Organic
Soup Kitchen Celebrates 10 Years
and New All-in-One Facility
By FBWorld Team
The
Organic Soup Kitchen, founded in 2009, celebrated its 10th Anniversary
and celebrated with a party at their new headquarters at 6th
and Anacapa Streets in Santa Barbara on May 18 from 4:00-7:00.
The beautiful new kitchen was overflowing with food servers
providing delicious hors d'oeuvres to a huge crowd of guests
who savored cocktails and a delicious served vegetarian dinner,
listened to music and shared in conversation with friends in
the new venue.
Wine & Cocktails Overflowed
Mayor
Cathy Murillo did the formal ribbon cutting with Anthony Carroccio,
Executive Director, and later Salud Carbajal presented Anthony
Carroccio, Executive Director and Andrea Slaby, Chief Operations
Officer with a Congressional recognition award for the outstanding
work they have done in the Santa Barbara community over the
past ten years.
Salud Carbajal Honors Anthony Carroccio Executive Director
& Andrea Slaby COO
Since
its inception, Organic Soup Kitchen has been honored for their
work feeding the need by the American Cancer Society, Montecito
Bank & Trust, Santa Barbara Certified Farmers Market, Santa
Barbara Housing Association, Local Heroes Award from Hospice
of Santa Barbara and several Congressional recognition awards
from Salud Carbajal.
"Organic
Soup Kitchen has been waiting for this moment since 2009. For
the past couple of years, we have worked with the Santa Barbara
community to pull together resources for our all-in-one headquarters,"
Anthony Carroccio. For more information and details please visit:
http://organicsoupkitchen.org.
By Bonnie Carroll
About Bonnie Carroll
Bonnie Carroll has been a food/travel/lifestyle writer since
1983. She is the founder & publisher of Bonnie Carroll's
Life Bites News - www.lifebitesnews.com,
does travel and food reporting on KZSB1290 radio, and contributes
to a variety of national and international travel/lifestyle
publications. Her first children's book C.C. Charles was published
in 2002 and she is currently working on a second book. Contact
her at Contact her at writebc@aol.com.