.
Volunteers, especially drivers for food pick up,
are always needed and welcome.
Gazabat said KPCS can help people who qualify
for the Pierce County Energy Assistance Program.
Dinner committee members include Carolyn Wiley,
Penny Gazabat, Vicky Lilyeblade, Arlyce
Kretschman, Norma Iverson and Wally Johnson.
Iverson and Johnson are the dinner cooks.
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Ticket price is $25, and tickets are
available at:
Sunnycrest
Nursery - 884-3937,
Vicki Biggs at
KPFRC – 884-5433,
Penny Gazabat at
KPCS – 884-4440,
Home Port –
884-3743,
or Carolyn Wiley –
884-9157.
All proceeds go to the KP
food bank.
Tickets need to be purchased by Feb. 20,
so the cooks know the amount of food to
cook.
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