Hoot Owl soup kitchen marks 12 years
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the past 12 years, the Hoot Owl Cafe has hosted a soup kitchen every Monday night to feed the community — an anniversary celebrated by volunteers and patrons on...
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A delivery of hope (and food)
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s a theory that sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them. I wonder what the consensus is on delivered meals? Since 2019, the students at Lake Pend Oreille...
Gardenia Center to be sold
By Mark Reiner Reader Contributor Sandpoint’s only metaphysical church commonly called The Gardenia Center is going up for sale this March. Until her passing, Marilyn Chambers, the founder of the Gardenia Center, leased the...
Ponderay soup kitchen celebrates 10th anniversary
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff The Community Crockpot, Inc. Soup Kitchen celebrated 10 years of feeding Bonner County’s underserved community Feb. 12 with a 125-person pizza party. The nonprofit, which operates from the Hoot...
Soup-er Heroes
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor It may be just another cold Wednesday in Sandpoint, but in the basement of the Gardenia Center it is feast day — for some, a celebration. Free hot soup...
Volunteer Spotlight:
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Two years ago, Savannah Mort asked her husband what he wanted for his birthday. She had no idea his request would end up launching a soup kitchen that fed...
