This month’s Soup and Bread event benefitted Brookfield’s Share Food Share Love food pantry at 9030 Brookfield Ave. Administrative Director John Dumas said the event raised about $800 for the nonprofit.
“I couldn’t stay the whole time because I had to get back to the food pantry, but I was there for the first almost hour or so, and it’s really a pretty good thing. I’d actually never heard of it until they said they wanted to do it on our behalf,” he said. “It was really great, and it was very well [attended]. They had a lot more people come in, I know, after I left, but they were still coming in when I left, and they had live music, and it was really neat. It’s really a great thing that they do; it’s just a chance for people to get together in a social gathering but then to do something good for their community as well.”
While the pantry hasn’t made plans to work with Soup and Bread again, Dumas said he would “absolutely” be interested.
“It was a great group, and Jennifer is amazing. She was very communicative with me and worked together with us really well, and it was a real pleasure doing that with them,” he said. “She’s very well organized, and she has everything put together in such a way that it goes very smoothly. I went around to the tables and talked to everybody who was there, just to say thank you and to let them know how much we appreciated it, and they were all very nice and very enthusiastic about the event.”
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