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Dinner event cooks up dollars for soup program

Dinner with Friends, a fundraiser hosted Oct. 13 by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - South Cariboo Branch raised close to $4,000
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Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - South Cariboo Branch Dinner with Friends event was a sell-out and raised close to $4

Dinner with Friends, a fundraiser hosted Oct. 13 by Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) - South Cariboo Branch raised close to $4,000 for the agency's Soup de Tour program.

The event featured a gourmet meal prepared by Vancouver chef Miriam Borys and sold out at 200 tickets.

The soup program, which receives no external funding, provides hot, homemade soup to clients of several local social service organizations four days a week. Over the past 18 months, 12,000 bowls of soup have been distributed.

CMHA-SC executive director Maggie Patterson-Dickey says she's pleased with the fundraiser result.

"It's enough to have made it worthwhile. It means that Soup de Tour will be able to carry on for another year."

The program runs on volunteer labour but there are expenses involved she says.